California business owners are contemplating closing up shop after being repeatedly vandalized by a woman they believe to be homeless. They said they are “fed up” with the constant garbage and paraphernalia left by homeless drug addicts, as well.
A man named Danny, the owner of the Cachanilla Chinese Restaurant in Pomona, California, told reporters from KABC that he might have to close his business as a result of constant vandalism.
The owners say they’ve caught the same woman, who they believe is homeless, on camera five different times throwing rocks into their restaurant and smashing windows.
One incident caught on surveillance video shows patrons sitting at tables and eating as rocks are being thrown from outside. Other footage shows the same woman throwing rocks on a different side of the building.
“We’ve been attacked, vandalized … about five windows broken and also one last night, all by the same perpetrator,” said the owner. “Just been fed up with all this unhoused, homeless, drug activity happening right outside our door,” he added.
“Every single day, there’s always this group of homeless leaving all this trash and needles right there where all our customers and family can see. Every night, we have to worry whether or not another window is going to be broken out.”
Even a local news reporter couldn’t help but comment on all the activity happening at the restaurant’s doorstep.
“While shooting our story we saw a homeless person asleep just outside of the doors of the business,” said reporter Leo Stallworth. “There’s feces right there … and the stench is absolutely horrible; it smells like a latrine out here,” he noted.
“Every day we have to go out there and clean, sanitize, because we can’t have our customers smelling this,” the owner explained.
Danny said that in addition to the vandalism, a series of overnight break-ins have also occurred, for which he also blames the local homeless population.
Despite a visit from police, the same woman allegedly keeps returning to destroy the property.
The KABC journalist noted that all the issues were happening literally right outside the business and remarked that it was a shame it was happening, as he described an aggressive homeless man doing drugs right in front of him.
“About five, six, seven, eight minutes ago, a homeless person right in front of me started doing drugs. Right there,” said reporter Stallworth. “Words were exchanged … that person appeared to be very aggressive. So sad these folks have to deal with this.”
* Article From: The Blaze
