Thirteen different auto-bound teams of volunteers – averaging four per car — fanned out across Culver City from early to late last evening, attempting to tabulate how many homeless persons roam the streets on a random night.
Some of the community’s most prominent members participated.
- City Councilman Jim Clarke’s team, searching west of the 405 Freeway, did not find any homeless.
- Council candidate Marcus Tiggs’s group uncovered three.
- The jumbo prize went to Council contender Goran Eriksson. Cruising the Fox Hills and Westfield Mall neighborhoods, they found a whopping seven persons.
Mr. Tiggs’s team did not espy live bodies, but ample evidence of at least three homeless parties.
One instant was a temporarily empty veteran car. It looked as if someone in unfortunate circumstances stances had borrowed it for a landing place. License tags had expired, and for privacy’s sake, the windows were covered.
But here was the most ironic find of the night:
Team Tiggs discovered a pile of patiently awaited, and recently used sleeping blankets – at the back door of the County Dept. of Mental Health.
