Shoulder-fired anti-helicopter missiles would be a good start, before these fucking neo-feudalists start believing they can get away w/
this crap.
"I think about work 24 hours a day," he said. "But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else."
With no place for his chopper at the Beverly Boulevard headquarters of his studio, Relativity Media, he arranged to land the craft on the roof of the 10-story Sofitel a few blocks away.
By November, neighbors were enraged by the whir of helicopter landings and takeoffs.
The noise and vibrations kept waking up the newborn baby of Ali Behzad, a designer who lives in a sleek concrete dwelling a few hundred feet from the hotel. So Behzad and his wife started researching the Sofitel's permits. When they found out that the hotel's rooftop was designated for emergency landings only, they promptly complained to state and local officials.
On one level, we could look at this as more problems exclusive to honkies.
Lauren Meister, president of the West Hollywood West Residents Assn., said she's concerned that the flights could pose environmental and safety risks.
Her association represents about 1,000 households in an area bounded by Melrose Avenue to the north, Beverly to the south, La Cienega Boulevard to the east and Doheny Drive to the west.
She said she moved to the neighborhood, like many residents, for both its proximity to city life and respite from it.
The streets are lined with pretty one-story homes, shaded by palm trees and jacarandas. Many of the streets are blocked to through traffic. "You hear the crickets at night and the birds in the morning," Meister said.
Kavanaugh got his pilot's license last year. He has a collection of luxury cars and has been convicted of reckless driving and driving under the influence, court records show. Keen said Kavanaugh has full driving privileges.
Sheriff Moneybags had to get his two cents in as well.
It's not the first time a local leader has weighed in. Sheriff's Chief Cecil Rhambo wrote to the Sofitel in September to say the department did not oppose Kavanaugh's use of the hotel's helipad.
Sheriff Lee Baca has a close relationship with Kavanaugh, who has raised more than $156,000 for the Sheriff's Youth Fund, said Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. In 2008, the department gave him an award for his work on behalf of the charity.
Baca, however, has no say in the matter, as Rhambo clarified in a letter to the hotel last week stating the department's lack of jurisdiction. West Hollywood residents who were bothered by the noise last fall said they oppose the Sofitel's expanded permit, no matter who might land there.
We expect government of by & for only the wealthy by 2020 at the very latest.
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