Alliance also Attracts RV Campers...

It's not just abandon shopping carts and stolen recyling bins that litter our neighborhood. These RVs are drawn to Alliance Metal where you can see the owners of these RVs dumping their trash on the streets, urinating on the sidewalks (rather than paying for proper and sanitary camper hookups), making engine repairs and changing and dumping motor oil in the street gutters. If you walk around you can even find used motor oil containers laying about. And you'll also see Alliance Customers going in and out of these vehicles engaging in "short visits".

Another New Year and Nothing Has Changed (So Far)...

Like a sleeping baby, Alliance Metals looks harmless and innocent when it's closed. But the reality is that this business has been conducting its operations in a manner that is detrimental to the neighborhood (and to its drug addicted customers as well...using, some have said, a "Plantation-like" model of business). For years the community has complained. Jay Anast (the owner) has done little if nothing to make changes...providing merely lip service...and using the poor, down-and-out as an excuse to pose as a faux Mother Theresa but more so to protect his profits. His sad, irresponsible and absentee style of doing business has been documented in this and other blogs for years. One small light of hope, there is a hearing coming up, spearheaded by both the Police and Nuisance Abatement departments, to wit the City of Oakland also recognizes that Alliance is a negative and insidious element of Dogtown. To keep abreast of this (albeit slow moving) development you can, you can email: ABetterAlliance@yahoo.com

Alliance Customers Literally S*** in Front of Our Homes...

This neighbor came home to find some coffee-stained napkins in her yard. Upon closer inspection it turns out those aren't coffee stains on those Starbuck napkins. It's human feces. This is not the first time that this neighbor has caught Alliance Customers urinating and defecating in front of her home. And Alliance (and their restrooms) are just around the corner...literally. This is just the kind of disrespect that Alliance Customers (and Alliance) regularly shows to those of us that live here.

Another Neighbor Fed Up with Alliance Moves Out...

This is What Alliance Brings to Our Neighborhood...

Alliance Customers love to hang out in our neighborhood. In addition to a host of illegal activities they also love to dump their trash on our streets.

Again, Another Unattended Alliance Truck Illegally Parked on our Streets...

Alliance Uses Our Streets as their Parking Lot...

This Alliance truck is parked out in the middle of the street. Cars have no choice but to go around the truck...and in this case against traffic.

Here's the reason the Alliance truck was parked in the street. Another Alliance truck is in the way as it backs out to make room for the other Alliance truck.

And now Alliance has a different truck using the middle of our streets as their private parking lot. Again forcing cars to go around.

Finally an Alliance employee comes to move the truck that was sitting (unattended) in the middle of our streets. This is how Alliance operates. It has outgrown it's current facility so their operations spill out onto our neighborhood.