Breaking! — An oil pipe ruptured in Los Angeles county Thursday morning, spilling a minimum of 50,000 gallons, or just under 1,200 barrels of crude oil into the streets of Glendale, where the oil is currently “knee deep” in some areas according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
A 20-inch pipeline burst around 12:15 a.m. The oil spill shot as high as 30 feet in the air, according to local reports. Sources say the site was shut down remotely and is allegedly no longer leaking.
Several businesses have been impacted by the spill. One business — The Gentlemen’s Club — was ironically covered with an oil it did not appreciated and evacuated the business.
Even the seedy grime of America’s strip clubs retreats in the face of a wave of crude oil, according to NBC Los Angeles. When it comes to a game of chicken between two of Americas dirtier industries, “gentlemen’s clubs” hightail it out of the way. Without getting too crude, there’s nothing dirtier than the gas and oil industry.
(This story was originally published at Take 10.)
Dylan Hock is a writer, professor, videographer and social activist. He earned an MFA in Writing from Naropa University in 2003 and has been an Occupier since Oct., 2011, both nationally and locally in Michigan. He is published in a number of little magazines and has an essay on the muzzling of Ezra Pound included in the anthology Star Power: The Impact Of Branded Celebrity due out July of 2014 by Praeger. He is also a contributing writer for Take Ten, Addicting Info and Green Action News. Follow him on Google+!
