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Billionaire accused of stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach, lawsuit says

California’s beaches are public, but on the sands of Malibu, one billionaire has been accused of stealing a slice of paradise — or at least a few scoops of it — for himself.

A lawsuit filed last week alleges that Mark Attanasio, billionaire businessman and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, has been using excavators to dig up sand from Broad Beach and carry it back to his house as part of an ongoing construction project.

“This case is about a private property owner using a public beach as their own personal sandbox and the disturbing conversion of a public natural resource (i.e., sand from Broad Beach) for a nearby homeowner’s personal, private use,” the lawsuit says.

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tiefling ,

Whatever they fine him is just the cost of materials

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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Plus a couple dozen million

voracitude ,

And it should be several hundred times the cost of replacing that sand, so that it’s a more economically sound move to not break the law and destroy the environment while they’re at it.

originalucifer ,
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the fine should be a percentage of his net worth. 10% sounds healthy

hddsx ,

10%?

Minimum wage is $15080. A speeding ticket can be $209-$409. That’s 2%. He should be fined a percentage of of his wealth equal to (cost of his douchebaggery)/(minimum wage yearly)*100. Multiply by 10 for a fine

originalucifer ,
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for this guy, 10% is at least $100,000,000.00 for this fine.

PoopDelivery ,

And he’s still a billionaire who can do whatever the fuck he wants

originalucifer ,
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what are you proposing, death? christ

whostosay ,

Not opposed to it, fuck those greedy bastards.

FlyingSquid ,
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If there is sand to replace it with.

Yes, everything is awful.

solsangraal ,

as with everything else, we’ll start fixing it when it’s too late to do anything

FuglyDuck ,
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Start with the cost of reparing/fixing/whatevering the beach; then add a fine based on income. 10% of monthly income sounds about right for this.

same with financial crimes. they seize any profits and then fin the shit out of them, based on their earnings for a given period.

speeding tickets, same. monthly income percentage.

9point6 ,

I think it’s only fair they fine him the maximum potential value of the materials.

Sand made of silicon, which is used to make CPUs

You can spend 25 grand on an intel Xeon weighing about 50g

A scoop of sand is probably 50kg = 25 million

How many scoops were taken?

FlyingSquid ,
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Stealing sand, stealing indigenous land in Hawaii for your private bunker, never paying taxes, getting away with rape… when you’re rich, they let you do it.

snekerpimp ,

Well, it’s either justice or a yacht, which would you pick?

GBU_28 ,

Make it such that anywhere the sand is is now public.

Rentlar ,

〽 Anywhere the sand goes

Property rights don’t matter

To meeeeee~

cheese_greater ,

This is the only correct solution. Otherwise, deterrance is never actuated

massive_bereavement ,

This is some captain planet bullshit.

gedaliyah ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/24a36a20-0b60-495a-8071-013450e1b67e.jpeg

FlyingSquid ,
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I always felt bad for the kid who got stuck with the shitty heart ring and couldn’t do stuff like shoot fire.

Reverendender ,

It’s ok. All of them failed at their jobs every single time anyway.

grue ,

Why Ma-Ti was the most powerful Planeteer:

FlyingSquid ,
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He might have been the most powerful, but he usually didn’t do much.

Also, where the hell did Captain Planet go when he left?

draughtcyclist ,

He was not.

gedaliyah ,
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Well then where is he supposed to steal his sand? China?

venusaur ,
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Everybody should go to Carbon Beach. Millionaires have been illegally blocking access for years. It’s a public beach and they’re finally paying for it in a lawsuit. Go ruin their day. Realistically they’re probably at some other expensive property across the globe.

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