Midtown Shopping Center — Attraction in Los Angeles

Watch out for this guard on the Midtown Plaza lot. We were harrassed by him this morning as we are getting out of the gym and back to our van.

We have been traveling around the country for 7months in our campervan and had just recently retuned home this week and we have never had any experience like this one (yes we are not homeless we have a house in Mid City) this man came and knocked on our door as said "sir you cannot live here" my husband calmly responded "we do not live here" to which this man replied "yes you are! I've been watching your van since 6am" we replied "sir we've only been in the gym for an hour" he is very persistent and accusing us of staying in the parking lot and "living there".

My husband suggested that we all go to the gym and confirm the time we checked in. The system showed it was a little after 8am when we checked in and it was pass 9 when he knocked on our van. We've sorted the time issue but we didn't get a sincere apology from this man. He was still hung up on the issue that I called him a liar which I did.

We explained to him that it wasn't about him inquiring about us being there, it was the tone, demeanor and the accusations. If you start a conversation with an accusation nothing positive will come about. He didn't like that I called him a liar, but he doesn't see how his behavior caused all this unpleasant exchange to happen.

We tried to speak with the owner (his boss) but apparently he doesn't want to get involved. I am writing this for people to be aware and be careful with this man.

Next time you see a van like this, please know that it is a leisure van and whoever owns one cannot be homeless.

And to the owner of the plaza, I hope you be more mindful on who you hire. This man is not equipped to interact with people. We are reasonable so we were able to handle him, but it only takes another crazy person like him to escalate things and that would not be good for...

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