News about Phoebe Judge

Dan Stevenson and his partner Ludmilla had lived in Oakland's Eastlake area for 40 years and learned to live with rampant crime, including muggings, assaults, and heroin dealers. But Dan's capacity for tolerance came to an end when people began using a traffic divider with a space in the middle, visible from his house about 500 feet away as a "garbage dump." The pair bought a small Buddha statue from ACE Hardware and attached it to a concrete slab on the divider to discourage criminals and litterers. The result? Any would say miraculous...