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Frank Stallone claims he has to âbatten down windowsâ driving through âscaryâ L.A.
The actor and younger brother of Sylvester Stallone blamed the stateâ??s â??filthâ?? on â??really bad leadershipâ??
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Actor Frank Stallone is lamenting what he sees as the downfall of California, claiming that the state has since become a âscaryâ and âfilthyâ place since he moved in the 1970s.
The 74-year-old New York native and younger brother of Rocky star Sylvester Stallone recalled moving to the Golden State in 1979 when he said it was âsunnyâ with little crime.
âI came to California in â79 and it was totally â it was California Dreaminâ, and I wasnât even in the best time,â Stallone told Fox News Digital.
âNo, it was a lot better earlier...but it was real California sunny, you know? Cool. Not much crime,â he said.
Recalling his recent drive through downtown Los Angeles, Stallone claimed the âfilth, the graffiti and the homelessness is almost like that movie Escape from New York.â
Released in 1981 and starring Kurt Russel, Escape from New York is about a former soldier turned criminal tasked with rescuing the president, whoâs been taken hostage by inmates on the island of Manhattan after itâs been turned into a maximum security prison amid a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Frank Stallone, right, has grown nostalgic for the L.A. he remembers. (Getty Images )âI mean, itâs that scary. I mean, I batten down the window, locks...Youâre talking trash piled four feet high. Just filth,â Stallone continued.
âYouâve just got to move them out,â he said of homeless encampments. âNo more of these Winnebagos parked for months on the curb. You know, we got to move. No more pitching tents on sidewalks where people can't walk. No more pitching tents in front of peopleâs houses. I mean, when I was going down to the gym, it was so compacted with homeless people. The stench â also that that type of unsanitariness breeds you know... All kinds of bad stuff⦠There's a lot of human excrement. Itâs just terrible.â
He further blamed the current state of California on âreally badâ leadership.
Of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Stallone said: âI think this guy is so transparent. Heâs so phony. Heâs a terrible speaker. The hands and the hair and everything. Heâs just set up to be made fun of, you know what I mean? And heâs a bad governor.â
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Try for freeHe added: âI mean, this is such a beautiful state. Beautiful. We got the mountains, we got snow, we got the ocean. Weâve got everything. Itâs just run wrongâ¦. I mean, the crime. Itâs just ridiculous. You know, $900 you can steal and nothing happens. But that, to me, is Iâm lost on that one. You know, when I was a kid, you stole a candy bar, you get a kick in the butt.â
To reduce prison overcrowding, California in 2014 passed Prop 47, which reclassified certain felonies to misdemeanors, including theft of property valued under $950.
The Independent has contacted Newsomâs representative for comment.
