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Mobile food trucks, revealing their location on Twitter, who serve taco-fusion, is in. This is no longer news. It's getting competitive on the streets, and the novelty is decreasingly novel.

Recently, a string of taco truck robberies held at gunpoint have left many truck operators feeling shaky, but reluctant to report the crimes. At least 22 robberies took place over the last two months in East Los Angeles, but "some vendors have been reluctant to report them for fear of retaliation from the perpetrators and possible immigration problems from authorities. As a result, detectives believe there may be more unreported robberies," explains LA Now. The LA County Sheriffs believed 21-year-old Nery Perez was responsible, and two days ago announced they were looking for him as their prime suspect. Yesterday, Perez "walked into a sheriff's station with several relatives," turning himself in for the crimes, according to cbs2.com. Perez and four others are suspected to have been "committing at least two to three robberies a day," and the LASD estimate the "total losses at $7,000."

KCRW's Good Food offers a mini taco truck tour in this video podcast. First stopping in Highland Park (home to recent LAist Recession Obsession taco crawl,) this colorful segment ends by getting their Kogi on. We dare you not to salivate.

The Neighborhood Map hanging in GOOD's offices on Melrose (Photo by Emily Lerman for LAist)

After a judge in late August threw out the County's ordinance regarding taco truck parking, the LA County district attorney's office announced Friday that they would not seek an appeal. The ordinance, which Superior Court Judge Dennis Aichroth said was "too ambiguous to be enforceable," forced taco trucks to move every hour or face a $1000 fine or jail time.

Fans of LA's ubiquitous Taco Trucks rejoice: The ordinance passed in April has been overturned, and the vittles vehicles can park and serve in unincorporated LA County to their hearts' content for more than one hour at a time.

It's been nearly 30-days since the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a law that will severely affect taco trucks in unincorporated parts of the county. Trucks can park for 60-minutes, but after that, they face high fines and even jail time if they do not move to another location.

It's a rare commodity for street vendors in Los Angeles, especially among the ubiquitous bacon dogs carts. In a city where vegetarian and vegan joints are beginning to become neighborhood staples, eating veggie on the streets is still no easy task. But thanks to one woman in Echo Park, it's getting a little easier.

       

Tomorrow night, after the May Day rallies, is Taco Night, as declared by the organizers at SaveOurTacoTrucks.org, a petition and effort to raise awareness about an LA County law going in effect on May 15th that will harshen penalties placed on taco trucks who sit in the same spot for over an hour in unincorporated areas such as East LA.

May Day will not just be a day for marching. It will also be a day to celebrate taco trucks.

This is why Jonathan Gold won a Pulitzer Prize. He makes taco truck food sound like it should be eaten three times daily (and never anything else) while truly capturing Los Angeles:

The local online effort to stop a recent law passed to limit taco truck activity with harsh punishment seems to be getting some attention:

C. Thi Nguyen, senior editor of Chow Digest at chowhound.com and a UCLA Grad Student opines in opposition to the County's move to put harsher regulations on Taco Trucks. It appeared in today's edition of the LA Times' The Guide:

Yes, as reported in various LA Newspaper Group dailies, there is an East L.A. Taqueros Union. And they are going to fight a law that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted "yes" on Tuesday -- taco trucks have to move every 60 minutes or face $1000 fines or jail time.

There are over 4,000 taco trucks in Los Angeles County and those that do business in the unincorporated part of East Los Angeles are engaged in a "little war," according to Gloria Molina in the LA Times.