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| Remains of 9/11 Victims May Fill New York City Potholes |
| 2007-03-25 |
| When I first heard this story on the radio station 1010 WINS here in New York City this morning, my mouth drooped open and I stared at myself in the mirror while shaving. Could this incredible story be true? According to Eric Beck (a supervisor for Taylor Recycling, a company hired to sort the debris hauled from the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks), the residual powders from the truckloads brought to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island were used in a paving-like mixture to fill city potholes and pave streets. Rest at link... |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #6 Filling a pot-hole is pretty useful. I'd rather be there than with the Pampers in the landfill. Course I really want to launched to Alpha-Luv Beta, the planet of try-it-again, this time with superior massage. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-25 16:11 |
| #5 We've scattered a few friends of mine in the "potato patch" [Pacific Ocean] just outside the Golden Gate Bridge. The last one was a Engineer/Architect buddy of mine who was a Seabee in the 50s. It was a warm sunny day with a slight inshore breeze and 6 porpoises played around the bow as we scattered Ray's ashes into the blue green water. I'd like that myself but I wouldn't mind if my ashes served the useful purpose of filling a pot hole. After-all I've spent my entire life working in either Heavy and/or Residential construction. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-25 14:35 |
| #4 This to me seems less offensive than dumping it at a landfill. Was there no piece of barren land available, some deserted quarry, some site offshore, where the material could have been deposited? A landfill? With the trash? |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-25 12:10 |
| #3 Agreed; but its hardly going too far to expect them to refrain from using the deathloam as pothole-filler. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-03-25 11:56 |
| #2 He does make a good point though.. there should be a common symbolic mass burial site with a memorial headstone where the family members can visit. Either at a nearby cemetery or on a small portion of the site. But this wish to entomb all of the debris and the banning of building on the footprints of the towers is carrying things too far. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-25 11:43 |
| #1 Personally, this culture of grief and memorials has gone too far... Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-03-25 11:23 |