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2010-12-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

NY's Dumbest; NYC sanitation workers destroy a Ford Explorer

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-12-28 13:17|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I am guessing that there is NOT an IQ test to work at NYC sanitation. If there is both of these workers cheated.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-12-28 14:32|| 2010-12-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#2 " I am guessing that there is NOT an IQ test to work at NYC sanitation."

With their high taxes and nanny-statism, I'm guessing there's no IQ test to live there, either, CS.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-28 15:46|| 2010-12-28 15:46|| Front Page Top

#3 During a snow emergency, anything on the street is helping to block traffic, and will be treated accordingly. Intelligence has nothing to do with it.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-28 16:10|| 2010-12-28 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto Chicago. When the city tells you "don't park overnight on this street when there is a snow advisory or alert" they really, really mean it.

Posted by Steve White 2010-12-28 16:27|| 2010-12-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

#5 It looks like they went out of their way to destroy cars that car. Where do you park if it isn't on the street? And it didn't look like that street was much of a main artery to me.

FrankG, are you OK?

Posted by gorb 2010-12-28 17:05|| 2010-12-28 17:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure there were pay garages around there. The owner may not have wanted to pay the rates asked, but when most cities have a snow emergency....they ain't kidding when they say they want all the vehicles off the road. Good luck fighting this one in court, pal.

BTW, I still think the firehose going through a BMW picture is funnier.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2010-12-28 18:07|| 2010-12-28 18:07|| Front Page Top

#7 "I still think the firehose going through a BMW picture is funnier."

I have a friend (we were volunteer firefighers together back in the 1980's) who was a D.C. cop many years ago, SB, and he had a picture from the newspaper up there showing a similar picture.

The hose was going through both front doors of an expensive car (and of course the firefighter hooking it up didn't have the time to make the hydrant connection really tight, if you get my meaning).

Best part, to add insult to injury, was a cop had his foot up on the bumper writing the car owner a ticket. Hee hee hee. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-28 18:40|| 2010-12-28 18:40|| Front Page Top

#8 F-150 is fine. I'm OK, but thanks for asking :-)
Drink up!

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-28 18:44|| 2010-12-28 18:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the hose-thru-the-expensive-car-windows was also featured in some movie - Backdraft I think.

At the start of the move there's a fire scene with a expensive car (BMW as I recall) blocking the hydrant so the firefighters simply broke the windows and snaked the hose thru. I loved that scene. Oh yea!

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-28 18:58|| 2010-12-28 18:58|| Front Page Top

#10 During a snow emergency, anything on the street is helping to block traffic, and will be treated accordingly.

There was no snow emergency declared in NYC.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-28 19:54|| 2010-12-28 19:54|| Front Page Top

#11 just looked like some OTJ Training for a driving-challenged worker. The Tow truck driver wasn't MENSA material either. Absolutely no reason that had to happen

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-28 20:03|| 2010-12-28 20:03|| Front Page Top

#12 "There was no snow emergency declared in NYC."

Oops.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-28 20:26|| 2010-12-28 20:26|| Front Page Top

#13 My brother's had to do the hydrant thing a couple of times. He says the best part is when the idiot owner comes out screaming for the cops to DO SOMETHING!...and then the cop hands him a hundred dollar ticket.

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-28 21:37|| 2010-12-28 21:37|| Front Page Top

#14 just looked like some OTJ Training for a driving-challenged worker

And there's a good possibility it was:

Jason Post, a spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg, confirmed that there are 400 fewer workers at the [NYC Sanitation]department than two years ago, but insisted the city's snow-fighting force has not been diminished.

"The number of people assigned to snow fighting is the same," Mr. Post said. "How? Other staff normally working in administrative positions have been reassigned to field posts." Mr. Post said workers are staffing the same number of plows and sanding trucks "as ever."

Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said he directed sanitation officers and administrative personnel to help clear the streets.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-28 22:04|| 2010-12-28 22:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Pappy - I've seen skilled loader operators that would run circles around this moron. I'm thinking your clip is on the money. No use of the bucket to help pivot the loader? Stoopid. I've had only a bit of playtime on a loader and I think I could've got out without that damage

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-28 22:08|| 2010-12-28 22:08|| Front Page Top

#16 There was no snow emergency declared in NYC.

True. According to the article, the mayor had his reasons for that decision, despite it actually being a snow emergency. There are always problems when weather hits areas unaccustomed to it.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-28 23:01|| 2010-12-28 23:01|| Front Page Top

#17 I would hope that NYC is accustomed to snowstorms.

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-28 23:15|| 2010-12-28 23:15|| Front Page Top

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