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

[tombogan03884]

So we now have you to determine everyone in New York City with a vehicle buried in snow, and unable to be moved, is nothing more than a "arrogant prick". I don't care if the snow is 6' deep, and the street 8' wide. Or for that matter how populous the city is, or how many "record labels" headquarter there, or Kosher deli's there are per sq. mile, or what the average temperature is in the month of December, or any other meaningless blather you want to put forth in an effort to defend total ignorance and stupidity.

A blind man could see from a 3rd floor window, the front tire of that loader overlapped the front of that vehicle by well over a foot. Stupidity has no defense, period. Legal or otherwise. It was so obvious the worst practicing attorney in New York State could most likely make a successful argument in open court it was done deliberate. You don't even know who owns that vehicle. With what do you base that he or she is an "arrogant asshole"? Perhaps they were stranded at an airport thousands of miles away like tens of thousands of others who travel to see family over the holidays, and couldn't get to their car to move it if they so wanted. It doesn't matter because it changes nothing when idiot's set out to prove just how low their I.Q. is.

The fact you would even defend these stupid buffoons, along with what they did brings a lot into question. Where were these people supposed to put their cars if in fact they could move them anywhere? I've seen stupid city ordinances, along with the idiot city managers who tried to enforce them, get thrown out of office because of it. (Chicago....Bilandic / Byrne 1979). All done in the voting booth by these same people who you like to refer to as "arrogant assholes". These same people pay the taxes that provide these morons with their overpriced salary.

This is the same city that won't trust it's citizenry to carry a handgun, but they'll trust a clown like that with a 20 ton front loader. Having lived in and around the city of Chicago for almost 40 Winters, I don't need a geography lesson, or education on urban snow removal, or the difficulty faced when it happens. As they say, welcome to life in the big city. In 1967, and again in 1979 people went weeks before many of Chicago's streets could be cleared, and cars moved. When you stick millions of people in a very concentrated area, then dump 20+ inches of snow on it overnight, it tends to pose a bit more of a problem than it does for farmer Brown getting to his mailbox. None of it allows for fools to prove their stupidity at the expense of others. Your position reflects you have other issues. Perhaps I was a little over optimistic when I suggested "evergreen food". Trail Mix for the seagulls at the landfill might be a better application.   Bill T.

Not at all Bill, they are all arrogant pricks, regardless of where their vehicles are.
The rest of your post just illustrates your ignorance of reality in the North.
Snow happens every winter, I've laid out the facts, including the numbers involved and economic aspects, if that isn't good enough for you it also raises several questions.

[billt]

The rest of your post just illustrates your ignorance of reality in the North.

Yeah, what would I know, I was only born and raised there, and lived 38 years of my life there.    Bill T.

[Timothy]

A city run, by and for, the largest population of sheep on the continent of North America.

Great food, fine entertainment and boatloads of humanity, rabidly waiting to eat their own young!

I repeat....it's NYC....Who cares......  and I agree with Tom, I've never met anyone from NYC that wasn't an asshole and we get a bunch of them in this part of the world.

[TAB]

Legitimately towing them with the owners knowledge is one thing. Destroying them either deliberately, or out of stupidity is another.  Bill T.

I never said it was legitimately towed...   

[tombogan03884]

I never said it was legitimately towed...   

Or with the owners knowledge, 
I only had one vehicle towed, I called a company from 2 towns over to do it 

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[tombogan03884]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101230/ap_on_bi_ge/us_winter_weather

Across New York, complaints have mounted about unplowed streets, stuck ambulances and outer-borough neighborhoods neglected by the Bloomberg administration.

"When he says New York, he means Manhattan," said Hayden Hunt of Brooklyn, a borough of 2.6 million people where many streets were not cleared for days. "He's the man in charge. ... It's foolishness, come on."

Bloomberg, a third-term Republican-turned-independent who is occasionally mentioned as a long-shot presidential candidate, spent the first day after the storm on the defensive, testily dismissing complaints and insisting the cleanup of the 2-foot snowfall was going fine. But he later adopted a more conciliatory tone.

On Wednesday, as stories began to surface about people who may have suffered serious medical problems while waiting for ambulances, the mayor was his most apologetic, without actually apologizing.

"We did not do as good a job as we wanted to do or as the city has a right to expect, and there's no question — we are an administration that has been built on accountability," he said. "When it works, it works and we take credit, and when it doesn't work, we stand up there and say, `OK, we did it. We'll try to find out what went wrong.'"

The city sanitation commissioner promised that every last street would be plowed by Thursday morning.

[Pathfinder]

Having our own blizzard here, 30-40 mph winds with snow. Expected to run until noon Saturday (<yawn>). Both Interstates are closed. We did lose power for 4 hours, but it's back and all is OK. I'll fire up the snow blower when the storm passes, and we will be on about our business Saturday afternoon latest.

The best part of Nanny's comments was calling his Streets and San people "professionals". I wonder where they went for their advanced degrees in garbage hauling, snow removal, and SUV trashing!   

[PegLeg45]

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On Wednesday, as stories began to surface about people who may have suffered serious medical problems while waiting for ambulances, the mayor was his most apologetic, without actually apologizing.

"We did not do as good a job as we wanted to do or as the city has a right to expect, and there's no question — we are an administration that has been built on accountability," he said. "When it works, it works and we take credit, and when it doesn't work, we stand up there and say, `OK, we did it. We'll try to find out what went wrong.'"

Then there is this......

Newborn Dies In Apartment Lobby 9 Hours After The 911 Call; City Admits 'Dropping The Ball'

NEW YORK - A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.

The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights.

"No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours," said the student's mother.

By the time a horde of firefighters and cops finally trooped to her aid through snow-covered blocks, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive, sources said.

Details of the tragedy emerged as the abominable snowstorm continued to wreak havoc across a city still digging out from the wintry blast. Some of the other blizzard horrors include:

- In Queens, a woman tried to reach 911 operators for 20 minutes Monday and then waited for three hours for first responders to arrive. By then, her mom had died, state Sen. Jose Peralta's office said.

Laura Freeman, 41, said her mother, Yvonne Freeman, 75, woke her at 8 a.m. because she was having trouble breathing. When the daughter couldn't get through to 911, she enlisted neighbors and relatives, who also began calling.

One of the callers reached an operator at 8:20 a.m., but responders stymied by snow-clogged streets didn't reach the Corona home until 11:05 a.m., said Peralta, who wants the death investigated.

"The EMS workers walked down the block trudging through snow," Freeman said. "They tried. I could tell by the look on their faces. I really would just like [Mayor] Bloomberg to admit that there were casualties."

http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=13758243

[Timothy]

I feel for these people but they chose to maintain the status quo and remain victims of circumstances beyond their control.

That city eats its victims like most do but with better press coverage!

[PegLeg45]

I feel for these people but they chose to maintain the status quo and remain victims of circumstances beyond their control.

That city eats its victims like most do but with better press coverage!

That's why I could never live in a big city......(don't want to live in any city limits, for that matter)...