Caught on Tape: Proof the NYC Blizzard Response Was Sabotaged?
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Criminal investigations have been launched to find out why workers from the New York City Sanitation Department were reportedly hanging out at Dunkin Donuts for 11 straight hours and some drinking beer for six or seven hours instead of working to clear the city‘s streets of snow that had fallen in last week’s massive snowstorm.
Though the Department of Sanitation has denied any organized effort to slow down the city’s snow clean-up efforts, new video that‘s surfaced seems to prove there were dirty tricks involved in workers’ efforts to clean the streets last week. The video obtained by a local CBS affiliate are now being closely examined by prosecutors as they seem to show two sanitation trucks driving down snow-covered streets in Queens with their plows raised:
In addition, CBS2 reports that a number of Department of Transportation workers were told to wait six to eight hours for orders from the Sanitation Department before deploying to plow secondary roads. This action left streets in the city’s outer boroughs impassable for days.
“After looking at what happened there’s going to be hell to pay for the people who caused this and everyone’s going to be held accountable,” says NYC Councilman Daniel Halloran.
Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hern says the city is working to get to the bottom of what happened and is urging city residents to contact the agency if they have any evidence of deliberate wrongdoing. All information will be kept strictly confidential, she says.
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Comments (204)
BoilitDown
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:22amI sincerely hope this is just the offence we need to rise up as a nation against the undue power unions (or any other such entity) wield over our government. I hope there are a lot more people who have become as outraged at unions as I have been for the last 30 or so years. I wasn’t exaggerating, was I?
Report Post »Those like Andy Stern and Richard Trumpka have no business interfering in our government and yet our president welcomes them with open arms and calls himself one of them. Corrupt-o-crats and Unions run Illinois and California. Take a hint, this is where the entire country is headed if we don’t shout out against it. Are we going to continue to let them infiltrate the ferderal government?
Whoever has the power to undermine our nation the way they have, need to be crushed.
Ray2447
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:44amWhen the citizens of NY (harmed by this work slow down) sue the city, will the money they win come out of the malfeasant government employee’s pockets? Will the union’s deep pockets have to pay for it? Nah, that would be justice and in the Socialist utopia of NY, we can’t have real justice for the little people. In the end, the Socialist courts will just stick it to the city and let the poor taxpayers pay for it yet again.
Report Post »Reasonabiliy
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:43amThe charge for the supervisors involved in this, is Manslaughter: After all, people died because of their deralection of duty.
Report Post »itsmyfirstday
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:00amits Bush’s fault…
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:11amI suppose eric holder will check this situation out and sue the unions on behalf of the families who lost loved ones and the people who couldn’t get to work & obama will hold a press confrence to say the union acted stupidly.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:34amI fear unions fall neatly in the “Do Not Prosecute” file, right next to the New Black Panthers, ACORN, and the Sestak/Clinton matter. Chicago politics is all about rewarding your supporters, throwing them kickbacks and turning a blind eye to their more nefarious activities.
Give me equal justice, not social justice.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:31amSocial justice is – - – neither.
Report Post »Seneca264
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:40amIt is my opinion thay any sanitation worker that participated in this “protest”, should be charged with attempted manslaughter as a minimum. Of course we know that the pending “investigations” will not amount to anything since the city, state, and federal government are deeply involved with the union. I would not be surprised if some of the men that live in the boroughs do not resort to a little vigilante justice. I am sure it would not be very hard to find out where these workers live and drag them out of their houses in the middle of the night and exact a little justice for the danger and misery that these workers imposed on their neighborhoods. Wait and see…..it is going to happen.
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:19amJust like America…the unions are not the good guys anymore…
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:38amHalf right Lion.. America (good) is worth restoring. Unions (bad) are worth flushing.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:16amLook at the folks New Yorkers put in office, and reallly do you expect them to do
Report Post »anything of significance about this? They are getting what they paid for, and thats
on them.
lylee
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:47pmThat’s on them until we in flyover country are forced to bail them out, then that’s on us.
Report Post »Der Jakl
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:11amNew York Penal – Article 125 – § 125.10 Criminally Negligent Homicide
§ 125.10 Criminally negligent homicide.
A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with
criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person.
Criminally negligent homicide is a class E felony.
Sounds like it fits
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:35amTo jail with there asses and NO MORE UNIONS.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:30pmDo you really think Gasbag Bloomberg will have the stones to hold the union leaders accountable
Report Post »I agree they should be put in jail and privatize the work.
Remember NYC is liberalville – they like bending over!
mndjohnson
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:07amI hope the union does not pay off it’s way out of this one.
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:36ami see we have all the information needed.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:36amSomething like this did not start from the little guys at the bottom, it started from someone at the top so Lets not forget to look at that left wing scum bag the Mayor, the people of New York will be alot better off without that scum bag, but he has billions to buy his way out of trouble like this so the only people who will pay for this will be the truck drivers, you watch, you will see that i am right.
Report Post »runninonempty
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:11amRight on! The fish rots from the head down….
Report Post »Robotics_Geek
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:10amIf you look at France, UK, Greece etc. you will see where the US is headed with the unions. I have been stationed in Korea, Italy, the UK and the Middle East. In each country Unions or the equivalent have WRECKED the trust of the citizen in their Government. In Korea you can go through 2 years of classes and $3000 (equivalent) OR bribe the licensing official $750 and you’ve got your license to drive…In Italy the Carabinieri or state police will stop you and shake you down for whatever money you have at GUN POINT. I had a Major who just got into country pass the “lolly pop” they hold out to stop you and he was almost gunned down before seeing them. When they saw he was Air Force they just waved him on. We are seeing this NOW with our Teachers, Cops, Fire Departments and other unionized workforces. The emphasis is not on what they can build, clean, keep safe or make better it is how much can I get paid for doing as little as possible and be protected from getting fired! WAKE UP AND REALIZE THE UNIONS ARE DEAD AND KILLING AMERICA!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:08am“Never let a crisis go to waste”
Report Post »red penny
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:01amDon’t you just love unions? They always have the publics best interest foremost in their minds.Hopefully,the self serving “SOBs” will be identified and prosecuted.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:36amBy who, Holder? Fat chance.
Report Post »Plankchapel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:39amThe garbage was not picked up for a week. The streets were not cleared. People have heart attacks shoveling snow. People need to get to the hospital. Police need to make their rounds. People have wrecks on the highways and need to get to a hospital. Houses catch fire from faulty wiring or space heaters or candles or grease fires, and fire trucks need to be able to get to the scene(s).
And those union “workers”just sat on their rosteriums?! The entire department needs to be replaced.
This is outrageous.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:01amyou sound like an indignat socialist who didnt get his rations….
think
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:35am@Mr. Butcher
You sound like an idiot who didnt get his meds.
Read.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:29amI‘d say you sound more like a fair minded consumer who didn’t get what you paid for. Your discontent accurately underscores why “WE THE PEOPLE” should have these services out of government/union hands. That way, any “non performance of duties” can be dealt with more easily by termination of any non performing employee(s), IMO.
This whole situation can best be summed up in the words of Ronald Reagan. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:35amFrom What I understand the taxpayers in NYC pay out the wazoo for these services. There really was no excuse for this. I understand an infant died due to the lack of service provided. Some one needs to be held accountable.
Report Post »Hyena
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:34amWell then……proof positive government worker’s unions should be illegal as they have been in the past.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:49amExactly ..
Report Post »Marishka
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:50amAbsolutely, …..This will happen in health care too. Our children will be “snowed in”.
Report Post »doncarr61
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:34amUnless and until it is made clear to the average citizen that the Unions have a cozy relationship with the White House nothing will be done. Bloomberg is a loyal progressive and does not want to cut his bailout parachute with Obama.
Report Post »KEA
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:33amHeld Accountable? Why on earth would we start doing that? We dont hold anyone else accuontable so why start now?
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:29amThen why keep living? We all end up dead anyway.
Poor logic.
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:31amUnions are Evil Communist run Organizations. IF YOU WORK FOR A UNION, TEAR UP YOUR CARD AND QUIT!. It is not to late to save YOUR SOUL!. The Union leaders in America are all about the overthrow of the Free Market Capitalist system that provided the incentive for the investors that built the businesses these leftist union thug leaders are tiring to destroy. DEFUND your Union Today and QUIT!
Report Post »Partygirl
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:12amExactly!
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:15amSoviet propaganda films from the 1920′s & 1930′s depict Capitalists as greedy, unethical fat cats, and unions as the righteous salvation of the struggling, oppressed workers. “Strike” by Sergei Eisenstein and “The End of St. Petersburg” by Vsevolod Pudovkin are two films that come to mind.
“Reds,” starring Warren Beatty, et. al. also shows roots of unions in Soviet history. It’s good to know the historical connections unions have so we can better understand their modern day behavior, their tactics, IMO.
Oh, and by the way, Vladimir Lenin, primary founder of Marxist-Leninist Communism, was a bank robber in Tsarist Russia. Lenin rationalized his theft of other people’s money as just one more facet of his attack on Capitalism.
Report Post »DMcPher316
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:54amonly problem is alot of places were the union are, you HAVE to join, or not work there. I worked in a factory with the teamsters union and when I was hired I was told I HAD to join or the dues would be taken out of my pay any way, apparently that was the way the cintracts were written. After the new contracts are written, the workers were given little handbooks with info for us to read. I asked a steward if I could see the WHOLE contract to see what was not in the handbooks and was told it was none of my business what else was in the contract. Funny this was that after every new contract the union president for our shop some how got a new car…hmmmm….just a co-inky-dink I’m sure….
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:30amThe states that let UNIONS control them deserve what happens to them. If they can’t see it for themselves then there is no reason trying to explain it to them. You just can’t fix STUPID.
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:51amagainst stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich Schiller
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:24amGotta love you union thugs!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:14amPeople before profits……..and this is what you get. The people of NY “reap what you sow ” I hope you are stuck in the snow until June………..
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:24amNO excuse for this AT ALL.
Report Post »bolec slodkie
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:16pmThe Union broke the contract. Fire the Union and hire privat contractors. Saves money and “pull the plug on union thugs.”
Report Post »Lunar
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:23amPitchforks and torches time. There is no excuse for what happened it was a tantrum thrown by wealthy FAT union bosses.
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:29pmYour right! Use the dem tactics against them. File a wrongful death lawsuit against union leaders, and let the power of discovery, start toppling the domino’s. Remember martha stewart, scooter libby, etc. Force them to put denials on the record and make the info public, then the DA will have to take action. Manslaughter??????
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:55pmWould love to see those responsible pay for their crime, but like anything else involving the Unions, it will be covered up somehow. I have little faith in relying on the union bosses and know their power. Thugs are what they are and they learned well.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:20am“Hell to pay?” Yawn…
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:43amYou’re right Nickderringer
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:48amUnion hacks … some people will do anything the union says without question. … it’s like they work for the union and not for the PEOPLE .. They should all be fired — pretty sure you could get GOOD replacements for less than these union fools.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:05amUnion leader douche bags… Never let a crisis go to waste.
A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:43amThis is a perfect opportunity for the People to reduce the size of government and shovel their own snow.
Tell them to get lost, because you don’t need them. Privatize your sanitation work.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:58amScrew the unions. Use this as an excuse to boot the unions and bring in a private contractor to do the job. It will be done faster, better, and cheaper. Your unions days are numbered, BUT ONLY IF N.Y. has the stones to do it. If not, you have someone else to blame.
Report Post »roguetea
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:59amrogue, Truth Endures, America
Just the blaze, not hell, the blaze of truth, giving no place to hide. Even CBS is getting sucked into the new flames of honesty, truth and honor.
In decades past, I have been inside the ranks and files far enough to know they have they have a lot to hide. No accusation of Unions is beyond my expectation, especially their most elitist leader. But all of them have met their match. Their haughty, beyond touch foolishness only demonstrate they are simply, out of touch. They are all doomed to failure over the years to come.
We have only begun to fight. Our only weapon is truth, the only building blocks is truth, the only hope is truth. It is all we need. Anyone want to bet how NYC will vote in 2012? Spread the blaze, not hell.
Report Post »tea party, Own 11, ROGUE ON
ishka4me
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:12amthe poelple investigating belong to same union> Nuff said
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:14amUnions care only about themselves and to hell with everyone else.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:25amI agree “Anonymous T. Irrelevant”
Hire private contractors for snow & trash cleanup… cheaper w/competitive prices & creates jobs in the private sector. Sell the city vehicles at auction & layoff the city/union workers…it’s a win win for the city & the tax payers!
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:06amYawn is right; they’ll find one of two and force them to retire early, thus holding up how hard they were on these union thugs. The union leaders and others who controlled this effort cause people to die and should be held to the very minimum of man slaughter.
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:11amI may live in a small town of 38,000 but we have 4 different choices for trash removal, all 4 are private firms and with the competition pricing is relatively low and service is excellent. Perhaps NYC should give that model some consideration.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:28amAnd it better start at the top and work its way down, “cause that’s where the buck stops”. The fact that the lower etchelon of dolts listened and didn’t help their fellow New Yorkers is deplorable – humans suffered and died because the “sheep” don‘t have minds of their own and did what the boss’ told them to do. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law!
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:29amhow much do these people get paid. With jobs the way they are I am sure they could be replaced in a blink of the eye.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:56amI think New Yorkers deserve every damn bit of corruption that’s shoved down their throats!!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:30amWell, soon union managers will be hauled into court and prosecuted for what they did, and for the deaths that were caused by what happened…..and also at any second, monkeys will fly out of my butt……
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:32amAh the wonders of a union job, get paid to sit on your butt all day long.
NO LOCAL, STATE, OR FEDERAL JOB SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE UNIONIZED BECAUSE THEY ARE TAX PAYER FUNDED JOBS.
It is time to get rid of all local state and federal unions. Make your representatives and senators at the state and federal level demand unions go away or fire them.
Report Post »TheBees
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:44amNick, yo got that right! Nothing will happen to them, they’re union workers! A few might get a token slap on the wrist but nothing severe!
Report Post »ajames7321
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:47amI believe what the News needs to cover is the fact that people DIED due to the slow down, if the slow down is considered a crime then these workers can be charged with their deaths.
Report Post »lylee
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:23amThe only people I see paying the hell are the taxpayers.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:07pmThe very next time this tactic is deployed, the CITIZENS need to come out voluntarily and do the work themselves. After, the heads can roll but the job will be done. It’s simple Sun Tzu strategy. They “attack” by forcing union work stopage, you “retalliate” and get the job done, thus making the unions totally irrelevant. Result? Unions go away. You show these people that they do NOT have control over us! hell, Governers can even call out the National Guard to do the job, then give the bill to the unions….especially if they are a private union (unlike this example of city workers)…but even a city union can be charged for the cleanup by the state, forcing those in city power to tighten these union hacks up, or have them removed.
Report Post »MamaofJ5
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:10pmPrivatize. Nuff said!! I’ll shovel snow for $20.00 an hour, how about you?
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:12pmWell it’ll be covered up but be aware … citizen journalists it’s time to expose these criminals! If by the slim change a slow down is uncovered, that fact that two people died, now makes this a manslaughter investigation. People have been tried for less.
Report Post »Sam I am
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:00pmIf NYC is paying a teacher guilty of molesting a child $100K a year for 13 years and can’t fire him, don’t expect squat from NYC on snow removal.
Report Post »“Hell to Pay” probably means a leave with full pay and benefits. They’ll all be playing golf in Florida.
Nickname
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:16pmDoctor – are you really suggesting that people in the northern cities shovel their own city out of blizzards? No concern about stopping commerce, the safety of the drivers, etc? What part of the south are you from?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:00pmThey will be sentenced to root for the Red Sox and Lakers. Maybe they will have to turn in their bead massage seat covers. I know, a fitting punishment is they have to actually stay awake and listen throughout the entire next union meeting, that would be punishment.
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:19amMaybe we should let the illegals drive the plows. I bet they’d do a better job for a few pesos a day!
Report Post »RushLumbar
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:47pmgive the unions enough snowplows to hang themselves, PRIVATIZE!!! just like the senate did with their cafeteria
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