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History Forum / General / British History / July 2006Re: New Yorkers Are So Incompetent They Can't Even Keep Electricity On In Queens
Hilarious! New Yorkers are not only INCOMPETENT -- but they are also LAZY and IGNORANT. Suspicions Confirmed. Pogue Gans is their poster boy. Yet, they have this engrained feeling that their Role In Life is to EDUCATE and serve as a MODEL to the rest of the folks in the United States. How Sweet It Is! There are some folks like that in BOSTON too -- where they have thoroughly bollixed the Big Dig. DSH ---------------------------------------- "Hard At Work? Not These Con Ed Workers" Ti-Hua Chang Reporting WCBS TV -- New York City "(CBS) WOODSIDE The power problems had Mayor Bloomberg promising swift action by Con-Ed. He said they're doing all they can, but CBS 2 caught Con Edison workers in Woodside not working. Five Con Edison workers in two vans were caught on video, sleeping, reading newspapers, making phone calls, and removing their sign that indicates they are at work. This lasted for nearly half an hour. The workers were asked, "I was just wondering what you guys have been doing this past half-hour? Because I saw the manhole over here. Is this a cable repair?" One worker said, "We're working over here on the sidewalk. I really can't say anything. We're trying our best. So, that's all I can really tell you right now." When asked if they were on lunch break for the past half hour, the worker said, "No." He then added, "I can't really say anything. Sorry." A co-worker in the Con-Ed truck where this worker was interviewed slept through the entire interview. The workers then drove off after being asked if they could say what they were repairing. Residents in the area also questioned the workers. Restaurant owner Luis Figueroa said, "They say, 'Well, I don't know, we don't know yet. We're working on it.' I said, 'But I see you here eating. I saw you for an hour. You've been eating; you've been sitting down here inside the van with the A.C. on.'" Another resident said, "They were there yesterday. They're not doing anything." Con Edison officials refused to look at the video of their workers or to explain on camera what they were doing. Someone from the public relations department at Con Edison spoke with CBS 2 on the phone, saying, "First and foremost, you're not allowed to speak directly to our employees...Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll look into it and call you." Con Edison has yet to follow up on their promise of a return call." -------------------------------- DSH Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum And, TYPICALLY, the "New Yawkers" with the generators on-site are gouging the poor folks without power. DSH ---------------------------------------------------------- "In parts of Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside and other areas, there was substantial loss of food, loss of business and loss of cool. "Even third-world countries do not have this kind of problem," said Jimmy Istavrof, 57, who owns the J & T Greek and Italian Deli on Ditmars Boulevard. "All this from a couple of 90-degree days." He showed how his Greek desserts and other foods sat spoiling in his freezers. "You see? Like soup," he said, squeezing a soft carton of ice cream. "It's all going to shame." At the Taverna Kyclodis restaurant on Ditmars Boulevard, the owner, Ardiam Skenderi, splurged to rent a 35,000-watt generator to supply power to his restaurant. He had been storing his calamari, octopus and other seafood in a refrigerated van outside the restaurant, he said, "But it only holds so much, and it won't keep it cold forever." Just outside Arthur's restaurant in Astoria, officials from Con Edison's claims department handed out forms to residents instructing them that they could submit a claim of up to $150 for spoiled food (up to $350 if they kept their grocery receipts), and that merchants could file for up to $7,000 worth of perished items. The restaurant served its food to its neighbors before it spoiled, setting up buffet tables on the sidewalk and serving desserts and, later, filet mignon, shell steaks and broiled shrimp. "It was all going to waste," said the manager, Peggy Dougherty. "We tried to rent a generator, but they were gouging everybody. They wanted like $2,000 a day."" The New York Times --------------------- DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas "In parts of Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside and other areas, there was substantial loss of food, loss of business and loss of cool. "Even third-world countries do not have this kind of problem," said Jimmy Istavrof, 57, who owns the J & T Greek and Italian Deli on Ditmars Boulevard. "All this from a couple of 90-degree days." He showed how his Greek desserts and other foods sat spoiling in his freezers. "You see? Like soup," he said, squeezing a soft carton of ice cream. "It's all going to shame." ----------------------------------- Parts of New York City ARE a Third-World Country. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Yep, this definitely sounds like the throes of a Third-World Country. New Yorkers can't even solve their own electric power problems -- yet they think their role is to lecture the rest of the Good Folks of the United States -- particularly those out in the Heartland. Too Late Smart... DSH -------------------------------------------- New York Daily News "The land of rotten food & hot tempers" Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 Frustrated residents and business owners in Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City stumbled in humid, dark rooms yesterday, chucking out spoiled food and lining up for rations of ice, water and food. Adding to their misery, downpours drenched the neighborhood at least twice, causing spot flooding. "We're just hibernating. It's like waiting for a new beginning," moaned Tom Sowinski, 49, a computer worker who was in line for dry ice in Astoria. Sowinski said his father, an electrical engineer, would have been appalled by the breakdown in the power grid. "The one thing I learned from my father is you design something that doesn't blow up," Sowinski said. Alex Kalens, an employee at K&D Inter Jewelry on Ditmars Blvd. in Astoria, said the outage prompted anxious store owners to clear their inventory. "We were afraid there was going to be a riot," Kalens said. Thomas Cooke, 80, walked gingerly from the Trade Fair supermarket on Ditmars Blvd. with bags of groceries in each hand to his home in Astoria. "The house is like an oven. You're likely to fall and break your neck," Cooke said of the darkness inside. For Ana Billilis, owner of the popular Greek eatery Stamatis in Astoria, it was a day of sweaty brows, raised voices and frayed nerves. "I've lost a lot of money," she said as she took a breather from the broiling confines of the restaurant." James Kirchick and Paul H.B. Shin -------------------------------------------------------- DSH Hilarious! Gans just HATES Capitalism -- completely consonant with his Greenwich-Village Marxist Outlook On Life -- bred in the bone by his Family. DSH > Don't worry. The damage will be paid for by higher rates. > Dividends will not deteriorate noticably [sic] and nobody will [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > --- Paul J. Gans Yes, this writer -- SEWELL CHAN [interesting name] -- seems to be a distinct cut above the usual New York Times "Liberal" flack. Gans's basic problem -- and blinders -- are that he HATES Capitalism with a bright, white-hot flame. So naturally he sees everything in terms of a Demonical Con Edison and cannot take a wider view -- he's just constitutionally and politically unable to do so. Sewell Chan -- Superior Reporter... http://www.gawker.com/news/sewell-chan/nyo-you-would-most-likely-hate-sewell-cha n-if-he-could-find-time-to-meet-you-182282.php DSH ------------------------------------------ > Thank you for the article. NYT seems to have been very even-handed on > this one. [quoted text clipped - 254 lines] >> >>> We don't know *why* that wasn't done this time. Sewell Chan reportedly has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Sewell is an old, prestigious, New England name with strong links to both Harvard and Yale -- he may have an interesting heritage. DSH |
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