Nagin vows to cut sanitation services to French Quarter in budget dispute

The Times-Picayune ^ | January 26, 2009 | Frank Donze

[BBell]

Some crackhead probably stole the manhole to buy crack!~A year or so ago scrap was high.

[BBell]

What you said about the flashing red light reminds me of the red light cameras. They can’t get the crime cameras to work but boy they sure got those red light cameras working! I can’t figure out why(;’)

[trumandogz]

That’s what I was told.

There is a place that buys scrap located just off I-10 and Claiborne that has a sign that they will buy no scrap that is delivered in a grocery basket.

My guess is that crackheads would round up scrap in a grocery basket and sell the grocery basket.

[Charles Martel]

In 2007 there was a traffic signal on General De Gaulle that was flashing red for three months. The city floated the story that that one traffic signal needed one special part in order to operate and it would take six weeks for the part to arrive.

I hadn't heard that one. That's the governmental procurement process for you. Gotta find a source that's a small business, minority-owned, etc., etc., etc.

Speaking of Gen. De Gaulle Drive, that's where one of the Orleans Parish fueling stations for city vehicles is located (or Gen. Meyer - somewhere in Algiers). Because Algiers didn't flood, that was a primary source for fuel for all the surviving NOPD police cars as well as vehicles brought by other federal and state responders (including the many volunteered vehicles from other law enforcement agencies).

I heard from a cousin who works for the sheriff''s department up in De Soto Parish in July, 2006. It seems that his office actually received a bill from the City of New Orleans for the gasoline pumped into the police cars they sent down. They were kind enough to include a CD-ROM with scans of the fuel station's logsheets, with applicable license plate numbers and fuel quantities highlighted.

I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was - and angry, too. I told him they should return the bill with a suggestion that the City forward the bill to FEMA (well actually my first recommendation was that he tell the fools in Nagin's office to roll that bill up real tight, and...).

WTF are those fools at city hall thinking? Talk about thankless. Next time the city needs help, all those police departments will remember that and find that they're just too busy to be of assistance.

[BBell]

The mental image of a crackhead rolling a manhole cover down the street so he can scrap it makes me laugh.