Posted on 05/24/2020 12:39:39 PM PDT by conservative98
Curtis Sliwa hopped into the water off Coney Island on Sunday, defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s no-swimming order — and mocking hapless city Parks Department cops who watched him from shore as a crowd cheered him on.
The mayor had warned last week, “Anyone tries to get in the water, they’ll be taken right out of the water,” while also threatening summonses for violators as the city battles to keep the coronavirus under control by banning swimming for now.
But Sliwa, dressed in a wet suit — and his trademark red Guardian Angels beret — strolled into the surf and swam around for about an hour without consequence, while a crowd of people on a pier near the old Parachute Jump cheered for him.
Seven or eight Parks officers tried ordering the Guardian Angels’ founder and mayoral candidate out of the drink at one point, but when he refused, they just stood and stared from the sand.
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So walking on the beach is safe, but the second your feet get wet you get CCPVIrus and speed it to grandma. Got it.
Jeffrey from the parks department. Seinfeld reference. Except my ping list got erased from the post. :)
Curtis !!!! Yeah baby !!! I would have been right with ya. NO WEYSUIIT !!!
That’s how we do it in jersey ! ( wiLdwood crest )
He’d be a politician who actually cares about NYC & it’s people. They haven’t one like that in a long while.
I'm not sure the regular guy on the street would get the same treatment.
“Hellllloooo!”
Ed Koch and Rudy Guliani were the last good mayors. Rudy May have been a better manager, but Ed did the heavy lifting of bringing the city from being a basket case. Rudy undid the damage that Dinkins did, but then continued to build on the work done by Koch. I see Sliwa using the same style as Ed Koch.
I loved it!
Agreed!
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