Posted on 02/15/2020 4:38:53 PM PST by grundle
* A New York City environmental organization called “BK ROT” violates OSHA safety regulations by forcing its employees to dangerously use their feet as brakes, “Fred Flintstone style,” on a bicycle, while hauling “almost eight hundred pounds” down “substantial hills.”
* Sandy Nurse, the organization’s founder, is running for political office.
* Nurse also thinks she shouldn’t have to pay back her college loans.
In New York City, a woman named Sandy Nurse created an environmental organization called “BK ROT.” The organization collects food scraps and other organic waste, and turns it into compost.
As part if its green mission, all of its employees travel by bicycle.
The New York Post recently wrote the following about this:
Five days a week, Victor Ibarra rides a bicycle through North Brooklyn, collecting food waste from restaurants, coffee shops, and other small businesses and packing it into plastic tubs on a trailer that he tows with his bike. There are two substantial hills on his route, and when the tubs are full the entire load—waste, trailer, bike, Ibarra—adds up to almost eight hundred pounds. “Uphill is really hard,” he said the other day. “But, actually, uphill is a lot easier than downhill. Going downhill, I have the hand brakes pressed on, but the bike is still going.” To stop completely, he has to use his feet, Fred Flintstone style.
Ibarra is twenty-three. His employer for the past six years has been BK ROT, a nonprofit hauling-and-composting operation in Bushwick.
This is very dangerous, and certainly a violation of OSHA safety rules.
Nurse also thinks she shouldn’t have to pay back the money that she chose to borrow for college, even though she chose to sign a legal document promising to pay the money back.
CNBC recently wrote the following about this:
Sandy Nurse doesn’t see why she needs to be $120,000 in debt “just for trying to improve my understanding of the world.”
And so, after a decade of struggling to repay her student loans, she plans to stop trying. She hopes others will join her, too, in a national strike against the country’s outstanding student loan debt, which is marching toward $1.7 trillion.
“It’s a way not to look at ourselves as failures because we’re failing to pay back an excessive amount of money for knowledge,” said Nurse
Nurse’s comments are despicable. Instead of admitting that she is a deadbeat and a liar, she is trying to falsely portray herself as being a victim.
I wonder how Nurse would feel if her customers who paid for their compost with a credit card were to call their credit card companies and have the charges removed, and Nurse ended up not getting the money that her customers had promised to pay her.
To make matters even worse, Nurse is running for political office to become a member of New York’s City Council.
We already know that, in the name of being green, Nurse forces her employees to use their feet as brakes like in The Flintstones.
Since Nurse is running for political office, I wonder if she wants to force the entire population to do the same thing.
There’s a guy by me who collects scraps and sells compost. He uses a dump truck like the average cogent individual.
How stupid does a guy have to be to work for such a lunatic for six years?
Yabba Dabbba Doo!
Paying the $120k will improve her understanding of the world.
Apparently needs trailer brakes...
“..the entire load—waste, trailer, bike, Ibarra—adds up to almost eight hundred pounds.”
They’re talking the load of man, bike, trailer and waste weighing 800#, not just the load. That waste food is probably damp and packed into that container.
Since all that does have to be stopped I can see adding it all up. Still doubt the 800# figure though.
800 pounds? Uh huh...right. My commercial grade z-turn mower goes 850#. Ain’t no fargin’ way you’re motin’ that with a bycicle/trailer. I would believe 80 pounds. Of course, “journalists” have an insurmountable problem with math, units and physics. Real world stuff is way too hard.
She looks like Sideshow Bob.
Of course, “journalists” have an insurmountable problem with math, units and physics. Real world stuff is way too hard.
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Oh, ye of little faith...
You know the editor would have caught it had it been wrong.
Thats right, I forgot the editor has (apparently) gone the route of the RR Brakeman, Merchant Ship Morse Radio Op and the caboose of a freight train.
Between the hysterics of the ‘female anchors’ over any problem or ‘so called’ disaster and the sloppy writing and lack of GOOD proof readers etc...
They rely too much on the computer and if spell check is on, nothing but possible ‘disaster’
“Apparently needs trailer brakes...”
Dude. This is an environmentally conscious company.
The brake pads. The cables. The lube for the cables. The cover on the cables.
All made from or using oil, the industry of death.
Since all that does have to be stopped I can see adding it all up. Still doubt the 800# figure though.
See, you didn’t know the guy weighs 400 himself.
They need to be given a break from the Laws of Physics?
Maybe their town can declare itself a Sanctuary City [sanctuary from the application of Physics].
Sometimes that mower of mine would throw off the drive belt that ran between the engine and the two hydrostatic drive pumps. The mower thus became a dead weight cow turd. A boat anchor’s boat anchor. Seems like it happened a lot on my long drive which was situated on a hill.
For rescue and to get the mower to a level, solid place for jacking it up for repair, I would lift the rear of the mower with my tractor/loader and tote it to the barn. That load was all that 28 HP tractor wanted going up the hill.
800#. Pffffttt.
Riding that bike with hand brakes down a hill with 800 pounds on a tiny trailer behind it is a job for the guys from Jackass.
Paying the $120k will improve her understanding of the world.
Especially when with a little application of hard work she could have obtained that knowledge for free on the internet.
Not hard to believe if Ibarra weighs 400#s.
This is possibly the dumbest thing I have ever read about.
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