Posted on 02/17/2020 2:35:21 AM 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.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
February 15, 2020
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.
Please allow this duplicate posting for people who missed it on Saturday night.
I have asked many people on-line who are complaining about student debt (1) “Where did you go to college?” and (2) “What did you get your degree in?”
Response: Crickets. Ms Nurse probably falls into that group.
I’ve had it with ‘woke’ activists.
How does using your feet as brakes make it “green”?
What they’re saying is that the bikes are carrying so much weight that the brakes alone aren’t enough to stop on a hill.
Any one ask about how he pedals the 800# uphill?
I figured that but at the end of the article it says she has them using their feet in the name of being green.
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.
The biggest lies we tell, we tell to ourselves
It doesn’t say what office this fruitcake is running for but if it’s in NYC she will win in a landslide.
Say whaaat???
Is this how were supposed to commute and transport goods, on bicycles while manually braking? I smell a meme coming on. There has to be a old comedy skit that resembles this.
To make matters even worse, Nurse is running for political office to become a member of New York’s City Council.
Knowledge is free, it's stupidity that cost so much.
All the folks at the site look radicalized, exactly as you would imagine.
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.
If he had disk brakes he might do better, yet 800lbs provides a lot of momentum.
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