Posted on 06/28/2009 10:45:49 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Dozens of workers belly up to the bar at gin mills on Murray Street -- two blocks from the sacred soil of Ground Zero and America's most scrutinized construction project -- shortly before noon every day.
One group of three workers threw back eight drinks each in less than an hour before returning to the job.
Reporters watched hard hats for a week as they walked from the pit for their hourlong meal break, typically at about 11:45 a.m. Many headed north on West Broadway to Murray Street, which is lined with bars and pubs.
On Friday, June 19, three men working on the site's transportation hub were spotted at Biddy Early's Pub & Restaurant at 43 Murray St. The three pals plus a fourth worker gulped three beers and two shots of whiskey each during the lunch hour, when the bar was packed with construction workers.
They openly discussed their drinking, their Ground Zero work -- and DWI arrests.
"We don't have to worry until someone severs a hand," joked one of the hard hats.
The three amigos went at it again on Wednesday, ordering three beers and two whiskeys apiece between noon and 1 p.m.
On Thursday, their boozefest kicked into overdrive.
The trio sucked down four beers and four shots of hard liquor each in about 50 minutes.
That much booze would likely result in a blood-alcohol content of 0.14 to 0.16 percent -- twice the state's definition of drunk.
They walked back to the pit all three times reporters observed them.
On Tuesday reporters saw five hard hats assigned to the Freedom Tower throw back three beers each in an hour.
One was then spotted standing on a steel beam amid iron latticework that's part of the Freedom Tower structure.
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That's racist. / s
Ain’t Democrat criminal enterprises great?
Construction workers drink....politicians lie and the Pope is Catholic.
If men choose to get drunk and then walk on high beams, that's their business.
Maybe this will shut down the building upon sacred ground.
Do like we did at the Utility I retired from, breathalize them.
Original WTC:
Groundbreaking: August, 1966
1st Tower Opening: April 1970
3-1/2 years, folks.
It has been 8 years since the destruction and we have a hole in the ground to show for it. IIRC, the site was “clean” about 6 months after 9/11.
This is embarrassing, not just for NYC but for all of America. The world accurately sees us as an ex-leader that used to get everything done to a vain, weak and powerless country where nothing gets done.
It’s getting more and more old Soviet style every day!
Sacred ground? Huh? Did Christ walk there?
Their ashes are still there, under foot.
Anyone remember the three martini lunch tax breaks awhile back?
Which union are these guys from?
In other news, it was reported 3 of the 4 investigative reporters were either high on cocaine, pot, or pharmaceutical prescription drugs for alleged pain issues.
They’re wasting time following construction workers around to see if they have a beer? The state run media strikes again.
but sang and danced a dog and pony show.
With that attitude, there would be nothing built in America. People have died all over the place. Build on ground zero, build a money maker and build it big. It should be a monument to our nation and our dead.
>The world accurately sees us as an ex-leader that used to get everything done to a vain, weak and powerless country where nothing gets done.<
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What can you expect from a bunch of vain and weak political “leaders” whose only interest is their own welfare and who ignore the future of their children?
Sounnds just about right.
Just like Bostons “Big Dig” workers did.
Those who died there were NOT at war, they were at work.
Yah,but it was three drinks...not a dozen.and the businessmen weren't going out afterward and hoisting 10 ton iron girders overhead with a crane.
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