Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/03/2010 10:28:49 AM PST by george76
More than eight years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, New York City authorities are demanding that developer Larry Silverstein fork over almost $35m in commercial rent taxes on the Twin Towers and two other buildings that no longer exist.
The city's reasoning is that Silverstein continued to pay rent to the Port Authority after the towers fell.
That, city officials claim, subjects his transactions to the 3.9 percent commercial rent tax ...
On May 27, 2007, the city's finance department sent Silverstein a bill for $34,866,549 - including penalties and interest - on his four trade center buildings.
City officials asserted that "the airspace that had been surrounded by the buildings still existed" and, since Silverstein had the right to rebuild, he had to pay up.
Silverstein pointed out that the government seized control of the entire site in 2001, so he could hardly rebuild.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Screw Larry. Maybe next time he’ll put in sprinkler systems.
That will teach him to put his towers in the path of a terrorist attack.
Or maybe rubberized the walls so the planes would have bounced off?/sarc
You fargin moron!
If you neamt that to be sarcastic, then maybe you should have let us all in on the joke. Natural reaction to your statement without a qualifier . . . .
Like a fire sprinkler was going to put out a 24,000 gallon jet fuel fire spread over how many floors?
What can be looked at is the lack of asbestos use above the 65th floor (believe it was 65) due to "environmentalism". Steel girders were not guarded against that extreme heat. How many folks died because of THAT?
You also have a point but we’ll never know, will we? The asbestos issue has been reviewed while haven’t heard a word about the lack of fire suppression equipment.
What I’m getting at is the NY/NJ Port authority properties have various sweetheart arrangements by which they can get around building codes.
Greed is a terrible thing to waste
None, I would guess. It was because these planes you know, sort of FLEW INTO the buildings and they collapsed. Sprinklers wouldn’t be enough.
I think your taxes should be increased to teach you a lesson. Oh wait, they are going to be increased. You wanted Obama now enjoy him
Fire was the Achilles heel of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, for they did not have sufficient fireproofing nor fire-suppression systems. Designers of future skyscrapers may install retrofitted aqueous film-forming foam extinguishers, similar to those used for aviation fires, to enhance fire safety in future projects. In addition, new high rises may have plans that have more evacuation sites as well as possible external ways like giant escape tubes or parachutes (Ashley 2001). In the future, architects, engineers, designers, and builders will look to further the safety and security to all those in skyscrapers and learn from the events of September 11.
References
Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2002). World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations. Retrieved January 30, 2002 from http://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtcreport.htm
http://www.science-writing.org/id29.html
It certainly was not going to put out the burning aluminum. It takes hell to get aluminum to burn, but water is the last thing you want to try to use to put it out (think sodium).
Silverstein bought the properties from the PA.
Please tell me that is just a very poor joke. The WTC had a sprinkler system, just as every commercial building. A sprinkler system is designed to put out normal fires. There is no fire suppression system designed that can put of an inferno created by tons of burning aviation jet fuel.
I hope you caught the sarcastic tone especially when reading my first response to his rediculous statement about the sprinklers. I thought of following up that the only way sprinlers would have put out that fire was to flush everything out the windows which would have included all of the people as well. The scene was ugly enough already with those who decided to take fate in their own hands rather than being roasted alive.
Maybe they can give that money to those ROP followers that are at the govt looking for a free lunch. Or maybe they can give it to the ACLU creeps that always have their hand out. Come on, the Govt needs its money to support its habit. Show a little understanding and kindness /sarc/
If you say so...
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