Well, bless their hearts.
Aren’t they special.
Is there not one single story, just one individual, who put his or her own need for self-actualization aside to help those in need in the NYC area? New Yorkers have supported these runners year and year, and yet no one can step forward and say thank you for the opportunity, how can I help?
This is why when I’m driving and I see elitist types like this woman here and cyclists dressed in their cycling get-up ,like some modern version of a Medieval Harlequin, I come as close as I can to running them off the road without actually hitting them.
Bloomberg should have announced the cancellation as early as Tuesday last week, or Wednesday at the latest. His idiotic fixation on holding this race in the aftermath of the worst storm to hit the region in more than a hundred years was a huge blunder.
Caring only about themselves, in their little world, with no room for other people.
The city was going to use generators for the marathon. There were people without power and food.
The conclusion was obvious, and Bloomy made the right decision, even if it was reluctantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ba1OKY7Xc
Maybe they could re-do it as the Upper Middle Class Twit Competition.
The mayor made a huge error in judgement not canceling the race as soon as he became aware of the magnitude of the distruction in his city & surrounding neighborhoods. The runners would have not flown in. I’d be upset if a leader couldn’t grasp the situation and cancel the race & i got on a plane ONLY to learn that the race was cancelled once I got there. He should think about retiring. Cuz he won’t win another election. Another fine example of leading from behind.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I need my endorphins.....
If you’re running in New York, you probably have been robbed!
I have to say that there are some people who run who have serious obsessive-compulsive disorder issues, sometimes by their own admission. They are fixated on their training or their race, to the disregard of everyone around them. I have witnessed race participants completely lose it and start screaming at race volunteers. One time this happened in front of me and the woman was yelling at a 16-year-old volunteer who had taken time out of her weekend to come and help and wound up in tears. All because the girl couldn't find her registration packet. I stepped in and told the woman that if she couldn't control herself, she was going to have to leave or I would have her escorted out. Later, I looked up her name and found out she was a physician. The whole incident completely soured me on helping out at these races.
So this attitude among the racers does not surprise me one bit.
If you want to run, there’s a whole big old nation out there Forrest. So STFU, find a road and go run somewhere.
But as long as you’re in New York, why don’t you put on your big boy pants and go lend a hand instead of whining.
why would these idiots fly to a devastated city? How many tickets to Dresden were used after the bombing? Do these jokers have no common sense? Who goes ahead and flies to a devastated area if you are not going to help? Ridiculous.
Bloomberg’s an idiot because in keeping the vent until the 11th hour then runners came to NYC from all over the world and now have nothing to do. As such they are taking up resources and wasting time in the area. Failure.
Bloomberg’s an idiot because in keeping the event until the 11th hour then runners came to NYC from all over the world and now have nothing to do. As such they are taking up resources and wasting time in the area. Failure.
Damn crybabies! Don’t you trust funded beautiful people read the papers???????
And these are you OTHER Obama voters. You know the same people who leave Grandma to die in a French apartment during a heat wave because they have a vacation planned.
Go back and run around the plains of Texas for a few weeks...
Self centered, arrogant or pompous freaks.
‘I feel like I was robbed’
WELCOME TO THE BIG APPLE...
The other people who are p.o.’ed are the victims of Hurricane Sandy. They are being screwed by governmental incompetence on the local, state, and federal levels. How about that FEMA, boys and girls? Completely unprepared, but they get a pass because a Donkey is POTUS. How about those kind souls in the IBEW Union that refuse to allow non-union work crews restore power to ease the suffering of fellow citizens? How about Mayor Bloomberg saying the NY ANG must be unarmed if they work in his city, because only NYPD can carry arms here [and the thugs]. Is it the police union or just Bloomberg being the anti-gun moron he's known to be? Then there's Obama’s and Christie's photo op. Political theater, except people are still without water, food, heat, and shelter and neither of you accomplished a thing.