Posted on 12/08/2010 6:30:22 AM PST by massmike
What a bunch of garbage!
An elderly Manhattan woman living on Social Security was slapped with a $100 ticket -- just for throwing away a newspaper in a city trash can.
Delia Gluckin, 80, tossed the paper in a bin right outside her Inwood apartment building Sunday morning, only to be ambushed by an overzealous Department of Sanitation agent wielding a citation book.
"I was walking to take the subway downtown and dropped it in a trash can, and this lady in a blue uniform ran up to me," Gluckin told The Post.
"I thought she was going to ask for directions. She said, 'You just dropped garbage in there,' " according to Gluckin.
"I said, 'I didn't, it was just a newspaper,' and I offered to take it out," said Gluckin, who had tossed her Sunday Post out.
Sanit cop Kathy Castro wrote Gluckin the summons for putting "improper refuse" in a city litter basket.
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Unfortunately, not satire. My mom used to live in the Bronx (she's now on the Island w/ us) and no lie.....she had 4 separate bags for garbage!!!
And yes, they actually PAY "INSPECTORS" to walk the city streets, w/ fine book in hand and INSPECT EVERYONE'S GARBAGE CANS!!!!
The niece upstairs was fined for throwing a plastic hanger in the "plastic garbage". Apparently, a plastic hanger is "regular garbage", not "plastic garbage".
Absolute insanity! Thank goodness it hasn't come to Long Island.....yet.
I say this one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
I don’t know what’s dumber, having garbage cans you can’t use, or being fined for using one.
Do you really want these morons to have the power to arrest you and tow your car?
I think that state payed police sifting through your garbage is an incredible waste of taxpayer money AND an INVASION OF PRIVACY.
I work with a guy that goes crazy if you throw a sheet of paper in the wastebasket.
It needs to go in the recycle bin.
He is saving the world.
Yes. he voted for Obama.
I wish they would accept this one: Final cost is a function of total energy use. If a garbage bill doubles after recycling is instituted, if an organically farmed fruit has a higher price, if a battery powered car costs 4 times as much as a comparable car, more energy and resources are being consumed and more damage is being done to Earth than before.
If it's your bin, it's your ticket. They also use the garbage men to rat. That's how the niece was fined.
An “inspector” was gracious enough to “let my mom get away with it just this one time”, regarding the chinese containers I stated above.
He "allowed" her to remove them and not get a ticket.
There was a time when only landowners could vote and for good reason.
Now they’re subject to penalty because of their tenants votes.
I would have so much fun with that one......
have you all noticed that these idiots that scream about recycling tend to drink bottled water?
They are insane about it.
They chug down their pure pure water and carefully place the plastic bottle in the recycle bin because “they care”
Freekin lunatics.
Now wait a minute. Think about this. You are hereby appointed the city official in charge of keeping the city streets clean. Tourism is a non-trivial part of the city's economy and a dirty (littered) city has been proven to deter tourism (IOW, the public policy of litter control is off the table for this thought exercise)
You have staff to pick up litter and in an effort to control costs, you station convenient trash baskets around the city, finding it more cost effective to dispatch a crew to empty them occasionally than to chase after every piece of litter.
Now, your reports indicate pickup costs are dramatically rising, baskets are filling up at a very fast rate, far sooner than typical littering patterns would indicate. You do a study and find out that apartment residents are bringing out their trash and putting it in your litter baskets. You learn you are subsidizing household trash pickup.
Living in an apartment yourself, you realize it is much more convenient for the resident to bring their trash, especially the daily newsrag, out to the street than to either store it in the apartment or divert their route to the apartment's trash collection point.
Your costs are going through the roof and there is heavy push back from the taxpayers to reduce costs. What do you do?
How benevolent LoL
I do.
Is this believable?????
I really like the south.
Bringing down my trash bag to dump in a city trash can isn’t what this article is about
Hehehe. Please do one for me and tell him “courtesy of NoGrayZone”, lol.
=)
“That’s funny, I don’t seem to have this issue out here in rural farm country. Go fig!”
Isn’t that the truth! Cripes! We don’t even have trash pick-up where I live. We either burn, bury or haul it to the dump. They do have recycling bins at the dump that are always full, but if one wants to throw their glass, plastic, paper or whatever in the same bin with the castoff chairs, sofas and such, it’s not a big deal.
I am so glad I live in a state that still has some sense!
INSANITY INF’nSANITY
I stopped in a gas station/truck stop to use the head and get a cup of coffee.
When I exited my vehicle, I took some ‘travel’ trash out and walked over to the trash bin and dropped it in.
When I came out the guy that was cleaning the lot (walking around picking up trash etc) thanked me.
I said “Don’t thank me. If everyone were like me YOU would be out of a job. Your ‘goal’ is to make sure people are pigs and slobs”.
hmmm “Thanks mister, I never thought of it that way”.
We used to ‘recycle’ when we were kids. Only it wasn’t called recycling then, it was called commonsense because we tired to reuse that which made sense.
Today...............today is different.
I make it a point to throw away everything I can, especially aluminum cans, as I like to think every time I throw a can in the trash a bedbug bites a Liberal.
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