OT-funny video thread.. googogogogogo

[-Deborah-]

Meanwhile, the news shows scores of streets in NY that haven't even seen a plow yet. Ambulances can't access the residents there.

[nhwbrooklyn]

Do you laugh at this guy or do you shake his hand for such an incredible pro jury rig job?

This is beyond Macgyver.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjYj5-fKVIY&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Tree trunk used as spare tire - Crazy![/ame]

[nhwbrooklyn]

More snow/city worker fun.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2yZFEvvLQ&feature=player_embedded#"]YouTube - Od?nie?anie po genewsku[/ame]!

[-Deborah-]

lol damn

[nhwbrooklyn]

Meanwhile, the news shows scores of streets in NY that haven't even seen a plow yet. Ambulances can't access the residents there.

Yeah here is a NYT article on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/nyregion/30snow.html?_r=1&hp

Bloomberg Takes Blame for Response to Snowstorm

By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: December 29, 2010


Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accepted responsibility Wednesday for the city?s response to a crippling snowstorm, pledging to have every street plowed by morning and then to figure out why his administration?s cleanup efforts were inadequate.

Speaking at a hardware store in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, Mr. Bloomberg said he was ?extremely dissatisfied? with the performance of the city?s emergency management system. He said the response was ?a lot worse? than after other recent snowstorms and was not as efficient as ?the city has a right to expect.?

But he also defended his commissioners, including John J. Doherty, who runs the Sanitation Department. The mayor called him ?the best sanitation commissioner this city has ever had, period, bar none.?

Mr. Doherty said he expected to have all of the city?s streets plowed by 7 a.m. Thursday. At midday Wednesday, about one-third of what city officials call ?tertiary streets? had not yet been plowed, they said. The worst conditions were in residential areas of South Brooklyn and Staten Island, where the mayor said the topography and narrowness of the streets made plowing more difficult.

Mr. Bloomberg said the city had hired 700 day laborers to help shovel snow on Tuesday and planned to hire 1,200 on Wednesday. ?The results have not been what we would like them to be but it was not for lack of effort,? he said.

Most subway and bus services have been restored and fewer than 50 city buses remained stuck in the snow about noon Wednesday, down from a high of about 600. Jay H. Walder, who runs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the only subway lines still not operating were the N line and the Franklin Avenue shuttle. He said the Metro-North railroad returned to normal service by Wednesday morning and the Long Island Rail Road hoped to resume full service by Wednesday evening.

Mr. Walder said a scheduled increase in subway fares would occur on Thursday as planned. It ?has to go forward,? he said.

The mayor also spread some of the blame for the city?s problems on to its citizens, who he said had failed to heed requests that they not call for help unless they faced true emergencies. Those calls, the mayor said, ?overwhelmed? the emergency communications system, a failure that he said he had assigned an official to investigate. City residents also compounded the problem by trying to drive in the storm, only to have their cars stuck in the path of plows.

?Maybe because of the Christmas weekend, a lot of people had to get home on Sunday night and got stuck,? he said.

[FVD]

From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...ayor-says.html :

Dead Baby

A woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn apartment building waited 90 minutes for an ambulance to reach her. When it did, the newborn baby was dead, according to Frank Dwyer, a Fire Department spokesman.

“Just because an ambulance gets there doesn’t mean you can save a person,” the mayor said when asked about the incident. “Delivery of an ambulance doesn’t guarantee that medical help can get to do what you need to have done.”

Is it just me, or is that just an incredibly callous thing to say?

[FVD]

Edit: upon further research, it was over 9 hours, not 90 minutes. From the NY Daily News:

A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building died after an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciating hours.

The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesday night at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloody vestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights.

"No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours," said the student's mother.

By the time a horde of firefighters and cops finally trooped to her aid through snow-covered blocks, the baby was unconscious and unresponsive, sources said.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz19e8G5BsI

[Islair]

Do you laugh at this guy or do you shake his hand for such an incredible pro jury rig job?

This is beyond Macgyver.

YouTube - Tree trunk used as spare tire - Crazy!

This was done in the movie "The World's Fastest Indian" You are right, this is wild.

[nhwbrooklyn]

From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...ayor-says.html :

Dead Baby

A woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn apartment building waited 90 minutes for an ambulance to reach her. When it did, the newborn baby was dead, according to Frank Dwyer, a Fire Department spokesman.

?Just because an ambulance gets there doesn?t mean you can save a person,? the mayor said when asked about the incident. ?Delivery of an ambulance doesn?t guarantee that medical help can get to do what you need to have done.?

Is it just me, or is that just an incredibly callous thing to say?

Yeah thats bloombergs rep a little bit.. but I'll be he wishes he had those words back.

[Drew]

The music playing during the downhill snowplowing accident is beautiful. Anyone know what it is so I can Youtube it and listen to the whole thing?

[-Deborah-]

The music playing during the downhill snowplowing accident is beautiful. Anyone know what it is so I can Youtube it and listen to the whole thing?

Shazam says "Op. 9 No. 2 Es Dur Orchester Zagreb" from the album "Die Kuschel-Reise"

[-Deborah-]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk"]YouTube - Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (Arthur Rubinstein)[/ame]

[Drew]

That was nice. Thank you.

[Newbomb Turk]

I prefer the real classics


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6gRX7-NgM"]YouTube - Benny Hill tribute video[/ame]

[The Cat]

Amazingly, this is from a religious tv show.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYfDnc42wog"]YouTube - How to blow a turkey call.[/ame]