Stray volts take over NYC

Yup, happens periodically. Some of NYC's infrastructure goes back to the 17th century. Some years back there was a water main break in lower Manhattan--turned out that the broken main was a 350-year-old tree trunk with a hole bored down the middle of it.

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Phil Hobbs

Somehow I don't think the writer of that piece had much of a grasp on how electricity works.

I kept waiting for a police drawing of the suspected "volt", in case anyone saw it running around.

No, no, those don't run. They roll, they've got four wheels :-)

Don't give it too much credit, after all it is a chevy! It most likely has a hard to rolling, let alone running.

Jamie

On January 16, 2004 Jodie Lane was electrocuted from stray voltage on the streets of New York City. The Jodie S. Lane Public Safety Foundation has since advocated for safer streets and accountability on the part of Consolidated Edison, the New York City Department of Transportation and the New York State Public Service Commission. This website was created to educate New Yorkers about this public safety issue.

On a sunny day (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:40:11 -0800) it happened "garyr" wrote in :

I think 'Mericca needs an overhaul :-)

On a sunny day (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:25:43 -0600) it happened Tim Wescott wrote in :

Fortunately where I live they used brick and mortar some of it. And over the last few years they'e been going bonkers replacing all of it in addition to building two 2 mile long 250 foot wide tunnels some 300 or so feet under the city. The latter holds combined sewage overflow.

They got the new NYC aqueduct finished, finally--all stainless steel lined instead of bricks.

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Phil Hobbs

Are you volunteering to pay for it?

nyc is a third world slum. they've not even figured out garbage collection yet.

Right, nobody wants to live there, which is why the median price for a

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Phil Hobbs

On a sunny day (Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:58:33 -0500) it happened snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz wrote in :

He already did, but NYC's shovel wasn't ready.

Hard to do that when there is no clear identifying attributes that signifies what to pick up as garbage?

Jamie

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Welfare payments must be *really* high!

That's the point. What unique properties does a mountain of trash bags have that differentiates it from the rest of NYC?

Exactly.