Gothamist: If It's Snowy & Slushy, There May Be Electrocutions

BODYGUARDS

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:04:23 -0500

////...when he stepped on a sidewalk near a manhole. Rector is a very crowded street during the business week - would not others walking on that sidewalk have received a shock?

Shmurf

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:15:08 -0500

This should be taken seriously . On that particular day it was an animal . The next time it could be a person .

Tom

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:45:20 -0500

and why should we have to put up with this shit? Because you will and you have to. If they decided to triple the price of power tomorrow, what are you going to do?

Brightliner

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:02:05 -0500

Where's all the money going? Think about it. The suburbs aren't as densely built up as the city. It's easy to put up utility poles. It's damned expensive to go through thousands of cables in hundreds of conduits under any given street. Go back and look at that Gothamist post last year about what's under city streets. Tom's point is exactly the same point I made about some woman wanting to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to put up lots of barriers on Park Avenue just because her boyfriend was killed by a car there.

Tom

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:21:54 -0500

wow, reality, with sentiments like that, it's a wonder how George Bush got elected twice, global warming accelerated, and we got mired in Iraq. "Fuck it, as long as it don't cost me nothin' more, don't fix it." You know that part in Fight Club where they talk about Cost of a Recall = x and Number of Affected people X Average Lawsuit Settlement = y? If x This is that, only on a larger scale. They're not going to undertake the cost of overhauling the entire utility system when it kills five or six out of 8 million people every year.

hs

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:12:19 -0500

reality: we already pay more per kilowatt hour (because of many taxes) than anywhere else in the country, and use half the electricity of those in the suburbs. where the fuck is all the money going, and why should we have to put up with this shit?

drew carey

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:12:01 -0500

what's one less fat spic in the world?

LBLatino

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:06:44 -0500

goodbye boston bob!! LOL..what's one less mutt in the world anyway?

xnan

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:33:42 -0500

A Manhole is NOT necessarily a sewer, Spud.

xnan

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:10:18 -0500

Manholes are NOT necessarily sewers, Spud.

mgp

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:08:27 -0500

I don't want to seem callous, but... her dog was going to walk her down the aisle? Are you freaking serious?

Spud Spudly

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:29:40 -0500

There is no electricity used in sewers -- they work by gravity. So even if it was a sewer cover the electricity still had to come from somewhere else.

Steve Bennett

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:28:48 -0500

Hey Leslie, are you a Christian Scientist or something? "When it's time to go it's time to go?" So you must not ever go to the doctor, right? Or wear a seatbelt? Or chew before swallowing? Or does your laissez faire attitude apply only to dogs?

mock-up

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:01 -0500

Has Con-Ed released an actual statement regarding this?...besides "it's an errant current"? This is nuts.

peanut

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:22:07 -0500

People can die from eating peanuts. Why bother doing anything ever?

Leslie

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:47:37 -0500

Hey.. when it's time to go, it's time to go. Dogs can die from eating chocolate for god's sake!

clarence rosario

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:41:12 -0500

reality

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:22:13 -0500

Fixing a problem like that requires major major $$$$. I think they would have to basically replace all of the old utilities in the entire city. It sucks, but the choices really are keep your electricty bill the same and have sporadic blackouts when it is hot in the summer and occasional stuff like this in the winter or pay a lot more on your monthly bill to replace an electrical system that works properly 99.9% of the time.

Elderta

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:06:33 -0500

No more electrocuted people and dogs who have done nothing more than walk in the winter. This is just ridiculous. Note to ConEd and the DEP: STFU and fix the problem. RIP Boston Bob.

Shmurf

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:59:25 -0500

hot foot .