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Whaddaya know, those oh-so-controversial cheap lawn chairs scattered through the Broadway pedestrian plazas are falling apart! WCBS was on the scene yesterday to report on the disintegrating seats, and confirmed that the plastic straps holding them together are frayed and snapping! Critics have been dissing the chairs, bought at Pintchik Hardware in Brooklyn, since they first appeared, for supposedly attracting the homeless, the lazy, and the European. And now the haters have new ammo, because these things are obviously a grave safety hazard. Floridian tourist Norma Frank saw a chair collapse under her husband Mitch yesterday, and pleaded with New Yorkers for help, "If anybody would like to chip in for a new pair of pants and possibly a new knee..." Mitch insists he wasn't "really" injured, but sometimes it takes a lawyer to show you where it hurts. The Times Square BID will be replacing the chairs with sturdier street furniture by the end of the month, so get over there now if you want in on the inevitable class action lawsuit.
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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too funny
Tie this in with the story about 55% of NYers being fat, and by gosh, you've made a connection!
Never trust anyone with two first names.
Hmm... Who wants to bet that said Floridian tourist was, shall we say, a bit soggy around the mid-section?
let's not disparage the guy who was willing to say that he wasn't actually hurt, let's disparage the wife instead
bring back the cars.
They are free chairs - you're welcome!
If you don't want it to break, don't be a fat fuck.
The problem here is, is it permanent? If yes, make the investment and install quality fixtures. Those beach chairs are not made for the kind of traffic this place will generate. When winter comes they could flood and freeze it for the ice skaters.
Why not walk about 20 blocks north and sit in Central Park? Times Square is filthy and noisy...
Big eye sore and while trying to bicycle around the so called death trap, there's a lot of milling around by standers that are infuriating to navigate around if you get anywhere near that section of chairs that's below 42nd Street on Broadway with the bike lane on the side of it.
That bike lane was supposed to protect cyclist, now it's just endangering those people that use it as another pedestrian lane.
Second that. The Broadway path below Times Square is more dangerous than the road.
That area is a freakin nightmare... I have no idea why someone on a bike would want to use the designated bike lanes. There are just pedestrians wandering around everywhere. GREAT PLANNING!!!!
Yeah, like Broadway was a safe place to ride EVER.
This is at least the third time that JDS refers to critics of these crappy chairs as 'haters'.
Wish we were all like John, a 'lover':
a lover of cheapness, a lover of tackiness, of schlock, of poor taste, of bureaucratic autocracy, and of a style, form and behavior that is antithetical to the true New York experience.
Schlock and autocratic bureaucracy? Actually that sounds a lot like the true New York experience to me.
What would Obama say?
Hmmm, let's see: you close off a major arterial, set out flimsy lawn chairs for Fat fuck tourists from Wal-Mart Falls South Dakota, and they crash through them leaving an ugly mess with lawsuit implications. I'd call this a big win!
I like the chairs in Bryant Park. If my purse was big enough, I'd steal one or two!