Dead Chicagoans Worth Weight in Gold
This is just stupid. And not the good kind of stupid like the various Midway Airport photos we keep getting in the mail. This is the kind of stupid a lot of people should lose their jobs over. Front page of the Sunday Tribune (if you need to log into the Trib website, use the following user name: garbagegoeshere@gmail.com. The password: 123456):
- Police call them the body snatchers, and their invasion from Ohio began in 2004 when a Dayton company called GSSP Enterprises Inc. won a city contract for the grim but necessary task of hauling thousands of Chicago's dead to the morgue.
- They recently rewarded the Dayton firm with a new five-year, $15.5 million deal that boosts the rate the city pays by 335 percent--to $915 from $210 for each body transported to the Cook County medical examiner's office from the scenes of murders, accidents, suicides and many natural deaths.
- That is far more than paid elsewhere in the nation for the same service, experts say. The Cook County Sheriff's Police, for example, pay $130 per body.
Cook County, which is probably the most bloated political structure in the entire universe pays a measly $130 and Daley pays $915 per stiff? Un-freaking-believable. This company from Ohio must think they've put one over on the big city boys. Of course, after they give the required kickbacks to various political entities and minority sub contractors, it'll take quite a bite out of the $915, but as GSSP also moved bodies in Ohio for a mere $85 per, we're sure they'll still have plenty left over.
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
49 Comments:
Me-thinks there needs to be a federal investigation on this.
Peter Fitzgertald!... WE NEED YOU!!!... NOW!!!
Of course, these Dems are getting bold now that they're taking over Congress. Just think how rediculous things would be in Chicago and Cook County if they managed to bullshit the entire USA and get their boy Obama into the Oval Office!
Scary, very scary.
Makes paying sergeants pay for squadrol crews seem like a real bargan.
Why not train physically fit volunteer P.O. wagon crews, in all aspects of handling human remains, including how to preserve evidence. Then rotate them periodically to avoid burnout to work for Forensic Services with proper equipment and special vehicles to move bodies. They would make sergeant's pay while working there and the department would have a trained group that could be called together if there was a mass casulty event like a terrorist attack.
Since there would be no kickbacks to politicians this will never happen.
Anonymous said...
Rumor is A/4 Gun Team got in a drunken brawl after their Christmas Party and opened up some citizens head then left the scene without leaving paper, etc.
Supposedly it was caught on video. The Team sergeant was dumped to 1st watch on the far southside, and the team split up and reassigned. (those involved anyway)
It a shame too, they're all good guys! (unfortunately probably just drank to much at the party..like most of us do!)then probably lost their patience while dealing with some a-hole citizen.
All just speculation since I wasn't there. As Snoop Dogg say's "I ain't tellin..I'm just sayin!"
12/23/2006 05:56:12 PM
congratulations to Cris Kennedy on his promotion to commander of the Marine and heliicopter unit....
Soon he will learn to swim and someday learn to scuba
Hey crissy here is a quick lesson
the front part of the boat is called the BOW
Left is PORT
Don't worry you'll do fine...we hear you got good semen working for you..
Merry Christmas SCC, plus all your copper mates.
Paw
You gotta be kiddin me!
What do you expect when Daley need campaign contributions for yet another election?
This is yet another deal with a whore mayor that leaves taxpayers phucked without even getting kissed..
The body pick up guys take forever to get to a scene too. They get something like 2 hours to get there after they are called and usually take 1 hr 45 min to 1 hr 59 min. to get there. in the mean time the dead persons family is going goofy wanting to know why pookie is still laying on the sidewalk, more cars are called to scene for crowd control, resulting in backlogs and overtime. go figure more daley b.s. What else can you expect.
This would be a good community service job, kind of like swap
12-24-2006 2:34am
Get a life, you already posted that crap before (12-23-2006), Mr Rumorville. Oh then again I see you're a Snoop Dogg fan that explains why your a goof sitting at home waiting for the next rumor everyday! Try to enjoy X-mas bustout!
Does'nt matter how bad Daley, or his Irish minions, fuck over the tax payer. He can count on being re-elected by the illiterate, sloven, soused Irish from the north and south sides. They're laughing at us from outside the city! Four more years to go and I'm selling my home to a Puerto Rican just to spite these asswipes!
Kennedy you bring lisa R on the boat ? she's use to be gooooood
As a member of the Sheriff's Police, the $130 per body that we pay is outragous. The $900 you guys pay is out and out criminal.
I was first on the scene on a fatal in Lemont Township on Friday afternoon.... Car versus a pedrestrian. Pedrestrian lost. It took Durante almost 4 HOURS to get there.
In four hours, your wagon men can get the wallet and split the take, and max out the poor schmuck's credit cards with phone/mailorder purchases before rigor mortis sets in!!
The only good thing is that they didn't drop the stretcher down a flight of stairs like our dumbasses did in 1978 at the Gacy house in Norwood Park TWP.
10 bucks an hour to haul bodies?? I get $34 an hour and it ain't enough. Give me a break!
Hello Denny Grant??!!??!! Time to retire dude!
$3.1 million dollars a year. How many policemen or better equipment do we lose out on. I've been on this job long enough to remember my fair share of the stinky ones and I got over it. A couple of pool wagons and a rotating crew assinged to each area. The wait would be far less and the money saved could fill the pension fund. The only problem with my plan is no kickback $$$ to Dickhead, I mean Daley. Hurry up Mr. Fitzgerald, we can't wait much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:57
J.D is this you again? Heard you talkin' this Rican trash a week ago. When are you going to give up your bitching cuz Rhonda left you in SOS? Face it, she's a better Narc and that is why she was noticed and you weren't.
BTW, you STILL work with us in SOS, so watch who you gripe about all night. Just friendly advice...
8:57
J.D, man I thought that was you? Heard you complaining about the unfairness of SOS last week? How you were a better cop than R.A? Why did Narcotics take her rather than you? Remember...You still work with us in SOS. Quit bitchin' about not going to Narcotics! We don't want to hear it anymore!!!
"Bring out your dead!...."Bring out your dead!....Bring out your dead!"
And the G put wagon men in the slammer for taking fifty bucks a stiff.
Like T. J.'s old time bagman said, "All O.W. ever did was bring the money downtown."
Le plus le change.....
UN-FU@#ING-BELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!! I just read that article. I have never had an even decent let alone good experience with these guys. They have screwed up more than once on just me, let alone how many others, they did not fill their obligations as specified in their contract, they take forever and what does the city do, they renew their contract and give them a raise!! If I screwed up that much, didn't do my job, and said the hell with paying those parking tickets and water bill, I'd be fired!! These guys get a 300% raise, we are lucky to get 2% and we actually make the city money. NO MORE writing parkers, if you write a mover take the time to look up the state charge so the city doesn't get the money, and milk the city for as much overtime as you possibly can. Fu@k Daley, Fu@k his entire administration.
As a side note, I heard Daley saying that Peter Fitzgerald was too much of a pussy to try to go after him. Please Peter, prove him wrong. Pretty please, with sugar on top.
Who is the Daley contributor, I mean Outifit guy, I mean legit owner of this business?
If I hear the media refer to Tank's boy Posey as his "bodyguard" again, I am going to puke.
This piece of shit was a thug, no more, no less. He did not go through intensive protection training at an accredited facility.
He was a piece of shit and should be portrayed as such.
I am happy he is dead!
Merry Christmas everyone. Stay safe!
Where are all the typical rumor monger SCC reactionaries that used to post in capitals last year that the city wasn't paying these guys and the body snatchers were puling out of the contract? If you think Fitzgerald gives a fuck about this contract or who gets made on this job you must be smokin' dat cain.
Quick story about Commander C.K.
One of his minions from TRU (Sgt.) was working my distict(on TARA) when I adressed roll call regarding outside units coming in and tearing it up and leaving us holding the bag. I told the officers to get their beat numbers and dupe the jobs to them if they did anything stupid. See, we were getting guys in black pajamas kicking doors and claiming to be from the district, also Tru was tearing up homes and cars and we were getting thr C.R.s.
Anyways I get a PDT message from C.K. telling me that guys like me are the reason that there are rifts between units and districts. I wrote back saying that the lack of supervision in units was the reason that there was problems.No response from C.K. Two weeks later the SOS scandal breaks!
The old timers say "too much college not enough high school", I say "too much Headquarters not enough street".
Blatant,in your face, what are you going to do about it shit. How much dirt and coruption can be written on this piece of shit before he in indicted or voted out of office. Keep saying I'll vote for him before I vote for a Black. You dumb white racists goofs!!!
(I'll sell my house to a Puerto ican)and then cry like little bitches!!!!!
The city should use a (o.t code) like they do for big events like 500 Madison and Lefcow for all the times gssp doesn't make it to pick up a body or the city has to transport because they haven't followed the contract. then submit it to the crook county. and make sure they have Illinois plates on their vehicles not Ohio like in the past. and make sure they have protective suits,body bags,gloves and that they aren't driving their personal vehicles..
check out chicagoclout.com some city worker calling out the bullshit. this city is legit.
The real question is, who is the owner of this company connected to? We all know damn well that this wouldn't have happened if he didn't have a connection.
12:35 AM
P-A-T-R-I-C-K FITZGERALD!!!
Barack Hussein OBAMA = The "white guilt" Libs version of "Black Jesus". Track Record = UNKNOWN.
Or we can use that O.T # and then bill GSSP when they can't fulfill there contract.
RE: the A/4 Gun Team. It's not a rumor. It's true. I read the case report. Discription of of 1 offender describes the Sgt to a "T".
When will we learn?
When I left work this morning (0700), I didn't see anything about C.K. getting promoted to commander of the Marine Unit. Did a fax come out late Friday? So now he's getting S. G's sloppy seconds. What a joke.
Clout, what clout? Nepotism? No such thing....
all i want 4 christmas is my results from the sgts test.
"It a shame too, they're all good guys! (unfortunately probably just drank to much at the party..like most of us do!)then probably lost their patience while dealing with some a-hole citizen."
You'd be singing a different tune if it was your brother who got jumped on by these cowards.
Never ceases to amaze me how the 1st thing out of a Moron the likes of you Mouth is"They're Good Guys". Apparently you must be the boyfriend of one of these mopes.
That could be the only reason you'd have to justify their behaviour.
more Kennedy and Georges stories please.
these two are like the modern day laurel and hardy.
$$$$$$$$$$The body snatcher must have had to pay off the whole city council as well as lil dick daley.
they only get 60 minutes from the time they are called to collect the remains
tank and posey on the down low, read dick supps.
I predict that the first homicide of 2007 will occur in the 11th District.
The last homicide of 2006 will occur in 007.
I don't understand why the City has to foot the bill for these removals.
It should be the counties responsibility to hire and pay for a private removal, not us. Either way we the citizens of Cook County and City of Chicago are getting screwed@
At least get titles right when you bash people. C.K. is not a Commander, but a Lt. as Commanding Officer. My God, if you can't even get the basics right, it makes me wonder about anything you post here.
Quick story about Commander C.K.
One of his minions from TRU (Sgt.) was working my distict(on TARA) when I adressed roll call regarding outside units coming in and tearing it up and leaving us holding the bag. I told the officers to get their beat numbers and dupe the jobs to them if they did anything stupid. See, we were getting guys in black pajamas kicking doors and claiming to be from the district, also Tru was tearing up homes and cars and we were getting thr C.R.s.
Anyways I get a PDT message from C.K. telling me that guys like me are the reason that there are rifts between units and districts. I wrote back saying that the lack of supervision in units was the reason that there was problems.No response from C.K. Two weeks later the SOS scandal breaks!
The old timers say "too much college not enough high school", I say "too much Headquarters not enough street".
TRU is supervised very well, no hoodies, etc. so send that b.s somewhere else. It's also nice how you tell your people in roll call how to beef on coppers, like the citizens beefing isn't bad enough. stay in your office would ya...
At least get titles right when you bash people. C.K. is not a Commander, but a Lt. as Commanding Officer.
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Yeah, but he's still nothing but a pompous, know-nothing clout-heavy jagoff.
At least get titles right when you bash people. C.K. is not a Commander, but a Lt. as Commanding Officer. My God, if you can't even get the basics right, it makes me wonder about anything you post here.
12/24/2006 11:27:50 PM
like there is really a fucking difference....ppleeease
"I (Don't) Feel Good!"
"Number One Soul Brother", "the Godfather of Soul" and "the hardest working man in show business", JAMES BROWN, dead at 73.
$3.1 million dollars a year. How many policemen or better equipment do we lose out on.
Outstanding fucking point. Can we once and for all start sticking together.
Answer your calls. THATS IT! No parkers no movers no arrests. Only answer your calls and lock up a person only if a complant is signed.
It wont take long for the streets to further turn to a shittier state.
I cant believe how fuckn stupid some coppers are. This city and the midget mick will jam it in your ass in a heart beat. Strength in numbers. Contract time is around the corner and now is the time to start turning the screws. Fuck fop they wont do anything but give more of our benefits away.
For $915.00 I'll drive my self to the god damn moruge.
Barrack Hussein Obama is the
ANTI-CHRIST, read your Bible, check the scriptures. Open your eyes.
It was classic when he was introduced by is wifey as "my baby daddy". Didn't expect anything different.
Remember guys it was your union that insisted wagon men no longer handle removals. In the day wagon "men" (not 100 lb females) were more than able to handle the job. Poltical correctness gone astray in so many areas of this job. No one seemed to care if we got 20 bucks from the local funeral directors. At least we appeared to give some consideration and condolence to the families of the deceased. Glad I'm done with all the BS associated with the job.
Happy Holidays to all.
PS: 81 degrees and almost put a hook into a marlin this AM. Remember guys, pump as much as you can in your deferred comp accounts. Because you too can enjoy live after the bullshit.
A little bird told me:
1. This company is connected to certain City Hall power brokers (now sitting on the County Board) who helped grease the skids.
2. Almost 50% of the removal costs per body have to go to miniorty contractors with ties to the ward that follows 6 in the City Council. For those of you who can't count that means the 7th Ward Beaver Backers.
3. The Department of Procurement Services is loaded folks who live in the previously listed ward.
Gee can we put 2 and 2 together we come up with 900 a body. As Sean Connery said in the Untouchables "that's the Chicago Way".
Now will see how many number 2's pay for the sins of the 1's.
As a 26 year employee of the City I find it criminal how this administration placates the Black Community with these "give away" contracts. Believe me people this one is just the tip of the Iceberg. You would not believe the "bend over backwards and take it in the ass" attitude the Department of Procurement Services takes when establishing contracts with MBE contractors. The Pentagon overpayment scandals of the 70's are chump change compared to this "lets buy their vote" philosphy employed at City Hall.
As an aside, this is one City Worker who actually works and appreciates all you officers do to keep our neighborhoods safe from the invading hordes.
PS: thanks nephew for turning me on to this site - quite interesting.
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