Muzzle This Idiot

As the fifth or sixth storm of the season dumps another 4-to-6 inches of global warming across the City of Chicago, Shortshanks has his Streets and Sanitation spokesweasel blaming someone for the streets being so shitty lately:

• If your side street is still covered with snow, take a look at your neighbor before blaming the city.

  City plows working for seven days straight, ending Sunday morning, cleared all 3,300 miles of side streets, said Matt Smith, spokesman for Chicago Streets and Sanitation Department. They are prepared to plow and salt tonight if there is more snow, he said.

  “On the side streets we have found instances where people are pushing snow back into the streets” while shoveling out their cars, Smith said. “This is dangerous and not being a good neighbor. Please put snow on the parkway.”

Well gee whiz Matt, if your Department had kept up with the snow the way we've been proposing all month, maybe you wouldn't have plowed in all those cars to the point that people felt they had no where to throw it all but back into the street.

And how about this quote:

• Despite reports that the city’s budget crunch was going to slow snow removal, plows and salt trucks “hit those side streets with more force than we ever have,” Smith said.

  “These are Siberian conditions. And I don’t think they do side streets in Siberia. We do."

Siberia? Bullshit Matt. Smooth move blaming the voters for your crappy job so far this winter. Does the media even read any of this crap coming out of City Hall before publishing it? Do they even drive the city streets and look to see if any of this is actually true? How many people have to be shoveling the snow back into the street to account for the condition of said roadways? Shortshanks better hope everyone forgets the winter of 08-09 by the time elections come around.