Total Cost Was....?
- City crews scrambling to turn off nearly 2,000 fire hydrants opened by residents seeking relief from the heat required a police escort to protect them from gang members and others upset with the shutdowns.
CBS 2 found one city crew being followed by a police sport-utility vehicle as they crisscrossed neighborhoods, turning off a total of 1,921 hydrants as of Thursday evening.
“It’s a waste of water, and I have to do my job,” said 20-year Water Management Department veteran Richard Quarles.
We even heard that some districts are putting up a "hydrant" car for the first time in years on third and first watches.
And we'll bet the city still wants to meter every house though, right? How about splitting this bill with the homeowners in the hood?
And we'll bet the city still wants to meter every house though, right? How about splitting this bill with the homeowners in the hood?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
75 Comments:
With all the technology today they cannot develop a hydrant cap that is tamper proof? Naw they just want to raise the rates on taxpayers as they jagoffs are allowed to waste billions of gallons of precious clean water,and if a fire breaks out not enough pressure to fight it as your home burns to the ground great job rahm!
Can I get a event # for fire hydrant duty squad.
How many hydrants are open in the west end of 008?016?022?downtown where the taxpayers pay the hefty water bills? The ghetto dwellers demand more free shit and now jeopardize the safety of taxpayers with low water pressure! Guess the genius at the water dept cannot come up with a new solution or key so the hydrant cannot be opened with a common wrench? Stupid is as stupid does!
Well dey can't go to the beach to cool off because the water is crawling with bacteria and it's too foggy.
Everyone knows that!
I don't know why CFD isn't setting up two-and-a-half inch hoses to spray dem with so dey don't start falling down.
Hey dey do it for the peoplea down town and when it's only 88 degrees too. why not in da hood?
In 012 - 3rd watch sgt assigned a car to go around the dist. with a key & shut off the hydrants. As he's shutting one off on the N/W end of the dist. a bunch of the west side mutts started dousing him with buckets of water. No arrests were made and the bosses did nothing when they were informed of the incident. They didn't even call for extra cars to back up the beat car that was responding to calls of the hydrant being reopened and the mob blocking off the street with garbage cans and attacking passing vehicles. We've lost this city!
Most of these hood rats don't pay taxes or even a water bill. Maybe they believe It's an entitlement, and the real tax payers will carry them even more. Hey, It's going to rain good tonite and if they wanna get wet I got two words for them, "LAND SHARK!!!"
waste, waste, waste... nothing is produced by some "communities"
not that Im a big fan of Governor Jello
But if the husband was beating her all the time I kind of agree with him
homeowners in the hood aren't the problem in THIS hood. It's FORMER residents trying to make a comeback, to their old stomping grounds deciding to break out a grill, open a hydrant and invite 20 of their closest cockroach friends to hang out and try to take our "hood" hostage. So, the homeowners start a phone chain, call 911 and tell them the trash needs to be taken out. When CPD shows up, they shirt the hydrant off, but should, in our opinion, then proceed to lock these shits up for loitering, criminal mischief, aggravated mopery, or WHATEVER they can think of, to get the point across.
Gee, I didn't see a single open hydrant in my 'hood.
On my block I'm the only one with a water meter and it's a long block. I'm not mad about it but it does seem strange to me.
Water is "free" in Chicago? Hmmm,,that's big money in all the suburbs. Water bill and garbage pick-up. $60-$90 every month or two.
Rahm will add that to the Things to Do List - Charge for water (and garbage pick-up).
And you want to move out of the city?
Right and left wing radicalism is sparked by acts of government who give up on debate and compromise . That's what Obama mentioned in his speech Maryland and what happened in Norway. Dosnt Quinn see that such actions on his part, no death penalty letting murders out of prison taxation might result in radicalization in our once great state also? Mr govoner please learn from the past. Your policies may make the crazies come out.
Water meters in your house, higher taxes, higher fees for stickers, higher parking, higher fines.
Ghetto handouts, wasting water, destroying free housing, free LINK card food and extra cash for smokes, free WIC for diapers and formula, summer jobs for CHA kids where they feed them and pay them (in the academy right now.)
How's that feel? Pretty good, huh? Still think voting is a waste of time?
Animals! No, wait. I take that back. Animals actually behave. Low life, no good, scum sucking fucked up pices of shit! And that is putting it nice.
Turn the heads on the hydrants around, facing the sidewalks and not the street. See how thoswe affected homeowners who have a hydrant in front of their home react. Probably with bats for those who dare to open them...
With regard to the water meter situation, the City was ordered by the Federal Government to meter every house in Chicago by a given date. While I do not know the exact date, I believe it is the end of 2013 of 2014.
This is all part of the "Lake Michigan Water Reclamation Project" which places a daily cap on the amount of water which can be drawn from the Great Lakes.
Chicago is in a unique situation because we treat and filter the water for hundreds of suburbs. If they had their way, Arizona, New Mexico, and California would also be sucking down the water from Lake Michigan, but Congress put a stop on that via the legislation.
That same legislation also requires the disconnect of all gutter down-spouts from the City sewer system. They must now drain onto the grassy portion of the lawn in the homeowner's or business's property. This was done to prevent the overflowing of the sewer systems and forcing raw sewage to be released into Lake Michigan.
More information about the Great Lakes Water Reclamation Project, and how it impacts Chicago, can be found by Googling the topic.
How about splitting this bill with the homeowners in the hood?
Why bother? Think they're going to use their dope money to pay it? NOT!
Homeowner?? You must mean Section 8 receipiants.
not that Im a big fan of Governor Jello
But if the husband was beating her all the time I kind of agree with him
7/23/2011 01:40:00 AM
She had a trial and apparently nobody bought that claim then. Decades later Governor Potato Head knows better than the prosecutor and judge back then.
Doesn't the city still have the sprinkler heads that attach tothe ydrants and use way less water?
I have said for years that the simplest way to stop people from opening the hydrants would be to turn them around so they face the houses and apartments instead of the street. Unless there is some Fire Department reason not to do this, it has always seemed like an obvious, no brainer to me.
This is the reason that this city is broke. How many city resources go to the unemployed government welfare leaches on the west and south sides? They don't contribute a thing and use the majority of government resources. Then you have the bleeding heart liberals crying they need more and more.
what happened to 3 man light bulb crews story , that died fast .
got the letter from the city a couple of weeks ago. it says i can save 50% on my water bill if i get a meter. i say BULLSHIT!
On my block I'm the only one with a water meter and it's a long block. I'm not mad about it but it does seem strange to me.
7/23/2011 03:59:00 AM
do you live in a condo? or maybe new construction? i think they mandate having a meter for new or multi unit housing.
Wed & Thurs:
2 hospitals on Full Bypass due to zero water pressure from open hydrants.
1 water dept employee took a beating and hydrant keys stolen.
Honor students go to a firehouse and start throwing shit at FF's who went out numerous times to shut off the same hydrant.
At least 3 kids playing in hydrants hit by cars.
And let's not forget the video of dude bathing himself in the hydrant. Prob the best shower he's ever had!!
Fk'n SAVAGES!!!!
In 012 - 3rd watch sgt assigned a car to go around the dist. with a key & shut off the hydrants. As he's shutting one off on the N/W end of the dist. a bunch of the west side mutts started dousing him with buckets of water. No arrests were made and the bosses did nothing when they were informed of the incident. They didn't even call for extra cars to back up the beat car that was responding to calls of the hydrant being reopened and the mob blocking off the street with garbage cans and attacking passing vehicles. We've lost this city!
Why is that? Are they cowards, are they afraid of placing their hands on someone, are they afraid of paperwork, do they not know they can arrest and charge people for that? What is it with today's supervisors?
It is embarrassing to have to say we work for cpd - because of the "bosses".
Don't you understand?! The government is supposed to supply them with pools and water parks just like they give all the rich white folks!
That's the talk , june 30, 2012 , city will take free health care away for officers 55 . That's not good , we'll be working until we're 63.
Just paid my last 6 month UNMETERED Water and Sewer Bill, single family 2 1/2 bath, $443!
Do you think I would trust anything this city was trying to push?
No and Fuck No!
The Fire Dept. uses a five point
wrench to open and close hydrants
and that valve stem has a two inch
hub around it to thwart pipe wrenches. What do the Hood Rats
use to open the hydrants ?
Charge for water ? I already am
billed each and every month for
combination water and sewage.
The sewage bill was added courtesy
of Jane Byrne when she was da mare.
And the meter is in a cubby-hole in
the parkway in front of my building
and sealed with a big bolt and manhole cover so it can't be tampered with and the truck comes by a month and remotely reads the meter, same as Peoples Gas does.
Anonymous said...
In 012 - 3rd watch sgt assigned a car to go around the dist. with a key & shut off the hydrants. As he's shutting one off on the N/W end of the dist. a bunch of the west side mutts started dousing him with buckets of water. No arrests were made and the bosses did nothing when they were informed of the incident. They didn't even call for extra cars to back up the beat car that was responding to calls of the hydrant being reopened and the mob blocking off the street with garbage cans and attacking passing vehicles. We've lost this city!
7/23/2011 12:32:00 AM
The CPD stopped turning off hydrants years ago, after a riot or two stared after the shut offs. Right at Roosevelt and Throop, (or was it Loomis?), in the 012 dist., CPD shut the hydrant, a kid got hit by a car, someone got shot and a riot started that lasted for days.
Funny thing about the hydrants with the tamperproof stems and special caps. you need a special wrench to open the caps and the wrench has a magnet inside to pull up the stem inside the aluminum cover to turn the thing on. The ingenious criminals just use a magnet from a stolen speaker from a stolen car,etc... They can than turn on the hydrant by hand, than bust the cast iron cap with a hammer and they are good to go. Great minds gone to waste... Think of all the expense of changing hydrants to the fool proof system and buying special wrenches!!! We saw that happen about a week after they were first installed. I would have liked to have that contract.
Hydrants have been used like this since the early 1960's, usually in areas where people don't have air conditioners and no relief from the heat. Its aways have been a pain in the ass siuation, the big beef then was causing low water pressure and possible endangering fire fighters abilities to deal with fires. I must have missed it this year, I had just mention that I hadn't seen one hydrant on, apparently i was in the wrong area of the city.
Folks who live in drought areas of the country must watch our local news coverage of mutts wasting water with open hydrants. They must be shaking their heads. Water is becoming a scarce luxury in many places on this planet. How about putting electic shock devices on hydrants. We have all these cameras in the ghetto neighborhoods so we can punish those who screw with our precious water. Zzzzzzaaaapppp!
The have the people to turn of the hydrants and the money to pay them overtime.
I have been trying to get the street lights fixed on the block since April.
The recently eliminated the Dept of Electricity due to budget cuts. Since then they have stolen all of the center caps off the cars on the block. We've have an armed carjacking on the block and several incidents of graffiti.
I was told over a month ago the lights would be repaired by 19 Jul 11, NOT!!!
We pay the highest taxes in country and cant get the lights fixed. You can no longer call the Dept responsible for any city service and must go through 311. There are no posted numbers any more for the Dept of electricity or streets and San any place to be found.
Called the 10th Ward alderman's office. That was a total waste of time and was told to call 311. This after it was explained that the lights have been reported to 311 no less the 6 times since April.
This City has become a joke and I am tired of paying the huge taxes and getting nothing in return other then the promises of higher taxes soon to come!!!
All the hype about the city saving millions by privatizing the garbage collection under Rahms new plan. What the news did not tell you is that they are going to save the money by making us pay upto $350.00 a year for that garbage collection once the service become permanent. Bet you did not see that one coming did you???
Yet they are spending all this money on open fire hydrants.
In years past, calling 311 after 5pm was a total waste of a quarter. I lived in Pilsen and the water would run all weekend. Until some kid got killed. I guess no one new there was a pool at 19th & Wolcott.
I laugh when the sewer backs up and I see the kids playing in it along the curb, then I think, wait I have to pay when they get sick anyways, so that really pisses me off.
In 012 - 3rd watch sgt assigned a car to go around the dist. with a key & shut off the hydrants. As he's shutting one off on the N/W end of the dist. a bunch of the west side mutts started dousing him with buckets of water. No arrests were made and the bosses did nothing when they were informed of the incident. They didn't even call for extra cars to back up the beat car that was responding to calls of the hydrant being reopened and the mob blocking off the street with garbage cans and attacking passing vehicles. We've lost this city!
I was standing at the desk doing a report when he came in. The P.O. that got doused made it very clear to the W/C that he did not want to chase after the kids. He is an older guy and did not want to be bothered. Smart enough to realize that getting them for something better another day is more fun. Yeah we probably could have gone back and locked up every little kid on the street and accomplished what? Taught them a lesson? A little bit of time in the A/C and an adjustment from the Youth dic? The watch is running really short because the bosses actualyy approve time due. Guess we could all be down on bullshit little kids with buckets and ruin that. Also since when does a boss assign backups when there is a mob? Ever heard of responding and backing each other up? you are the police aren't you? You are right we have lost this city when no one takes the initiative to help each other out without being told to do so by a white shirt. You are probably one of the 3rd watch hard chargers that comes on here and beefs but doesn't do a fucking thing unless a boss orders you to and then you whine and cry and go on the medical.
How about cutting off water to the block where the hydrant was open.
How about the city goes after everyone and there parents that are under the water.
How about locking up everyone under the hydrant for blocking the flow of traffic.
How about locking these thugs up for crminal damage to property for damaging the hydrant.
How about locking up criminals turning on the water.
How about going on the new Mc and Rambo and saying we are craking down on this stuff, even if we are not.
This city is a joke, they just keep rasing my water bills. I have to watch where every drop of water goes and others get to run it all night long...... The chicago way, the city that works.
Water that is cleaned and processed is not free! We are paying for this! The price of water keeps going up!
They can replenish the hydrants with the water in my basement. Does that "too much water in the sewers" argument work now?
Cop Under Investigation After Concealed Carry Arrest.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dcc_1311374727
Why turn on hydrants when you can go to the neighborhood pool...oh wait...
I'm not mad at them for turning them on because while I wouldn't turn it on I would walk through one if I'm out and have no a/c etc. Likewise though, I'm not mad if they get locked up for turning it on. That's life. You know the rules so the consequences are yours to deal with. I've lived in Englewood and I've lived in Beverly so I see two sides of the coin. You'd never know I was from Englewood w/o me telling you. A lot of good coppers arrest criminals and get their respect but not every man has the ability to do that. A lot of these folks do need a lot a billie club upside the head but even more just need to be treated with decency. You'll be surprised at what they give up and how they cooperate IF they trust you.
I am somewhat surprised the city does not come up with some kind of program to turn on sprinklers in parks or something so people can cool off.
It is not like people opening the fire hydrants so they can cool off is anything new. It has been going on as long as there have been fire hydrants.
It does not make their actions right, but sometimes it is better not to fight these things directly.Some things are a loser, even when you win.
We were getting non bonified fire runs the last few nights, the good citizen would come out and ask us to shut down the hydrant. I bet you can't guess what neighborhood I am referring to!
Never had this problem when we were in the 1st ward, now since the the criminal redistricting, we are part of the clueless 26th ward. We have been ghetto fabulous for almost 4 days straight of open hydrants. Call 311, they put the complaint in. Call the alderman's office, we get, there a hydrants open? Are you part of our ward? Let me see, i might have to transfer you. All bullshit! The water bill arrived, 2wks ago, $468. 00. Most of the homeowners , pay their bills, make the calls, yet are pretty much ignored. Gotta love the hacks voted in by the machine.
In 012 - 3rd watch sgt assigned a car to go around the dist. with a key & shut off the hydrants. As he's shutting one off on the N/W end of the dist. a bunch of the west side mutts started dousing him with buckets of water. No arrests were made and the bosses did nothing when they were informed of the incident. They didn't even call for extra cars to back up the beat car that was responding to calls of the hydrant being reopened and the mob blocking off the street with garbage cans and attacking passing vehicles. We've lost this city!
Bullshit, extra cars were called and showed up, the mutts ran so no arrests were made, the only ones that stuck around were 8 year old kids, you gonna lock them up? The majority of the hydrants open were in Pilsen, they were shutting them off all night, I even heard a Sgt. out there with a key turning them off. Gott love it huh?
The City that Talks a great game on Environmentalism, and to not be wasteful, preaches to us, but as usual, it's "Do as I say, Not as I do". Typical arrogant Democrats.
This also applies to illegal-alien landscapers in unmarked trucks who have their own hydrant wrenches, making repeated runs -- I mean like a dozen in one afternoon -- back and forth to a fire hydrant on an arterial street to steal tens of thousands of gallons of water with a huge tank trailer.
Kind of embarassing when a passing squad car drives through the spilled water and keeps right on going when you're taking pictures of the whole operation -- from out-of-sight. Wish I hadn't seen that.
Q. -- How is it that everyone has no problem getting to North Avenue Beach to flash-mob, steal cell phones, and beat people up, but then they have to open fire hydrants on their block when they want to get wet?
Is there a "water desert" as well as a "food desert" - or are we just seeing a fundamental, deep-seated defect in thinking?
We won't ask how is it that one guy will flood an entire street for kicks, while another character up the block is emptying a 9mm into someone because a drop of water fell from an air conditioner.
"A Thousand And One Afternoons In Chicago..."
"With all the technology today they cannot develop a hydrant cap that is tamper proof...jagoffs are allowed to waste billions of gallons of precious clean water..."
--7/23/2011 12:07:00 AM
They spent the money replacing the plain old let-it-run cast iron spouts on park water fountains with clumsy, pain-in-the-a__ pushbutton valves that don't work right half the time and are vandalized and needing repair the other half of the time. Makes constant backlogged we-can't-keep-up-with-it work for the Park District.
It's ideal.
Kids can't work them, no more water for the birds and squirrels -- you'd think there wasn't a whole lake full out there.
They can't stop a huge Yellowstone gusher damaging people's foundations, undermining sidewalks, etc., but they can shut off a 1/4" stream.
Priorities.
"That same legislation also requires the disconnect of all gutter down-spouts from the City sewer system. They must now drain onto the grassy portion of the lawn in the homeowner's or business's property. This was done to prevent the overflowing of the sewer systems and forcing raw sewage to be released into Lake Michigan."
--7/23/2011 08:02:00 AM
I thought the Deep Tunnel was going to clear that up.
If it all depends on your lawn, the whole decades-long, multi-billion-dollar endless hole in the ground is a FAILURE, no?
Ask the guy who's pumping out his basement again, piling everything in the alley. How ya doing over by St. Adalbert's today after seven inches? I can't bring myself to go look...
"Turn the heads on the hydrants around, facing the sidewalks and not the street. See how those affected homeowners who have a hydrant in front of their home react. Probably with bats for those who dare to open them..."
--7/23/2011 07:23:00 AM
Not to mention the people in the basement apartment...
I dunno, though -- that is an awful stiff, heavy, straight-line kind of suction hose they use on the pumpers. Everyone knows the story of what happens when there is a car parked in the way -- the hose goes in one window and out the other, forcibly...
Hey, firemen -- is this practical?
"I have been trying to get the street lights fixed on the block since April.
"They recently eliminated the Dept of Electricity due to budget cuts."
--7/23/2011 11:26:00 AM
Yeah, I think it is a private firm now, big dark-blue trucks that just say "City Lights," look almost covert-operations. Someone got this plum from Daley when he was selling everything in sight. As usual, it probably costs us twice as much as before for half the work done.
I only know this because I saw one of these trucks ONCE - LAST summer.
Or was it the summer before that? Can't even remember.
Big street presence. Great service.
Today we all should have had a huge wake up call. Almost half my watch(5 out of 11) called in this morning with water issues. Could they PLEASE HIRE the budgeted amount of officers! In a large scale emergency or the idiotic G-8 Summit we are no where near the manpower. Could the spineless F.O.P. force the cities hand, as an Officers Safety Issue. We are primed to lose an enormous amount of Offfcers without a change.
"Funny thing about the hydrants with the tamperproof stems and special caps. you need a special wrench to open the caps and the wrench has a magnet inside to pull up the stem inside the aluminum cover to turn the thing on. The ingenious criminals just use a magnet from a stolen speaker from a stolen car,etc... They can than turn on the hydrant by hand, than bust the cast iron cap with a hammer and they are good to go. Great minds gone to waste..."
--7/23/2011 11:06:00 AM
I'm gettin' dizzy. Damn, that's a lot of work.
They could hot-wire an unattended Soyuz spacecraft to steal it, "but they can't find any way to get fresh vegetables."
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Yeah, right.
She had a trial and apparently nobody bought that claim then. Decades later Governor Potato Head knows better than the prosecutor and judge back then.
7/23/2011 09:10:00 AM
Quit insulting Mr. Potato Head, would you? I used to love that guy! Stick his eye in his ear, his ear in his nose...and no video game involved!
All the hype about the city saving millions by privatizing the garbage collection under Rahms new plan. What the news did not tell you is that they are going to save the money by making us pay upto $350.00 a year for that garbage collection once the service become permanent. Bet you did not see that one coming did you???
If that happens, I will fly-dump in the ghetto...and maybe the other kind too, just like they did on North Ave. beach.
If I was a fireman, I would lie awake every night thinking about how to solve the problem.
You'd be rich, rich, rich. And it is hard to believe that no one in the entire world has figured this out!
Come on you engineers!
Open fire hydrdants: The new policy that's taking over "broken windows"...carry on.
I want an arrest made now!
Right now!
What's the matter? Calm down.
Sir, tell us what happened.
Two black kids soaked me with the fire hydrant.
They ruined my car! It's an antique!
They got me soaked!
So where are they?
Brilliant fucking question!
They ran away!
What do you think?
Do you wish to file a complaint, sir?
Yeah. I want 'em locked under the fucking jail.
I'm going to turn off the water.
Where you going? Where's he going?
Did you catch their names?
Officer, what the fuck are you doing?
Just calm down.
Did you catch their names?
Fuck you, their names!
Moe and Joe!
Moe and Joe what, sir?
Moe and Joe what? Moe and Joe what?
Moe and Joe Black. How's that?
They're brothers, sir?
Brothers. Yeah, they're fucking brothers.
Anonymous said...
"I have been trying to get the street lights fixed on the block since April.
"They recently eliminated the Dept of Electricity due to budget cuts."
--7/23/2011 11:26:00 AM
Yeah, I think it is a private firm now, big dark-blue trucks that just say "City Lights," look almost covert-operations. Someone got this plum from Daley when he was selling everything in sight. As usual, it probably costs us twice as much as before for half the work done.
I only know this because I saw one of these trucks ONCE - LAST summer.
Or was it the summer before that? Can't even remember.
Big street presence. Great service.
7/23/2011 03:58:00 PM
City Lights got the city work to replace street lights, "privatization." Ed Vrdolyak has a piece of that action. Surprise surprise.
Why is that? Are they cowards, are they afraid of placing their hands on someone, are they afraid of paperwork, do they not know they can arrest and charge people for that? What is it with today's supervisors?
It is embarrassing to have to say we work for cpd - because of the "bosses".
What? you need a supervisor to tell you to make an arrest of someone dousing you with water? or whatever the incident may be? you need to be told to respond and backup another car on your watch? the only thing embarrassing is you posting that on here! The new police of the last 10 years are what is truly embarrassing.... Be a man/woman, take some initiative, make a decision without waiting for that terrible white shirt to show up and tell you what to do..
Why are we wasting CPD and other city services on hydrant patrols. Lettem open them up, lower the water pressure, and watch the city burn. Then we can start over with fewer rats.
"2 hospitals on Full Bypass due to zero water pressure from open hydrants.
"1 water dept employee took a beating and hydrant keys stolen.
"Honor students go to a firehouse and start throwing shit at FF's who went out numerous times to shut off the same hydrant.
"At least 3 kids playing in hydrants hit by cars."
--7/23/2011 09:49:00 AM
Once more -- they can all make it to North Avenue Beach to commit crimes, but not to swim.
Fascinating.
In the neighborhoods with the chronic hydrant problems, the city should just concede and install the 'block party hydrant caps', which are caps with a slit cut in them which sprays water when the hydrant is opened, but doesnt cause a drop in water pressure or massive flooding. They are always going to open the hydrants, at least with the block party caps minimal harm will be done, except if some kid gets whacked by a car, in which the parent should get locked up.
Water meters in your house, higher taxes, higher fees for stickers, higher parking, higher fines.
Ghetto handouts, wasting water, destroying free housing, free LINK card food and extra cash for smokes, free WIC for diapers and formula, summer jobs for CHA kids where they feed them and pay them (in the academy right now.)
Forgot higher crime and free cell phones among other things !
The Fibune editors say that is is politically incorrect to deprive the minorities of their hydrant antics.
Solution:
Why can't we just hire another federally-funded (aka waste of taxpayer money) group of ex-con gangbangers, similar to Cease-Fire, to "protect" the hydrants in the hood? We can have the local strong-arm thieves, er reverends, "monitor" this fine program.
Of course this will be funded by taxpayers as seen on your next water bill..Make sure you read the small print on the bill that shows your contribution that benefits the underprivledged. Note, you have no choice in the matter, Dick Turbin says so.
meter water in the ghetto , every house has leaky faucets and toilets that run constantly
just like heat , no storm windows and doors , thermostat set on 80
that's ok don't pay and the gov't will pay for them
"Why can't we just hire another federally-funded (aka waste of taxpayer money) group of ex-con gangbangers, similar to Cease-Fire, to "protect" the hydrants in the hood? We can have the local strong-arm thieves, er reverends, "monitor" this fine program."
--7/24/2011 09:43:00 PM
Remember CETA? They took people who previously loitered in front of "L" stations all day, put brown coveralls on them, and paid them to stand in front of "L" stations all day "to assist the public."
"This an A or B stop?" Like the sign on the front of the place didn't say.
"You has to ax the man inside."
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"Come on you engineers!"
There is no way to do anything to the hydrant that wouldn't also potentially impair the hydrant in an emergency.
Having the water itself be from a different network, and be heavily chlorinated would probably do the trick, if you have the funds,time, and ability to rework the entire city's infrastructure.
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