2:06 PM: No word what happened, but this can't be good. Police are taking a parent and a child from Sullivan Fight School to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
2:45 PM: Police request salt to be brought in for a slippery corner. Police dispatch relayed back to officer that Streets and Sanitation wouldn't do that because it required overtime. Officer wants it duly noted that Streets and Sanitation refused to properly maintain the streets safely because of overtime issues. Dispatch duly notes the concern.
Blognotes: What the fuck. It's 2:45 PM. It's overtime?
3:18 PM: Prisoner moaning about chest pains, wants to go to the hospital. Dispatch says they're short cars at the moment.
3:21 PM: Accidents are occurring left and right and the police are talking on the radio that this is what happens when the mayor gets cheap on salt. Dispatch responds by wondering out loud if she should drive home, it being so icy and all....
For the record. The mayor isn't being cheap on salt, we've got plenty of that. He's being cheap on labor.
4:10 PM: For the record. Officer says the corner of Author and Bosworth needs salting. For the record, again, dispatch tells officer there's no overtime to cover salting duties. Record duly noted by officer and dispatch.
4:17 PM: Hit-and-run. 1400 block of West Estes. Car skids into a parked car because of the ice on the street. Car drives off westbound without leaving note. No license was recorded. Nothing further.
4:18 PM: 6900 North Glenwood. People holding someone who was shooting someone with a pellet gun.
5 comments:
"Blognotes: What the fuck. It's 2:45 PM. It's overtime?"
well, if the drivers came on at 6 or 630am, it's overtime time. i just heard this afternoon some officer asking to get relief guarding a prisoner at northwestern memorial because to go past 245pm would be OT, and [the officer didn't say this] Daley don't pay OT.
Question abbout the parent/child heading to St. Francis: was it weather related at all?
wow that's nice - I wonder what our great alderman thinks about his area needing salt - it will probably be one of the topics he addresses in his email blast (kidding)
Daley is a criminal and if there is any justice he will be joining George Ryan in the near future. Taxes have gone up every year and these asshols are running out of money. Time to organize.
One more reason why the U.S. needs to provide more visas to people who are want to work for good wages. Here, the City has the dollars and no one seems to want to get off their a**.
So much for the Puritan Ethic. Let's bring in the Mexicans or at least agree to legalize them. Or at least find some out of work who can only bitch and moan that there are no good jobs out there.
If I said no, then I wouldn't have a job, anymore. Oh brave new job security. If the City can hand out pink slips to its corporation counsels, then it can pink Streets and San. Oops, I forgot, corp counsels cannot organize. I guess you have to be less skilled to merit collective bargaining.
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