Police News Roundup
NY1 reports Queens Blvd, Queens County's bulevar de la muerte, will continue to have safety improvements added. For the uninitiated, the bulevar de la muerte is the most dangerous roadway (at least for pedestrians) in the city. In a comforting quote, the mayor said, “We are not going to rest as long as New Yorkers keep dying on the streets of this city." Bravo!

Mayor Mike also believes in the reopening of the Statue of Liberty even if every tourist gets their own personal cop to escort them. Great idea, but the mayor has said in the past that the city cannot afford to pay for them.

Base10 has witnessed and heard of some pretty horiffic things, but few compare with this incident. A live steam pipe began to leak in the basement space beneath a ground floor apartment in the Bayview Houses in Brooklyn. This caused the disabled resident of said apartment to literally be cooked to death. The News story doesn't do it justice since TV reports have the apartment temperatures reaching 200 degrees. Base10 was considering making a satirical comment, but then thinks about his own fate as a future member of the elderly or infirm community and just can't do it.

And in the "it's really hard to find something amusing today" department, a Boston woman was forced to summon police after being wrapped about by her pet python "Moma." The victim had to beg police to refrain from putting the snake down and described it as a "member of the family." Base10 thinks a dangerous Python is more along the lines of "The Life of Brian," but will say no more.
- posted by Base10 @ 8:48 PM