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SHOULD WE START CALLING IT ?SNOWGATE?? ?Instead of plowing, they got plowed. A group of on-duty Sa?

By Glenn Reynolds

SHOULD WE START CALLING IT “SNOWGATE?” “Instead of plowing, they got plowed. A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away. . . . The supervisors had shown up at the deli near Ocean Parkway at 8 p.m. when a smiling, uniformed Sanitation honcho bought a six-pack of Heineken Light, the witnesses said. About 30 minutes later, another worker from the group bought a six-pack of Corona Light. Later, they ducked inside their car and hunkered down.”

(Via JWF, who comments: “One of the first orders of business for New York’s new Governor, Andrew Cuomo, should be to launch an investigation into the outrageous behavior of the New York City sanitation workers.”) Give ‘em the PATCO treatment. Meanwhile, look who was calling in sick.

Related: Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow. Stuff like the above won’t help. Is that unfair? No more than blanket condemnations of “business” after the Enron debacle. . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).