Now They Will Be Running Our Healthcare
A typical tale of union-dominated government in action:
A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official says a crew couldn’t avoid painting over a dead raccoon when they put new double-yellow lines on a western Pennsylvania road last week. …
PennDOT spokesman John Ambrosini says paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually have a foreman on the job who clears any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by.
This crew didn’t have a foreman and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, remove the animal and repair the paint.
Since Big Government’s solution is always more government, maybe they should declare all critters likely to become roadkill to be endangered, and have EPA agents accompany all road crews. Problem solved.
On a tip from Bill T.
WHY DOESN’T THE NYT REPORT ON THIS STORY?
IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS REPORT THAT IRS AGENTS ARE AIDING AND ABETTING ILLEGAL ALIENS IN COMMITTING TAX FRAUD.
http://www.infowars.com/irs-caught-in-id-fraud-scam/
That poor racoon already had enough stripes on him; why they need to add another?
you don’t turn the truck around, you stop and remove the coon and start the truck again. incompetent a holes.
Oh, no, then you get written up for doing something outside your job description.
There wasnt anybody looking and Thats alot of work.
They didnt put the racoon there, why should they move it? Without a foreman, I’m surprised anything got done at all. Isnt that what PETA should do..
2012/2013,,,,,,,,
The picture above is a perfect visual metaphor for what the Government is doing to us taxpayers.
Eeees not my yob!
Having worked with the the Union for years. as a Foreman, how I would have handled this is. after getting in their Shit I would have went over and Picked up the coon and brought it back to the truck and tossed it on the pasanger floorboard or Dashboard depends how my day is going. and lord god that had better be there until the end of the shift or your gonna get wrote up. cuz thats MY F`ing Coon. the goons need to fear you in a union shop. and I learned from the best Pusher ever. Sometime I really miss being an Asshole.
And yet…if you look at the photo, you can see that the truck stopped spraying about 5 feet after they painted over the raccoon.
And somebody took the picture, didn’t they? How much traffic could there have been?
O…look for…the union label…
Chances are, they couldn’t remove the coon because of some union rule, which requires a different group of union workers, specially trained, to remove the animal. And, at about $45. per hour.
If that were NYC, they would’ve simply painted it green and turned the whole highway into a bike lane.
No no no, Paul Krugman will say that this created jobs. Think of all the man hours which must be expended fixing this mistake.
If they put raccoons on every road in need of repainting then they could easily double the number of union goons standing around while the trainee paints and repaints the stripe.
They may have to use simulated plush raccoons to avoid the wrath of PETA.
RE: Mockingbird at August 10, 2012 at 7:35 am:
“That poor racoon already had enough stripes on him; why they need to add another?”
A particularly ironic statement, coming from a “Mockingbird”…..hahahaha.
RE: AC at August 10, 2012 at 8:57 am:
“No no no, Paul Krugman will say that this created jobs. Think of all the man hours which must be expended fixing this mistake…….”
Well, I would DEFINITELY say that Raccoon is “Shovel Ready”…….
….besides, I have it on good authority that heartless MITT ROMNEY and Bain Capital were directly responsible for the demise of that poor raccoon…..and the poor critters’ family will be featured in an upcoming SuperPAC ad.
The raccoon is also a registered Democrat, registered as “R. Coon” and will be voting this November regardless of the fact that it has no ID, and is, um, well……dead. Never stopped ‘em before…..
PennDOT has been the butt of jokes in PA since I was born.
Typical union drones. PennDOT has always been synonomous with incompetence ever since I can remember.
PennDOT workers are frequently seen leaning on their shovels and several guys watching one guy work while chatting about the Steelers vs. Eagles games or Penguins vs. Flyers.
The Pa DOT is now providing lunatic-left eco-fascists with food. It’s the new “Meals Under Wheels” program of the d-cRAT socialists.
The only thing they can do right is piss away vast sums of our money with nothing to show for it…and never any
repercussions.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/usda-spends-2m-gets-one-intern-program-fails/article/2504551#.UCVSzqDy0qj
I’ve seen that once before in my life, and it was in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), except that time it was a rabbit. Maybe that’s PA DOT policy, or maybe they just drink on the job a lot.
This has got to be the driver messin’ with the paint crew…and I don’t care what you say,that there’s funny stuff…lmao…made my day
There are just so many bad taste jokes to be said here that I just need to put my computer away and go do something else for awhile.
This is certainly an important thing worth an entire article.
Well shit, whistler, start your own damn blog then.
Only the government would consider dead raccoon removal a management level task.