It's Raining Stuff Redux
Looks like Trump Parc owes the CTW another "My Bad". Mill River Park has a list, buy us a kayak launch and maybe we'll let you back in the house?
Crappy construction/ loose safety doesn't mean a building should not have replaced the bustling pocket park that once stood in it's spot (can sarcasm come across in bits and bytes?), it just means crappy construction/ loose safety.
Freakonomics, a book by economist Steven Levitt writes about how if the punishment of a behavior is not a worse alternative than the behavior itself, you'll actually increase that behavior by providing the offender with a false sense of security for their actions. The city made the developer fund a full time safety inspector, but that doesn't seem to be enough of a deterrent to shoddy work. Hit them in the wallet with LARGE fines for accidents or code violations and watch them disappear fast. Get this figured out now before the same developer starts work on two building even taller than Trump at the Ritz Cartlon site.
And for hopefully the last encore...
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Dude did you hear that something hit my friend's car before the mail truck incident? He was visiting from out of town, so had no clue to avoid that corner, esp. during a raging storm. Fortunately his car roof was only scratched.
That video you posted captures the absurdity of our own "Raining Stuff" situation.
There is a blog by these authors (with guest bloggers) at the NYT:
Freakonomics
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