Posted on 11/08/2011 4:38:07 PM PST by Cardhu
Occupy Wall Street got its confiscated generators back on Tuesday after its legal team pressed the Fire Department of New York to release them.
The machines were picked up from the New York City Fire Academy at Randall's Island by the Wikileaks truck, which has been stationed next to Zuccotti Park since the protest's inception. The vehicle with the generator on board made its way back to Zuccotti Park hours before a planned concert by Graham Nash and David Crosby.
Yetta Kurland, a lawyer representing the protesters, said the generators did not violate any FDNY code.
The protesters have been without machine-generated power since Oct. 28, when police and firefighters seized their gas and biodeisel generators on the grounds that they were a fire hazard. Protesters have been using bicycle-powered generators to charge batteries in the park, but they were without steady power as a freak snowstorm hit on Oct. 29.
Lawyers for the protesters sent the FDNY a letter on Oct. 29 demanding the return of their equipment. Last week the fire department gave in. "I believe they gave the generators back because they had no basis to confiscate them," Kurland said. "When theres a fire inspection, the normal procedure is for the FDNY to give corrective feedback ... That didnt happen here. Rather than saying do this or that or taking corrective steps, they simply confiscated the generators and didnt even list on the confiscation order what the specific violations were."
Kurland added that the return of the equipment came with no stipulation about how and where it could be used. "Generators in parks are not automatically violations of any safety codes," Kurland said. "In fact, the regulations say you can have a diesel generator or a gasoline generator as long as its under a certain BTU
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I thought that FDNY specifically cited all the gasoline that was scattered around the park. In some cases, it was stored right next to an ignition source.
I would have thought people as dumb as the OWS crow would have managed to give them selves CO poisoning in a open park.
But thankfully, not its Mojo.
When will the occupiers begin building permanent dwellings? How will this end?
So are these idiots going to use gasoline to power their generators? I thought the OWS people were against gasoline.
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CROSBY IS WORHT 40 MILLION DOES THAT MAKE HIM A 1%ER?
You go first....remember to take a scolding hot shower after.
I’m just amazed Crosby has enough of a heartbeat left to be able to move, much less perform
I’m just amazed Crosby has enough of a heartbeat left to be able to move, much less perform
Makes the generators run greener, they should inhale the exhaust deeply.
And if there is an explosion, the leftist attorneys will sue the city and the city will settle before trial for $$. The taxpayers will get hit again and the takers will have sucked a little more out of the makers. Thank you Mayor Bloomberg.
“There must be a reason the Tea Party isn’t asserting that it’s their time to occupy the park.”
Honor? Faith?
Tell me about it. How that guy is alive is beyond me. I read once he was such a hardcore crack addict that the cocaine would crystalize under his skin. And they give this guy a liver transplant? Reminds me of John Phillips of the Mammas and Poppas. Another hard core druggie, and they gave him a liver transplant and a few months later he was back to drinking and drugging. Real nice. How many people are out there waiting on a liver who never touched the stuff, and they give these punks who never worked a real job in their life one ASAP?
This is insane! Perhaps Bloomberg will take more action; or is he waiting for a New York 'blaze' to erupt?
Is it legal to build a 'city within a city' and NOT have zoning; and should not/cannot; this area be under same codes as say. . .the rest of the neighborhood - if only when it hits a certain level of population; or even 'health threat' level - not to mention the personal safety, of the rest of the non-organized city dwellers/citizens?
Why is this
soft terrorism allowed to hide it's threat behind banner of 'Free Speech'?
"Free"; of course; in their, narcissistic; bleary, drug-shaded; schizo/angry; Marxist-malcontented - and blind - eyes that peek out from the only center of the universe; these useful idiots have ever known; or even considered.
Why? All so disgusting.
“Give them back the generators and a couple of canisters of Zyklon-B to mix with the diesel.”
This is this second time I’ve read “freepers” refer to Nazi extermination methods used against Jews in the concentration camps as a way to deal with these OWS losers.
Do you think OWS types should be exterminated using Zyklon-B?
Apparently you do.
Faceless, anonymous keyboard cowards talk big when they are hiding behind a computer.
What happened to the bicycle generators. Why are they contributing to Global Warming? Don’t they realize mother earth is dying from evil fossil fuels?
Pray for America
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