10 February 2009, 8:08 am
by:Anthony J Trimboli- Laurelton, New York- I am writing to share with you a funny editorial concerning yet another day of weird debris found on a local parkway here in Queens called The Cross Island Parkway or Laurelton Parkway.
As you know, The City of New York claims no negligence nor says that you have any claim against stupid or weird objects found anyplace. If you feel sorry for who lost the tape, The City of New York can not accept your claim because they would consider it outlandish for a videocassette tape to be somehow in one of the right lanes of the parkway. However, if you have a complaint against the person and saw them visibly do it, The City of New York can fine whomever put the videotape on the parkway. Again, NYC Sanitation does not want people to get involved with neighbors and you can see their point sometimes. Also, the New York City Police Department does not accept claims about anything like where you see a videotape that somehow fell into the parkway unless you spot a van who dropped the videotape and now the City can give a summonse to the person. Both NYC Sanitation and the 9th Precinct of the NYPD told me this information, so the videotape and whomever owns it is now gone in more ways than one, I may have almost ran it over, but it is now probably a squashed BASF or something. A little bit sad, don't you think???
So, I was driving down the Cross Island Parkway after coming home from Cambria Heights, Queens today and I saw this black small rectangular box in the road as I was coming home doing normal speed. It was somebody's videotape!!! Honestly, I felt sorry for them. Honestly, on videotapes, people may put important things on them.
Funny enough, this was close to Rosedale, New York and what the woman at Rosedale Civic Association told me was totally different than NYC Sanitation and the 9th Precinct where she said that a member of their Civilian Patrol would gloriously pick up the tape off the expressway and move it to a safer place or if you are walking and see the tape in the street, you should move the tape to a safer place. But, again, NYC Sanitation and the NYPD does not want people to get involved with their neighbors, I can understand them a little, but maybe not.
I just laughed when I saw like a videotape in the road and almost ran it over with me almost running over a brick that slid from the side of the road yesterday also into the right lane. The City of New York can accept a complaint about a brick that slid into the road lane because it may involve danger to your car and is not like a strange occurance. The brick was moved back though by NYC DOT who is currently doing lots of work on the road.
It is amazing what you find on the road today. I think somebody dropped it. But, in New York City, if you report it to Sanitation, they will automatically claim as it as being litter by some person who just did not value the tape and just like threw it out the window there!!!! Again, I think the advice of the woman at the Rosedale Civic Association, although I told her that it does not reflect the interests of lots of other communities and governmental organizations around New York City, is that if you see something as valuable as that, try to put it into a safer place or one of her Civilian Patrolmen will gladly pick it up and put it in a safer place. Again, her advice is good, but it is not reflective of the neighbors of most of the City of New York and their neighboring communities. Others would just give it to Sanitation to see if they could fine the person.
If you live out here in Queens, New York, please just be on the watch for strange articles in these roads like this videocasette tape today. I had a laugh with some workers personally of NYC DOT who were a bit curious. Yes, they can go past 311 and the NYPD and pick up the tape and look at it. They got such a laugh at that while doing construction on the parkway for NYC DOT.
Please, while driving on these parkways in all five boroughs, please watch these weird objects and things in the right lane mostly. Again, for a VCR, the City of New York will not come out for the complaint unless you saw somebody come out of a truck and throw it out of a truck. They do not. For a videocasette or anything like that, I just wondered if somebody lost something important, the City does not come out for that. Please besides somebody else's tape, please watch these roads here in New York City for strange objects in the lanes.
Anthony J Trimboli age 29 Writer
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