Saturday, January 15, 2011

Group sues to stop transfer station

From the Daily News:

An aviation safety group is suing to block a garbage transfer station near LaGuardia Airport, fearing the trash would lure fowl and cause bird strikes.

The Friends of LaGuardia is calling on the state Department of Environmental Conservation to revoke or suspend the permit it issued the city for the North Shore marine transfer station several hundred yards from the runways.

The lawsuit, filed in Queens Supreme Court, blasts the state for its "unlawful, arbitrary, capricious" refusal to take back the permit.

"It's a magnet for birds and it's going to create potential for disasters," said the group's lawyer, former Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.

Mastro called the potential transfer station a "graver danger than anything we've ever seen in the city before."

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope they win! It's totally inappropriate for that area!

Velvethead said...

Come on, let's all chant!
NIMBY! NIMBY! NIMBY!

Anonymous said...

Velvethead's right. Let's build it and watch the birds bounce off the planes. Bloomtard could set up a contest to guess when the first jet will be brought down by a bird strike.

Velvethead said...

The Hudson River flight sucked in a flock of geese. Geese don't do garbage.
Gulls do do garbage. There are proven, low tech ways to keep away gulls from garbage.
Ok. let's all try it again. Ready?
NIMBY! NIMBY! NIMBY!

Anonymous said...

Velvethead-
What part of YOU'RE AN ASSWIPE do you not understand? When you pull your head from your butt, you might just see the light!

Actually, the transfer station isn't around here but it's just a bad idea. Where's your NIMBY now?

Velvethead said...

Asswipe, eh.
I tell you what. Considering DOT hasn't been picking up recyclables for weeks now, how about we meet on a corner of your choice.
I'll bring a few bottles for deposit. Shove em up your keester and we'll see how many nickels you spit out for me.
Then we'll see what kind of an asswipe I really am.
Call out the time and place or don't reply at all.

Anonymous said...

I hope this is helpful Mr. Velvethead. I don't think you're an asswipe. I think you're what's wiped!!! You're not a big shot...just a big shit!

Velvethead said...

I thought so.
Geez, and I was so hoping to get those deposit nickels back.

Anonymous said...

Hey velvetdickhead, is that the best you can do? You must like the birdies to defend the project, ya NIMBY. I guess I can add chicken fucker as well...bird brain!

Velvethead said...

Corner of Clintonville St. & 14th Ave. Tomorrow. 4:00 pm.
Gives me enough time to collect my nickels and have a libation or two before the wife expects me home. We'll see who's chicken gets fucked.

Anonymous said...

We'll see who's chicken gets fucked.

Your wife already knows the answer to that one!

Jack Bauer said...

BEWARE OF VELVETHEAD LOUGHNER!!!

Tru Datt said...

I say build the damn garbage transfer station so that velvethead's wife has a sustainable food source!

Anonymous said...

Hell NO! I don't want velvethead's wife going through my neighborhood.
NIMBY!
NIMBY!
NIMBY!