This morning, I headed to my local blue mailbox (Clinton and Lafayette) to drop off my payment for the $60 parking ticket I received last week in BK Heights (GRRR), only to find THE MAILBOX WASN’T THERE!
Where did it go?! WTF???
UPDATE: The mailbox was taken out by two cop cars who collided at that corner Saturday morning. A reader did email me about it, but I was taking my eight-hour written exam at school, so I didn’t get to see it. Back to the topic of cops pulling illegal traffic maneuvers in the ‘hood, I saw one last week drive in front of a car at a red light from behind, look both ways and drive through it, no sirens. Just couldn’t wait for that pesky red to change! I’m curious to know what the circumstances were on Saturday. If they were rushing to an emergency, OK. But if this happened because they were breaking traffic laws for no reason AND they ruined my mailbox, I am gonna be PISSED.
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bad accident the other day between 2 cop cars that slammed into each other. one car actually rammed the coop fence there on the corner. one cop apparantly taken away in abulance. no doubt the mailbox was damaged in the accident somehow.
All 4 better have been hurt if I now have to walk an extra block to another mailbox.
Better idea – pay the ticket online.
I saw it after it happened as we were walikng back form brunch teh cars looked pretty bad and it lookes as they rammed into each other almost frontally… I do not know the dynamics, but I see them often driving at breakneck speed sometimes even on one way streets AND in the wrong direction…
It was that stupid meathead Herc. I hope Marlo drops him.
I have nearly been run over twice by police cars (from the 88th) WHILE WALKING ON THE GODDAMN SIDEWALK minding my own business. This was on Classon between Dekalb and Lafayette – both times. They just drive right on the sidewalk and act like you, the pedestrian, are in their way. How can they expect us to obey laws when openly ignore them? It’s extremely dangerous for cars to drive on the sidewalk, which is the reason it’s against the law. Jerks!
I love when people bitch about thing they don’t understand.
Perhaps that cop who “couldn’t wait for the light to change” was en route to a silent hold up alarm. Do you know what happens when cops pull up to a hold up alarm with lights and sirens blaring? The bad guys shoot the guy who pushed the panic button.
And when it’s you staring at the business end of a firearm you’ll expect them to move heaven and earth to get to you in a timely fashion. I’m sorry someone else’s emergency inconvenienced you during your oblivious meandering stroll down the sidewalk, dipshit.
Hey John, Classon and DeKalb is the precinct. They were probably just pulling in to park. If it was something else, a honk of the horn would work to let a pedestrian know i’m headed your way.
And as far as mailboxes, there are hardly any in my part of the hood.
I’ve decided to start taking note of their car number, the time it occurred, and filing a complaint at the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board (http://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/home.html). If we all start doing this, then maybe some action will eventually be taken to curb the police’s disregard for traffic laws. I’m fed up!
Sean, you’re a sissy.
Did you just call someone a sissy? That’s golden.
i live in the co-op at 325 clinton and actually saw the cops crash into one another while making my morning eggs. it was, in fact (and perhaps predictably), the result of one cop car running a light and the other one obeying the light and yet speeding. both had sirens going. i sort of couldn’t believe my eyes as i looked down (i live on the 10th floor) and thought, “umm… those cop cars are about to crash into one another.” sure enough, they did. one guy looked pretty effed up and was on the ground crouched in a fetal position after they pulled him out of the car.
When an officer turns on his/her siren and/or lights, it should be an auditable event (not unlike when guns are discharged). This would preserve the NYPD’s ability to sneak up on bad guys, yet be accountable afterwards. At present, police can use their sirens and alarms with impunity.
I do hope they replace the mailbox–it can make a difference if you’re racing for a train–but at least it’s not an intentional thinning of mailboxes as part of the PO’s apparent strategy of putting themselves out of business with horrendous service.
Did you ever think just maybe they where going somewhere to save someones live ? Accident’s do happen… Do you think you can do a better job with what little the NYPD has?? Next time you get robbed call a crackhead instead of 911. Next time you walk by the pct look at how many cops are ACTUALLY out there running around.
Hey its my corner and my old kindergarden!!! as for the mailbox….BEATS ME?!?
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