9/11 remains used to fill potholes?

[shiva2999]

I guess bone fragments enhance the longevity of the repairs...


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/03/24/2007-03-24_911_remains_fill_potholes_worker_claims.html

9/11 remains fill potholes, worker claims

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BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, March 24th 2007, 4:00 AM


The pulverized remains of bodies from the World Trade Center disaster site were used by city workers to fill ruts and potholes, a city contractor says in a sworn affidavit filed yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court.

Eric Beck says debris powders - known as fines - were put in a pothole-fill mixture by crews at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where more than 1.65 million tons of World Trade Center debris were deposited after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I observed the New York City Department of Sanitation taking these fines from the conveyor belts of our machines, loading it onto tractors and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts," Eric Beck said.

Beck was the senior supervisor for Taylor Recycling, a private contractor hired to sift through debris trucked to Fresh Kills after the trade center attacks. Before the arrival of Taylor's equipment at Fresh Kills in October 2001, the debris was sifted manually by workers using rakes and shovels.

Beck's affidavit was filed by lawyers for the families of 9/11 victims who are suing the city in hopes of creating a formal burial place for debris that they say contains human remains.

"It's devastating," Norman Siegel, an attorney representing the families, said of Beck's statement. "When the 9/11 families found about this, they were wiped out."

The families argue that the cleanup was hurried and slipshod, with the result that more than 400,000 tons of debris weren't properly combed for human remains.

The city recently asked Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein to dismiss the lawsuit, and Mayor Bloomberg has said he would like to turn the garbage dump into a "beautiful park."

In his first few months on the job, Beck said Taylor's mechanical sifters found 2,000 bones per day. He recalled finding "bones, fingers, skulls, feet and hands" as well as a man's chest and "the full body of a man dressed in a suit." The remains were catalogued and turned over to the city, he said.

But Beck said he was pushed to sift the debris quickly, and that remains may have been missed.

"I was constantly told ... to move the job, to run the conveyor belts faster and to keep the tonnage up," Beck wrote.

Other affidavits support Siegel's claim that the sifting process was shoddy.

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[Matt]

I am not offended because I am not surprised.

[unklechucky]

Ok....is that even sanitary?

[shiva2999]

At least those 3000 people didn't die in vain.

[г]

The name 'fresh kills' for the landfill site where WTC debris was brought has always bugged me...

[Matt]

At least those 3000 people didn't die in vain.

They should have been kept to help build our future wall, following in the footsteps of other successful wall projects such as "The Great" Wall and "The Berlin" Wall.

[unklechucky]

Figures that a couple of Canucks could be so disrepectful.

[г]

How was I being disrespectful ?

[unklechucky]

How was I being disrespectful ?

My apoligies....I see you and shiva in the same thread and kind of lumped the 2 of you together.

[shiva2999]

Figures that a couple of Canucks could be so disrepectful.

Sorry, but it's not me making tarmac out of corpses.

[uppy]

I guess bone fragments enhance the longevity of the repairs...


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/03/24/2007-03-24_911_remains_fill_potholes_worker_claims.html

9/11 remains fill potholes, worker claims

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BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, March 24th 2007, 4:00 AM


The pulverized remains of bodies from the World Trade Center disaster site were used by city workers to fill ruts and potholes, a city contractor says in a sworn affidavit filed yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court.

Eric Beck says debris powders - known as fines - were put in a pothole-fill mixture by crews at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where more than 1.65 million tons of World Trade Center debris were deposited after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I observed the New York City Department of Sanitation taking these fines from the conveyor belts of our machines, loading it onto tractors and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts," Eric Beck said.

Beck was the senior supervisor for Taylor Recycling, a private contractor hired to sift through debris trucked to Fresh Kills after the trade center attacks. Before the arrival of Taylor's equipment at Fresh Kills in October 2001, the debris was sifted manually by workers using rakes and shovels.

Beck's affidavit was filed by lawyers for the families of 9/11 victims who are suing the city in hopes of creating a formal burial place for debris that they say contains human remains.

"It's devastating," Norman Siegel, an attorney representing the families, said of Beck's statement. "When the 9/11 families found about this, they were wiped out."

The families argue that the cleanup was hurried and slipshod, with the result that more than 400,000 tons of debris weren't properly combed for human remains.

The city recently asked Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein to dismiss the lawsuit, and Mayor Bloomberg has said he would like to turn the garbage dump into a "beautiful park."

In his first few months on the job, Beck said Taylor's mechanical sifters found 2,000 bones per day. He recalled finding "bones, fingers, skulls, feet and hands" as well as a man's chest and "the full body of a man dressed in a suit." The remains were catalogued and turned over to the city, he said.

But Beck said he was pushed to sift the debris quickly, and that remains may have been missed.

"I was constantly told ... to move the job, to run the conveyor belts faster and to keep the tonnage up," Beck wrote.

Other affidavits support Siegel's claim that the sifting process was shoddy.

...more...

:rofl:

Why are the demos so scared of Rudy Giuliani...lol

I cant belive the moonbats are pimping this story this early..

[unklechucky]

Sorry, but it's not me making tarmac out of corpses.

But you did refer to 3000 people not dying in vain.

[shiva2999]

But you did refer to 3000 people not dying in vain.

Yeah, so?

[shiva2999]

:rofl:

Why are the demos so scared of Rudy Giuliani...lol

I cant belive the moonbats are pimping this story this early..

Who's scared of Rudy Giuliani?

He has zero chance, even if the Repigs still control the voting machines.

[Gibby]

Its a a vast right wing conspiracy I tell you and you gotta wonder how many vics entered the :spam: (no not referring to Shiva's thread) supply and NY Yankees Ballpark frank supply?

[uppy]

Who's scared of Rudy Giuliani?

He has zero chance, even if the Repigs still control the voting machines.

Its the agenda my boy....this is the 2d "news article"

thats been dumped this week about 9/11 victims dead bodys

being shit on by Rudy.The demos must be nervous about him

for some reason.

[shiva2999]

Its the agenda my boy....this is the 2d "news article"

thats been dumped this week about 9/11 victims dead bodys

being shit on by Rudy.The demos must be nervous about him

for some reason.

Nah.

Not everyone prefers to live in a fantasy world like you do.

[uppy]

Nah.

Not everyone prefers to live in a fantasy world like you do.

so tell what kind of kool-aid do you drink ?

grape or orange ?

[shiva2999]

so tell what kind of kool-aid do you drink ?

grape or orange ?

I like blood of Iraqi children flavor.

[Green Lantern]

I say leave them there so some Historian in the future can tell his students what barbarians we were compared to modern, civilized man.

[Shama-Lama Ding Dong]

:rofl:

Why are the demos so scared of Rudy Giuliani...lol



I am afraid of Ru Giu because he is a tremendous idiot and we all know how attractive that is to the voting public.

[K-Gun]

Who's scared of Rudy Giuliani?

He has zero chance, even if the Repigs still control the voting machines.

"Repigs" :rofl:

[unklechucky]

Dems need to worry about Rudy, America is not ready for a black man or a woman for president.

[TheGoodShepherd]

Dems need to worry about Rudy, America is not ready for a black man or a woman for president.

America doesn't need to be ready for a black man or white woman president genuis.

You don't need the whole country to win the electoral college.

[unklechucky]

America doesn't need to be ready for a black man or white woman president genuis.

You don't need the whole country to win the electoral college.

Keep to Canadian politics. One will negate the other when it comes to the final dem canidate. Hypothetically, if it goes to Hillary/Obama Vs. Rudy, Rudy is close enough to center to attract the straggler votes from americans not willing to take a black man or a woman.

[uppy]

I agree with Chucky

[unklechucky]

I guess we speak the truth uppy....and everyone backs down.

[uppy]

The truth wins all the time

[dasaybz]

At least those 3000 people didn't die in vain.

hahahahha

Hilarious!!

hahahhahahaha

you are so damned funny man ... ahhahahahahah

[Gibby]

Who's scared of Rudy Giuliani?

He has zero chance, even if the Repigs still control the voting machines.

Actually Shiva, I have to agree with Rfwells here. Rudy will pour on 9/11 like nobody's business and he will gush about how he rebuilt NY after 9/11 and how he provided leadership during a time of crisis, and hey libbies and indies he is indifferent towards gay marriage and abortion. Don't like crime? He made NYC free of it. Moneygrubber who hates the poor? He outlawed homelessness. His Running mate? Law and Order's F. Dalton Thompson (or is Thomas?) Dalton will come with his homespun downhome TN style and carry the south because that nice man was big on Law and Order and dem Yankees even made him district attorney. I can see a nightmare campaign of Hillary/Obama v Giulianni/Thompson.

[TRIPLE P]

How is anyone in this thread demonizing Shiva? Did he sign off on using the bodies of the victims as filler? Nope.

Whos surprised though...we've pissed on thier memory for the lsat 4 years...we might as well grind them up and drive over them as well.....

[Gibby]

How is anyone in this thread demonizing Shiva? Did he sign off on using the bodies of the victims as filler? Nope.

Whos surprised though...we've pissed on thier memory for the lsat 4 years...we might as well grind them up and drive over them as well.....

I'm not demonizing Shiva, I tease him about the vast right wing conspiracy but I agree with him that its sickening. As for Rudy G, well thats not demonizing its just saying he might be wrong there.