Green Energy
A follow up to something that Epa posted about not long ago:
Individual initiative must not stand! Pffffft.
- Saturday Night Stabbing At Union Station
At Washington, D.C.'s Union Station Metro, that is:Stabbing Suspect Shot by Off-Duty Police Officer at Union Station Metro An off-duty Baltimore County police officer shot a man who was wielding a knife on the Metro escalators at Union Station Saturday...
- Washington Dc Subway System Under Attack? Smoke Fills Subway,passengers Evacuated Three Times In Two Days
Don't worry, though. It's just a random mechanical failure. It has nothing to do with Islam. From Yahoo: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mechanical failure on a Washington subway train caused smoke to fill a station stop on Sunday in the nation's...
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4 Dead, 48 Injured After Train Derails In NYC A Metro North train derailed north of New York City early Sunday, transportation officials said. The train was en route to New York's Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., when it derailed near...
- Pissing On The Fourth Amendment
(psst. . . that's the one against unreasonable search and seizure) How long untl they decide it's ok to just stop you on the street or in your car because they want a look in your purse or trunk? WTOP: Metro randomly inspects bags December 21,...
- Nothing To See Here??....dc:3 Metro Stations Closed For Smoke, Simultaneously?
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Small fires and smoke have caused problems at several Metro stations tonight, and two remain closed because of smoke in tunnels on different rail lines.1) Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the station at Reagan National Airport...
Green Energy
More Insanity
A follow up to something that Epa posted about not long ago:
Metro rips out Phantom Planter’s flowers at Dupont Circle stationRead the rest HERE.
It turns out I underestimated Metro bureaucrats’ capacity for folly.
Two weeks ago, I wrote that the transit system would look silly if it let perish 1,000 flowers planted secretly at the Dupont Circle station by local garden artist Henry Docter, the self-described Phantom Planter.
I feared that Metro would merely neglect the flowers. Instead, last Sunday, it sent workmen to yank them out.
The transit system regularly pleads poverty, yet employees devoted supposedly valuable time to remove more than 1,000 morning glories, cardinal flowers and cypress vines that Docter donated to the city — albeit without permission. The plants would have bloomed from August to October in a patriotic display of red, white and blue.
Instead of greenery today and colors to come, the 176 flower boxes along the top stretch of the escalators at the station’s north entrance now feature dirt, a few straggling stems and the occasional discarded soda can.
“It never occurred to me that Metro would think it was more efficient to rip out the plants than to let someone water them,” Docter said.
Metro tore out the foliage without waiting to solicit the neighborhood’s opinion, as it said it had planned to do....
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Docter, 52, has engaged in stealth gardening in public places for more than three decades. He describes his work as performance art.
Individual initiative must not stand! Pffffft.
- Saturday Night Stabbing At Union Station
At Washington, D.C.'s Union Station Metro, that is:Stabbing Suspect Shot by Off-Duty Police Officer at Union Station Metro An off-duty Baltimore County police officer shot a man who was wielding a knife on the Metro escalators at Union Station Saturday...
- Washington Dc Subway System Under Attack? Smoke Fills Subway,passengers Evacuated Three Times In Two Days
Don't worry, though. It's just a random mechanical failure. It has nothing to do with Islam. From Yahoo: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mechanical failure on a Washington subway train caused smoke to fill a station stop on Sunday in the nation's...
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4 Dead, 48 Injured After Train Derails In NYC A Metro North train derailed north of New York City early Sunday, transportation officials said. The train was en route to New York's Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., when it derailed near...
- Pissing On The Fourth Amendment
(psst. . . that's the one against unreasonable search and seizure) How long untl they decide it's ok to just stop you on the street or in your car because they want a look in your purse or trunk? WTOP: Metro randomly inspects bags December 21,...
- Nothing To See Here??....dc:3 Metro Stations Closed For Smoke, Simultaneously?
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Small fires and smoke have caused problems at several Metro stations tonight, and two remain closed because of smoke in tunnels on different rail lines.1) Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the station at Reagan National Airport...