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Dumpster Diving In The Lower East Side
When one thinks of dumpster diving in the "developed world", one usually starts with Greece, and ends with Spain (where this activity has been so pervasive, lately even the dumpsters have been on lock down). Certainly, Manhattan's Lower East Side is not one of the places that immediately comes to mind. Sadly, now that the city's more Bohmeian neighborhood has been without power and food for 3 days running, and the prospect of electricity being restored is still dim, the local residents have no choice but to do what their insolvent peers from across the Atlantic do every day (even as the capital markets fool themselves that all is well because Draghi said so). For a candid look at how the other part of Manhattan lives now, watch the clip below.
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re: traffic jam, they really need to find out some way to allow for truckers/tankers to pass without getting bogged down with all the commuters. If the trucks don't get to their destinations...everyone's screwed. Let the trucks through so people don't have to dumpster dive!
They won't let the trucks pass through unless they have 3 people in the cab. (new law)
But they can't have 3 people in the cab because it's illegal since there are only 2 seats.
Ergo: No food.
That's funny. If it's true it's hilarious.
plus they couldn't move if they wanted to. There all running out of gas!
There are 2 bodies in my trunk, officer, I swear!
The truck drivers live in that city in the bourghs to drive to their truck jobs in NJ, to drive back to NYC. Enjoy the traffic for the next twenty years. That subway system is broken and every human being will feel it for decades. There are 38 million people that drive in and around NYC. It has more people than Canada in a single city. Additionally lowest driver license application on the planet. So expect two things in the meanwhile.
This is now a question of copper, steel, iron prices...we are in an inflationary period with the fed printing and raising PM prices (no no that's not inflation...that's cost adjustment). Any number we've heard out of the insurance industry is complete bullshit. Like ground zero, it will never be rebuilt properly and will fail again, and again...and again...and again. All the power systems are copper. The Ocean is what? Salt water. There is enough copper power cabling under that city to circle the earth about 800 times...most of it touched by it's arch enemy salt water.
"That subway system is broken and every human being will feel it for decades."
What? you think it will take 20+ years to get the subways going again?
Can you take the A train to Brooklyn?
Salt water in a place full of copper and iron. Are you catching on yet?
I don't question the damage, I question your timeline for full restoration of services.
FEMA you can believe in.
Seriously, so many people are out of food in 3 days? Even when warned, they didn't prepare. Some people will never wake up, sad.
This is why those who know what is coming have plans to leave the northeast quickly.
Honestly, what kind of lazy-ass, irresponsible, clueless, shiftless, self-absorbed, attention-deficit-disordered blob has only three days or less of food at home --- much less leading up to, and after, a major storm that the media continually screamed was coming for most of a week beforehand?
Really, am I supposed to have any sort of sympathy for such morons?
Let the fuckers starve.
Time to hand out the darwinian awards to those with out supplies. They seriously watched this thing coming for days and did what, drink, fuck and party. Darwin was right.
Bbbbbbbuttttt... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Rockaway-Residents-Frustrated-by-Sandy-Response_New-York.html
Fuckin -A! I could live off a stick of "beef jerky",and my neighbors"kick-me" rats/dogs) for a month!
What's even worse is that they were being warned for two weeks before it hit. No excuse to not have bought some canned food, bottled water, candles, a small propane heater, some blankets, filled up the car and maybe a couple of cans with gas, and maybe picked up an inexpensive shotgun and a couple of boxes of shells. Feel sorry for them? I think not.
We've got a new dark age coming up... I don't think there is a power great enough to stop it.
Coldsun
who could have predicted this?!
In South Florida, before a major storm, anyone with a brain stocks up with at least 2 weeks of food; prepares ice filled garbage bags, checks the propane for the outdoor grill, and has at least 10 gallons of gas handy. WTF is wrong with Northeasterners these days? They had at least 10 days warning.
New York was always known as the welfare state.. dependent folks given a fish every day to eat simply don't know how to fish.
Competition for a 2012 Darwin Award is rapidly heating up with crowded field of late entrants...
I should have looked down here befor I posted.
'anyone with a brain'...well you just subtracted 47% of the population. I moved out of a populated mid-Fl location after years of near misses. The population has the same 'deer in the headlights' look when the glowing box says to 'hunker down!'. To this day, maybe 2 out of 50+ friends/families I know have no more than the average 3 day supply of food in the house. Only a few have generators and I can vouch that only 1 has admitted to using it in the past year. They laughingly say they're going to come up here if things go south. Eh, not happening. FL is no different than NO, NJ, NY, or Cali. People always think big Uncle is going to come save them or assume the sun will magically shine on them when they need it.
Not. Gonna. Happen. People.
Prepare to live, or prepare to suffer or worse, die.
WTF is wrong with Northeasterners these days?
Someone with a properly operating brain wouldn't jump to conclusions about 20% of the population of the country on the basis of a web-video showing a few dozen people.
I have friends living in lower Manhattan, and I've heard horror stories from them, but they haven't started picking rotting vegetables out of the garbage yet.
What you are witnessing there is the flailing of a tiny percentage of the residents. There are bungled and botched humans everywhere.
da EBT cards were workin fine on Sunday... i got 2 boxes of Oreos
Fed's Rosengren calls for QE3 until unemployment falls to 7.25%
Boomberg limits the size of dumpster pickings until morale improves
7.25% LOL.
Enjoy some dumpsta rap, yo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4zXMiYcODuI
When they were diving were they chanting "Hail Obama"?
A few people asked the reporter whether those Burberry rain boots were real or replicas...
Oh look. A communist gave me a down arrow.
the brotha at 1:20 taking shots with his smartphone while dumpster diving is classic.
And yet.....Jon Corzine remains free...still no one charged....and one year has past.
It's the modern version of the entrepreneur spirit that is alive & well in America!
Just imagine what those (slightly use) condoms will sell for cleaned up.
The owner of my building had a massive backup generator during the great blackout. People offered me $20 for a cooked hamburger, $5 for cold soda, I even got $10 for a single Hot Pocket.
Shhhh. Price gouging during a crises is illegal. You might still fall under the criminal statutes...
-1
What part of "People offered me ..." did you not read?
What happens when the atm runs out of dough...or stops working. They know where you live:(
Here's an interesting link to a newspaper article in India - in India - on people being locked out of dumpsters in Spain http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/in-spain-hungry-forage-garbage-for-meal/487625/
Very sad. Someone should let those folks know the dow was up a hundred so they'll feel wealthier...
OMG, that was funny
Typical media scumbag.
"Well Chuck it is sad to see these losers here digging through the trash for food. We could use our companies resources to get this information to FEMA or another government agency that Obama promised would be ready to help. But then again that would take too much time and all of us here on the crew and you back in the studio have power and plenty of food at home so screw these losers. Back to you Chuck"
I was waiting for someone to walk up and punch the reporter in the face and tell him to STFU!
Good point--it probably would never occur to the FEMA bigwigs to turn on the teevee to see what's going on in a large-scale disaster zone.
Derp derp.
There's an important thing to remember here, folks: there have ALWAYS been several thousand homeless and semi-homeless people living in Manhattan. Even during the boom-years of the late '90s, the sharp-eyed resident knew where to spot folks eating out of dumpsters. The only thing that's really "new" about this footage is that it's being shown on the news. A few weeks ago, it would have been a non-story.
Things are far worse today than they were, but don't let 'em fool ya.
I wonder what happened to all those homeless people who live in the subway tunnels. I'm sure obama sent someone to warn them. (Wouldn't want to lose that important voting bloc in this "most important election ever.")
I wonder what happened to all those homeless people who live in the subway tunnels.
I doubt that very much. BTW: the homeless can't vote.
Er, that was a put on video, a set up. We can lighten up that the zombies aren't out in force yet.
There are still 65k people without power in the Cleveland area. They still don't expect to have power restored until Sunday. Just a whole bunch of trees going down, not a 11' storm surge flooding tunnels.
If Cleveland is that f'd up, NYC will have areas still in the dark well into next year.
The local paper reported on the NY Subway lines running this morning, giving the impresssion that the crisis is over.
Probably sectionalized-off those parts of the system that saw (or are still under) sea water flooding.
It's called:
(a) recycling
(b) dieting
(c) fighting climate change
(d) all of the above
Proper avatar name I see.
This is an example of free market anarchism.
This is an example of a (literally) shit-eating population that can't do a thing on their own without ALMIGHTY GOVERNMENT to light the way, including basic disaster prepping. I knew that victory photop Obama and Christie did yesterday would backfire in their faces. NYC/NJ is going to be a humanitarian disaster by next week, while FEMA sits on their arses again.
Next week? You mean, after the election? None of those fuckers will even know who we are after the polls close.
Yep, it reminded me of GWB "Mission Accomplished" photo.
Except that it wasn't GWBs sign, it was the ship's sign - the ship that had just accomplished its mission, dipshit.
Amish Prepper Humor: http://i47.tinypic.com/ivl5wz.jpg
Rumor has it some of the banksters had thrown cheap $1000 half drunken wine into this dumpster yesterday.. May still be good!
As a side note, look how orderly people are, everyone taking their turn. NBC wouldn't be staging this event with free cheeseburgers at the back of the dumpster for anyone willing to wade in a dumpster for a few minutes.
Hopefully this leads to more cash only donation spots across the country.
2005 Chateau Margaux, goes very well with boiled rat and human liver.
Any advice for eating squirrels under a bridge?
A semi cool 40 ounces compliments all rodents on a grill.
aaaand as long as that 40 is a beer and not soda, it's still legal!
And some Favaaaa Beans
"Dumpster Diving In The Lower East Side". Gives new meaning to free room and shelter...Sad
It's only sad because it takes a major hurricane to draw attention to an everyday problem.
I agree.
They all look so mal-nourished & emaciated. Staged photo to market the justification to loot the treasury again, couldn't even get enough goons out of bed to stage food riots. Look here, fine example of the excellent American education system. Send your kids to Krazy Barry's and if the Kampus Kops don't blow them away, we'll teach them to rob your banks, run your nation into debt and we'll even set them up with our advisors! You too can have a Glen Beck protege. Sometimes they even reward their parents, you may be one of the lucky ones... but we do have to teach them to hate you, in order to get them to do all the other stuff.
It sure is Chump.
I feel for Fonz and the other Z/Hers stuck in that quagmire.
What really makes me puke, is the fact that we haven't learned jack shit from Katrina.
( Red Cross AWAL) (Bloomturd forcing complete strangers to carpool) he should set up provision/food ,medical,financial,communication areas/ outside the disaster zone, and tell people the truth.
The area is FUBAR for a while. That way people can be home with their families and out of the way for repair crews.
NYC is f*cking great city. Manhattan was becoming unlivable (too expensive...yes Keynesians you stupid f*ck nuts!) for a lot of people so they moved across to Brooklyn etc.
Now with this, what could happen is the whole NY area could be under major financial strain from insurance premiums/rates/and credit been cut. So, property prices could tumble, but no one will have cash.
The ghosts of the past always revisit ala 1970 NYC went bankrupt.
Thoughts with ZH New Yorkers
Situations like this, are what SNAP/EBT was meant for. Imagine how much more would be available if 40-50% of the leeches were "burnt off".
try as you might you can't burn off the lower class in a system designed to create them...but you can burn off parasites like Mitt and his son Smug.
I concur, with your "class/system" opinion. If you actually think a gallon of gas is worth 5$, and a bowl of Cheerios, should be served over water, then good on you.
We can argue, who is better for the job all day. Might I suggest a great series that is currenty airing on History Channel?
" The Men Who Built America". I'm not looking for friends. I'm looking for someone to make decisions, and end this,"endless" spending!
Did someone yell "Free Obama phone" from the dumpster?
Here we have an inept government that is atrophied due to years of self-interest to do anything for the people and the fucking aristocrats are talking endoresements while there has been no real solution to climate change and disaster relief-- we'd rather spend the billions on wars that don't matter for the rest of us than take care of ourselves.
Sorry for the fucking rant
An article yesterday said fewer people were eating out. Now I'm totally confused.
The cost of eating out has gone up so much, now they call it 96 instead of 69!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, a major metro is not where you want to be when disaster strikes. One friend heeded my advice and left a place 2 blocks from the Hudson way south of Houston, and is glad he did.
At least there is rainwater to be had in NYC. What preparations have been made for a Southern California earthquake? None, I'd guess. I visited an old friend in O.C. this spring, it was nice, the palms swayed, the salt air rolled in, the BBQ smoke drifted around with the scent of flowers. But did he have just 100 gallons of clean water for himself and his GF? No. Every Californian should have 50 gallons of clean water, AT LEAST, stored in case of earthquake. And be prepared to trek to Sacramento if need be. On bicycle, or on foot.
No power around here for 3 days, but that's shorter than usual. It's back with the teevee and internets. We have 3-7 day power outages every year, 3 times a year, now. You can only prepare to a certain extent, but always keep egress in the back your mind as a survival strategy. Wildwood is not the place to make your stand during a hurricane...
CA shakeout
hide under your desk and when the shaking stops
return to whatever you were doing (a 21st century version of duck and cover)
http://www.shakeout.org/california/
(no info on what to do when the gangbangers come a callin)
but your point is critical as there is no advance warning (solution avoid urban areas anywhere on the west coast) and if you happen to be here on business keep your shoes by the side of your bed -cause broken glass as in windows- will turn your feet to shredded wheat and then you will be thoroughly effed - seriously if you live here or travel here shoes by the side of the bed
Coming soon to economically depressed cities everywhere in the USA! Like they say, in different stages (of the soon to be descending on the USA) crisis, there are different metals of choice.
Going into a crisis phase: lead
Getting thru a crisis phase: silver
Getting out of a crisis phase: gold
We are entering into the lead phase!
I thought we were long past the 1st stage with the Chinese drywall.
Psy. Ops.
let them eat obama
This is the "GOV WILL SAVE US" crowd.
Go Preppers!
seriously I can live a week off scotch and canned tuna.. these people are retards
dumpster diving used to be elite
now everybody is doing it
let them eat cold fries
This is what happends with no power and been only 3 days it would be a nightmare if it lasted for 3 weeks. always prep for shit like this. "I reather be a year early then a hour late."
It's not the first earthquake that's the problem, it's the second one.
Best prep is to leave the area as soon as possible. You shouldn't even be there by day 3.
There is wayyyy more dumpster diving in the US than in any European country. You guys keep talking about our uncontrolled budget deficits but the reality is that if you didn't have the dollar you would be broke. Europe's mistake was the creation of the Euro, apart from that, we are all the same, except that in the US there is more dumpster diving than in defaulted nations. That NYT article was soo non representative of Spain it made me laugh at their ignorance.
Civilization is never more than three meals away from anarchy.
With their power cut off and the television no longer working, Eloi naturally gravitate to actual garbage. Unborn living, living dead, what kind of experiment is tv? Want conspiracy, you're living in one. KILL YOUR TV