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Deadly East Village Explosion Allegedly Due To Owner Sabotage
In a world seemingly bereft of consequences for all but the lower classes, the removal of an "illegally rigged gas supply" before a ConEd visit, appears to have been the cause of the deadly explosion in New York's East Village last week. A plumber who worked at the building has allegedly, according to NY Post, admitted to illegally tapping into a gas line there - saying that the landlord’s son ordered him to do it (who, perhaps karmically, was hurt in the blast).
A plumber who worked at the East Village building where two people died in an explosion last month has admitted to illegally tapping into a gas line there — but said the landlord’s son ordered him to do it, The Post has learned.
The unidentified tradesman confessed to rigging a gas-supply system for apartments at 121 Second Ave. but blamed it on his boss to “deflect” any fault from himself, law enforcement sources said.
Authorities haven’t decided whether to cut a deal with the worker in exchange for his testimony or use his statement against him, one source said.
The official investigation is still in its preliminary stage, with probers trying to recover evidence from the rubble, sources added.
Investigators suspect an illegal hookup in the building was removed from a gas line ahead of a Con Ed inspection on the day of the explosion, then reinstalled before the devastating blast about 30 minutes later.
The building’s landlord has been identified as Maria Hrynenko, who inherited it and several others from her late husband, Michael Sr. The husband ran the East Village’s iconic 24-hour Kiev diner before his death in 2004.
Authorities have said the couple’s son, Michael Jr., 29, was at the building before the explosion, along with general contractor Dilber Kukic of The Bronx.
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Michael Hrynenko Jr., also called “Mischou,”...
...was hurt in the blast and carried to safety by Kukic.
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Rigged.
Darwin Award winners!
They'll love the pretty white smile down on block D at Rikers
Good thing that fucker was only stealing gas and not selling single cigarettes on the corner.
Yeah I know. Cigarettes are dangerous.
"Boris could not be reached for comment."
What's with Ukranians and stealing gas?
Jewish Lightning STRIKES AGAIN.
To LIFE!!!
Jewish lightning ~ INDEED
<--- CH1 & subeito... Chime in with your sychophant dissention [without pleasuring us with a counter argument]...
But b4 u do that, you have to remove Larry Silversteins ball sack from your mouth...
According to multiple witnesses, thousands of Russian troops and tanks were spotted entering the apartment building 30 minutes before the blast.
"Only stealing gas" and not harvesting rain water god forbid
One could guess the rigged part was tapping the gas line before the meter base to have a free stream of gas. Apartment building, gas included in rent?
I believe most rentals have heat included as there are single boilers or gas furnaces without separate meters. Perhaps remodeled buildings have a meter attached to each apartment.
Heat is included. Apartments have their own meters for cooking gas.
HDM at rikers goes by numbers and not letters......just saying
They are just not going to rikers. These fellas are going upstate.
They are just not going to rikers. These fellas are going upstate.
After a long night of cheap beers and playing pool at Stefan's Bar 75 St. Mark's Place
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.ch/2009/01/holiday-cocktail-lounge.html
everyone would repair to the Kiev for eggs, potatoes and "challah" bread.
Or there was always 'Club 54' for "new wave" but the repair was the same: The Kiev.
For whatever that asshole did to blow the place up whether by accident or by avarice: heaps and heaps of shame on his ugly head.
Downvoted by some idiot who never lived in the East Village NYC
Ah, that's why ZH reported it.
He sure ain't no Larry Silverstein!
Soon to be a Miss Silverstein ....
So that's how they do it up north, been wondering since the carpetbaggers are always reminding us southerners. Good to know.
boooom!
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WTC redux
Nah. WTC was on purpose. This was just stupidity. Cheating bastards just trying to cheat the system as usual.
merica
we blow shit up
...was hurt in the blast...
...must have been his face cause it's killing me...
WTF is he doing with a Camel Toe on his chin?
Prison pussy?
I wuz thinking Fuck-Face but yours has a nice ring to it, too
Figures there'd be a Ukie involved. Does this mean we have sufficient cause to go into Ukraine and install a new regime?
It seems stealing gas is a way of life for Ukes.
Actually this guy is a perfect match as a member of said "new regime." And an added benefit is he is already familiar with use of Jewish Lightning.
Devil's advocate; maybe ConEd is the one what fucked up. It happened an hour after their visit.
If ConEd is anything like PG&E, that's a distinct possibility.
It is almost certain that both someone from ConEd and someone from the Municpality was taking bribe money to look the other way. The building owner was busted for code violations once already in that very building for illegally piping gas.
When you catch someone doing it once the only reponsible thing to do if you aren't on the take is to check on them on a regular basis to make damned sure that they have quit.
IMHO, if you buy the statist/.GOV needs to regulate shit line of reasoning: the fine for the first incidence of such insanely dangerous and illegal activity should have been so fucking high that the building should need to have been sold to pay it, or the building should have been taken by emminent domain outright simply on the grounds of public safety. If the local authorities are letting assholes repeatedly fuck with the gas in a crowded urban area for a quick buck then the local authorities are obviously taking bribes.
Since the illegal gas line had been temporarily unhooked just before the ConEd inpector's visit it seems rather obvious that the inpector was tipping off the landlord well in advance so that they could call up their illegal gas line tapping lackey to come and pull the line and then wait around to put the illegal tap back in place after the ConEd ( and possibly Municpal inspector(S) as well ) had taken their bribe money and left the scene..
C'mon: it would be totally obvious to any ConEd and/or Municpal inspector who's job is to know how the gas lines are supposed to be run and where there should or should not be access points, line taps, valves, switches, odd exposed cross piping, etc.
The Owner, the contractor, the ConEd inspector, and almost certainly someone from the Municipality: were ALL conspiring in the scam that resulted in deaths, destruction, injuries, homelessness, and a lot of costs to the taxpayers of NYC in response expenditure, sanitation and post mortem, etc., etc...
Everyone involved is at a minimum guilty of conspiracy and murder ( not to mention the code violations, endangerment, bribery, professional misconduct, abdication of duty, abuse of office, etc. ) -and each and every person involved no matter what their little part in ordering, arranging, engineering, hiding, abetting, covering up, looking away, or otherwise taking part in this derseves a bullet to the back of the head for it.
Was Al Sharpton's tax records nearby?
Did that illiterate POS keep tax records ?
N.Y. home to scumbags!
In NYC, this is business as usual. I've got a friend who has a small business there that complains bribes paid to city employee's should be tax deductable....
He should visit New Delhi.
They are deductible. Put them under "entertainment" or "public relations". Depending if we are talking about cases of whiskey, basketball tickets or cash.
Only if you get a receipt... :-)
HFT's illegally tap into your brokerage account. An explosion is imminent.
I sincerely doubt this guy is anywhere near the 1%
Which is why he is being thrown under the bus, along with the plumber, while the gov/utility crooks who took bribes get to continue business as usual.
Interesting, so "an arsonist burns down his property to cash out".
Reminds me of Goldman Sachs and AIG.
Paging Tim Geithner...
Watch who builds a 20 story apartment complex.
According to the ConEd site, the gas service at the building that exploded, was undergoing "upgrades", and the gas service was "locked" down.
I wonder if the news reporter put any effort into his article.
If it is on the internet, believe at your own risk. (Including what I just wrote.)
What I found on the internet, if it can be believed, is that gas was shut off and the owner had the contractor tap into a live line in the adjacent building (also owned by the same person) in order to feed the restruant (only) in the building with no gas.
As all lpg retailers know (or should know) the insurance industry holds the gas supplier liable (as pipes or valves don't explode unless gas is introduced). Not sure how nat gas is handled in city tho....
Kukic is either in Russia or in Israel no?
That's a traditionally Ukrainian neighborhood. Used to live less than a half-mile away. There's a well-known Ukrainian diner right there too that's pretty good and has been there forever.
Did you miss the part about owning the KIEV DINER?
Flood insurance? Why would I buy flood insurance?
How in the hell do you start a flood?
well now thats difficult just turn on the tap and go home
If the General Contractor was worth his salt he would have declined the 'order' to appropriate gas. Not only do Wall Street executives lack ethics but so too does the GC in this case. Frankly, not all GCs are unethical, or functionally retarded.
"Frankly, not all GCs are unethical, or functionally retarded."
that has not been my experience
so was he going to remove the tap every time the ConEd guy came to read the meter? What an idiot.
Or, the building had no meter. Con-Ed would have pumped more gas than was being sold, and put it down to line loss.
Neither of these men, who were simply acting in their respective enlightened self interest, need to spend a day of time in jail as we are told that the market will punish them accordingly.
Let's test that blackbox, to see what's in it. It so effortless to say and sounds so good when you say it doesn't it? Thinking is a bit harder. Just out of curiosity what "market" would that be? Oh yeah, that's right, it's a proggie paradise, it's one that's filled with a lot of .gov regs, their inspectors, and let's not forget the biggest "competitive" element of this exchange: a monopoly supplier to boot. Got it now, no need to clarify. I do wonder if lawsuits are/will be pending???? Then again, not really.
"It taps the pipe and flows the gas or gets a crescent wrench in its ass!"
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Song: Detatchable Penis
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover And my penis was missing again. This happens all the time. It's detachable. [background singing begins: "detachable penis" over and over] This comes in handy a lot of the time. I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble, or I can rent it out, when I don't need it. But now and then I go to a party, get drunk, and the next morning I can't for the life of me remember what I did with it. First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it. So I called up the place where the party was, they hadn't seen it either. I asked them to check the medicine cabinet 'cause for some reason I leave it there sometimes But not this time. So I told them if it pops up to let me know. I called a few people who were at the party, but they were no help either. I was starting to get desperate. I really don't like being without my penis for too long. It makes me feel like less of a man, and I really hate having to sit down every time I take a leak. After a few hours of searching the house, and calling everyone I could think of, I was starting to get very depressed, so I went to the KIEV, and ate breakfast. Then, as I walked down Second Avenue towards St. Mark's Place, where all those people sell used books and other junk on the street, I saw my penis lying on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven. Some guy was selling it. I had to buy it off him. He wanted twenty-two bucks, but I talked him down to seventeen. I took it home, washed it off, and put it back on. I was happy again. Complete. People sometimes tell me I should get it permanently attached, but I don't know. Even though sometimes it's a pain in the ass, I like having a detachable penis. [background voices continue to sing "detachable penis" for a while, then out]
pull it!
False Flag for Dummies coming to a bookstore near you.
The old 'looping the meter' trick is common in the Northeast by wiseguy landlords. A friend looked a multi-family for sale by a cop and saw the loop hidden behind a custom made box in the basement.
He smiled when the cop told him the included in the rent heating bill 'wasn't too bad' in the winter.
Gas, electric, water can all be looped or run from another property if the lots are close enough.
We had a local politician that owned a laundrymat tapping into the water supply in front of the meter. I guess they must have flipped the valve to flow water to the meter one day per week or something. New guy at water department went for an inspection and someone let him in. Took pictures of the pipes and valves. Owner/politician denied knowing anything about it and then refused to pay any estimated usage fees. They shut him down.
Growing up, I remember my father taking out the water meter in the basement and replacing it with a straight pipe every late spring when it came time to fill up the pool, then put the meter back on once the pool was full.
Illegal taps on the cable TV lines used to be a way of life out here in Flyover Country. However, the only danger was falling off the pole at midnight. Less social cost.
Its called JEWISH LIGHTNING...
When this happened the story I read indicated that the owner of the restaurant on the ground floor had smelled gas, and he called--the building owner. Not 911. Not the Gas Company emergency line. He called the building owner. That told me this story would be forthcoming.
No kidding.
And then the building owner didn't call 911 or the emergency line and instead sent her son and a contractor to check it out.
"Mr. Curtis conceded that Ms. Hrynenko had received a warning of a possible gas leak from the manager of Sushi Park, a restaurant on the ground floor of 121 Second Avenue, one of the buildings that was destroyed. Rather than calling the utility company, Con Edison, or dialing 911, Ms. Hrynenko sent her son Michael and a contractor to check out the odor, Mr. Curtis said. Both men were injured in the blast."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/nyregion/landlords-lawyer-blames-con-e...
They'll sue con-ed, probably tax cheats too
"They'll sue con-ed, probably tax cheats too"
Agree, but what is a "tax cheat?"
Is that like keeping more of your earnings, and being less of a theft victim?
The banksters need to repay us.
Someone that pays $100,000 less in taxes to NYC, may prevent the tyrants from hiring one more gun and badge thug. One less thug may mean over $100,000 less in extortions, fines, paid per year by the subjects of NYC, $millions less property "seized," and one or two less murders by authority, over the next 20 or so years.
A tax not paid is tyranny undermined.
Obviously this family was doing well, they were paying no bills or taxes lol.
I wonder who will go to jail, and who will not?!
Thinking about who paid and who walked at SAC, I think I know.
The banksters need to repay us.
I'm a plumber with a Gas ticket, if somebody ordered me to illegally tap a gas main, I would tell them to fuck off and let the authorities know in writing so when it blows up they know who to blame.
Good idea. Now just keep away from the crack, don't get a little hottie on the side, keep the wife away from credit card madness, stay out of the casinos, and so on...
We jewed some folks.
The dead goy will just have to serve us in heaven.
"Just following orders."
Ah, the Kiev. One of THE places to go at 3 am after getting drunk at Punk/New Wave bars in the 80's east village.
If this is how they handle gas stateside, I wonder how they handle it in Ukraine.
Especially if it's OPG, other people's gas.
"I wonder how they handle it in Ukraine"
CCTV footage at a gas pumping station in Ukraine caught someone in the act of looping the meter.
http://novorus.info/uploads/posts/2014-06/1403230544_1403021608_nct6kgpp...
C. I. L.
my lanlawd.
larry is the pull it king.
a pimp who ran a strip club managed to find 100 million down payment from tel aviv as you do.
100 million for some heaps full of asbestos the deadly kind cancer kind.
up goes the rent up goes the insurance.
when it came to the claims hollocaust memories come into play as well as threats from mossad to floyds of london
was it 6 or 8 billion
this young turk
sorry this young jewish uki turd just doin what is in his nature
fuckin and killin the goy any way he can
Plumber still awaiting cash payment for services rendered to douchebag landlord
Landlord: "Nah, it'll be fine, it only blows up in the movies...." Badaboom, badabing......
Free Shitters don't have to loop their utilities .... because YOU pay the bill .... and the social worker does the paper work !
We all steal when one looks at the big picture. Take, take, take. Privatize the profits and socialize the costs. It's what humans do.
"Just following orders".
Forget his bank account or the cash in his pocket.
I wonder which one has the most juice?
Negative Case Load: When there are more social workers .... than welfare families .... and the case load is less than 1 family per social worker .... because they pay for nothing .... and they do absolutely nothing for themselves !
As long as the owner ordered him to do it, then isn't he absolved of any wrongdoing? We must obey the owners. After all "They own this place." GC
Oh my, a crooked ukie putting lives and money over all else. quellle suprise.
Should we offer them a job in porkys gubment?
tap a gas line?
chocolate king does that back in the old country.
Ukrainian Jews stealing gas, blow up part of the world.
Are any of us surprised?
Meanwhile, for the Anti-Putin trolls. Let this be proof of the pudding to all of the paid DOS, DOD, DIA, MI5 trolls here - UKES STEAL GAZ! I swear, you paid trolls are nothing but paid whores....actually, you get paid less than a nice Ukrainian whore on an annual basis but hey, ask life for a penny and it will pay you a penny.