Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
Vegetate to Close at the End of the Month
D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Wizards Owner Abe Pollin Dies at 85
You think WMATA employees are ready for 2009 to be over already? Adding to the list of big-time trouble its already had this year, the transit agency has just been criminally charged with dumping hazardous waste into the sewer system at New Carrollton and Branch Avenue in 2003, the Washington Post reports. This sort of case is almost unheard of.
The criminal claim against the quasi-public agency is extremely unusual, and a search of federal and state court records revealed no other such cases. It is not clear why prosecutors are pursuing the case six years after the alleged violation.WMATA told the Post that it stopped using hydrofluoric acid in 2003, but it remains to be seen how and whether this case could end up playing out in court.According to court documents, polluted water left over after Metro cars were washed at the New Carrollton and Branch Avenue rail yards was released into sewer pipes without being properly treated. A contractor hired in the mid-1980s to clean the cars used chemicals including hydrofluoric acid, "an extremely corrosive and hazardous chemical know for its ability to dissolve metal oxides," prosecutors wrote.
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Things can only look up from here for Metro, right?
Well that would go a long way towards explaining why Daddy CHUD Chinatown Tiresias keeps spitting acid at the television. I just thought he was tired of hearing about Balloon Boy and his retarded monkey parents.
I see no mention of bicycles, cycling, cyclists or cycling metaphors in this post. Please revise, in keeping with today's apparent theme.
--The Commentati
I thought today's theme was Pirate Radio. In theatres November 12th!
The old saying can't be anymore true... 'there is something in the water'
Mmmm... Hazardous Waste...
Serve chilled with a twist of lime. Delicious!
Thank you Metro - for the pollutants that you gave us before and the deaths you're surely to cause due to negligence later. Whatever would we do without you?
If you want to experience some serious hazardous waste dumping, prepare to visit my well-appointed water closet the morning after our annual chicken/waffle/Beaujolais “blowout” dinner. Free Jack Evans bobbleheads for all!! They're much more "user friendly" than the toothbrush that chick was using on the TLC "Obsessed" show.
Adding to the list of big-time trouble *it's* already had this year,
can't be much worse than the krispy kreme in the sewer in prince william, right?