{"id":17881,"date":"2012-11-22T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2012-11-22T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:49:23","slug":"even-in-a-disaster-area-the-bureaucrats-stick-to-their-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/even-in-a-disaster-area-the-bureaucrats-stick-to-their-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in a disaster area, the bureaucrats stick to their role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to double-check the URL here to make sure this wasn&#8217;t a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/11\/21\/allegations-surface-nyc-health-inspectors-handing-out-code-violations-to-sandy\/\" target=\"_blank\">parody news item<\/a> from <em>The Onion<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bobby Eustace, an 11-year veteran with the city&#8217;s fire department tells <em>FoxNews.com<\/em> that on Sunday he and his fellow firefighters from Ladder 27 in the Bronx were issued a notice of violation for not maintaining restaurant standards in a tent set up in Breezy Point, Queens, to feed victims and first responders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a little ridiculous. The inspector came up and asked if we were wearing hairnets. I told him, \u2018We have helmets. This is a disaster area,\u2019\u201d Eustace told <em>FoxNews.com<\/em>. \u201cThen he asked if we had gloves and thermometers [for food]. I said, \u201cYeah, we have rectal and oral. Which one do you want?\u2019 He wasn\u2019t amused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eustace says that the Health Department worker then checked off a list of violations at the relief tent, including not having an HVAC system and fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told us that he might come back to see if we fixed the violations. But what can we do? We are just going to keep going until a professional catering company can help take over,\u201d Eustace said, adding that firefighters across the city together have been contributing about $800 a day out of their own pockets to feeding victims in areas hit hard by Sandy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to double-check the URL here to make sure this wasn&#8217;t a parody news item from The Onion: Bobby Eustace, an 11-year veteran with the city&#8217;s fire department tells FoxNews.com that on Sunday he and his fellow firefighters from Ladder 27 in the Bronx were issued a notice of violation for not maintaining restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,74,66,13],"tags":[52,322,384,244,206],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-food","category-health-science","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-nannystate","tag-newyork","tag-publichealth","tag-severeweather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17882,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}