This past Thursday night, I found this document sitting in the garbage can in front of the NYPD’s Manhattan South Task Force stationhouse on 42nd Street. And by sitting, I mean, it was the only piece of trash in the bottom of the can. (Don’t ask me why I look in garbage cans — just a habit.) But this document appears to be something pretty substantial. Yet, there it was, in pristine shape, with specific locations and deployment instructions for the NYPD’s Chemical Ordnance, Biological, Radiological Awareness (COBRA) taskforce to undertake should a vengeful Osama Bin Laden sympathizer decide to retaliate on Times Square.
“I’m appalled that all this money is being spent on counterterrorism and yet some knucklehead can leave a document lying around,” said one NYC official who works closely with the NYPD.
The NYPD should really find room in the budget for a paper shredder.
UPDATE! The NYPD issued a pissy statement to ABC News:
The document involved the deployment of 20 highly visible uniformed officers whose assignments were obvious to anyone with eyes in their head. The assignment sheet was tossed out the day after the assignments were completed. Granted, we would have preferred it was disposed of more discreetly, but its discovery by a dumpster-diver* posed no threat to the public or anyone else.
*Here’s a photo of the actual public trash can the documents were found in. As you can see, it’s hardly a “dumpster.”
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@ Bucky
YOU MAKE ME SICK YOU SELFISH ANTI-AMERICAN PIECE OF SHIT. You got way more attention than you deserve. I think since you such a big man then you should go stand on ground zero with those papers and tell everyone that walks by what you did and let’s see the kind of attention you get there. You wouldn’t have the balls. None of you. You are all people who really need to just leave. Go away. Just like the other blogger posted, get hit by a bus! 95% of this blog wants you to just leave. You are a asshole to me and most of NYC…. Go away
Bucky,
Ps. Funny how you address me “a female” but you don’t address any of the men on this page who clearly think of you the same way I do…. Are you scared or just not man enough??? Wow, hope you made your mom proud!!!
Mimi,
Maybe he isnt anti-american. Maybe we should be alittle more disappointed in NYPD and wonder if they really have our back. ANYONE could have found this document, and imagine what would have happened if it got in the wrong hands and we didnt know until another tragedy happened. Your blame is focused on Bucky when it should be directed towards the people we put our trust in. Hes not the first one to call out the NYPD. Have you turned on the TV lately? Ticket and rape scandals? Hew Yorks FINEST huh? How about all the corruption elsewhere in the government that is supposed to protect us. NYPD should be at highest alert and have the most sophisticated and well trained individuals to manage this city. Instead they cant even successfully work a shredder. Hows that for having regard for the nations most highest risk target?
Also, Bucky could care less about what his mother thinks.
I don't even know how to respond to this strange form of reverse misogyny and utterly bizarre way of thinking, except to say, the more you write, the crazier you sound, so if this in anyway baits you to keep writing insane stuff to the entertainment of the site's real readers, well then… by all means continue. Please. Also, stop disrespecting the NYPD and accept their statement as true (I understand it makes all your prior arguments pointless, but so what, you're on a psychotic roll, run with it!).
Next time. Turn it over to a cop. Jeez.
"(Don’t ask me why I look in garbage cans — just a habit.) "
How would you pick up this "habit" without being a fucking homeless bum?
While I think the documents in questions could have been disposed of in a more security concious manner (shredded, etc). I agree that the blogger has a right to publish this story. That said, I am also going to say that yes, he has the right to publish the fact that the documents were found intact, and carelessly tossed away, I think it was very irresponsible to have actually posted said documents out in the open on the net. But that's just my opinion. And yes, I am a retired New York State Paramedic so my public safety side is saying this is wrong.
@Elle,
I am totally aware that the NYPD really messed up and totally should be held accountable for thier actions BUT your friend Bucky could have done things alot differently than the way he did. You see, the smart thing would have been to walk it in to the police dept and make them look bad but what he did was take the attention off of them and put it on himself by posting it on the Internet for the entire world to see and by doing that, he just made himself look like a complete moron. There are just some things that people should have common sense and that should be one of them. He would have got so much more positive feedback if he would have done the right thing and the focus wouldn’t have been so much on him for what he did. He is 100% right on what he posted about them but he is also 100% wrong on the way he handled those papers. If he had family or friends that died on 9/11 maybe he would have handled this better.
Losing family on 9/11 does not make you and expert on fighting terrorism.
@ NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOU,
Really???? Are you that desperate to be heard? It’s not about being a expert you stupid ass, it’s about using this thing in your head called a brain!!! If your that stupid then I actually feel sorry for you. Get help or go find some friends. In fact, I am even going to help you. Scroll up this page and your first set of friends are right there. It’s very easy to find who they are sweeti because they actually think just like you!!! Yay!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projec…
Get to know yourself.
Get to know myself? LMAO
Clearly Bin Laden wasn’t the only one we need to worrie about. I hope they trace you and find you because you don’t need to be walking the streets. Goodbye you crazy fuck. I hope they catch you soon. YOU ARE PART OF THE REASON WHY NYPD AND NEW YORKERS NEED TO BE ON HIGH ALERT! Be a real man a challenge one of the guys who posted the same things I did if you really want to be heard.
They must have took you in for questioning. You have balls to write about the NYPD when YOU were the one who posted thier shit on the Internet. You and your moron friends just disappear already. Go back to the dumpster and wait till the trash man comes along so he can take the real trash off the streets. I’m not at all sorry for telling you exactly what I think of you and your BIN LADEN clan but I am however sorry for giving you way to much of my time.
Ps. The NYPD thinks your just as stupid as the rest of New York does in case you haven’t heard or read already Dumpster Boy!!!
Dumpster Boy, you are a piece of shit and that’s is saying it as nicely as I can. Read EVERYTHING posted about you and you will see that you are NOT liked. And YES the NYPD thinks you are a complete low life. What they did was irresponsible but what you did was just stupid. I am sure they questioned you but I’m not sure why they let you go. Asshole!
Mimi- Dont give this piece of shit and his piece of shit friends any more attention. It’s obvious that they dont make any kind of sense when they reply to you. If he had ANY respect for NYPD he would have taken this blog off from the moment it was in the news. He now is famous for being a moron who is obviously in denial about who he is. New York does NOT want you here dumpster diver so pack your shit and go. Take your friends above and your so called art work with you. HOW ABOUT YOU RUN WITH THAT!
NOTE: Just took a look at your IP. It's the same as "Mimi" and "New Yorker" making you by far the craziest specimen to ever visit this website since you're now writing comments in support of each of your alter egos.
Ha, ha. Multiple personalities to make it look like she has support! Google what an IP address is, honey.
I dare say that walking into a police station and handing the document over (and saying "shame on you") would not even have made a ripple in the NYPD. Maybe now they'll be more careful. As for telling the blogger to pack his shit and go or that he should be shot, well you sound like a crazy psychotic. What kind of patriotism advocates violence toward those who don't agree with you?! Sounds like fascism. I think of myself as patriotic, but that doesn't mean I "respect" the police or the armed forces or even the president automatically. Such vitriol is the antithesis of this great country; knowledge and tolerance are its hallmark.
It would have been appropriate, responsible, and ethical to take the document inside and request to speak with senior level leaders. Then return it to them and inform them of how you came by a document that should not be in your possession regardless of where it was "found." This would have instituted internal organizational oversight. What is your professional discourse on the subject? Any recommendations on a solution set? Probably not.
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Appropriate in Mayberry, not new york. If you were to sauntersinto a precinct house not in cuffs, you would first be ignored, then barked at by every lard-assed rag bag cop waddling to the soda machine who hasn't had they're days quota of yelling at the citizenry. Then a desk Sgt. might consider who to advise and will tell you to have a seat in a grade school chair and wait. And wait and wait. Until another shift comes in and you're asked "why are you hear?" In the meantime you will witness all manner of common complaints treated with equal ambivalence. "I was assaulted, I want to make a complaint" "My car was damaged by a garbage truck" all of which will get laughed off or dismissed with guidance to take it elsewhere and if you are happen to be a vic within the confines of the 81 precintc, you're complaint of serious violent crime will be ignored too a http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-n…
Well put Sir. I suspect all these critics who admire NYPD have never had an interaction with them. Or perhaps have had the rare interaction where a NYPD officer actually behaved with "Courtesy, Professionalism, & Respect." I personally have never seen it, but have seen countless examples of them behaving in the exact opposite.
Oh yeah. Because when citizens critize NYPD in person they listen and consider the critique. They never arrest anyone of violate people’s rights. That never happens.
Good job sir. You did the right thing putting this on the internet! That's what I would have done^^
Its called the 1st Amendment, ya know that document you are fighting to uphold!!!!????
Great story. Great find. But you are a f*cking idiot to post the document unredacted on the internet. What did this accomplish, other than compromising tactics and techniques of the cops who put their lives on the line every day?
You are a douchebag.
Oh! Please cry us a fucking river. Beings how the whole war on terror is complete and total fucking bullshit anyway. I applaud this blogger for having the nutsack to post this document out here for all the world to see. Our government staged 9/11. Our government is at fault for all the deaths that day. WTC7? What the fucking happened there nimrods. The safest place for this document to be is among the people, and not hoarded the fuck up in a crooked organization like the NYPD. Thank you very much sir, now we are going to use this in our taking over this nation by organizing a MLK march right to the Federal Fucking Reserve Private Centralized Bank. BRAVO!!
Eat yourself a fucking dick up you whiners! MUHAHAHAAHA
You're a complete asshole for posting the entire document sans redactions. You couldn't just post that you found this document and left it at that?
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