Since my children are into towtrucks AND frontloaders alike, I thought I’d post this little gem from the blizzard, in which the Department of Sanitation either let toddlers or meth-heads try to dig one of its vehicles out from a snowbank. It’s a bit long, and features gratuitous guy-in-boxers glimpses, but it’s nice reminder of the sometimes-terrifying NYC bureaucracy. In a city that has no less than 30,000 cops, for example, it may not surprise you that the Ford Explorer getting destroyed by the Dept of Sanitation is also a city-owned vehicle.
NYC Demolition Derby
Published by Nathan
Nathan Thornburgh is a contributing writer and former senior editor at TIME Magazine who has also written for the New York Times, newyorker.com and, of course, the Phnom Penh Post. He suspects that he is messing up his kids, but just isn’t sure exactly how. View more posts