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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, July 02, 2008Drivers’ Strike Stalls New York City Construction (RR)The Inmates are runn...and a Daly is involved! No wonder it blew up!
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Years ago, I went to see the third (and least) of the Die Hard movies in the theater with some friends.
I noticed that the first few rows of the theater were packed patron-to-patron, while the rest of the theater was sparsely populated. I figured that some group had bought a bunch of tickets and all wanted to sit together.
Later in the movie, some scenes featured hundreds of dump trucks in a congo. As soon as these trucks appeared (and there was no other action in the film at that time), the first few rows of the theater stood up and screamed! From then on, every time a dump truck appeared onscreen, there was cheering from that section. It felt extremely random, as if a dump truck is so pedestrian that no one should ever cheer for it.
On the way out of the theater, as I was woefully thinking that I had just paid to see that movie, I saw a group of the people from those rows. I went up to one to ask what it was all about, and apparently he was part of the dump truck driver's union who the film company had retained to drive the trucks.
Economy must be pretty good to sustain those wages.
For those wondering:
No rush, though; we've only been working on the 2nd Avenue Subway for about a century, and it's not symbolically important or anything to have something at the WTC site other than a gaping hole.
I feel similarly when I see what CEOs are getting.
$33.11 an hour is close to a living wage. Take the bites out for taxes and social security, and consider that while the drivers may not live in Manhattan, the boroughs aren't exactly cheap either, and what's left isn't really enough.
Anyone here ever done concrete work? Just curious.
You suck, that movie was great.
In unrelated news, there is a sudden spike in bodies left afloat in the East River.
I said "unrelated." You got a problem with that?
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