Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Safety protector - Seahorses


I will be looking addicted to this. And Vince feels concerning sea horses what he feels concerning chameleons. He may just have established a cause to like this city.

That's the big news, in spite of its shortness.

I discovered, after days of wondering concerning their attendance, that there are now 70 confidential security guards deployed approximately the edges of  LICH (rhymes with hitch) - the beleaguered and sprawling Long Island College Hospital, two doors up from us. It has - had - a active crisis room, my most important care doctor was there, and that's where I was (not) treated for the raccoon illness Frank was influenced I might have two years ago (instead, they gave me a route of Hepatitis B shots in the light of the Litter Mobbing activities I was occupied in at the time). LICH is owned by SUNY (rhymes with looney) - State academia of New York, who says it, is hemorrhaging $15 million a month and have to close.

And, get this: the personnel have been told not to come into work. But remains on full pay. Patients are turned absent.

SUNY wants to sell the belongings to developers who will thump it down and turn it into some very luxurious real land. Ask Mr Elgar, our landlord. Market forces, says his offspring, in reaction to my inquiry concerning why they raised the rent $600 on us. But our neighbour's marketplace forces only raised his rent $200. Whatever.

Things have develop into unattractive, there have been arrests, including that of my councilman, Brad Lander.

In the last week or so we have notice a sudden bloom (like the algae that preceeds a dead zone in the ocean - a significance of phosphate runoff) of safety guards around the place. And fewer sirens. There are actually a handful of patients left in the building.

So I talked to one of the safety guards today. It was that protector who told me there are 70 guards, from 12 dissimilar safety companies on the location.

But all of them have extremely essential uniforms that say "Summit". They have nothing similar to genuine ID's - no photo ID at all - just names embroidered on baseball caps and a laminated badge that says "Security". Then there are the guys in dark blazers, whom news reports have describe as equipped.

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