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David Letterman's top 10 list of Bin Laden's last words. As he answered the door he said ' I need all these Navy Seals like I need a hole in my head' !!!

I think his new name is "Has Been" Laden. Swim with the fishies, sucker! :-)

Pace University should hold a vigil for the real victims in this tragedy, and that would be the sworn officers who were almost killed while performing their duties by what turns out to be a legally drunk "designated" driver .

So much for looking out for your friends to drive them home safely, by abstaining.

Yeah, it would be nice to show our support for our law enforcement officers whose lives were on the line, big time, in that situation!

What is being done for them?

A balloon "release" at the County center, for the "victim?" OMG.

A New Scanner !

Now, that is so funny. I am hysterical. You are very creative. LMAO!

It seems like it works just like a smart phone App scanner, which cost $5.

Nice looking scanner. I'd like to have it.

I'll wait to see how much it is and maybe I will have to "go" on The Price Is Right or Wheel of Fortune, to win some $$$ to get one. LOL Give me a S, I'll buy a vowel...

President Obama has signed off on a bill which will assist states in funding teachers, police and fire fighters. It is hoped that this bill will help to prevent layoffs that were anticipated.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38644388/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

Long time coming! Hope it works!

A new protocol has been put into effect when Pleasantville VAC gets called to Graham Hills Park. PVAC is dispatched along with Thornwood FD, Pleasantville FD, Hawthorne FD (Gator), and Battalion 11 (Fire).

Hence. all the activity and vehicles. OK!

Sneek peek at the http://www.homepatrol.com/ Uniden Scanner for sale begining in October 2010.

Enter your zip code and the scanner loads the frequencies from a database. Click on the link for more details.

http://www.homepatrol.com/

Nice...went to website. Wonder round 'bout figure on cost?

Injured bicyclist in Graham Hills Park.

Thanks...Just wondering. Was on pkwy when saw all the activity.

Lot's of activity on SMRP near Marble Avenue, Thornwood...Lot's of vehicles...bubble gum machines, etc. Anyone know?

You people are the best!

I followed the news both on here and the t.v. about the fires in W.P.

Sorry to hear that so many required medical attention, but glad there were no serious injuries.

Keep up the good work!

Tuna

Thoughts and prayers to the family and may God watch over the twins in this most difficult time.

White Plains units, stay well, stay safe and stay strong during this most difficult time, as well.

I have not been on the Harvey, or even to the Yonkers Pier (although I have seen it while riding the MetroNorth down to NYC). Looking at the Yonkers Pier on Wikimapia.org it looks like there is parking in the area. Maybe one of our Yonkers members can comment on the parking. As for handicap accessible, I looked around Fireboat.org and could not find anything about the handicap accessibility of the boat. Try sending them an email at trips@Fireboat.org for more info (this is the only way I found to contact them at the site).

NOTE: This is late breaking news, The Harvey is offering a FREE trip Tuesday 6/8/10 from NYC Pier 66 (the Harvey's home pier) to Kingston and Poughkeepsie/Rhinecliff for connections to MetroNorth back to NYC. You must be at Pier 66 by 8AM and they expect to be at Poughkeepsie around 4PM and Kingston/Rhinebeck around 6PM. If you go the calendar says to bring food and drink.

Anyone along the Hudson tomorrow may be able to catch a shot of this boat.

Thanks so much for the info and for responding! :-)

The Fireboat John J. Harvey is offering Free boat rides this coming Saturday, June 12, 2010 from the Yonkers Pier. This ride is offered in conjunction with The Beczak Environmental Education Center. The author of "My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson" Jessica DuLong will be at the Center for a presentation about this book which details her experiences as the Engineer of the John J. Harvey. According to this website, the book is about how she went from a dot-com desk job to the job on the Harvey, where she and the rest of the crew pumped while the boat was at the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.

According to the schedule posted, the Fireboat will be on display from 12P - 5P, with rides at 5P & 6P. Reservations for the rides are required and can be found here.

I have already signed up for the 5P ride, definately sounds interesting. From what is posted they state they will be pumping water and to be prepared to get wet.

How is the walking from the parking lot to the boat? Too much for a semi-handicapped person to walk? How is it getting on the boat as far as moving around is concerned? I gather you've been on before, so you would know. Thanks!

Posted: Saturday, 22 May 2010 1:11PM Taken from 1010Wins Website

Sept. 11 Statue in Md. Fails to Sell on eBay

EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) -- A 40-foot bronze statue in Maryland dedicated to the heroes of the Sept. 11 attacks has failed to sell on eBay.

A court-appointed receiver tried to sell the sculpture of New York City firefighters to recoup money for victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme. But the 10-day auction ended Saturday with no bids.

The buyer's name would have been inscribed on a bronze plaque, but the statue would have stayed in Maryland.

The auction sought at least $500,000.

Federal authorities have said the sculpture was financed through investor fraud.

The statue was commissioned by Coadum Advisors Inc. and donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in Emmitsburg. The court took control of the statue after Coadum was accused of bilking investors.

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Taken from 1010 Wins news site

Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010 12:45PM

Bear Traps New Jersey Paramedics

WAYNE, N.J. (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- Paramedics in New Jersey were slowed responding to a call by a bear that kept them trapped inside their building.

Wayne Police Capt. Paul Ireland says the bruin was gone by the time officers arrived at the St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital ambulance building Monday morning.

Meanwhile, officers scared away two bear cubs that were wandering near St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital and William Paterson University.

Police temporarily stopped traffic.

There's been no sign of the cubs' mother.

Yeah, that's the monster. Sexy looking truck, but I personally can't stand rescue body ambulances. But yeah, that's the ground truck. Usually has an EMT, Medic and one or two nurses. WMC might toss in some specialty care personnel from time to time if it's an unusual case.

Worth noting also is the medical center is on the grounds of the Grasslands Reservation (which includes NYMC, WCDES, Police Academy, Armory, the jails, the new consolidated homeless shelter, Ruth Taylor NH, etc) which has it's own ambulance as well (contracted out to Transcare).

Just a note. Ruth Taylor NH is no longer. Closed a while back.

I got news for you; almost everything in this country is socialistic; anything that is provided by the government is socialistic in nature; schools, sanitation, police, fire, Highway department, and the list goes on and on. Plus we've had socialized medicine since the inception of Medicare/Medicaid. So this is nothing new; just an expansion of a program or concept that's been in existence for decades; I may not like everything in the bill, but the fact of the matter is that it will help millions of men, women and children who have absolutely no medical coverage at all.

Furthermore, I think this is going to help those who can't afford medical insurance or those who are under insured. Just tonight, we had a rescue call and the woman there thought she might be having a pulmonary embolism. She RMA'd because she had no medical insurance and couldn't afford the ambulance and instead had one of her relatives drive her to the hospital. I hope she made it; if she had coverage, she could have gone in the ambulance with a medic. I'm sure some of you in EMS may have seen similar situations on rescue calls.

Of course its going to cost money; but if the government cuts out these so-called "pork barrel" projects and scales back on other affairs that we conduct around the world, that's a good start to help fund it.

Agreed! Try being one of those people who don't have insurance, can't afford to have insurance, have limitations that won't pay for pre-existing conditions, at least for a year, if ever. So, you pay for the insurance at an average of say $300.00 a month, usually with no Rx coverage, and on top of it, continue to pay a doctor his full fee. That makes sense now, doesn't it? COBRA runs about $1000 a month!

Count your blessings, if you aren't in these types of situations!

Mt. Vernon firefighters ask judge to remove chief

February 14, 2010

MOUNT VERNON — The firefighters union wants a state Supreme Court justice to annul the September appointment of the fire chief because the union claims he is unqualified.

http://www.lohud.com/article/20100214/NEWS02/2140340/1018/Mt.-Vernon-firefighters-ask-judge-to-remove-chief

One of my favorite shows since it first aired.

What a shame. He was a good captain.

RIP, Phil.

I'm a paramedic, my wife is a ER nurse. I didn't want anything to do with the goofy EMS stuff. The day is complicated enough.

Yeah, I agree!

Why not just have some sort of favors made up having to do with your careers.

Do you want to look back on these photos years from now, maybe not even being in the same profession? Remember it is a day to remem ber!

Here's a silly thought, maybe the flight attendant could have simple ASKED the kid what he was doing. But hey, what do I know??

You are absolutely right!

you are arguing semantics at best. The what seems to have happened was the flight staff overreacted to a common place event, just because you have never seen it before does not mean you should not know about it. That is what we call ignorance however.

God forbid this was a Muslin doing his five times daily prayers otherwise we would be having a very different conversation.......

Because you have not seen it before, does not mean you should not know about it, you say? C'mon, we are not walking books of knowledge.

Common place event? Calling people's customs "weird?" Ignorance? Semantics? Read the comments on here and see how many have actually seen someone wearing one of these. Not very common.

I think we drove this in the ground already, next... Rain tomorrow?

When did Catholics stop being Christians!

I missed that one!

Great topic. Yes, use of strung beads to count repetitions of a prayer or mantra are found in lots of belief systems. And I might add that atheists and atheism do not feel "threatened" by prayer, for reasons that ought to be obvious. That said, what this does bring out is that unless one practices a religion or belief system, then one probably doesn't know much about it. We could all use to educate ourselves on this.

A couple of things don't make sense to me. The tefellin made it through security, right? So even a cautious flight attendant might have considered that it might be harmless.

And landing in Philadelphia made more sense than landing in Louisville why? So the plane could be disabled over one of the largest cities on the east coast instead of over a horse farm?

If the stewardess did not know what it was, did not one of the passengers recognize it and could not that person have spoken up?

I also think that this is a great topic!

It is a nice civil discussion, with pro's and con's and no finger pointing. Stuff we need more of on here!

It seems that the opportunities to get this situation back on the tracks were many.

It also brings up the great debate over the place of religion in a secular society. Those things we call freedoms also have limits or responsibilities attached to them. Freedom of speech is the freedom to have a thought and to say it out loud. One still might expect to be escorted out of a movie theatre if one chose to exercise that right in the middle of a film.

Religion may have obvious limitations as well. If one felt the compelling need to slaughter a chicken in business class because it was a part of their religion.... well it's not going to happen. Nor will a tree hugger get to bring with them their lucky shrub. My experiences have been that if one lets an airline know in advance that they need some special consideration during flight, that efforts will be made to accomodate the passenger.

What happened here was an unlucky set of circumstances where someone different looking did something different, and did it in a plane. And given the world in which we live, everyone's neck hair stands up, or ought to. In a sealed metal tube 30,000 feet up, one can't just ask the person to take it outside.

I don't know what the right answer is here. If the need to carry small black boxes while reciting prayers is that important, a greyhound bus might be a better option for travel. Religious freedom may need to be weighed against the discomfort caused to the other passengers. And that said, 'I don't like it, you can't do it' is a sentiment that a free country cannot even consider.