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Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness.

She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. She said two workers with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection failed to secure the area as they prepared to flush the sewer.

“It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary,” she said. “Because of their careless mistake I got hurt.”

Longueira has deep cuts and bruises and said she now has nightmares about falling, but she also did admit she was texting at the time.

Best Western Window Fail How on earth does this happen anyway?...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:00:34 -0400

Best Western Window Fail

How on earth does this happen anyway? ::Mind boggled::

Burglar fail

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:55:41 -0400

Burglar fail

Go Directly to Jail: 4 Brilliantly Bungled Crimes - Neatorama

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:33:39 -0400

Go Directly to Jail: 4 Brilliantly Bungled Crimes - Neatorama

terryblakey: European elections 2009: BNP leader Nick Griffin...

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:00:25 -0400

terryblakey:

European elections 2009: BNP leader Nick Griffin BNP profile

He denied the Holocaust as a “Holohoax”, called for “whites to defend their rights with well-directed boots and fists” and condemned homosexuals as “repulsive”.

He has gone from befriending Colonel Gaddafi and supporting Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to denouncing Islam as a “wicked, vicious faith”.

The murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence was not racially motivated, he suggested, and none of the black footballers who represent England can truly be classed as “English”, he said.

However the Nick Griffin who stands on a political stage now as leader of the BNP, is the persuasive, Cambridge-educated family man, who wears a suit and tie, and seeks to distance himself from all those words.

A political chameleon, even his former allies admit his ideologies change like the wind. But has he really changed?

The International Third Position (ITP), a splinter group of the National Front which he founded in 1981, recently declared: “He has been a conservative, a revolutionary nationalist, a radical National Socialist, a Third Positionist, a friend of the ‘boot boys’ and the skinhead scene, a man committed to respectable politics and electioneering, a ‘moderniser’. Which is he in reality?”

Born in 1959, Mr Griffin went to a small private school in Suffolk and by the age of 13, he was reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf and making notes in the margins. “Adolf went a bit too far,” he conceded in 2006.

He read history and law at Downing College, Cambridge, where he founded the university’s Young National Front Students group. He became the NF’s national organiser and when it fell apart in the late 1980s, started the ITP.

It was in 1995 that he joined the BNP, soon editing its magazine called The Rune.

In 1997 he co-authored a pamphlet about Jewish conspiracies to brainwash people in Britain and was found guilty of distributing material likely to incite racial hatred. He was given a suspended prison sentence.

In the witness box Mr Griffin said: “I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades.

“Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat… I have reached the conclusion that the ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria.”

Mr Griffin became leader of the BNP in 1999, and has been keen to promote a modernised pro-British and anti racist group. Claiming he is not a Holocaust denier, his sights have turned to Muslims.

In 2004 he was secretly filmed describing Islam was a “wicked and vicious faith”. He claimed gangs of men were drugging and raping white girls as part of an Islamic plot to take over Britain. He was charged with incitement to racial hatred but was acquitted, claiming his target was fundamentalist Islam, not Asians.
Way to go Britain - What a nice guy you elected!

This belongs in shoddy wiring, way to go Britain!