Another worker hit by a car in a stop traffic zone, this time a firefighter

Unfortunately the Poughkeepsie Journal doesn't release names of those charged with misdemeanors. Now thats a stupid policy! This scum bag just couldn't wait and chose to ignore the road closure. The law just isn't good enough in this state when it comes to this type of crime.

There should be at least a minimum of 2 days in jail , and I don't know, say like 30 Points on your license, if you ignore safety officers or workers in the road who are directing traffic or closing lanes.

Better yet just kill* the scummers, these selfish bastards are impeding on our air supply.

From The Poughkeepsie Journal (6/16/08):

Police: Man angered by road closure strikes firefighter with car
LAGRANGE — A LaGrange firefighter was injured today, when an angry motorist allegedly hit him with his car as firefighters were blocking the roadway while responding to an accident.

Members of the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office responded along with the LaGrange Fire Department for a reported one-vehicle personal injury auto accident on Noxon Road.

While investigating the accident, fire department workers alerted an on-scene deputy of a problem with a motorist.

Investigation revealed a 41-year-old man living in the area had argued with firefighters who were trying to close Noxon Road to traffic. He was apparently angry at being inconvenienced by the road closure, and allegedly sped past firefighters, striking one firefighter’s arm with the side of his car, causing minor injury.

He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor obstructing governmental administration, misdemeanor assault and failure to comply with lawful order — a violation.

He was released on an appearance ticket and is due back in court later this month.

Filed under "Jackass"

Picture from Threeminds

My comment, if it remains that is:

Post the name! What good is this story if this jacka** cannot be ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, family and neighbors. I myself have had to stop traffic and for the most part it was to the benefit of those that were being stopped. You know keeping them out of harms way. In todays society we have so many people who believe that they are all thats important. I know I'm just a construction worker telling you not to drive under multi-ton loads being lifted by monster cranes in NYC, I can see how insignificant I must be to you. But to not obey a firefighter at the scene of an accident, who is there to help someone in need, shows how despicable a human being this unnamed individual must be. I say if they think they are soooooo important that they will decide that absolutely no one else matters, the Poughkeepsie Journal shouldn't be holding back on the name. Give it up, be journalists.

(*--Joe-just kidding you know)

NY: Jackass ignores safety 'flaggers' and hits a construction worker at the Verrazano Bridge

A$$hole of the Month

Last night around 11:00PM, in a construction zone at the Verrazano Bridge toll plaza, a 26 year old Brooklyn man named Kacper Pachowicz, decided that his speedy return was so important that he would ignore the 2 workers holding flags telling drivers to stop and drive directly into the work zone. Thats the story according to law enforcement officers at the scene.

I hate assholes like this, don't they realize that there are reasons for safety flaggers? Sometimes, actually most of the time it's for their own safety. Are they soooo selfish that they can't wait?

I have done my fair share of stopping pedestrians and traffic and there are some really stupid people out there, from the I have to get to work crowd to the ones that decide they can drive around traffic cones to the oncoming lane to get to where they have to go when its obvious they have to stop.

Pachowicz wound up hitting a worker, it's too bad he didn't drive off the bridge. Miraculously the worker was not injured when he fell off the hood. It doesn't end there, Pachowicz got past the toll plaza and ignoring police lights and sirens until he was ultimately arrested and charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident, all misdemeanors.

Original source: Staten Island Advance (5/14/08) - "Driver plows his vehicle through construction at Verrazano, cops say"