By now you’ve probably read numerous reports about snow-jammed streets in New York City, or heard Mayor Bloomberg’s apology for the awful mess in the city, or watched the video (NSFW language) of NYC workers demolishing a parked SUV while trying to extract a front-end bucket loader stuck in the snow.
Well guess what? It wasn’t inefficiency or lack of manpower that caused the problems with citywide snow removal. According to the New York Post, it was a group of vindictive city sanitation workers: