Height of stupidity - NYC Sanitation Dept.

This morning's paper carried an article about the 643 summonses (until today I don't think I've ever seen the plural of "summons" in print) that were issued by the New York City Sanitation Department. Or is it correctly referred to as the New York Sanitation Department (but not to be confused with the State of New York).

It seems that a moving company posted fliers around town. The Sanitation Department did a "thorough" (yeah, sure...) investigation by (merely) running a reverse-number check and cranked out the 643 notices with a total penalty (fine? fee?) of $48,000.

The 72-year-old former insurance salesman who got the summonses said he had never had that phone number, and the moving company is apparently out of business. How much time did it take to generate 643 summonses? Did they mail them separately?

What did they Sanitation Department have to say? They would "recommend" that the summonses be voided. Should a supervisor get canned over such stupidity?

Hey! This is just one more reason to subscribe to the Northwest Herald and get the print edition delivered to your doorstep. You probably missed this, if you read only the online edition.