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On The Bright Side, It Will Serve As A Nice Anecdote In Her Memoir

And she’ll be better able to deal when Gawker commenters trip over themselves to poke fun at her weight:

Think of someone you don’t like. Write the name down on a piece of paper and fold it in half.

That’s what 7-year-old Tiana Camacho and other students in her second-grade class at PS 18 in West Brighton were asked to do. Her parents were outraged — especially when several of Tiana’s young classmates wrote her name on their papers.

“My child is very sensitive,” said Ana Camacho, Tiana’s mother. “Something like that would not help her.”

The school’s principal did not return a message left with a secretary. Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg, speaking on the principal’s behalf, did not have details on the assignment but said it was intended to improve students’ oral and written skills.

“They were understanding what it means to interview people,” Ms. Feinberg said. “It was a request to interview someone whom they don’t get along with.”

Parents said they might believe that if the teacher hadn’t read out the names of the students.

“[The teacher] went about it the wrong way,” said Mrs. Camacho. “Children shouldn’t be exposed to something like that at such a young age.”

Apparently, officials at the department didn’t think it was a very effective project, either. According to Feinberg, the teacher was given a verbal warning.

“Poor judgment was used,” Ms. Feinberg said. “There was a conference and a discussion with the teacher.”

Officials wouldn’t release the teacher’s name, but parents identified her as Linda Jacobellis.

The student, Tiana, was stunned and saddened by the incident. She said her teacher was fun to be around, which made this assignment unusually upsetting. Ms. Jacobellis supposedly explained to the class that they were given the assignment because many of the classmates don’t get along. But never did Tiana expect that she would be picked.

“She called my name a few times and I had to go to the front of the room,” Tiana said. “I was sad. I thought I was everybody’s friend.”

Posted: March 29th, 2008 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Staten Island

Things You Don’t Want In Your Personnel File Include . . .

. . . a note saying you lied about inspecting something you were supposed to inspect but didn’t and then that thing you were supposed to inspect ended up killing several people:

A city inspector, charged with ensuring the safety of the giant crane whose catastrophic collapse killed seven people last Saturday, admitted that he lied about checking the equipment, authorities said yesterday.

Edward J. Marquette, 46, of Hell’s Kitchen, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday on counts of falsifying business records and filing a false instrument that could bring a four-year prison term.

. . .

Marquette was released without bail.

He was assigned to inspect the crane at 303 E. 51st St. on March 4 after a retired building contractor reported to 311 the crane did not appear to be properly attached to the building.

“Caller states crane does not appear to be braced to the building. There are only tie-backs on five or six floor[s], but upper part which is 100 feet up is unsecured,” a Buildings Department complaint form said.

Marquette filed a report stating he inspected the crane and found it safe.

“No violation warranted for complaint at time of inspection,” he reported.

Posted: March 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Architecture & Infrastructure, Jerk Move, Just Horrible

Less Exciting Than Getting Boatloads Of Federal Money Congestion Pricing, But Since You Asked . . .

Part of the problem of city employees taking advantage of free parking is that many of the permits are actually fake. That’s some clown shit:

The city’s most comprehensive study of curbside parking has found that 9 percent of all vehicle permits in lower Manhattan are phony, The Post has learned.

The yearlong study confirmed what regular motorists have been screaming about for years — that privileged parkers are creating havoc downtown.

Among the study’s other findings:

  • Nearly one in eight vehicles with permits were parked illegally at a bus stop, crosswalk, fire hydrant, driveway or were double parked.
  • Forty-two percent of vehicles with “official business” permits parked outside their designated spaces for more than three hours, a violation of their permits.
  • On a typical day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., more than 3,300 vehicles displayed a law-enforcement placard.
  • Each parked an average of 41/4 hours, meaning they accounted for almost a quarter of all the “vehicle hours” available.
  • Eighteen percent of meters weren’t available to the general public because privileged parkers hogged them.

Posted: March 15th, 2008 | Filed under: Everyone Is To Blame Here, Jerk Move

$1000 An Hour For Our Finest 22-Year-Old Abuse Survivor

Prostitution, the oldest of professions, amounts to little more than a victimless crime:

She left “a broken family” at age 17, having been abused, according to the MySpace page, and has used drugs and “been broke and homeless.”

“Learned what it was like to have everything and lose it, again and again,” she writes. “Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone.[“]

Posted: March 13th, 2008 | Filed under: Jerk Move

Welcome To Another Episode Of When Dogs Get Owned By City Dwellers Who Shouldn’t Really Coop Them Up All Day In Too-Small Apartments . . .

. . . and then attack:

Tyrus, a 7-year-old, 60-pound female pit bull who lives in Apartment 708 in the former Olcott Hotel at 27 W. 72nd St., has run up a $90,000 tab, the building’s residents charges.

The condo is suing her owner for the amount, accusing Tyrus of chasing tenants, defecating in the halls, nearly killing a Pomeranian, and mauling several other pets.

Neighbors call the dog a “lunatic” who stalks the halls, leaving residents and management of the Upper West Side condo terrified.

They claim the owner never walks her but instead lets her out alone in the hall, where she goes to the bathroom and roams free.

“Every time I enter or exit my apartment, I am fearful that the dog in Unit 708 will be loose . . . or will attack,” wrote a neighbor as part of the suit filed late last month in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The owners of Pumpkin, a 4-pound Pomeranian, said they were walking in the seventh-floor hallway on Jan. 31, when Tyrus leapt through of an ajar apartment door and lunged at them.

“She knocked me to the ground and started eating my dogs,” said Elisa Schindler, who along with her boyfriend, Larry Frankel, was with Pumpkin and two other Pomeranians, Sugarplum and Marshmallow.

Frankel threw his jacket over Tyrus. But, he said, the attack stopped only after a visitor came out of Apartment 708, grabbed the pit bull and went back inside without a word.

Blood and fur coated the corridor after the attack, Schindler said. It took three surgeries and about 100 sutures to save the nearly eviscerated Pumpkin.

“I would have been mauled, except my boyfriend pulled me into my apartment and wouldn’t let me save my dog,” Schindler said.

The couple called 911, and responding cops hauled the visitor out in handcuffs. He was charged with possession of cocaine, a police report said.

Posted: March 9th, 2008 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Manhattan, There Goes The Neighborhood
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