{"id":1888,"date":"2006-12-12T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/diplomatic_immunity_from_paying_water_rates.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:18:05","slug":"diplomatic_immu_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/diplomatic_immu_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Immunity From Paying Water Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They rack up thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_un_is_putti.html\">get loaded and drive around<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/kenyan_finds_di.html\">beat on their families<\/a>. And now we learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/12\/nyregion\/12water.html?ex=1323579600&#038;en=44d5ec6464746307&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">they don&#8217;t pay the city for water, either<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[T]he United Nations Mission of the Republic of Niger has ignored every water bill it has received since 1998 for its elegant town house, accumulating a debt of nearly $120,000, including penalties. It ignored repeated calls for comment. Eight other foreign missions on the Upper East Side are also in debt, and collectively owe the city about $230,000.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They rack up thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. They get loaded and drive around. They beat on their families. And now we learn that they don&#8217;t pay the city for water, either: [T]he United Nations Mission of the Republic of Niger has ignored every water bill it has received since 1998 for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}