It takes a lot of (snow) balls...

This is a picture taken the day after New York City was buried under 20 inches of snow on December 26, 2010.

Still a big mess 24 hours after the storm ended. In fact, still a big mess today, three days after it stopped snowing. According to the New York Post, there is a very good reason for why the city, including emergency services and public transportation, was paralyzed after the Boxer Day Storm. The plow guys, unionized public workers all, were ordered by their supervisors to purposely stall clean-up efforts to protest budget cuts made to their department by Mayor Bloomberg over the past couple of years. They

...were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor pay for the layoffs, the reductions in rank for the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank-and-file...

...used a variety of tactics to drag out the plowing process -- and pad overtime checks -- which included keeping plows slightly higher than the roadways and skipping over streets along their routes...

...they were told to keep their plows off most streets and to wait for orders before attacking the accumulating piles of snow.

What the Hell? If the job of (not) plowing out New York City had been provided by anyone besides public workers and supervisors, all protected by a powerful union, their ass would be grass. Right?

Pretty much everyone has already seen this video of the NYC tow truck pulling a city plow out of the snow on a side street, destroying a parked car in the process. Now it's been set to music. There's a bit of understandably coarse language. Be sure to catch the references to the 'supervisor' which are based on the only response the tow truck driver had for the witnesses who asked him, in essence, what the f**k? You mean call the same supervisor who told you to f**k up in the first place? Any chance he'll receive a pink slip? Yeah, right.

Take a walk around the City the day after the storm. Funny how a lot of the sidewalks are shoveled, by residents and business owners probably, but the street hasn't been touched.

Yup. Don't do your job, destroy private property, just cool out and enjoy yourself.