In his monthly report at the informal Common Council meeting last night, DPW superintendent Rob Perry addressed posts about recycling that appeared on a Facebook community board. The first post involved messages that had been added to an orange tag from DPW. The tag's original intent was to advise about the correct day for putting out recycling. The additional messages, which Perry referred to as "editorializing," were reprimands for putting coffee cups in the recycling bin and the threat of six months' probation.
The second Facebook post, from the same person, recounts what happened the following week.
Commenting about the first incident, Perry gave assurance that there is no such thing as "recycling probation." Regarding the second incident, he opined that "a regular citizen should find this alarming" and advised that this kind of intimidation should be reported to the police.
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' A GUY ON A BIKE' ... wonder who that might be ?
ReplyDeleteCarole - did you do any digging to see where this supposed Facebook posting came from, that it is real and who posted it? I assume you would have shown who posted it if you had found evidence of its existence. If someone got up in front of the Council, identified themself, and told this story I can only assume you would have published their name and their story. Instead you seem to have created a posting based on something from a screen at a council meeting which was taken from another screen on facebook with no credible evidence that it actually exists. This seems like really irresponsible reporting, and in my mind it is a low for Gossips.
ReplyDeleteI looked all over for the original posting that you reposted and that Mr. Perry showed us all, but to no avail. Did you look for it? We all know that facebook is full of lies and nonsense, and you are just perpetuating it with a REPOST. Do you know or care who made the claims about being "intimidated?" Do you know if any of this actually occurred, or are you just relying on Rob Perry's info on a screen? Where on facebook is it located? I would have thought that you would care enough to find it. Or ask Mr. Perry where he found it. Because Mr. Perry didn't say WHO posted the recycling intimidation story, did he?
Bill--You seem to be suggesting that Rob Perry, superintendent of the Department of Public Works, fabricated these Facebook posts. I assure you that is not the case. They appeared on the Hudson, NY - Public Community Board on January 26 and February 10. The person who posted them and I have a few mutual Facebook friends, and I have no reason to doubt their credibility. I saw the posts when they appeared on Facebook, days before Perry included them in his report to the Council. The images I used in my post were copied directly from Facebook not from anything Perry shared during his report.
DeleteIn my thirty years of living in Hudson, always with a dog, I have more than once been accosted on Warren Street by someone with an irrational fear of dogs or some other agenda and told that it was illegal to walk a dog on Warren Street and they were going to report me to the police. Confident in my knowledge of city code (after all, I did serve as an aldermen for four years), I was able to tell those threatening me that they were mistaken, what I was doing was perfectly legal, and they could call the police if they wished. Not everyone can do that.
Perry, I believe, shared the Facebook posts that had been sent to him by a Hudson resident for the same reason that I chose to post about this detail from his report to the Common Council: to assure the citizens of Hudson that there is no such thing as recycling probation and, although people should rinse and wash out the containers they put in their recycling bin, failing to do so is not a criminal offense.
HEARSAY: Information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor. And that appears to be what this posting is. Which is fine if you disclose that it is. I'm pretty sure that is still the honest reporter's approach.
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HARASSMENT: Aggressive pressure or intimidation. And that appears to be what happened to the Hudson resident. Which isn't fine. I'm pretty sure we all know who the guy on a bike is.
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