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| Guy Saves Gas of 3-mile Commute - Lives in Paint Shed |
| 2008-07-23 |
| A New York state report says a maintenance man who earned $100,000 last year working at a psychiatric center has been living for free in a paint shed on company grounds and even had his mail delivered there. A report issued Monday by the inspector general's office says the worker lived on the grounds of the Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York City's northern suburbs for three years. It says he stayed in a back room of the shed and had a couch, microwave and refrigerator. The worker is being charged $2,500 for the time he lived there. Now he's living with his wife at a home in Pearl River, about 3 miles away. Think of all the gas he saved! Or...perhaps it was a love nest? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 So maybe he needs to sue for the $2500 back, no lease and was the 'rental unit' oked by the local authorities? seems like all tenant / landlord laws favor the tenant |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-07-23 14:50 |
| #4 I walked 3 miles before I came to work today... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-07-23 12:22 |
| #3 Perhaps he was Persona Non Grata at home. I think that a more likely reality. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-23 10:38 |
| #2 The average adult male can walk 3 miles an hour easily. Given that many in the DC area and around other metro areas commute in a car an hour to and from work, what's the problem. It's just not kids who are couch potatoes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-07-23 09:16 |
| #1 A six mile round-trip commute. Let's take a plausibly unfavorable scenario for fuel consumption: he has an absolutely top-end giant monster SUV, a big honkin' Lincoln Continental, or a ratted-out 30-year old Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Landau Brougham -- whatever it is, let's say that it gets 18MPG. He's burning, what, a whole two and a half gallons a week? TEN BUCKS in gas to get to and from work. If he drives the biggest, most profligate, most carbon-footprinty big-block musclecar found at the local dragstrip, his fuel expenses for the daily commute still won't crack the $30 a week barrier. This is a "crisis?" |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-07-23 08:31 |