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Bloomberg Doesn't Know ICP, But He Likes How They Think
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 11, 2011
Modified Mar 11, 2011
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Last week, Mayor Bloomberg started answering questions that were taken from Twitter during his weekly radio show with John Gambling on WOR. In particular, Bloomberg took time out to answer in specific detail, "Fucking magnets? How do they work?" But this morning, Bloomberg and Gambling revealed that they were unaware of the connection between the question and its originators, the Insane Clown Posse. "Well, I saw what it was, and we answered the question that they asked...I just dropped the profanity from the beginning," Grampa Bloomberg explained.
Bloomberg was particularly piqued by the question because, as he revealed last week, he studied physics in school and was an electrical engineering student (albeit one who couldn't pass a German language class). This week, Gambling challenged him to answer another science-related Twitter question on why the street lamps are shut off on the Cross-Bronx Expressway, and he proceeded to lament about the trouble of dealing with stupid imprecise technology:
Generally the streetlights, I don't know about the Bronx expressway, Cross-Bronx Expressway. But generally streetlights have a light sensor. So if you were to have an eclipse of the sun, for example, the lights should turn on. Now they don't, it's how they're set or whether the sensor is, has some dirt on it or not or broken. I don't know about the Bronx, sir, but that's generally how the lights are, are done. There are some places where they're all on one circuit and somebody, or a timer, throws a switch. The trouble with a timer is you have to change it. Every day the darkness, sunset and sunrise change every day, unless you live on the equator, in which case it's always the same.
In case you were wondering, Bloomberg didn't have a chance to answer the followup Twitter question asked by the same user, which was: "why do you continue to destroy the working class by messing with city workers, police, fire dept and teachers?"
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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