It is is partly a taxpayer funded service and should remain as such, but that can’t be defined as unlimited services to everyone everywhere forever.

There has to be a “shit list” for people who misuse the service, so that it’s still available for people with legit needs.

Might, my ass.

People DO abuse the system. A lot. And taxpayers pay for it all.

This is classic tragedy of the commons: a small but significant part of the population monopolizing and misusing services that are for the -entire- population, and going unpunished even in extreme cases.

First responders can let the frequent flyer know about the existing non-emergency programs for the caller, and either they get with the program or face fines and charges. These are existing programs in many jurisdictions.

But not New York City, it would appear.

Google “312 Riverside Drive” in Manhattan. It won’t show up on a map because it doesn’t exist, but it is the reported address for thousands of fake 911 calls.

From ONE guy. In this case, an old crackhead in a shelter. (That’s “older individual experiencing crackheadedness” for the exquisitely sensitive.)

Last I knew, he’s still at the shelter and still messing with 911.

Which seems to be okay by New York. One idiot Karen makes one racist 911 call about a birdwatcher and the politicians fall over themselves to pass something on bogus 911 calls involving a protected class.

But when it comes to the other hundreds of thousands of fake calls they don’t do dick.

Wherever they are “free” (going forward, use “taxpayer funded” if you prize honesty and accuracy) such services are abused.

Sorry the ambulance crew couldn’t deal with your heart attack because they were busy tending to a drunk.

Criminalizing emergency services abuse would go a long way toward shutting down “frequent flyers” who call emergency services with minor complaints.

Lots of “frequent flyers” out there who call for an ambulance any time they have the sniffles. The EMTs know the addresses by heart. Could be hypochondriacs, addicts, or just plain old idiots like people with COPD who continue to smoke.

They typically don’t pay so the taxpayer eats the cost.

Anybody know what FDNY frequent flyer policy is, if they have one? Or is it “you call, we haul” and who cares what the cost to taxpayers and legit patients is?

Gerontology. Aging boomers mean no shortage of clients.

The fng article says good government groups want him to do this, and he is, so…good?

It took 20 years and Preet Bharara to get rid of Sheldon Silver.

Andrew Cuomo’s career lasted 44 years.

In other words, somebody other than a sacrificial lamb has to primary her, because the GOP isn’t willing or able.

And she can’t be bothered to even try.

New York State government is both legendarily incompetent and irredeemably corrupt. It is to politics what Mos Eisley is to Tatooine.

Do not trust anything uttered or authored by anyone with “-NY” after their names, including “Good morning” and “the.”

Got a friend who’s willing to pop up near the end of services as the Great Prophet Zarquon?

“Er... Hello. Er, look, I'm sorry I'm a bit late. I've had the most ghastly time, all sorts of things cropping up at the last moment... Er, how are we for time? Have I got just a min...”

Aaaaaaand that’s it. Go in peace. Hail and farewell to your dad.

Does it stink of urine yet?

Naturally the Times comment section is full of useful idiots who think taxpayers are an infinite revenue source.

Brutus again, right? Or that Czolgosz guy who did Garfield.

Not his fault that previous administrations overpromised, but ain’t no way in hell that gets passed without union negotiations.

Sure. I’ll take a hack over a fool or a crook every time.

Tom Suozzi is a centrist hack but I don’t think we’ll hear any of the usual progressive suspects complaining about that until after he’s elected.

Happens all the time, because of the way pensions are calculated based on the last three years of employment, although many hires after 2012 aren’t going to be able to exploit it.

Gonna be a while before we see any savings.

Only 400 hours over 18 months, approaching retirement?

If you’re padding OT the right way, you should be able to stack up at least 25 hours a week with nobody saying “boo” given how short-staffed the NYPD is.

But you do have to show up. That’s important.

I’m surprised he hasn’t been mugged himself.

And they’ll take your THUMB, CHARLIE.

Those Port Authority slush funds don’t fill themselves, pal.

“Pay us because go screw yourselves, little people” should be the city’s motto.

This is what you get when your election choices are red crook or blue crook. Enjoy.

And this the Times calls “what may be the most ideologically diverse City Council ever.”

Okay. Sure.

How did most people get to know Trump’s name in the first place?

When the city screwed up a simple skating rink project so massively that Trump strolled in, got it fixed, and Ed Koch whined about the unfairness of it all. Completely tone deaf, Koch was.

Trump dined out on that for decades.