Oil spill this morning and the closest unit was the NYPD Movie Unit! I asked the NYPD officers is this real or part of a movie set? In NYC it is so hard to tell the difference!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Oil spill St. Marks Place NYPD TV Unit investigates
Oil spill this morning and the closest unit was the NYPD Movie Unit! I asked the NYPD officers is this real or part of a movie set? In NYC it is so hard to tell the difference!
This was a real oil spill and they happen to be the closest unit so they answered the call.
NYPD Community Affairs tend to have the best people skills but the Movie Unit are even nicer!
I remember them from when I did grunt work on movies way back when. They are 20 in number but at any moment they may have to answer the call of "reality NYC".
The NYPD that are good and honorable get a special place in Heaven. Being an NYPD officer has to be the toughest and most under appreciated job in NYC.
Note: Today had to be the most positive NYPD day I have had in a while. I ran over to an NYPD unit with the massively large machine guns and a beautiful German Shepard NYPD dog and chatted with them. I wanted to know what was up but it was just standard work post 9-11. I did my stand up comedy for them about NYC politics. They were the most positive upbeat group of officers I have spoken to and they made me feel very good about the NYPD.
On a serious note I did tell them sometimes I am afraid of the NYPD. I explained why and they said they are like any group...they have their good apples and bad but I agreed they are overwhelmingly good. They are down to about 35,000 and with the budget cuts they may hit the lowest number under 35,000 in many years. I said that is true of any group including priests, rabbis, etc.
I showed them the powerful photo that the superb photographer Richard Cohen took of me surrounded by NYPD with my "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York, Is Democracy for Sale?" poster. These heavily armed NYPD were very cool and the women with big machine guns looked so wholesome they could be in Ivory Snow commercials. I do have amazing respect for their courage. I didn't tell them but I thought of NYPD Officer Moira Smith may she rest in peace. She was video taped escorting a civilian to safety and running back into the WTC to rescue more people only to die. http://www.odmp.org/officer/15818-police-officer-moira-smith
+ I was running literally rushing about even though I am so tired and I am not suppose run since my knees are shot. I did trip and I bruised my knee....groan.