A three-man crew from the public Utilities Board had been attempting to replace the faulty coupling without much success. Did they cause the crack in the connection with that pickax visible on the left side of the picture? When he alighted at the Linear Park parking to snap a shot, the man in the white safety suit (barely visible behind the palm tree at right), told him that he was not permitted to snap pictures of PUB crews working.
If he did not stop taking pictures, he said, he would have to call the Brownsville Police Dept. and report him for taking pictures from about 20 feet away separated by a ditch, and on a public park as they attempted (unsuccessfully) to fix the problem in the public right-of-way.
Now, we don't blame our contributor for stopping to take the picture. It's not often we get to see PUB crews actually working. Usually it's one guy working and another half dozen watching him leaning on their shovels. But our question is this: If a member of the public is not interfering with their work and he is in a public facility (Linear Park) taking pictures of public employees, does BPD have the authority to take a complaint from the workers and arrest the picture taker?
We understand that it must have been frustrating and embarrassing for the PUB guys not being able to fix the geyser as fast as they might have wanted to, but to threaten a member of the public with arrest for taking a picture seems like a stretch of their right to privacy.
Someone should have a constitutional sensitivity training seminar and take our friend in white aside and inform he that the public has rights just as he does. In fact, if he is getting paid from the public's dollar (or utility rates), and he is on the public right-of-way, his expectations of privacy are greatly diminished. Let's hope they finally got the geyser plugged and their savage breasts are soothed before they impose martial law.)
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That area is always leaking water. The BMFA has been notified of the problem several times. PUB has been aware of the problem for the last few years. If PUB would fix the pipes there would not be this needless waste of water. They could have filled three resacas with the water that has flowed out of that busted pipe.
Mexicans are so touchy. BPUB guys are trying to work! Shit, Juan, get a grip.
Have you ever looked at who the PUB pays for lobby activities?
Sounds like they crack under hi-pressure
SOOOO the guy taking the picture.. does he have a job? Why does he have so much time on his hands?
What a fucking loser.
Taches one too no one
If your going to bully me - I can take it.
But don't be fucking stupid and write it wrong where I have to correct your stupidity in order for you to be able to bully me.
Takes one to know one..
Your stupid, you know it and you expect everyone to to condone your stupidity, because your stupid and don't know any better.
Whatz stickin in yer craw?
Anonymous at 11:24. I agree , Diego's an idiot and an Internet pest. The word is "you're ."
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