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This is the photo taken by David Hearn minutes before his arrest, a partially detached piece of the Reflecting Pool liner is visible. The top of Hearn's shoe can be seen at the bottom of the photo.
Hearn is a three-time Olympian who competed in the canoe slalom. He won two world championships in whitewater racing before retiring from active competition in 2002.
On Friday, Hearn said he was detained for almost five hours at a Park Police facility on Hains Point before being released shortly after 9 p.m. He was reunited with his bike and rode home.
Law enforcement seems very willing to carry out even Trump's most petty illegal acts of intimidation.
dem4decades
(14,632 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,303 posts)and flip it the bird.
KS Toronado
(24,133 posts)Bengus81
(10,538 posts)underpants
(197,735 posts)
Jvp
(100 posts)Also, what about the owner of GreenWater, the company that won the no bid contract? Shouldn't they be held accountable for the vandalizing? Shouldn't they return large sums of money for poor inferior work?
Randomthought
(1,092 posts)All vandalized by criminal.
Festivito
(13,947 posts)All excused now.
mahatmakanejeeves
(71,492 posts)Probatim
(3,304 posts)Far worse.
Not to make light of torture, but I sort of miss Donald Rumsfeld.
struggle4progress
(127,113 posts)joanbarnes
(2,150 posts)The photo is strangely haunting, beautiful and unique!
thesquanderer
(13,165 posts)ashredux
(2,984 posts)Its starting to look like an outline of an elephant😂
artemisia1
(1,924 posts)without large, quick temperature changes tells me just how inept a job was done. Chemicals can exacerbate delamination, but the root causes is poor application and/or preparation of the underlying material.
harumph
(3,515 posts)they didn't give enough time for the concrete to dry out completely before applying the coats. I know wood has obviously different properties than concrete, but I know you shouldn't apply coatings of any kind over saturated wood, because when the moisture gasses out, it delaminates the paint. I would think similar principles apply. Having done a little fact finding, it seems the pool should have been drained, fully cleaned, fully dried, etched, vacuumed out, and only then should the under-sealer and epoxy have been applied. Moreover, the feeder pipes should have been shocked and purged prior to refilling. It's like everything the SOB touches - half assed. No doubt the contractor laughed all the way to the bank.