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November 18, 2009

Hey! Guys! Somebody slap down that little scab bastard.

Union Bullies Boy Scout for Dastardly Deed

A 17-year-old Boy Scout worked more than 200 hours to clear a path in his local park so that people could enjoy walking and biking along the river.

Bad move Boy Scout. Now grown men who didn’t get around to doing it for a paycheck are after you.

Kevin Anderson, a junior at Southern Lehigh High School, a varsity soccer player and a Boy Scout hoping to get his Eagle Scout badge, spent 250 hours over several weeks creating a path on the partially complete 165-mile Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor that runs through Kimmets Lock Park in Allentown, reports The Morning Call.

"I decided to do my part in completing this part of the trail. In that way, others could enjoy walking along the river, without having to walk on the busy road," Anderson said in an e-mail, says The Morning Call.

But once the city’s municipal union caught wind of this do-gooder breath of fresh air, it put up a stink at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Unions said its considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing such good, free-of-charge, work to happen.

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council, reports The Morning Call.

Anderson’s act of carving out a 1,000-foot path is not seen as good community service by the union because it was the only group to suffer layoffs in the city’s current financial downturn.
"We would hope that the well-intentioned efforts of an Eagle Scout candidate would not be challenged by the union," said Mayor Ed Pawlowski in an e-mail Friday. "This young man is performing a great service to the community. His efforts should be recognized as such."

Hat tip to NBC Philadelphia

22 comments:

hymns that preach said...

Purple is the NEW BROWN!

http://notallowed2laff.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-irritate-left-at-townhall.html

Anonymous said...

Ralphie, that's great. I hope folks will stop over and steal the idea. Good work!

Opus #6 said...

These SEIU people are THAT out of touch. They want to ATTACK an EAGLE SCOUT?

Next they will go after mom and apple pie.

RP Free Speech said...

No, Opus, apparently they'll just go after the apple pie--a la mode, with a huge pile of whipped creme on the top.

Joanie said...

Oh for God's sake! You can't even do a good deed any more without someone getting pissy.

el chupacabra said...

We're crazy

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

This young man demonstrated that this town doesn't need the union workers. LAY THEM ALL OFF !!!!

Unknown said...

They won’t go after all apple pie, ala mode or not, just non-union made apple pie and non-union made ala mode. There’d better be union cows producing union milk for that ice cream you’re putting on that slice of pie at your fund-raiser, little Susie. Those better be union made and approved pies, or the SEIU will shut down your efforts to go to band camp.

Anonymous said...

Opie, if it served their purposes they'd attack actual eagles.

Anonymous said...

RP, you make a hefty point there.

The Malcontent said...

It would be MY pleasure.

Anonymous said...

Joanie, last week I tried to pluck my unibrow and eight rain forest protesters appeared at my back door.

Anonymous said...

Chup... WE? You got a mouse in your pocket?

Anonymous said...

Woody, go sell your evil snake oil in Detroit.

Anonymous said...

Arby... I visited the Bedlam Blog and I couldn't help but notice that you're running a non-union blog.

Anonymous said...

Malcontent, you're first in line.

BTW, I enjoy your blog.

Red said...

Looks like fat AND purple is the new 'brown'.

Anonymous said...

Red... Bang-bang. Back-to-back homers.

Anonymous said...

Terri, the kid undermines their argument that the world will fall apart without their well-paid labor.

Rhod said...

Two of mine made Eagle, and the SEIU has nothing on the Connecticut River town toffs who thought of them as chimps. I was too polite to compare their losers kids to mine.

The SEIU is Obama's praetorian guard. Organized punkery.

Kid said...

I loved my time in the Scouts. Life scout, 19 badges if I remember. Tons of fun and definitely building blocks of who I am.

Anyway, this is what you get with socialism. Failure is rewarded, therefore failures are dependent. Terminally dependent. Like most union people.

Go absolutely ape if you even suggest there is another way to go through life.

No doubt they view this scout as enemy # 1 just as the Vampire party view Palin as enemy # 1

A Conservative Unclogged Blog said...

while they get pissed about the boy scout doing what THEY can't, these same union pukes would likely try to unionize the NAMBLA group...

all in good American faith of course...free speech an all....

SOMEBODY please wake me from the nightmare! It is scrambling my brain