NY Doctor's Home Burns; Citations Follow
posted 6:23 am Sat January 12, 2008 - WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.
An obstetrician saved his wife and six children from a fire that ravaged their home, delivered a baby while the house was still smoldering and then got cited with building violations.Dr. Herman Weiss said Friday "was just my day." The 37-year-old awoke around 3 a.m. to the screech of a smoke detector and the sight of flames inching up an outside wall of his Long Island home. He got his family to safety, then was paged and went to a hospital to deliver an infant around 6 a.m.
The fire brought scrutiny from building inspectors, who cited the Weisses with a discrepancy in plumbing plans and living in the house without a certificate of occupancy. Weiss said the family had hired a lawyer to get one.
The family has been ordered to tear down the damaged house. Weiss said he hopes to rebuild in the same place.
The fire brought scrutiny from building inspectors, who cited the Weisses with a discrepancy in plumbing plans and living in the house without a certificate of occupancy. Weiss said the family had hired a lawyer to get one.
The family has been ordered to tear down the damaged house. Weiss said he hopes to rebuild in the same place.Latest Comment on NY Doctor's Home Burns; Citations Follow
Kaelinda
5:23 pm on 01/12/08
Boy, those petty bureaucrats have just got to have their pound of flesh, don't they? So the house didn't have an occupancy permit - it burned down and now it isn't occupied any more.
The bureaucrats who hold positions in which they are able to dictate the terms of other people's lives are petty tyrants. They derive their self-esteem by how far they can bend other citizens before the citizens break - and if they happen to break them, bankrupt them, or otherwise make sure they can't get on with their lives, THEN the closet sadists are happy, and only then.
Has this ever happened to me? Nope. But I know the type of person the doctor and his family are up against. They exist in every government office throughout the country. Most government clerks are nice folks, but there's always gotta be that one bad apple that stinks up the system.
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