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Chicago Streets and Sanitation superintendent Jeff Oakley has been suspended without pay and was demoted from his $100k+ per year gig after he was accused of leaving his office window open at the Bureau of Electricity headquarters the weekend before Christmas. As you might remember, it was really "freaking cold" that weekend and a water pipe froze and burst causing an estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars in flood damage. Oakley called the damage an "embarrassment" to the bureau and Mayor Daley, but denies having left the window open speculating that perhaps strong winds blew it ajar. The Sun-Times also helps float the idea that it may have been racially motivated:
Oakley, who is African-American and oversees a bureau known as a white bastion, noted that the incident occurred on a Sunday, when he wasn't at work. "You've got a lot of evil people in this world," he said. "I don't know if somebody was trying to set me up."
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I can think of much better ways of setting someone up than, uh, leaving someone's office window open on a cold day in hopes that the pipes freeze and burst causing that person to be demoted at work.
Yeah, who does he work with, Rube Goldberg?
First off, what incident happened on a Sunday, when he wasn't at work? The pipes bursting or the window being opened? I can think of much better ways as well. Sardines behind the book shelf, planting dope in his desk drawer like Trading Places, adding p0rn to his computer, etc., etc., etc. Leaving his window open? Come on.
And again, why does this have to be a "racially motivated" issue? Just because he's black? Someone should leave the window open at his new job just for suggesting that.