A shoddy wind turbine fell apart in the Bronx on Monday when it couldn’t handle its own power source — gusty winds.
The blade damaged a nearby car and an illuminated billboard when it flew off the 250-foot structure in Baychester at about 1:20 p.m., police said.
There were no injuries reported.
Local politicians rushed to the scene and blasted the “hastily” constructed alternative-energy source.
The turbine started spinning on Dec. 17, providing power to nearby buildings, according to the Bronx Times.
“This shouldn’t have been put up so hastily,” said state Sen. Jamaal Bailey. “A wind turbine should not be able to be taken down by the wind.”
Assemblyman Mike Benedetto claimed the monopole turbine was erected quickly “in order to try and make a buck.”
He called on the city Department of Buildings to “make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”
An employee at the Apple Bank next door said she was “concerned if it’s going to fall on in our parking lot or the branch itself.”
The DOB said it gave the owner two violations for “failure to maintain both the monopole structure and the adjacent sign.”
Three commercial businesses, including the bank, were vacated from the building next door.
The turbine’s listed owner, Baychester Retail III LLC, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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I hope they’ll sue out of business stupid turbine’s owner and a company who made it. Also, morons local politicians who allowed this madness happened. Bloody green cretins…
So how much money did they squander erecting that stupid Wind Turbines in the first place Now i think the owner of the wrecked car should be allowed to sue the ones who put the stupid thing up in the first place.Kind of reminds me about the silly sculpture Spaceship Earth put up by some crack-pot and the silly thing fell apart
“This shouldn’t have been put up so hastily,” said state Sen. Jamaal Bailey. “A wind turbine should not be able to be taken down by the wind.”
A wind turbine in a city?
How stupid can they get?
Oh, wait.
It’s the greens.
All the stories about this have the same photo and text. No part of this looks like a wind turbine. This is the LED billboards that people have been complaining about keeping them awake at night. They seem to be saying that there was a vertical-axis windmill recently added, but I’d like to see a photo of it – before and after.
Here is a video that shows the entire structure and its fail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2078420/Video-Wind-turbine-snaps-topples-billboard-Bronx-parking-lot.html
Wow. That was amazing. Thanks.