Bill De Blasio is trying to get citizens to snitch on each other using a new texting hotline to better enforce social distancing, but citizens had other ideas for the new service, inundating it with photos of genitalia as well as De Blasio with a Hitler mustache. It got so bad they had to shut the service down temporarily:
DAILY MAIL – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was forced to temporarily close his coronavirus ‘snitch hotline’ over the weekend as the service was inundated with prank calls, pictures of genitalia and memes likening de Blasio to Adolf Hitler.
De Blasio unveiled the controversial scheme on Saturday, urging New Yorkers to text 311 to report anyone violating the state’s social distancing rules or stay-at-home orders.
However, the response didn’t quite go to plan as aggrieved members of the public vehemently criticized the ‘tyrannical overreach’ the hotline posed and within hours it was flooded messages of contempt for de Blasio instead.
Middle fingers and Hitler photos…
Such messages included photos of extended middle fingers and links to articles about de Blasio breaking his own social distancing instructions when he was seen going into a gym in mid-March, after the coronavirus outbreak had already started ravaging the city.
Other images posted to Twitter show users texting the number with images of Adolf Hitler, with the words ‘To those turning in your neighbors and locals businesses – you did the Reich thing’ written beneath.
Another user photoshopped the video of de Blasio announcing the tip line, adding a Hitler mustache to his lip and a Schutzstaffel Nazi logo to his suit jacket, with the words ‘Message from the Furor [sic]’ written in the top left-hand corner.
‘There. Fixed [it],’ the user wrote.
Penis and other photos…
An NYPD source told the New York Post that a series of penis photographs were also sent to the number, and one caller phoned in a tip claimed that he’d just seen de Blasio performing oral sex on someone ‘in an alleyway behind 7-11’ in the early hours of Sunday morning.
‘He looked at me and coofed in my direction,’ the caller reportedly told the operator. With the word coof, a new slang term, meaning coughing while infected with coronavirus, according to UrbanDictionairy.com.
The city is now vetting the messages, which means someone has the horrible job of having to look at these images all day long:
City Hall confirmed to the Post on Tuesday that they were forced to temporarily close the 311 text line on Sunday to clear out the backlog of unsavory messages from its sever.
‘This issue has been resolved, but it was not a technical issue on 311’s part,’ mayoral spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie told the outlet.
The city has now started vetting all of the messages before sending out the information to precincts, the source said.
This has to be my favorite story of the day. And it just proves once more how idealistic liberals truly are, that they would set up this service and expect it to only be used for the purposes they outlined with no vetting whatsoever. Once again reality slaps them right in the face.