Scooter driver killed in NYC due to pothole-ridden streets

A scooter driver was tragically killed this week on a busy Queens street that's riddled with dangerous potholes, the kind locals have been griping about for years, [H/T  The New York Post].

The pothole-plagued stretch of Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park has generated 311 complaints since 2020, with at least a dozen already logged this year alone, according to city records.

On Monday night, a 46-year-old man riding a standing electric scooter eastbound on the beat-up roadway was thrown from his ride after slamming into a pothole near 106th Street, police said. Cops rushed to the scene around 9:30 p.m. following a 911 call about an unconscious person in the roadway. They found the victim suffering from "severe head trauma," the NYPD reported.

The man, whose name is being withheld pending family notification, was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center but did not survive.

The city Department of Transportation (DOT) showed up at the crash scene too and made immediate repairs to the roadway, according to police. You've heard the expression, "closing the barn door after the horses ran away."

The Big Apple has fielded a staggering 557 pothole reports along Liberty Avenue over the last six years, per a Post review of the records.

As mentioned, at least a dozen 311 complaints about potholes on the roughly 8-mile thoroughfare have come in during 2026 so far, all dated between January 1 and March 6, NYPD,  and every one of them was marked as resolved.

A DOT spokesperson insisted no prior pothole complaints had been filed for the specific section of Liberty Avenue where the fatal crash occurred in "recent years." 

"This is a terrible tragedy, and our thoughts are with the victim of this crash and his family," the spokesperson told The Post in a statement.

"The high volumes of snowfall, salt, and use of tire chains all contribute to wear and tear on our roads and we expect a high number of potholes this season," the rep added.

"We typically see more potholes form in the spring, following the winter and cycle of freezing and thawing conditions, and NYC DOT is taking action to make our roads smooth."

The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad continues to probe the incident. Nearly 14,400 pothole reports have flooded in across the city so far in 2026, the highest tally in years, with more than half originating from Queens, as The Post exclusively reported earlier this week.

That represents a whopping 59 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The DOT highlighted that it has already filled more than 45,100 potholes this year, with an average repair time of just two days.

But a Post analysis of 311 data revealed that more than a quarter of the complaints filed so far in 2026 remained marked "open," "pending," or "in progress" as of earlier this week.

"NYC DOT has crews working around the clock across the five boroughs to fill potholes and make emergency roadway repairs, with more than 10,000 potholes filled in just the last week alone," an agency rep said, "and plans to resurface more than 1,100 lane miles this year."

Maybe comrade Mayor Mamdani (D) can get on the case, or maybe not. Time will tell.

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Illegal Immigrant Tour Bus Driver With New York License Accused Of Causing Fatal Wreck

Another Deadly Crash Courtesy of Biden's Border Disaster and Sanctuary State ShenanigansFolks, here we go again. Yet another illegal alien handed a commercial driver's license in a blue sanctuary state ends up behind the wheel of a massive vehicle, and an innocent American pays the ultimate price. This time, it's a Chinese illegal immigrant who somehow scored a New York CDL and allegedly plowed his tour bus into traffic in Tennessee, killing a 31-year-old trucker while glued to a video on his phone.

Chinese illegal immigrant Yisong Huang, 54, allegedly killed a 31-year-old truck driver and injured several others in Tennessee on December 9 while he was distracted by a video on his phone, according to the New York Post. And yes, this is just the latest in a disturbing wave of fatal wrecks involving illegals piloting big rigs and buses.

"Far too many innocent Americans have been killed by illegal aliens driving semi-trucks and big rigs. And yet, sanctuary states around the country have been issuing illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses. The Trump Administration is ending the chaos," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement regarding the latest crash.

"The brave men and women of ICE are working nonstop to get criminal illegal aliens out of our communities and off our roads."

Turns out, after the smash-up, Huang bombed a basic English proficiency test, the kind that's federally required for a CDL. Huang slithered across the border illegally back in 2023 amid that massive wave of Chinese migrants pouring through Mexico. Border Patrol caught and released him anyway, and the Biden crew hooked him up with a work permit and Social Security card. Fast-forward, and New York's DMV hands him a license on April 11, 2025, after he flashes those federal docs. The state insists it was all above board, but the chances of that being true are equal to the chance of getting hit by a boat in Times Square.

With these crashes piling up, the Trump team is finally cracking down hard on states doling out CDLs to illegals, plus tightening testing rules, like actually enforcing that English-only mandate. A federal audit just exposed that over half of New York's CDLs were issued illegally, per the DOT, so now they're threatening to pull about $73 million in funding from New York unless they clean house.

Experts have laid the blame squarely on the Biden years, and his autopen, when work permits were dished out like joints at a Hunter Biden pool party,  paired with sloppy CDL testing oversight. Don't forget the third-party testing sites that rubber-stamp these things."There's no good checks and balances, to be perfectly honest with you," Lewie Pugh, Executive Vice President of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, had previously told conservative outlet, The Daily Wire. 

"A lot of states allow third party testing to do the CDLs and I would say that’s how most of these people get through," Pugh said.

Thank God the adults are back in charge. This madness ends now.

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FAA wants to hire intellectually and psychiatrically impaired experts

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently recruiting workers with "severe intellectual" disabilities or psychiatric problems, and others with mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website. 

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see how this all ends up. 

"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA’s website states. "They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism."

The initiative is part of the FAA’s "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan, which claims "diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond." 

How does diversity and inclusion ensure safe and efficient travel? There is nothing wrong with hiring people with mental or physical disabilities, but please don't tell me it makes travel safer or more efficient. I don't have a problem with hiring people with disabilities as long as they are placed in jobs they can handle and that will not cause them stress. 

The FAA’s virtue-signaling website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.

The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Peter "The Chest-feeder" Buttigieg's Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people. He has done a bang-up job as Secretary, because a lot of things like trains and planes go "bang!" since he got the cushy position. 

Things also tend to crack or fall off of planes lately. One cannot blame Buttigieg directly, or can one?

Elon Musk tweeted on X just a week ago: "Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?. That is actually happening."

"The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think," Daily Wire's Matt Walsh wrote in an op-ed last week.

Critics of such commentary have pushed back on the argument that prioritizing DEI has made traveling less safe, with civil rights groups slamming Musk, for example, for the "abhorrent and pathetic" tweet.

The FAA website claims that folks with "severe" mental and physical disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the federal workforce.

Perhaps that's because some of them had gone "postal." There was a time we weren't even allowed to use that word.

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GOP Senators move to stop Buttigieg from using private jets, creating huge carbon footprint and wasting our money

The Republicans put forth a bill in the Senate to stop high ranking Department of Transportation officials from using private government planes for which taxpayers foot the bill. Among these mega-carbon footprint princes and princesses is Secretary Pete Buttigieg [pronouns: zir, zhe, zizzlepop]. 

"Secretary Buttigieg seems averse to traveling on the very commercial airlines that his department oversees. It’s far past time that Secretary Buttigieg travel commercially instead of wasting taxpayer dollars on private jet flights," Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), told Fox News Digital, a former conservative news outlet.

"It will also fix a loophole to bring more transparency in reporting the costs of these flights," Schmitt added. The "loophole" refers to a cost-calculating policy the DOT uses which he said had been used to make travel cost for officials appear cheaper than it was, his office said.

Schmitt hopes the bill will "make Secretary Buttigieg consider the most fiscally responsible option when flying on official business."

The legislation would also stop Zhe Buttigieg and other DOT officials from using private flights except for in times of emergency or if such a flight is projected to cost at least 5% less than a commercial alternative.

Since taking office and taking time off to nurse zir's baby zir shares with another dude, Buttigieg has taken taxpayer-funded jets no less than 18 times.

Buttigieg traveled hither, thither and yon — visiting Florida, Ohio and New Hampshire, among other states — and out of the country using a private jet fleet managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), according to flight tracking data. The flight records align with Buttigieg's schedule of external and public engagements obtained by government watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT).

When his predecessor in the Trump administration, Elaine Chao, took the same jets on seven occasions in 2017, the left wanted to have her stoned and eviscerated as it cost taxpayers almost $94,000, as Politico reported at the time. Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to quit after he reported took 26 private jet flights that same year, which cost taxpayers $1.2 million.

The DOT’s Inspector General announced earlier this year that he would be looking into the flights after a letter from Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-FL) Buttigieg claimed to welcome the probe in a statement posted to Twitter, but if you think anyone welcomes a government looking into your covert behavior, you are clearly low on Xanax.

"Glad this will be reviewed independently so misleading narratives can be put to rest. Bottom line: I mostly fly on commercial flights, in economy class. And when I do use our agency’s aircraft, it’s usually a situation where doing so saves taxpayer money," zizzlepop said.



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DOT Inspector General Investigating Buttigieg’s use of gov't jets; Buttigieg responds

The Department of Transportation's inspector general announced on Monday that the agency will be auditing Secretary Pete Buttigieg's use of planes the Federal Aviation Administration supplies for his use in which he flies all over the place, as a former president may have worded it.

The Washington Post reported that the out of 18 flights that Buttigieg, who is gay and married to a man and has a child, has taken on FAA planes, only once was it less expensive to fly on the jets than it was to fly on a commercial flight, and that was because the FAA jet was only being towed to the end of the runway where Pete was going to get into an SUV which carried his bicycle so that he could take the bike one block to work while making it appear as if he shlepped it the whole way. In all other cases, commercial flights were less expensive.

“Glad this will be reviewed independently so misleading narratives can be put to rest,” Buttigieg babbled with his 'What, me worry'? face. 

“Bottom line: I mostly fly on commercial flights, in economy class. And when I do use our agency’s aircraft, it’s usually a situation where doing so saves taxpayer money.”

A study conducted by the RNC has indicated that people who believe Buttigieg's fable also believe that snakes have hips. and it's necessary to get a COVID-19 booster shot every 3 months.

There will be more to come with this story so stay tuned and stay brain flushed.

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Buttigieg saves world's environment riding 2-wheeler with SUV escorts

He is going to save the world in his own mind. 

Riding his two-wheeler to work instead of a gas-guzzling vehicle is how Transportation Secretary Peter Buttigieg gets to work, at least on video. He is aiming to exemplify "the right thing to do" for all Americans to help fight global climate change. His two-wheeler and all our two-wheelers can save the planet, especially if India, China and Russia all cooperate and ride their two-wheelers too.

Pete was heading to an April Fool's Day Cabinet meeting when he was seen unloading his two-wheeler from the back of an SUV for his exhibition ride to the meeting.

As he rode out in the morning, two SUVs followed "Peddling Pete." The video was posted online by local WFMZ-TV.

“Pete Buttigieg has a history of gimmicky stunts, just for show, like doing a desk job on a military base for a few weeks, then trying to pose as a combat veteran. Now this phony stunt.” radio host Mark Simone observed of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman look-alike.

“Caught in the act,” said conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on Twitter.

The former South Bend mayor who couldn't even get the town's potholes repaired, and a losing presidential contender, has tried to show off his green bona fides in his new role. 

Last week he mentioned the possibility of a vehicle mileage tax in Biden’s new infrastructure bill to help cover costs, before later walking it back as it made him look like an out of touch imbecile.

The Department of Transportation tried to cast Buttigieg as some kind of folk hero. “He rode his bike to the White House cabinet meeting and he rode his bike back to DOT after the meeting,” they proudly exclaimed.

What he did was to ride his bike back to the SUV a little bit down the road, load it into the vehicle and drive off in a cloud of dust, a puff of smoke, and a hearty, "What, me worry?"

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Buttigieg vows to fix the nation's bad stuff

He can't get potholes filled in an average size town but he believes he can fight racial, economic and environmental injustice [whatever that really means] because he is President-elect Joseph Robinette Biden Jr's. Department of Transportation head and he's gay. 

What more do we need to know about the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana?

During his speech, Mayor Pete warned there was a dark side to the DOT, just like there exists a dark side to the yogurt industry and bingo.

“At it’s worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities can reinforce racial, economic, and environmental injustice, dividing or isolating neighborhoods,” he said, promising to work to deliver “equity” and “empower everyone to thrive,” in spite of his own spotty pothole record in South Bend. In fact, it was so bad when he was mayor, that the person who ran after he left the town's lofty position, ran on a pothole repair platform. Seriously.

Buttigieg, as required, criticized President Donald Trump’s approach to infrastructure. The inept mayor promised to work so “the idea of an infrastructure week is associated with results and never again a media punchline.” 

Buttigieg claimed that he was a transportation enthusiast, citing his love of riding on Amtrak trains, studying while traveling on a cargo ship, and proposing to his husband Chasten at the Chicago O’Hare airport, which is a love story that perhaps will one day be a Netflix series. 

“Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare is not romantic,” he said.

Biden introduced Buttigieg as the “first openly gay nominee to lead a cabinet department” — a blatant lie that discounts the fact that Richard Grennell is the first openly gay cabinet member appointed by President Trump. Grennell was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany and later appointed by President Trump to acting Director of National Intelligence.

It's possible that Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to serve as Mayor of South Bend, but who cares who people are drawn to sexually? 

When mush-mouth Biden spoke of Buttigieg's husband, he referred to him as "Christian" instead of his real name, which is Chasten. But let's not forget that Biden even screwed up his sister with his wife, Doctor Jill Biden, so the fact that he doesn't know the names of people who he was told will be in his cabinet should be no surprise.

Buttigieg, playing the victim card, said he grew up watching Republicans Congress blocking an openly gay ambassador nominee from serving under former President Bill Clinton, implying that the GOP blocked the guy because he was gay rather than how they viewed him on his merits.

For now, it might be a good idea for all automobile drivers to double-check their shock absorbers and beware of potholes wherever they go. This administration will make for an interesting ride.

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