What did he expect? Of course Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new “snitch” text line was overwhelmed by classic New York snark.
De Blasio wants you to report people violating the lockdown orders (even if cops are reluctant to get tough in many cases), so he set up an account where you can send photos of “people who really need to get the message” about social distancing.
Cue the rebels who drowned the service with a flood of prank messages that forced a temporary shutdown. They sent images of people flipping the bird and of the mayor dropping Staten Island Chuck as well as stories on his gym outings amid the shutdown — and even “d–k pics” and Hitler memes.
Now the city has to vet every message up-front, rather then automatically sending info on to the appropriate precinct.
It’s sad that the elected leader of this town understands his citizens so poorly.