Inspector arrested in deadly NYC crane collapse (AP/CNN)

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A city inspector has been charged with lying about checking on a construction crane that later collapsed, killing seven people in a dense Manhattan neighborhood, officials said Thursday.

Edward Marquette was arrested Wednesday on charges of falsifying business records, buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster said.

"We will not tolerate this kind of behavior at the Department of Buildings," she said.

A complaint about the crane was logged March 4 to a city hot line, officials said, and Marquette said he inspected it. It was later determined he had not.

However, Lancaster said it is very unlikely an inspection would have prevented the accident because the parts of the crane that failed were not on site on March 4.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/20/crane.accident.ap/index.html

WHAT ?!? They ARREST people for not doing their jobs? Even when it DOESN'T get anyone killed ?? But -- but -- but --- :apoplectic siezure: