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The department is investigating the allegations and said the employees accused of taking part in the Hitler parody at a Staten Island parkhouse may be disciplined.
Alan Spitalnik says he walked into a break room to see three tree pruners putting on the tasteless show for eight other workers.
"They just burst out laughing," one source said.
Two sources identified the employees as Nick Johnson, who allegedly wore a motorcycle helmet emblazoned with a swastika; Charlie Ekonomakos, said to have sported a Hitler-style mustache, and Chris Mullusky, described as wielding a flaming aerosol can.
"This is ridiculous. I'm not commenting," Ekonomakos, 23, said outside his house.
A representative from the Parks Department's equal employment opportunity office visited the Forestry Division's Staten Island headquarters and questioned the skit participants and witnesses.
"He gave us all a tongue-lashing ... he said that this is unacceptable," one source said. "[He said], 'If I had it my way, they would be fired on the spot.'"
Parks Department spokesman Phil Abramson said the probe "may lead to disciplinary action," but wouldn't comment further.
Spitalnik was upset that after he complained he was transferred out of the Forestry Division against his wishes for safety reasons, one of the sources said.
He told a fellow employee he feels like he's being punished for the incident.
"When Alan was talking to me, he said it's a horror on Staten Island, it's the regular routine," an insider said.
Spitalnik, who wears a Star of David around his neck, claims his religion has made him a target in the past.
Earlier this summer, Spitalnik complained to supervisors that Mullusky told him he'd like to shove him and his mother in a microwave oven. A source said no action was taken.
After he walked in on the skit, the three men apologized to Spitalnik.
"They said, 'I'm sorry, it was a joke,'" one of the sources said.
Sorry may not cut it. A Parks Department source said the men could be suspended or fired if the allegations are substantiated.
"The Parks Department does not tolerate prejudice of any kind," Abramson said.
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Aug 28, 2008 at 08:49 AM Matzahlocal101 Says:
All goyim are like that. Some have a little busha or have not yet had the opportunity. Do you thing millions of European goyim aided in the holocaust because Hitler y"sh was a really good orator and could make normal civilized Germans into mass murderers? He said what everybody else thought. America is no different. President Hussein has a very bad ring to it.
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Aug 28, 2008 at 09:25 AM Paranoid1 Says:
R' Chaim Brisker once said that if a goy sees you in the street and doesn't slap you, it's because he's lazy.
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Aug 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM bigwheeel Says:
I couldn't read [any] further than the names of those low-life vermin, slime, gutter rats! But [from the listed names], I can give you the "ethnicity/race/nationality" of ALL three; One is [a] Greek!; One is [a] Pollack (You don't like my spelling?! too Bad!!!) the third rat's "Race", I don't want to spell out!!! YIMACH SHEMOM VEZICHROM!!!
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Aug 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM earl Says:
Maybe the posters who blamed the charedi family in the park in Israel for their own attack would also blame the Jew in this case.
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Aug 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM Sam the NYLIC Says:
Sure! I attended first grade in Stalin's "GanEden" in Hungary, & after the teacher stated that all people are brothers, a classmate(6 yrs old) turned tom saying, (you Jews are NOT our brothers. Small snakes are also poisonous.