Yep this was discussed during one of our safety briefings up there while we were stationed at the Coliseum where the Islanders play. I had to sleep in a tractor trailer converted into bunk beds with about 50 other people! It sucked! Haha.

That was my first trip to the Northeast and I must say the story of the Lakeland lineman getting hit was rare to us because everyone was great to us. We started out in Worcester Mass working under National Grid for about a week then they sent us to stay in the trailers again at the East Hampton Airport on Long Island by way of the Bethpage Golf Course (which I enjoyed being a golf fan) then we went to stay the rest of the trip in the Islanders parking lot.

Here in the South everyone tells us "Yankees" are rude and nasty people but I'm glad to say that is bullshit! Boston and Providence is probably my favorites so far out of NY, CT, MA, and RI.

And I agree the lineman should have pissed in the restaurant as we were told he was just coming "out" of the restaurant so it just doesn't make sense to me. Plus we were always taught from day one that if we did have to piss in the open we always would open a bin door on the truck and hide in it while just pissing on the ground so nobody could actually see anything if you know what I mean.