Spring Valley, NY – Police in Spring Valley busted a family who they say converted a school bus into a matzoh making factory.
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Police say a neighbor on Wilshire Drive complained of smoke. Police responded and found a school bus equipped with an oven, fans, an exhaust pipe and supplies. Police say the bus had been operating as an oven for almost three years. The house where the school bus is parked is owned by the congregation Midtzar Hatorah.
Some neighbors in the mostly Hassidic community say the school bus oven isn’t kosher – literally. There were live gas lines in the bus and police say if something went wrong it could have been catastrophic.
Police say the school bus oven has been disconnected and the owners will be fined by the building department.[news12]
Oven’s back in service.
Updated video clip here
Great News!
The Matzah Bus is Back in Business for this Pesach Baking *Legally*!!
This is such good news!!!
how can i get such heilige matzos that was made with pechuach nefesh i only hope the best for them.
god bless this congragation for a job well done i like the way this story turned around and bit everybody in the tachtonim who was bashing them.
From Rcklnd Journl News 3/27:
………….After inspecting the matzo-baking facility, Carmona said the oven looked safe, despite being in a rundown bus. Under village law, a property owner can have one vehicle just for recreation on a property, and the bus fell into that category because it wasn’t a business, Carmona said.
“The bus must be 10 feet from the house, at a minimum,” Carmona said. “I don’t want any baking to be done until then.
“””It’s not as hazardous as it looks from the outside.””””
While no-trespassing signs were posted on the property yesterday – added during the weekend, officials said – Winternitz maintained his makeshift bakery was legal and safe.
…….Scorziello said the bakery is a zoning issue,
“””not a criminal””” one, and the Building Department makes the decisions….
Relax guys…
from the nyjournalnews:
“the village’s deputy building inspector, planned to post violations today on the property, but decided not to after inspecting the house and the bus with Winternitz. He said the potential dangers were not as bad as he originally had thought.
Winternitz said he lived in the house with his wife and three children and the matzoh-making operation was legal.”
Most of you are missing the point. It’s the overall attitude of ‘whatever I want to do goes, as long as it saves me some money’. There is a reason 99% of Jews out there use regular, licensed, insured matza bakeries. You are dealing with furnaces that reach thousands of degrees, and to do this in a school bus, in a back yard, in THAT tightly packed neighborhood is simple straight-forward p’shia. If something goes wrong, if one gas line catches fire, and people get hurt, would all you apologists still stand by these meshugaim? To say that it’s ok because nothing went wrong for three years is tantamount to saying that you can send your three-year old across Ocean Parkway without assistance because he hasn’t been killed in three years. It’s the attitude: z’kummt tzi mir. I can do whatever I want, I don’t need to follow the law. These people probably adhere to every possible chumra in matza baking, but in the process forget about the simplest of the simple: plain old common sense, not to speak of this colossal chillul Hashem. I hope the cops slap this congregation with a huge and painful fine, it’s the only language they understand.
can someone advise were to get these matsos because i want to have the zechus to have it at the seder it should only bring blessings.
i saw the clip on cw11 and they zoomed in on the neighbor and she lookes like a goy or non religous and she was yelling that she just wants to keep the neighborhood safe but the city is amazed by this bus the science behind it and they want to keep it there and make it safer it has to be a little away from the house and its back in buisness mey god bless this congregation with full blessings and hatzlocho rabboh.
great hashgocha!
I will be making pizza on the back of the q train tomorrow. Anyone interested in a slice?
I will also have a new fleisheg restaurant on a school bus and we will move the bus around from neighborhood to neighborhood. I think we can make a lot of money.
We will be able to seat about 20 people with seatbelts. We ask customers to throw their garbage out the window when they are finished eating.
Enjoy.
Anonymous 9:53 AM –
Your logic eludes me. you say
the bus could have easily exploded because the gas line feeding into the bus was illegal and then you jump to the conclusion and therefore probably not connected properly.
But it worked for the last two and a half years. The black plastic pipe coming out of the side of the bus looks more like a drain pipe and if you look on the side of the bus there is a huge pile of wood, usually associated with matzah baking.
Then you say:
“If you watch the newsclip, you will see that the frum neighbors called the authorities because they were afraid of the danger.”
NO! NO! NO! If you listen to the news clip you will hear them say a neighbor (not specified frum or not) smelled smoke. If they lived in a neighborhood where fireplaces were more common, they probably would have never noticed.
There is a follow up story in the journal news to this near catastrophe which says: The building inspector says the bus has to be ten feet away from the house and he wants an engineers report that the oven is safe. Then they can continue baking. End of story. Thanks to all you self hating Jews for praying for a worse case scenario so you could complain how miserable other Jews are and for letting us know that you’re self hating Jews. I think I’ll go into self pity mode. I’ve earned it.
I doubt that he will have to pay a penalty…
I am more afraid of the fuel from the treifa grill!!!
…the pipe you see going into the bus does not look like a gas pipe to me…
WATCH THE NEWS VIDEO CLIP HERE:
http://news12.cv.net/video/GW324MBT.wmv
arutz sheva is reporting that the police were amazed on the contraption but they had no choice but to issue violations tickets so as far i’am concerned this is a kidush hashem the only thing they did wrong is not have a permit.
Do any of you know how expensive fire insurance is for a real matzah bakery? The first thing the insurance company asks is what you intend to do in the building. When they hear that you will light bonfires in the building on a daily basis the anti-semites, for no good reason, decide to increase the fire insurance cost. The bus was a great idea, if it blows up you collect on the auto insurance policy. No auto insurance company ever asked on their application whether you intend to light fires on the bus. Whoever masered on this matzah bus just ruined it for the rest of us. Now we need to think of some other shtick.
remember the complex which burned last year in mt. kisco? from a oven fire which reignited!
How did this go unnoticed for 3 years?
…the children from that neighborhood will be asking a “5th” Kasha at the Seder this year: “How come the past three years we ate Matzah baked on a school bus but this year we are eating only Matzah from a regular Matzah bakey?
Sounds like a SHEVACH matzoh to me
check out wcbstv.com this afternoon they will have a report on the matzoh bakery with the owner of the house
to Anon 8:30
Yes if the other people all around town have to pay more taxes because of the “congregation” shtick thats the shame.
Jewish Hate?
Or these guys are just stupid.
If this bus would have exploded and killed a few people I would also be an antisemite for not contributing to the Keren Yesomim/Kimcha Depischa/Hatzalas Nefashos campaigns.
The same goes for Burning the Chametz!
to anonymous 8:30 am:
You moron, the bus could have easily exploded because the gas line feeding into the bus was illegal and therefore probably not connected properly. If you watch the newsclip, you will see that the frum neighbors called the authorities because they were afraid of the danger.
so before you go into self pity mode…think first….
Jewish Hate again!!!
Wow! They “Busted” a “HUGE CRIME”
This is something!!!!
…And “our own” people hate the most! What a shame…
This is the reason that we are still in golus!
Its not the oven that gets me upset, I am sick and tired of the idiot “Congregations” that own houses all over Monsey. My taxes are through the roof and these clowns live in Congregations.
Enough of this already. Please crack down on all those stealing from all their neighbors. These people are not stealing from the Town, they are stealing from everyone one of us who need to pay more to cover the budget for money lost by these morons.
What is the big deal? There are step vans with portable propane pizza ovens. There are roach coaches with gas coffee earns and hot dog grills. The bus was outside, even with a major gas leak, it could not have “blown up all these houses” is nil. Next question, If there is a whole wood pile outside and wood is used in alnmost all matzah ovens, was there really a gas line in the first place? The black corrogated tube looks more like a flexible drain line than a gas line. I’ll try to get by and look at it tomorrow.
And people don’t understand why the fire dept. in New Square had enough with all the “shtick”….