I'm not sure I follow. I removed the EventRepository object out of the code just to try to simplify things:

my $ffm = FFMech->new;
$ffm->gets('http://nyt.com');
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This results in an error:

Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/local/share/p
+erl/5.20.2/WWW/Mechanize/Firefox.pm line 804.
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The gets() method in FFMech looks like this now:

sub gets {
  my $self = shift;
  my ($url, $sec, $syn) = set_args(@_);
  $self->get($url);
  sleep($sec);
}
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