Posted on 03/02/2020 11:38:27 AM PST by kevcol
The work crew had started ripping off the roof of Belinda Hungate's home in Spring Hill on February 20 when she was woken by the noise.
She then confronted the crew, but she said that they didn't speak English.
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'They did not speak English. The sub-contractor is from Honduras. No business cards, no contractors license,' her husband Philip Hungate told DailyMail.com.
'My wife called me at work in a panic saying there were guys on the roof and they were tearing things off.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Are those asphalt shingles?
Considering who is doing the work then I would be surprised if they ever come back to finish the job. Meanwhile the money from the owners of the roof that was supposed to done is probably already spent. And those people may be out of luck as well.
Regular legal Americans in the roofing installation biz are like bigfoot riding a unicorn. Rumored to exist, but I have never seen one. A legal with passable but poor English usually runs the crew but everyone else on the crew is not exactly legal and does not speak a lick of English. The contractor that hires the crew in is usually American.
How this happened is easy to explain. Someone needed to spend more time in Spanglish class.
[ ‘They did not speak English. The sub-contractor is from Honduras. No business cards, no contractors license,’ her husband Philip Hungate told DailyMail.com. ]
They’re just doing the jobs Americans refuse to do. /W
They did it out of love. /Jeb!
Tell the cops you heard shots.
Gunny Highway: Don’t want to get my head shot off because you don’t habla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Z00Nq7StQ
Any work I get done on the house that might use “imported” labor, I always demand someone be onsite that speaks fluent English. Not just shakes their head “yes” when you talk to them. Oddly enough...I learned this the hard way during a reroofing job.
How come they were arrested? Trespassing, vandalism, immigration violations, etc. They weren’t legal contractors. Is that OK?
An unsolved case occurred in SW Florida. Mid-1990s, Miami drug dealers drove to the wrong address, killed a family of five and their dog. “Flamingo” is a very common street name in South Florida. That the Counties were adjacent didn’t help any.
I think illegals did the floor tiles at one of our Wal-marts.
Beside multiple people slipping on the slick surface..a few people got seriously hurt.
The tiles all come up at the corners within a year.
They finally hired some locals to redo the whole thing.
Laws and regulations only apply to American citizens, in America these days.
This should end well.
I had that at my place. Someone was building a house next to my property and they didn’t have a clue where the real property lines were.
They managed to get the house on their lot, but they instructed the power company to go an angle across my land to hook up power.
That was a bad plan because...
The property is wooded and they cut several trees.
The state of MI has a ‘treble- damages’ law for unauthorized tree cutting.
The owner of the property gets to set the value of the trees and the judge makes it 3X.
You would be surprised at the value of a few scrub trees in a fencerow, thousands!
Big surprise
“The contractor that hires the crew in is usually American.”
In South Florida, likely Cuban.
Inquiring for help, I asked a crew of seven next door. None spoke English!
Looked out..and there were 2 big holes being dug in my lawn.
They never notified me..they didn't knock on the door.
Welcome to the Oklahoma Gas Company..!!
Took forever for them to fix the sidewalk..and the curb. Had to threaten them with legal action...3 months after the "big dig"..it got done.
Of course they didn't reseed my lawn. Didn't really care about that...though.
Didn’t they have the 811 utility marking folks show up first? That’s always a clue to see the little colored flags.
Had a new roof put on last fall. 6 habla espanol workers and 2 American supervisors. Was done in a day and all debris was removed.
Yeah, I used to live in Fla and every city has a Flamingo street, sometimes more than one.
I’ve seen those guys lay shingles faster than a robot could.
Downright amazing.
One guy peels them off the bundle and slides them down the slope to the installer. Installer puts into position and bangs with a nail gun. Literally in seconds.
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