Frances Barton cried Tuesday as she watched cleanup on what's left of her single-wide mobile home four days after it was overturned while it was being moved along U.S. 68 in Nicholas County near Carlisle.
You just can’t make this stuff up, ya know!
This is sad. She needs help
Wow...
Just.... WOW!
This story reminds me of the guy who stands on the Golden Gate bridge to jump and backs up traffic for 5 hours while authorities try to talk him down. Let him jump so we can go on about our lives and get to work. Same thing here. Clog a federal highway for 4 hours, something had to be done.
12 people in a single wide trailer???? hmmmm
12 people in a single-wide? I feel bad for the lady, but the trailer was probably gonna explode anyway.
Ernest moves a mobile home.
Did anyone even check the bearings on the wheels? I’ve been involved in hauling some large, heavy things before(drilling rigs, water tanks, a small house once, a barn, etc.) and you MUST check the bearings. You also move it about 100 yards and RECHECK, specially for heat. I bet the dope hooked up the hitch, inflated the tires and off they went.
It's sad, but so funny too. I was kind of chuckling as a read the story but when I came to the name of the mover I lol'd....I can't wait to finish it.
Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
It just adds another dimension to the tragedy. It's tragic enough that the trailer had to be destroyed, but the birds!!!
Adding to list of Lurkers Life Rules: Never hire a man named "Pancake" to move ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, at ANYTIME.
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This reminds me of a shaggy dog story I read about 40 years ago, about some follow moving a house through the middle of town. The story takes the form of correspondence between the fellow moving the house with the Farmer’s Friend Tractor Company, as he writes to get them to send him the big gear with 48 teeth that meshes with the little gear with 18 teeth...
It goes on an on about his problems, about how the house is stuck right in the middle of main street, and if he doesn’t get it moved soon, he is going to be a “blowed up sucker”.
I think, in the end, he gets a letter back saying that he needs to contact the Steel Elephant Tractor Company for the part, but they are, regretfully, out of business...
Funny story!
I like this guy. Stupidity should hurt. We'd have less of it.
A 35 year old grandmother, with 12 people living in a friggin trailer, who hires a guy named Pancake to mover her nasty piece of crap trailer?
CD, these people live on the other side of your state, or what? (Kidding, and ducking!)
I wonder how many 30-packs it will take before this whole mess is cleaned up.
bump
This has no logic.
why destroy the trailer when it could have been towed or pushed out of the way.
cop fever in action.
i tried to get through the entire article, but the level of white trash got so high that i had to stop and go buy a mocha chino pumpkin latte, read the new york times, and but a new pair of $500 alligator loafers just so i could get back to my usual level of metrosexualness.
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Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006,"
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Chris "Pancake" Meyers told her, she said, that he had more than 13 years' experience in hauling things and that he had the proper permits and insurance for the move.
You MUST read this article! LMAO
