>>Officials with Waste Management told News Channel 8 their drivers are trained to act as an extra set of eyes and ears for sheriff’s deputies, police, fire department, and emergency services.
That’s smart. Often they are under contract with the local county or municipality, and actions like this would tend to make the local decision makers (county commissions and managers, city councils and managers, etc.) think positively about WM.
Plus it’s just the right thing to do, civically.
Garbage men saved a family member from a violent robbery in NYC and called the police
“That’s smart. Often they are under contract with the local county or municipality, and actions like this would tend to make the local decision makers (county commissions and managers, city councils and managers, etc.) think positively about WM.
Plus it’s just the right thing to do, civically.”
Well sometimes... Have to share a short story about that. I worked for WM for about seven years in a mostly rural district. We had one driver who was a biker, bald head, ZZ top beard and all. Real righteous guy who helped people all the time, pulling them out of the sand with his garbage truck and such. We all did as an unwritten rule.
Well one day he came around a corner in a rural neighborhood and there was a drunk idiot spinning donuts in the dirt road right at the school bus stop and the bus was coming to let kids off. So Leonard jammed his truck up in the guy’s way and forced him off the road and into the ditch making him get stuck.
All good and justifiable so far... Until Leonard jumped out and reached in the car and grabbed the guy by the throat and made him give Leonard his wallet and driver’s license. Leonard took his wallet, went down the street, and called the local LE o meet him there. Taking the guy’s wallet was a huge issue and caused WM a lot of legal trouble...
Personally we all thought he was a hero... lol