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1 posted on 06/14/2009 11:56:26 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

The GPS slant is significant IMO.


2 posted on 06/14/2009 11:58:57 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Chet 99

OhmyGod!


3 posted on 06/14/2009 12:01:16 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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But Byrd, 64, said he was told by Larry Watts of Marietta, Ga.-based Southern Environmental Services that the crew that actually did the demolition had picked Byrd's house to destroy based on GPS coordinates.

Geez...do people have no common sense? Read the # on the mailbox and on the house, for starters.../duh

4 posted on 06/14/2009 12:01:30 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.foundersvalues.com/)
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Unreal that anyone would rely only on GPS for something like this without verifying the street address. Actually, it seems pretty stupid to even use GPS for locating a specific house to be dismantled. Numerous old fashioned ways to identify the correct house.


9 posted on 06/14/2009 12:04:48 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Chet 99
Some days a like that.



10 posted on 06/14/2009 12:05:45 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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I came home a couple of weeks ago and a large Black Locust tree in my front yard was...GONE.

The dumb ass company cut down the tree, when they were only supposed to prune it. Cut it to the ground.

Bastards.


17 posted on 06/14/2009 12:12:59 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Chet 99

It seems there is no shortage of nitwits in this country. The demolition company should have a policy that they do not raze a house unless the property owner/customer meets them at the job site.


22 posted on 06/14/2009 12:21:32 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (The ground at Arlington is moving & shaking.)
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Even in 1994 GPS (civilian) was only off 50ft. Idiots


25 posted on 06/14/2009 12:23:35 PM PDT by eyedigress
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If I were going to tear down a house, I would first check to see that the electric, gas, and water were turned off. It might also be a red flag if the supposedly vacant house was still filled with furniture, appliances, clothing, food in the fridge, and the like.

Idiots.


29 posted on 06/14/2009 12:28:17 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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What, this demo crew was government employees?

How could this happen to a private business?

30 posted on 06/14/2009 12:29:12 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Prowd gaduate of a Calefornica publik skewl.)
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This demo crew must have been former SWAT team members. They tend to get the wrong address from time to time.


38 posted on 06/14/2009 12:48:13 PM PDT by Ez2BRepub
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“Hello. ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’? We have a special assignment for you...”


40 posted on 06/14/2009 12:49:49 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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The house was furnished and full of heirlooms!

The demolition company should be sued into dust, and no one involved should ever work again.

Apparently it’s illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of mental retardation.


47 posted on 06/14/2009 1:11:53 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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The demolition crew had previous experience in the mining industry.


50 posted on 06/14/2009 1:17:13 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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What's the big deal, the World Trade Center was turned to rubble and no one was fired. Atta’s GPS was working fine.
Didn't I read that O what's his name was going to begin bulldozing cities? Just getting a head start.
Nothing to see here, just move along!
58 posted on 06/14/2009 1:33:54 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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Topic is 'Wrong House' right?

Map of Botched Paramilitary Raids

63 posted on 06/14/2009 2:08:58 PM PDT by rvoitier
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To: Chet 99

It seems that this sort of thing isn’t all that unusual, though not quite as extreme...

A friend came home from work one day, and found that 1/2 of his roof had been removed. It turns out that a roofing company came out and began working on the wrong house... His! The roofing company offered to replace the shingles that they had already removed, but his lawyer convinced them to pay the roofing company of his choice to come out and replace his roof, which was less than 2 years old at the time.

Nowhere near as bad as losing the entire house, but still...

Mark


71 posted on 06/14/2009 2:43:52 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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My mom is on her condo committee. Last year, they contracted with a company to tear off and reshingle one of the 20 buildings. She came home to see them doing the tearoff on her building. Wrong one.


76 posted on 06/14/2009 4:03:08 PM PDT by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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