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Wrong house gets demolished by Texas contractor
QMI Agency ^ | July 18, 2013

Posted on 07/21/2013 8:43:51 AM PDT by rickmichaels

A Texas couple came home from vacation this week to find an empty lot where their house once stood.

A contractor in Fort Worth, Texas, sent to demolish the condemned house next door instead mistakenly destroyed David Underwood's home, which had been in his family for decades.

The contractor mistook the house for the condemned one because it was vacant with no electricity. Underwood and his wife had just purchased his grandmother's old house from his aunt and planned to move in after some renovations.

They discovered their future home was gone when they dropped by to mow the lawn Saturday after returning from holidays.

The house next door, which was supposed to have been demolished, was still standing.

"I can literally remember sitting on the counter when I was a little kid, and my grandmother would cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever," Underwood told the Star-Telegram newspaper.

The city says it's investigating the error.


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To: rickmichaels

Did the contractor demolish the wrong house or did the city order the wrong house demolished?


21 posted on 07/21/2013 9:37:01 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Sad. I hope the Doc is unemployed.


22 posted on 07/21/2013 9:37:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Bad move. If you mark both knees (especially in the same color) you're inviting trouble. When my daughter had orthoscopic surgery on her knee, the doctor handed her a magic marker to mark the knee being operated on. If you are going to mark both knees mark one in one color (operate here) and one in a contrasting color (not this one) And don't use any of the same words in either message, e.g., not "don't operate here" vs "operate here". And always have all the patients do it the same way under your instructions.

... and don't forget to write the words THIS END UP on your forehead.

23 posted on 07/21/2013 9:39:52 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: rickmichaels

At least they didn’t raid the wrong house then demolish it with the occupants still in it.


24 posted on 07/21/2013 9:46:23 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: R. Scott

I hope you wrote on the correct one!


25 posted on 07/21/2013 9:53:45 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: virgil283

Sometimes the house slated for demolition looks good but has irreparable foundation problems.


26 posted on 07/21/2013 9:55:57 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Gen.Blather
Now, they write on your body what is to be done while you’re awake.

They did that to me at the VA hospital when I had my triple bypass. After they wrote, "Triple Bypass" in magic marker, I had them write another line under that, "Please return heart to previous position when finished".... just kidding!

27 posted on 07/21/2013 10:01:48 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: rickmichaels
Toronto Sun
28 posted on 07/21/2013 10:21:09 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Electorate data confirms Resolute Conservative voted for Soetoro)
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To: rickmichaels

Reminds me of a story from France last year:

“Authorities have launched an investigation after an 18th-century French chateau was demolished, apparently by mistake.

“The 13,000-square-metre Château de Bellevue was located among the famous vineyards of Bordeaux and was due to be renovated to its former glory, but instead it was bulldozed by a Polish building firm.

“Workmen were only supposed to demolish a separate small building on the grounds of the estate, but that remains standing.”


29 posted on 07/21/2013 10:43:40 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: rickmichaels

MMMM...Minority contractor, perhaps?


30 posted on 07/21/2013 10:45:17 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: rickmichaels

That’s nothing.

Imagine superior technology.

Then imagine Vogons.


31 posted on 07/21/2013 11:07:07 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: FoxInSocks
Reminds me of a story from France last year:
“Authorities have launched an investigation after an 18th-century French chateau was demolished, apparently by mistake.

“The 13,000-square-metre Château de Bellevue was located among the famous vineyards of Bordeaux and was due to be renovated to its former glory, but instead it was bulldozed by a Polish building firm.

“Workmen were only supposed to demolish a separate small building on the grounds of the estate, but that remains standing.”


French Chateau demolished by mistake

32 posted on 07/21/2013 11:59:14 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots

Now that’s a “French Mistake.”


33 posted on 07/21/2013 12:00:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rickmichaels

Lots of rapid Espanol bickering going on in the background. Mucho “no intendo” can be heard.


34 posted on 07/21/2013 12:08:01 PM PDT by X-spurt (I'm copywriting creepy ass cracker, send royalties to BR549)
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To: Pollster1

Lots of disclaimer doc signing noting and verbal saying “correct” place for surgery AND surgeon marking with magicMarker now days.


35 posted on 07/21/2013 12:12:30 PM PDT by X-spurt (I'm copywriting creepy ass cracker, send royalties to BR549)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
You realize the murmurings emanating from the left are that ObamaCare is a train wreck and the answer is single payer, which for all intents and purposes is socialized medicine.

That's nice, but irrelevant. Single payer healthcare would need to get passed by Congress, and while I don't have a whole lot of faith in McConnell and Boehner, I believe they just might stop that.

36 posted on 07/21/2013 1:55:29 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Truth29
Well, what is coming fast is a vast downgrading of the medical personnel who will provide your care from MDs to NPs, and various paraprofessionals. Along with that will be major restrictions on access to health care so you will be in more serious condition by the time you are seen.

I think you're wrong on both fronts.

1) Whether your care is provided by an MD or an NP is to a large extent a question of scope of practice, which is determined on the state level, not by anybody affiliated with ObamaCare.

2) There may eventually have to be "major restrictions on access to healthcare" if healthcare utilization rates go way up and the number of providers does not, HOWEVER as I said earlier that's a long way off -- and not something that is either provided for in ObamaCare directly or something likely to occur during Obama's term of office. That's a long term potential problem, not an immediate threat.

37 posted on 07/21/2013 2:01:46 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: virgil283

I remember looking out my window one morning and remarking to my husband about what a coincidence it was that our neighbours were getting their siding removed the same day ours was scheduled for replacement.

Whoops....


38 posted on 07/21/2013 2:47:15 PM PDT by Eepsy
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To: rickmichaels

They are going to enjoy their brand new house much more than the old one.


39 posted on 07/21/2013 3:23:07 PM PDT by Joyell
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To: Alter Kaker

It’s hardly irrelevant. The entire aim of ObamaCare is a takeover of the health care, a la NHS. ObamaCare is simply a midpoint. As P.J. O’Rourke said, socialism is communism by the glass. ObamaCare in its present form was never intended as the Endlösung, just as close as they could get away with.


40 posted on 07/21/2013 3:28:38 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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