Posted on 01/24/2022 5:05:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A New Jersey house has been hit by cars two weekends in a row — starting just hours after its new first-time owners bought it, according to authorities and an online fundraiser.
The first incident occurred on Jan. 15 when a car lost control, went right through the Ocean Township home and ended up in Deal Lake, the Wanamassa Fire Company said.
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I lived in Vernon NJ for awhile.
Around the corner from us, Route 565 made two 90 degree turns through the middle of a horse farm.
Back when the road was first plotted, magnetite below ground messed with the plotters, so they simply followed the compass across the deposit.
Two or so hundred years later, a barn on the first 90 degree turn kept getting plowed into despite giant red triangle signs, reflective arrows, giant orange wall etc.
The farm owner made the wall reinforced concrete block.
Drunk doing well above 60 plowed into it hard enough to u bend the rebar and deleted himself.
Farmer got sued.
Yep, that is what I did and no one ever ran into my front yard trees.
Their guardian angel is telling them not to move in.
We woke up one night before Christmas Eve to a drunk who’d driven his car backward down the street and ended up in the hedge and an inch away from the corner of our house. He turned out to be the husband of the secretary at work. She was so embarrassed she left him in jail through Christmas.
Jersey drivers, that’s how.
I looked it up. The house sold last year and it actually had a string of hefty rocks in front, perpendicular to the garage. No way a car go over them and hit the front and still have the speed to land in the drink behind the house. (Not a lake at this end of Deal Lake, hardly a creek.)
Driver must have made a special trip to get into the water afterwards! :D
Not a pricey neighborhood either. But if I were the insurance investigator...well...I’d be extra skeptical.
After a car missed the curve in the road and hit our house my father had 1/2 dozen dump truck loads of soil and some boulders brought in to create a 4’ tall berm near the road.
Two more cars a few years apart ended up on it and didn’t hit the house.
New Jersey drivers know that the fastest route between 2 points is a straight line and that everything between- including traffic lights - is involved in a conspiracy to slow you down.
That would also explain the merging practices in traffic circles.
There are a couple of houses where I live that feature front yard boulders because of the propensity of local drunks to blow the stop sign.
They are currently homeless and making payments on an uninhabitable house. And while insurance may make them whole eventually, I am sure GoFundMe is faster than insurance.
There are often costs the insurance doesn’t cover, not to mention deductibles. Also, don’t assume that the drivers have insurance.
— 22-foot long sections of steel railroad rails driven into the ground at four-foot intervals along the front lawn of the home.
— 7 feet of each rail protruded above the ground. The remaining 15 feet were embedded in the ground.
— A neat hedge row planted along the entire front lawn, totally obscuring the steel rails from view in any direction.
Worked like a charm. One night when nobody was home, the neighbors heard a car hurtling down the hill. There was a brief screech of brakes at the bottom, then an odd loud metallic sound that was described as “the dull vibration of a giant tuning fork.”
The car was a mangled wreck. The hedges were a bit ruffled, but there wasn’t a single piece of the car larger than a soup can on the front lawn beyond the hedges.
Most homeowners policies would cover some extra expenses while the house is being repaired. While some drivers do not have insurance, most do. Those without coverage will really be adversely impacted in the future.
There was a guy in Fort Payne, Alabama named Joe. His house was at the base of Lookout Mountain, right where Alabama 35 comes down the mountain and makes a 90 degree bend. His house was plowed into several times by runaway trucks, so he built a thick concrete barrier. The barrier was (and probably still is) known as “Joe’s Truck Stop”.
I had a house that was run into by a car once.
The kind of drivers who slam into houses because of speed or drunkenness are often frequent flyers who drive without insurance because they can’t afford their high risk insurance.
And personal experience making an insurance claim following fire informs me that insurance companies don’t just give you money. There are forms upon forms that have to accompanied by photographs and bids from multiple contractors and signed copies of permits because god forbid you repair something without permission from the government. It took about 6 weeks for the first check to be cut. I can’t imagine what a nightmare it would be with current supply chain issues and labor shortages.
If you don’t have savings to cover all the little incidentals because you maybe just emptied them making the down payment and covering closing costs, you are going to be in a world of hurt.
Icing on the cake is your taxes going up due to “improvements” like a new roof and wiring.
Years ago we received reimbursement for extra expenses after our house burnt down. We did have to document the expenses and there were limits. If you are tapped out buying a house it is going to be difficult. I don’t think one will need $21,000 however.
They have to immediately rent a place to live, first/last and deposits is easily 3-6K depending on where you live.
Bet they don’t sleep well at night.
The old fashioned way might work—a moat!
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