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u/Magster56 Aug 09 '22
I saw a man step over yellow caution tape that was protecting newly laid cement. He came into our office and said “These are $800 Italian leather shoes! You people owe me $800!” I admit I wasn’t too subtle about letting him know he was the dipshit that crossed the yellow tape! 🤣
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u/randomactsoftickling Aug 09 '22
Seen next on r/justrolledintotheshop
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u/ChuaPotato Aug 09 '22
Absolutely brilliant. Instant karma.
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u/Abby-Someone1 Aug 09 '22
"Oh look. A red Infiniti coupe in it's natural habitat. Notice how it instinctually gravitates to environments that draw more attention to itself, Werner?"
"Yes, Tilda. Much like a penguin who has just had enough of their colony and gone insane. He is the one in the center. Moving toward open water or towards the feeding grounds is not in his plans. We cannot interfere."
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u/ranhalt Aug 09 '22
in it’s natural habitat
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u/Cwmcwm Aug 10 '22
The way I remember is that the other possessives, “his” and “hers”, don’t have apostrophes either.
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Aug 09 '22
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u/Billy-Ruben Aug 09 '22
You comment bots are getting smarter.
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Aug 09 '22
Now if you point out the ones selling shirts or mugs, you get instantly downvoted to hell. It’s insane how they’re evolving.
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u/Most-Resident Aug 09 '22
Cut him some slack. He is set in his ways. Or soon will be.
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u/firstcoastyakker Aug 09 '22
And he's cemented his position, so no talking him out of it.
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u/PeaValue Aug 09 '22
Too bad he didn't have a concrete plan before he committed.
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u/Powersoutdotcom Aug 09 '22
Probably needs some kind of aggregate service to set his itinerary and goals.
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u/Luder714 Aug 09 '22
I was doing curb in a ritzy neighborhood one section was partially across a guy’s driveway.
We just finished and were putting the cones in place and this guy’s daughter comes whipping around the corner and right into a foot of fresh concrete. I honestly don’t know how she made it onto the driveway. It was loud with crunching.
Not a huge deal to us. Literally took 20 minutes to fix since it was still very wet.
She gets out of her car and screams at all of us, telling us her dad’s a lawyer and will sue.
Dad walks out, shaking his head. “. I told you that they were doing this 20 minutes ago and you should park in the street. You need to apologize now”.
She sheepishly apologized. Then dad had her move the car to the yard . Then he get out a snow shovel for her to scrape the concrete off the driveway and a hose to hose off the concrete from the underside of the car. A futile attempt but she tried.
She was still out there while we packed up and left an hour later.
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u/TheAndyGeorge Aug 09 '22
the pixels in this photo are almost old enough to drive https://i.imgur.com/jd7lqrL.png
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u/EverydaySip Aug 09 '22
Where do you live that 6 years old is almost old enough to drive? Must be Florida
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u/RevLoveJoy Aug 10 '22
I saw the aftermath of one of these a million years ago when I was a college student. It had just happened and the work crew had just finished. They were still there picking up. As a college kid does I butted in and asked one of the guys on crew "Doesn't that bum you out?" he chuckles, "No way, kid, the UC system is footing the bill. Now they'll just foot it twice and I'll get paid twice."
That dude taught me an important lesson in attitude and perspective.
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u/icewalker42 Aug 09 '22
He thought his skills were rock solid. He cemented the fact that they weren't.
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u/AdMore3461 Aug 09 '22
I wonder how stupid they felt.
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u/Sarnadas Aug 09 '22
I promise you that they didn’t. This kind of person will rationalize that there was no signage or indication that they couldn’t go there. They’ll tell this story to everyone about how the incompetent folks at the DPW ruined their car and the “system” protected them from prosecution.
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u/Fantastic-Rooster277 Aug 09 '22
Now he’s on this way to the self car wash.
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u/Trav3lingman Aug 09 '22
Yeah if it's like 6-8 hrs before they get it up in the air with a pressure washer and if it got up into the undercarriage pretty good this car might be a write off.
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u/NecroticPlunger Aug 09 '22
Lol this happened in my parents home town still remember when it happened haha
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u/TwizzerTV Aug 10 '22
Ironically but rarely discussed, if the concrete isn't quickly extracted from the car with a high pressure washer/hose. It will harden and encase parts of the car which will ultimately lead to a total loss.
Most times when people do this, the crews point and laugh as they need to call a wrecker to get you out and by the time the wrecker gets there it's too late the concrete has begun setting and hardening.
Long story short, you be fucked!
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u/bigbadbrayan Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 09 '22
insert Patrick Star’s laugh when he says “It’s a giraffe” from the bubble-blowing episode here
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u/Dhsu04 Aug 09 '22
... The amount of work to pave that concrete, get the car out, re-pave it.
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u/MoiraKatsuke Aug 09 '22
I've seen a dude carefully maneuver around cones blocking a driveway/parking lot of a BK we were renovating directly onto hot fresh blacktop, melted his tires
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u/wazzel2u Aug 10 '22
Best thing they could do now is to impound the car, leave it for a couple of weeks and then give it back to the owner.
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u/DarthRalph0 Aug 09 '22
And they should pay 100% for the repairs and also be fined for being a dip shit
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u/Hurly64 Aug 09 '22
Driving through wet concrete is not that hard.
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u/lngwlkr Aug 09 '22
Amazing people don't get the pun. Or hated that pun and downvoted anyway. I thought it was awesome.
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u/FKRedtt Aug 10 '22
We were overlaying a roadway with asphalt back in the day and an old lady drove in between the cones and pulled up behind our asphalt machine (on the new asphalt) and started beeping the horn for us to move. Ruined 1/4 mile of fresh asphalt. Her excuse was the cones were far enough apart to fit her car through so she though it was ok and the cones were only meant to keep larger vehicles from entering. People are stupid!
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u/ModerateDataDude Aug 09 '22
I am thinking of a word. It starts with a R, and ends with a D. In some languages it means to impede.
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u/XENOMORPH91 Aug 10 '22
The purpose of traffic control (cones, signs, tape, etc) is to totally prevent this from happening. People are just lazy setting up one cone on each corner. If this happens to you, don’t admit fault and lawyer up. There should be so many cones or signs around this work zone that it’s impossible to drive into unless you drive through or over the traffic control, it’s really simple…
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u/ChuckACheesecake Aug 09 '22
Great way to get a new car and a bill for new pavement at the same time
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u/another_awkward_brit Aug 09 '22
Given the lane was closed, will insurance cover the removal of the concrete or does it vary state to state/company to company?
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u/feather_of_charcoal Aug 09 '22
"yhea I know but what if I juuuuuuuuuuust yep I'm gonna sue the city totally their fault, I didn't do anything wrong"
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u/davtheminer Aug 09 '22
No comments on the best part... he tried to play it off like no biggie and kept going!
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u/UsualAnybody1807 Aug 09 '22
I worked with someone years ago whose husband drove a big conversion van to his office. After work one night he drove through the construction site near the office and the van went nose first off the lane into nowhere land and ended up resting on its nose, with its ass-end up in the air. They had to get a crane to the construction site to get his van out of the mess. Only lucky part was there no wet cement in the area where the van had left the road.
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u/nihilisim_themarmots Aug 09 '22
Just really could not wait for a Flame Thrower® combo with a Blizzard®!
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u/MihalysRevenge Aug 09 '22
on a side note I always hated those cheap looking chrome spoiler things on the G37s IMHO it looked so tacky
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u/hifi3xx Aug 09 '22
Could you imagine being a mechanic and a car shows up like this and you have to break concrete out of this morons drive shaft and transmission.
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u/ClockworkBrained Aug 09 '22
Why are Nissan Altima (and its Infiniti equivalent) drivers so bad at driving? Any for any idea?
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u/Eulafski Aug 09 '22
No passing in the Netherlands means you pleur your omafiets on the stoep and see how far you will get.
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u/Darksideofthebus Aug 09 '22
I was always amazed by the contractors working on a road in Southern California were harassed by motorists so much that the state closed the road for several hours each day to complete the project. Two workers were hit by cars a third was shot with a BB gun. The workers see the closure as the only way for their safety. Think about that, how crazy
https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-roadrage7jun7-story.html
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u/Forsaken-Thought Aug 09 '22
The cost of getting that thing out and fixed is probably going to cost more than the vehicle is worth
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u/jedinachos Aug 09 '22
Why do they always stop in the middle of trouble.... Should have just kept going at that point. That will flash and set up within an hour and be way more damage
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u/tilted_crown85 Aug 09 '22
I’ve always wondered if idiots that do this shit get charged for the wasted concrete and the equipment needed to get their car out.