PISSED sent another good one. Watch this video (careful, language is NSFW or kids; the guy actually sounds a lot like I would given the circumstances):
That's what happens when actions are divorced from consequences, folks.
That is all.
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Ho-leee $#!* A foot of snow and they lose their mind.
Nice lawsuit.
Jay,
I must respectfully disagree on the language. Were you calling this play, you'd simply drain the lexicon of expletives. NY dude on the video was calm.
- Brad
The silver 4X4 that got crushed was a NYC Building Dept. vehicle thats keys were locked in an office "somewhere".
Some Jr. bureacrat made a decsion to ding a city owned vehicle to get a much needed front end loader back into work service for the public who pays taxes.
Since nobody personally owned the ride a cost{fixing car} vs. benifit choice was made.
That same public who pays taxes is going to pay for the damage done to that SUV - and the car in front of it.
Why didn't they just tow the SUV out of the way?
I'm not sure I buy Anonymous' explanation as the car in front got hit too.
Fail by the city for not putting chains on either the two truck or the loader. That's assuming those are city vehicles, since it's not clear from the video that they are. Actually, looking again, they don't seem to be city vehicles.
Oh, and the angle of pull was wrong as well. If the tow truck was offset into the street more, it would worked better. Again, provided they had chains.
Jake, lawsuit for what? The city (or whoever owns the vehicles) is insured. Non injury property damage accident. That's what insurance is for.
The guy taking the video is also an asshole, but then again most people who live in NYC fit that category.
"Bring a lawyer." What for? It's a non injury property damage only
No, dumb is the private snow plow driver who was plowing on my street, ran into my wife's parked car, and then took off. In front of a dozen witnesses. Turns out he wasn't even contracted with the town to plow the streets, he was just "helping".
I wouldn't be too hard on them. Construction/industrial tires without chains aren't known for traction, not to mention the physicist pulling the loader slept through the part about vectors and forces. The guy in the loader was probably freaking about hitting the car and not watching where the bucket was on top of it all. It's fun watching these same concerned witnesses devolve when McD's runs out of chicken mcnuggets or Boston gets a boil water order.
"Jake, lawsuit for what? The city (or whoever owns the vehicles) is insured. Non injury property damage accident. That's what insurance is for."
Property damage due to gross negligence and indifference.
See, insurance will only pay the Blue Book value - if repairs cost any more than that, they call it totaled and still only pay the Blue Book value. With the level of negligence and obvious indifference shown in that video, if the owner* sues he is likely to get full replacement value, and even has a good shot at getting punitive damages added, too (based on the fact that they kept pulling after it hit the SUV repeatedly, and even after the SUV got pulled into the car next to it).
It being a non-injury property damage accident is irrelevant, it's still good grounds for a lawsuit. In fact, if they left without reporting it to the police, it could be a felony if there's enough damage (depending on state law).
*Assuming, as I did when I originally commented, that it's privately owned and not city owned as Anonymous@1952 said.
The way I see it...
The tow truck doesn't have any room to reposition itself on the street. Theres a 3 foot wide snow bank on the far side of the street.
..... and he slides sidways toward the SUV as he applys power to try to tow.
No access to the SUV to pull it out of the way.... and no place to put it anyway.
The front end loader attempts to use the articulation to "crab" himself sideways but the bucket has no grip in the snow so it doesn't work well.
Likely they both are contractors and not city owned.
......somebody's supervisor is on a radio saying ....." Stop screwing around and get that loader free NOW!!!!!"
Lesson......never park on the street in NYC.
I'm with Jake. Insurance pays for this everybody's premiums goes up.
Better the city handle this individual claim as quietly as possible.
All that being said that's how this bullshit happened in the first place. The driver of the loader got himself into more trouble than he could get out of, but why should he care? Any mistake he made will be covered by Big-Daddy .Gov!
Then again maybe the city will reprimand him...but I live in Massachusetts, I know better!
Given the lady on the audio track screaming "nobody leaves here until I get an accident report!" I suspect she owned the vehicle (or would otherwise be held responsible for it).
VW: nonsup - send him to bed without his supper, yeah, that'll do.
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