On Friday, September 8, 2000 at 6:30p.m. I arrived home. Everything was fine. At 7:40p.m. I left again. Only this time when I got to the corner I noticed there were 6 gallons of house paint smashed all over the street! Red, yellow, and white! I almost drove through it! It flooded the road! What a God damn mess! At first I though it was vandalism, but after observing how the buckets were laying in the street and their distance from the stop sign, I’ve come to the conclusion that some waste of his fathers sperm had the paint in the back of a pick up truck which feel off when the idiot stopped for the stop sign! (or it feel off when he pulled away from the sign! Whatever!) I called the cops and they said they’d try to get some city workers to clean it up. On a friday night? HA!
Why would someone put paint in a vehicle in such a way that it could fall off and splash all over the street? You would not believe the mess, it’s HUGE! I see my neighbors cars full of paint because they didn’t see it before driving through it (it was getting dark)! Then my wife came home and drove through it with her brand new Maxima! Is she pissed! What the hell is wrong with people? Think, people, think! Use that fucking brain God gave you! That paint is going to stick to at least 50 cars that drive through here and it’ll be on the pavement for 20 years! Fucking jerks!:mad:
I was behind a gardener’s truck on the freeway yesterday, and he had a whole yard of wood chips and branch pieces flying out of his back for a whole mile. Everyone was bobby and weaving and it was kind of scary.
He must have seen it. It made a big cloud.
When I passed him, I could see open trash bins spewing paper and a bunch of unsecured rakes and hoes waiting for a bump to fly out create an accident.
And the worst part was his truck was equipped with a rubber mesh to hold stuff in but he had it hanging unused on one side.
I spoke with a buch of neighbors and they’re all as pissed as I am! Many of them drove through the paint last night when it was dark and the didn’t see it until it was too late. There was a convoy to the car wash, but a lot of cars still ended up with paint stained on the side and on the tires! And what a mess, the street looks like shit!
We have an idea who did this, too! But we want to make sure before we…!
Would it have been so hard to go to the neighbors closest to the intersection and tell them about it? Then you could have gotten a garden hose and maybe hosed the street down? If that didn’t work I’m sure you could have found some sort of solvent to dilute the paint enough so it wasn’t as big of a problem for you and the neighbors. That’s what I would have done. Seems to me that because you knew the paint was there you made a pretty crappy neighbor by not trying to do something about it. Calling the city doesn’t count because you knew they wouldn’t do anything on a Friday night.
quisp - one thing I’d caution you about is that most cities have ordinances about paint disposal. Washing it off the street into the sewer system isn’t likely to be the preferred method of disposal.
But we live on a hill and the water was making it an even bigger mess! I also was going to put some saw horses in the street to block off the section, but being right around the corner I was afraid someone might plow right into them and damage their car even more. It was/is not a pretty situation. The city did come this afternoon and removed as much off the pavement as they could!
The main point is, whomever did this is pretty inconsiderate! But like I said, we think we know who did. He’s not home now, but when he is we’re going to talk to him.
That’s weak PK. There is a special place in hell for people with unsecured crap in their vehicles. I ran into a similar situation as Mu Mu once. A gardner or something with an open trailer and big metal pieces of who knows what on the back. He hit a bump, sure enough, and I ran over a big hunk of metal. Luckily I was in my truck. I pulled up next to him and bitched him out. I also got his license and called the cops, telling them he had all this crap rolling around on the trailer. Assholes. Whoever dumped the paint deserves for his car, his home, his family and his favorite beer-toting baseball cap with the little tubes that go to the mouth to be doused in pink paint.