NCDOT follies
Lord knows the North Carolina Department of Transportation causes me enough grief, whether it's their inability to pave a major interstate highway properly, road widening projects that lead to pedestrian fatalities, or just the resistance put up by NCDOT bureaucrats to installing proper signage at a crosswalk in front of a park.
But what one of my co-workers is dealing with really fills out the ridiculous end of the road that starts with the sublime.
Seems his house in Guilford County is on a road that's maintained by NCDOT. Here's what his mailbox looked like earlier this week.
Seems the contractor who NCDOT hired to mow the right of way dropped the blades a little too soon passing the mailbox.
And now, of course, he's having a hard time getting anyone at NCDOT or the contractor to own up to the deal and replace it. I figure 2 months till they reimburse him.
He's just hoping that Publisher's Clearing House check wasn't in the mail the other day.
But what one of my co-workers is dealing with really fills out the ridiculous end of the road that starts with the sublime.
Seems his house in Guilford County is on a road that's maintained by NCDOT. Here's what his mailbox looked like earlier this week.
Seems the contractor who NCDOT hired to mow the right of way dropped the blades a little too soon passing the mailbox.
And now, of course, he's having a hard time getting anyone at NCDOT or the contractor to own up to the deal and replace it. I figure 2 months till they reimburse him.
He's just hoping that Publisher's Clearing House check wasn't in the mail the other day.
Labels: NCDOT
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2 Comments:
He needs a mailbox like they had at my elementary school (oh so long ago). This particular mailbox had a pedestal made of bricks and the bricks just kept going up the side of the box and curved over on top of it so the entire mailbox was surrounded by bricks.
That would at least give lawn mower blades pause.
By
Tanner Lovelace, at 9:55 AM
Maybe he should tell the cops and the USPS his mailbox was vandalized, and let the various organs of The Man work it out.
I don't think this device would have helped your friend, but it might help with the more typical vandal.
By
Joseph H. Vilas, at 11:57 AM
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