Re: Can you trust the City of Calgary to be honest...
Originally posted by Maxt
Interesting incident today involving the city, actually a bunch of its workers(about 10 guys, hey its a city crew)..
I was on a new construction site, that was having the sewer and water mains connected by the city.. The site owner and I were standing in the parking lot, watching a city of Calgary 5 ton picker truck back into their other yard...The truck got stuck on the ramp into the other yard, the driver made a poor decision to even think about backing in to where he did.. So he goes forward, stops, then goes forward again, and hits a car parked on the street across from the yard..
We saw the truck hit it, the driver looked around, the crew working 30 ft away saw him hit it as well.. The truck made another couple of multi point turns, and took off..
We decided to hang back to see if they went to look at the car , and put a note on it, we knew who's car it was , so we went to tell the owner..They didn't do anything, they knew their guy hit the car, they watched us when we walked back across the street to see if we looked at....
We finally went and looked at it, the front tire is pushed in about 2 inches, and the fender dented... The crew watched us examine the car....The funny thing is, after looking at the car, and walking back into the building, we then saw one of the guys run over and put a note under the windshield about hitting the car(a full hour after), without even looking at the damage, so they knew damn well their driver hit it...
They weren't going to do anything, unless somebody saw them, well somebody saw them, then they decided to own up to the damage...assholes.....Maxt
I wouldnt jump to a hasty conclusion about this situation. The City of Calgary has protocol for when personal property is damaged when they cannot sit around and wait for the situation to be clarified. They are call "Sorry" cards. The employee will place it on the property indicating what happened and they CANNOT be held personally liable for the damages.
The driver probably didnt see it. I have hit things with the City trucks before and never noticed anything was worng. They are big trucks and you could imagine what backing into a dinky little car would feel like in a huge truck with all the noise inside the truck and other stuff going on.
I personally know about 75% of the people that work for the Waterworks and Wastewater Construction Division, as I have worked there for the last 4 years, and I can tell you that they all play by the book.
I know the drivers of the stinger trucks as well, and they
are good gus that would not profit from doing a hit and run. The City wont give you shit as long as you report it.
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