YUP!....build a new house (fully furn.) w/ two new (choice of new 2011 cars)
and call it even...should make it OK.
Posted on 06/14/2009 11:56:26 AM PDT by Chet 99
June 12, 2009—
A Georgia homeowner whose cherished family home was mistakenly demolished said he wants to know how a contracted demolition crew could make such an egregious error.
The modest, three-bedroom house at 11 Byrd Trail in Carrollton was built by Al Byrd's father in 1950. Now it's a mangled pile of debris.
"It was disbelief," Byrd said of the moment he saw the remains of the house where he and his nine siblings were raised. "It was like a mirage."
An Austin-based realty company, Forestar Group Inc., had contracted the demolition of a vacant one-story house at 3050 Highway 16 South, about 150 yards from Byrd's house and on the opposite side of the road.
But Byrd, 64, said he was told by Larry Watts of Marietta, Ga.-based Southern Environmental Services that the crew that actually did the demolition had picked Byrd's house to destroy based on GPS coordinates.
But Forestar Chief Financial Officer Chris Nines told ABCNews.com that his company gave Southern Environmental Services color photos and an address to work from and that he has no idea how they allegedly got GPS coordinates.
"Certainly, we're not happy about it and feel bad for Mr. Byrd," Nines said.
Watts did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Brandon Hannah of North Georgia Container, the company subcontracted with Southern Environmental Services for the actual demolition, confirmed he was at the site, but declined to comment further.
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No, its the same accuracy, its the survey data that is wrong. Same net, but a different source
My bad ... that was “Lamb Chop”. Forgive me, I’m new here :-)
Pain and suffering should make up the difference.
This is a tragedy that has nothing to do with Obama or muslims. You tried to make it something it is not in order to look clever and make a political statement.
I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think you can bankrupt against a tort.
Jury award pain & suffering.
What an interesting link. Thanks for providing it.
I bet that someone identified the wrong house on GoogleEarth and passed on the GPS coordinates for it to the demolition company.
Handheld units for serious outdoor use are accurate, very accurate. The automotive units may be what you are talking about. Government degredation of signals ended long ago.
It seems that this sort of thing isn’t all that unusual, though not quite as extreme...
A friend came home from work one day, and found that 1/2 of his roof had been removed. It turns out that a roofing company came out and began working on the wrong house... His! The roofing company offered to replace the shingles that they had already removed, but his lawyer convinced them to pay the roofing company of his choice to come out and replace his roof, which was less than 2 years old at the time.
Nowhere near as bad as losing the entire house, but still...
Mark
Yeah and they ain't using no TomTom to figure out which door to knock on.
My mom is on her condo committee. Last year, they contracted with a company to tear off and reshingle one of the 20 buildings. She came home to see them doing the tearoff on her building. Wrong one.
I didn’t know the Obama economic team was working in construction....
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