This summer I'm working with an electrical construction company, basically doing alot of labour like digging ditches and layin' pipe.
Today was another useless day at work. Went in for 7 as usual, and went home at 9. Looks like a shitty paycheque coming up, but there's not much we can do in the rain and lightning.
Monday morning we showed up to find a ridiculous mess in our outdoor yard. We leave all of the materials and trucks in the yard, which includes a dump truck, an auger truck, two bucket trucks, and a pickup. Plus a few back-ho's and mini bulldozers.
As it turns out a 15 year old and an 8 year old had broken into the yard (which is locked and barb-wired) at about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday night. A major problem we discovered was that the keys were all left in the vehicles, and they weren't locked up. The damage they caused is estimated to be around $50 000, including one truck that had to be totally written-off.
By the looks of it they drove one bucket truck in a circle, left a searchlight on, and killed the battery. But that truck was in the best shape of em all.
The other bucket truck had a window smashed out, all the lights smashed out, oil poured in the cherry-picker bucket itself, and had tons of shit taken out of the storage compartments and thrown around. We're talking about circuit boards, expensive lightbulbs, and heaps of other random shit. Then by the looks of it they drove the pickup into the side of the truck, busting some compartment doors.
The dump truck had lights, side windows, mirrors, and the windshield smashed in. Then the kids drove the pickup right into the front of the dump. By the look of things they were going pretty damn fast, as we had to use a mini bulldozer to peel the trucks apart on Monday. The 8 year old was the one who drove the pickup into the dump, since we could see where the other kid put his head through the glass on the passenger side. (apparently he was bleeding down his forehead and face). And I guess before they drove the truck into the dump they had smashed down our front gate, completely fucking that up too.
They had only started on the auger when they got caught, but had time enough to open compartments and throw shit around, as well as spraypaint the inside and outside of the cab.
Fortunately a city worker stumbled upon the kids and called the cops. One of the mothers had to be restrained from getting at the kid once she'd been told what had gone down.
So all day Monday we swept up piles of glass and emptied the trucks so we could vacuum them out too. Then glass guys got called in to replace the windows and stuff. I guess things could've been alot worse, especially if the kids had started fires. We have gas tanks laying around, and things could've been far more dangerous.
It's pretty unbelievable that a fucking 8 year old took part in this, let alone the kid who was 15. I guess the parents will be liable for the damage, and the older kid will get charged as a young offender, but the 8 year old will likely get off easy.
And everyone scratched their heads and asked, "Where the fuck are the parents in the lives of these kids?"
The End.
No comments:
Post a Comment