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(Nola.com) Sad Awesome...Couple buys untouched flood house in New Orleans to rehab it and move in. FARK...city knocks it down, even after it's removed from the demolish list...sad picture included   (nola.com) divider line 98
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SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 01:49:33 AM  
they should have laid in front of the bulldozers in their bathrobes.

 
klparrot 2008-08-17 02:09:56 AM  
TFA: A spokeswoman for the company that tore down the house, Beck Disaster Recovery of Orlando, Fla., said the firm was notified that Saturday's demolition had been canceled.

Sounds like despite any confusion involving the city and paperwork, word still made it to the demolition company, so they're the ones that'll be holding the ball on this one. Hopefully it'll be fairly straightforward process for the family to sue them and get money to rebuild.

 
gopher321 [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:29:41 AM  
Maybe they weren't "chocolate" enough for Nagin.

 
yarnothuntin 2008-08-17 03:16:14 AM  
I can haz house?

No, not yours.

 
Cynical Idealist [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 03:17:55 AM  
SilentStrider: they should have laid in front of the bulldozers in their bathrobes.

Or gotten the man running the demolitions team to lie in front of the bulldozers. That would work too.

 
Monkey's Knuckle 2008-08-17 03:18:27 AM  
W

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F?

 
Jackle Mackle 2008-08-17 03:18:28 AM  
Yeah I'd sue straight away. Didn't the construction firm even look at the house before hand and think, "Hmm, isn't that a little weird that we're demolishing what looks like to be a brand new house? Let's call the city to confirm."?

 
truthlikegold 2008-08-17 03:19:04 AM  
www.nola.com

Asking this guy to do something right is trivial.

 
drewsky52 2008-08-17 03:19:57 AM  
SilentStrider: they should have laid in front of the bulldozers in their bathrobes.

don't forget the towel

 
The Amazing Rando! 2008-08-17 03:21:46 AM  
truthlikegold: Asking this guy to do something right is trivial.

Now there's a guy who knows where his towel is.

 
myalias1845 2008-08-17 03:24:03 AM  
You're on Candid Camera!

/got nothin

 
BigChad 2008-08-17 03:25:23 AM  
i508.photobucket.com

 
sirgrim [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 03:27:28 AM  
Import a new one from Detroit on the cheap.

 
MattyFridays 2008-08-17 03:28:16 AM  
yet people still want to blame Bush for this mess

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 03:32:55 AM  
MattyFridays: yet people still want to blame Bush for this mess

Bush is abou5 20% to blame. Whatshername the governor is about 35% to blame.
Nagin is the remaining 45%.

 
jonewer 2008-08-17 03:33:02 AM  
Is Noo Orleens the sink-hole for all America's stoopidness?

I mean, if you dug a ditch around it and pushed it away into the sea, would the US' IQ go up a few points?

 
Unknown_Poltroon [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 03:34:12 AM  
Dude, they were black. WHo cares!!!


/Welcome to new orleans

 
otterly_delicious [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 03:37:57 AM  
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

 
Z1P2 2008-08-17 03:38:30 AM  
Escape the ethnic cleansing hurricane Katrina? Oh no you didn't!

 
beoswulf 2008-08-17 03:41:18 AM  
Jackle Mackle: Yeah I'd sue straight away. Didn't the construction firm even look at the house before hand and think, "Hmm, isn't that a little weird that we're demolishing what looks like to be a brand new house? Let's call the city to confirm."?

It didn't look like a brand new house, it looked like a property that was untouched since the flood, RTFHeadline

 
Vern 2008-08-17 03:41:58 AM  
The Amazing Rando!: truthlikegold: Asking this guy to do something right is trivial.

Now there's a guy who knows where his towel is.


Ray Nagin is not, I repeat NOT a hoopy frood, and certainly doesn't know where his towel is.

 
Alyna_jf 2008-08-17 03:44:16 AM  
oh snaaaap.. someones gonna get serrrrrrrved

 
geetus 2008-08-17 03:45:05 AM  
"It's just a lack of communication," DeJan said. "It's not being on the same wavelength."

Way to use generic management excuses to explain why you destroyed someone's house.

/they're just not playing ball
//there's no I in team

 
Z1P2 2008-08-17 03:45:23 AM  
... and by that I mean epic fail on my part...

 
Z1P2 2008-08-17 03:46:17 AM  
Damn, posted to wrong thread... still epic fail

 
MrWilson-GOML 2008-08-17 03:52:42 AM  
Tar.
Feathers.

 
flamingboard 2008-08-17 03:53:24 AM  
Cynical Idealist: SilentStrider: they should have laid in front of the bulldozers in their bathrobes.

Or gotten the man running the demolitions team to lie in front of the bulldozers. That would work too.


he was too busy thinking about a nice furry hat.

 
wookiemonster 2008-08-17 03:54:29 AM  
klparrot: TFA: A spokeswoman for the company that tore down the house, Beck Disaster Recovery of Orlando, Fla., said the firm was notified that Saturday's demolition had been canceled.

Sounds like despite any confusion involving the city and paperwork, word still made it to the demolition company, so they're the ones that'll be holding the ball on this one. Hopefully it'll be fairly straightforward process for the family to sue them and get money to rebuild.


You are kidding, right? You know the city can hide behind the laws enacted to protect "public health" after Katrina, right? Besides, do you know how costly it would be to sue the city?

Playing devil's advocate, we don't know the full story behind this demolition. There are a LOT of flooded houses just sitting in the city, rotting away. It's been THREE YEARS since Katrina and those rotting building that are left vacant are a breeding ground for all sorts of scum; human, vermin, and disease. The city has to do something or it will turn into a rotting carcass.

 
Nickers 2008-08-17 03:56:06 AM  
The city should buy/give them a new house, worth the value of the one they bulldozed. How stupid can you get, really?

 
moof 2008-08-17 03:59:54 AM  
geetus: "It's just a lack of communication," DeJan said. "It's not being on the same wavelength."

Way to use generic management excuses to explain why you destroyed someone's house.

/they're just not playing ball
//there's no I in team


The sad part is that it's the owner saying this..

 
Jackle Mackle 2008-08-17 04:00:15 AM  
beoswulf: Jackle Mackle: Yeah I'd sue straight away. Didn't the construction firm even look at the house before hand and think, "Hmm, isn't that a little weird that we're demolishing what looks like to be a brand new house? Let's call the city to confirm."?

It didn't look like a brand new house, it looked like a property that was untouched since the flood, RTFHeadline


Untouched except for the fact that they had completely gutted it and have been fixing it up for months, RTFArticle

 
irishk5blazer 2008-08-17 04:01:40 AM  
ah our tax dollars at work guess whos not get reelected

 
GBB 2008-08-17 04:02:05 AM  
"I will have to further investigate where the disconnect took place before I can comment" on the Kendall Drive house, White said.

I'm going to say it occured somewhere between the proverbial right and left hands.

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 04:02:33 AM  
Why can't any of that violence I heard about after Katrina strike Mr Nagin?

 
ultraholland 2008-08-17 04:04:21 AM  
Wachu know about makin' chocolate??

 
flamingboard 2008-08-17 04:08:37 AM  
wookiemonster: klparrot: TFA: A spokeswoman for the company that tore down the house, Beck Disaster Recovery of Orlando, Fla., said the firm was notified that Saturday's demolition had been canceled.

Sounds like despite any confusion involving the city and paperwork, word still made it to the demolition company, so they're the ones that'll be holding the ball on this one. Hopefully it'll be fairly straightforward process for the family to sue them and get money to rebuild.

You are kidding, right? You know the city can hide behind the laws enacted to protect "public health" after Katrina, right? Besides, do you know how costly it would be to sue the city?

Playing devil's advocate, we don't know the full story behind this demolition. There are a LOT of flooded houses just sitting in the city, rotting away. It's been THREE YEARS since Katrina and those rotting building that are left vacant are a breeding ground for all sorts of scum; human, vermin, and disease. The city has to do something or it will turn into a rotting carcass.


did you read the comment you're responding to? they're talking about suing the company that did the demo since the city already told them it was canceled.

//smashy smashy

 
ultraholland 2008-08-17 04:14:12 AM  
New Orleans: the perfect place to raze a family.

 
farkwell 2008-08-17 04:16:11 AM  
you know what? this is dissapointing, but the homeowner is going to come out of this WELL ahead from where he planned to be.

do you have any idea how expensive it is to move a house? well, neither do i, but building is CHEAP right now. contractors are dieing for the work. also, houses built today are better than anything built, then left vacant for 3 years, then moved.

 
Dufus [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 04:21:59 AM  
The NOLA agency given the task of gutting and demolishing abandoned houses has been disbanded and all concerned are under investigation for fraud. There seemed to be quite a few ties to Nagin in the various companies under contract. I wonder which of Sugar Ray's inlaws, outlaws, or cousins happen to work for Beck Disaster Recovery?

 
SU 2008-08-17 04:26:20 AM  
well at least they weren't subjected to vogon poetry

 
otterly_delicious [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 04:32:32 AM  
SU: well at least they weren't subjected to vogon poetry


Well...since you asked...

Oh freddled gruntbuggley, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!

 
otterly_delicious [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 04:33:39 AM  
I forgot to reference...

Grunthos the Flatulent's "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning."

 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia 2008-08-17 04:35:03 AM  
otterly_delicious: I forgot to reference...

Grunthos the Flatulent's "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning."


not nearly as good as Zen and the Art of Going to the Lavatory

 
Elvis_Pelt 2008-08-17 04:38:26 AM  
Ray Nagin for the the win!

elvis-pelt.com

 
otterly_delicious [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-17 04:43:43 AM  
holiday_inn_in_cambodia: otterly_delicious: I forgot to reference...

Grunthos the Flatulent's "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning."

not nearly as good as Zen and the Art of Going to the Lavatory


Might as well cut to the chase.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occassionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
Greenbridge
Essex

 
angrygrizzly 2008-08-17 04:55:56 AM  
truthlikegold: Asking this guy to do something right is trivial.

www.ep.tc

 
silverblues 2008-08-17 04:56:22 AM  
I am rarely a fan of lawsuits, but I am all for them suing this company and the city of NOLA into the ground.

 
Timdesuyo 2008-08-17 05:40:02 AM  
jonewer: Is Noo Orleens the sink-hole for all America's stoopidness?

I mean, if you dug a ditch around it and pushed it away into the sea, would the US' IQ go up a few points?


It already has a ditch around it. It's also already under the sea. Also, judging by your comment, it appears that letting the sea reclaim it would not have a noticeable effect on the Average American IQ.

 
Migaloo 2008-08-17 05:40:22 AM  
The basement was filled with Heineken, don't cha know.

The demo company consisted of 20 black guys with weaves, and each had a plastic wheelie bin.

 
Well-read Baron 2008-08-17 05:40:23 AM  
silverblues I am rarely a fan of lawsuits, but I am all for them suing this company and the city of NOLA into the ground.

The city has sovereign immunity, but Congress can waive that immunity to allow such a suit if it so chooses. It's not very likely though.

The company, of course, is fair game, and it looks like they may get run through the wringer for this. Deservedly so.

 
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