SANIT TRUCK TRASHES CAR (ADULT LANGUAGE)

A vigilant Brooklyn Heights man picked-up his video camera early Monday and uploaded onto YouTube a jaw-dropping clip totaling just over four minutes of crinkling metal and concaving bodywork that would make a detailer's stomach churn. The footage reveals a white Ford Explorer and two other sedans parked on Joralemon Street near Hicks Street that became a demolition derby victims after a Sanitation tow truck attempted to haul a hulking orange front end loader for several hours since around 6 a.m. The tenant couldn't believe the situation unfolding before him at around 9:30 a.m. "I knew it was going to end bad," said John K., 46. "They got this huge tow truck that's used for buses and tractor trailers and they're using it to lift up the front end of another snow plow. And they're flailing because they have the back wheels off the ground. And it just went from bad to worse." He threw on some clothes and darted downstairs, where his landlord's wife stood helplessly watching her husband's work wheels get totaled. "Why weren't they putting chains on while they were lifting it up," he asked. "They could have drove it out themselves. I went down after they pulled it into the intersection and I saw my landlord and she was baffled; really beside herself." Arriving home to a pile of metal that once was his city-owned Ford Explorer was Eugene McArdle. He was summoned from work after he spent all morning shoveling the snow from his stoop. "One car belongs to my daughter and one belongs to my work," he told The Post. "They called me at work and told me it got struck and they [Sanitation] destroyed my car." Upon returning to his Brooklyn block he surveyed the eye-cringing damage. "They basically got the whole back and the car behind it. "They almost took out that hydrant. If I didn't dig it out of the snow earlier they would have taken it out too." As for the man who witnessed everything and put the snafu online, his clip has yielded hundreds of hits and he's received thousands of responses -- even death threats. As bad as the damage suffered to the three autos was John K. said the Sanitation crew ducked devastation. "The widows blew out, and the bucket itself caught on the car," he said. "I really thought they were gonna run over it." Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanitation_truck_plows_clean_three_RbDIO4bKT36t4suOcq2loL#ixzz19XLeCqs1

2010-12-29T20:12:12+00:00
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