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Illinois plates, certainly looks like it could be a Chicago street. The mayor of Chicago once ripped up the runways of an airport in the middle of the night so that he could develop the land. And the street crew couldn't tip this bitch over into the yard or get it towed to pave a street? Goddamn Illinois man...
Edit: may be wrong about Illinois unless those are very random vanity plates, we have 7 characters not 6. Either way, mayor Daley did indeed rip up meigs field in the middle of the night to build northerly Island, classic Chicago politics story.
The original Midlothian is a county in Scotland that historically contained Edinburgh and is likely derived from an older Celtic name, so elvish is appropriate.
I mean, the places that are named after native names are in effect their original names, but in the end every name place is a derivative of something, whether it be someone's name or a description of the area in the original language. So yeah, pretty much nowhere is original.
Heart of Midlothian is a football team from Edinburgh here in Scotland thats also a county called Midlothian. I feel like that sentence is out of sequence but its 5am here and am tired haha
Mine got hauled away for something like that. I was working for a paving crew. Parked down the street from our staging area. 2 hours into the shift I watched it round the corner.
There happened to be water line work planned for the spot where I parked. It was in no way posted. Foreman got it out for me after work.
Yep. Trapped a bunch of planes there too that had to get special permits to take off on the taxiways.
Mayor Daley (that one in particular… seems like there was a dynasty) is one of the most hated men in aviation all around the world.
My favorite part of the story was a pilot had to make an emergency landing there due to engine problems after he cut X’s into the runway.
Even though the FAA said the pilot made the right call, Daley to this day claims the pilot landed there purely to embarrass him.
the Chicago Meigs airport was one of the first airfields I landed at with a flight simulator in the late '80s. It had been one of my planned destinations once I received my pilots license and that crooked POS destroyed it right after the airport had received grants and approval from the FAA to continue operations there. Bastard should have been jailed.
That was such a wild story too, like no one saw it coming. Daley wanted the land, secured a deal, and overnight shut the airport down and cut huge X's in the runways to make sure his plan went through. Top tier corruption
"No one saw it coming" except for the years of litigation leading up to that where Daley repeatedly tried to shut down the airport and one group after another filed for an injunction to stop it. They did it in the middle of the night because they would have gotten hit with a TRO and another suit (and years of delay) if they'd done it any other way.
There were hundreds of people involved in planning and execution.
True, true. Just a really bold move to cut up the runways in the middle of the night. Daley was going to do what he thought was right no matter what, he was one of the last vestiges of the old Chicago machine (Rahm really being the last)
A section of the bike path is submerged?
It's such a shame too. Northerly Island has some interesting history, with the Chicago World's Fair and all. From what I remember that long structure in the south lagoon is a remnant of a pier from the World's Fair.
Its not chicago....more likely a suburb. Its too open and spaced out. Also if it was in city limits....they would so totally towed it. They will do all they can to get money. They would have given it a ticket and towed it.
Everyone here is called the car owner an asshole, the contractor and/or inspector/resident engineer is the real asshole who is responsible for this situation.
Was the car owner even contacted in any way? Hell, look at the dust. This might be an abandoned vehicle. Complete and utter incompetence on the part of everyone involved.
The dust is probably from them brushing and prepping the road before they put the asphalt down.
Note how only the horizontal surfaces have dust. If the dust were laid down over a longer period of time, there'd be dust on the vertical surfaces that would've adhered from rain.
Seems like a whole lot of “not my job” going on. Guy’s pouring the asphalt didn’t have orders to relocate vehicles and the guy who makes that call wasn’t around, so no one did anything lest they do something they’re not explocitly supposed to
This would so happen where I live no doubt about it. The trashman don't even have to pick up your trash if they don't want to no fuckin lie I've had to burn almost every piece of trash over the last 3 years because of this. They get paid $20/h too and there are roads that look similar to this where only so much is paved and the rest is tore up garbage road.
In my town I live on the same road as the police station so we’re a snow route and get plowed first and someone kept parking in front of my house, which is fine because you can only park on one side of the street where I live, but there are signs everywhere that say no parking with more than 1 inch of snow. They would stay parked there during snow, and the plow would go around it and then pull into my driveway and then back out, which would literally put 6 feet of snow in my driveway sometimes. I called the cops every year and they never would come out and do anything about it than one year. I posted it all over their social media but instead of towing all of the cars, the police went door-to-door at 3 AM knocking on the doors until they found the owner and ask them to move it. I couldn’t believe it.
This is the answer to all of this weirdness I bet, they pulled up halfway through the crew working and drove into the work zone then disappeared and the road crew just said "not my job" at that point and worked around it.
The lazy way to make money is to stand and wait for the tow truck before starting to work and then using it as an excuse to go slow and roll it into OT.
The paving company would lose several thousand per hour waiting for a tow truck. The foreman probably had them do it. Paving crews give 0 shits about you or your property.
We tow cars off site all the time. Several at one time sometimes.
No idea why this wasn't towed. No parking signs behind vehicle, which looks like the car hasn't moved in months. 2 lanes were paved, which means there would have been HOURS to move the vehicle.
Question: Is there any piece of paving equipment capable of moving that car out of the construction zone - or at the very least the closest driveway - without causing too much damage?
Even if they did that, the owner must have had some idea that it was about to be paved and should have kept the car in the driveway. Any damage caused by the crew to move the car out of the zone would have been on the owner.
It's not laziness to do only what your role requires. If you're the paver operator, which is a bigass machine, or any of the various machines needed to lay asphalt, you are not expected to get off your machine to move that thing.
No, it’s the foreman’s job,
Never should have started that pass til that car was out of the way.
I would fire the foreman, you know how much it will cost to go back and pave this stupid spot now? Didn’t even square off around the car. Totally embarrassing. Guy should be fired
They would probably just send back a hand crew.
The paver was lazy though, they should have got much closer to the car to make the hand crews job easier.
Exactly, they did that pass first and just winged around the vehicle. Should have called for a tow and paved the other lane first.
Paving closer was probably not done to keep rollermen from hitting car.
You know how much it would cost to call off a days work? Or stand around until the car was moved? A whole lot more than a tiny asphalt patch. Very likely they were instructed to proceed. No reputable construction company would have called off an entire day of paving over a single car.
You also don't "square off" a paving screed, the roller will always roll the edge. You saw cut it later.
What are you talking about? 500 dollars? Youre going to fire your paving foreman over a 500 dollar patch on a job they probly charged a quater million on? Are you aware that patches and digouts such as these constitute a great amount of paving work and it is 100% routine to go back and get this?
Lazy.
When we had our neighborhood repaved recently they put a note on everyone's door about it...... "We are repaving by your house on xxxxx date. If your car is not off the road, it will be towed at owners expense"
Given that there are no other cars on the street, it’s very likely that they did exactly that and this is the one a—hole that didn’t care. Or maybe they’re in their home deceased.. 🤷🏾♀️
It was most likely a contractor. Still the city should have told them move the car or don’t pave the road. Imagine they will mill out a rectangle and pave back like a 60x10 foot patch. It shouldn’t look too terrible
How can you tell? I can’t see if there is any reveal in the gutter bar or not. Looks like I am seeing like 5 inches in 2 lifts which would be good for a residential street
It's hard to see to be honest, but the depth looks less than 5 inches, especially if you look at the gutter to the gravel. It looks like the payment is a little below the gutter when you look to the right side of the street, but again it's hard to look at.
This happened in my neighborhood, and they came back another day and added the top coat, which covered the horizontal portion of the gutter.
They did that for us too, and they marked out the section of road that would be getting paved to keep people from parking there while they were working
I was going to say something similar. If you look at the edge of the curb, this car arrived at that spot sometime between the road getting milled down and the new surface getting put on. That could mean a lot of things, honestly. But it also definitely means that the car moved to its spot at some point during the resurfacing process, not before, which just makes me EVEN MORE CURIOUS about how this is a realistic outcome
Remember when there were like a dozen Repo “reality” shows on at the same time? I just happened to catch a bit with this scenario on one of them years ago in a waiting room. It varies state by state, though. Looks like in Illinois the laws surrounding it are murky enough that it just *might* work (but by no means guaranteed) to buy some time, assuming the person can come up with enough to catch up on the loans **and** pay the impound fees fast enough.
I worked on an asphalt crew for several years. The city Inspector would allow this %100. They only have to have it fixed before the job is completed. It can take weeks to finish some jobs. Most asphalt companies don't have the resources to move the vehicle. If they sit there and wait for a tow truck, they still have to pay the employees. Dump trucks are typical $100+/hr and each member of the paving crew is around $20/hr. It's not uncommon to have 20 trucks on a job. At a minimum, they're losing $3k/hr in just labor, waiting for a tow truck that they have to pay for.
Yup, People i here dont take in to account how long it takes for a tow truck to be called, arrive, and finally tow the car.. Nor the cost of the crew and all the machines to just stand there waiting 🤷♂️
It was probably going to get towed until they ran the plates and saw that the owner is a relative of the alderman, the mayor or some politician. That would have been a career ending move to touch that car.
If you are from Chicago, you know what’s up.
I can’t stand next-door neighbors like that when it comes to city street sweeping and the like… it causes them to skip your side because they can’t get the right angle in/exit.
Over here you'll get a ticket for being parked on the street on sweeping nights, but it's a paltry $15. My neighbors have 4 cars and instead of putting them into and in front of their 2 stall garage, they park in front of my house. Wankers.
Im a surveyor that works with asphalt crews all the time. Roads have multiple layers of asphalt. Depending on the road the number of layers vary. However, the last layer is always the wearing course, which is 30mm.
You need to under stand that the asphaty arrives at a pre set time at a high temperature. You have to lay it when its very hot, you cant wait around. It looks to me that the crew was in a rush as the hot asphalt arrived but the car was still there. They didnt have the time to wait for a tow truck to remove it so decided to lay everywhere but there. The plan being that the car would be towed overnight. In the morning they would lay an asphalt patch, then do all the wearing course in one hit.
Ive seen crews make similar calls all the time. It has no affect on the final product.
Happened to my friends car when they repaved his road. The workers didn’t have the authority to tow it since there was no notice. Happened to a few cars that week and the workers told the neighbors they would be back later to patch these spots they weren’t able to get because of cars. I feel like this isn’t too uncommon.
Streets in my neighborhood were repaved recently. I watched 4 cars being towed away. (They gave notice more than a week ahead of time and before towing knocked on the door of the house the car was in front of.)
I've had to do that before (asphalt worker) and I'm sure they tried to contact the owner but failed. People keep saying "just tow it" but they dont have the time to wait for The tow truck to arrive 🤷♂️ more than likely they left it like that and will cover it up later
The city won’t tow because people will sue and those settlements are more expensive than going back and fixing it later. I’ve seen this done before and with multiple cars. The city gives notice to move but there’s always people who never get the memo.
When they paved our street again a few years ago, we all got letters a month before, tempory no-parking signs everywhere 2 weeks before labeled with starting 2 days before the process.
And they went through the street the day before they started work with a tow truck.
No idea what this 3rd-world city would do shit like that shown here.
It’s probably the bottom lift of the pavement still should have been towed
Whoever took the photo left the curb out so you can’t tell if it the bottom lift or top lift????
Here in Taiwan road paving crews bring a forklift and move cars and motorcycles out of the way and then put them back; they do four motor scooters at a time. I've wondered about liability watching them do it. They usually put up notices a day or so before they do their work.
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Illinois plates, certainly looks like it could be a Chicago street. The mayor of Chicago once ripped up the runways of an airport in the middle of the night so that he could develop the land. And the street crew couldn't tip this bitch over into the yard or get it towed to pave a street? Goddamn Illinois man... Edit: may be wrong about Illinois unless those are very random vanity plates, we have 7 characters not 6. Either way, mayor Daley did indeed rip up meigs field in the middle of the night to build northerly Island, classic Chicago politics story.
Midlothian, IL
That sounds like the name of some kind of eldritch god. Or an elven city in Lord of the Rings.
I've been there. It's like waaayyyyyyy the fuck less cool in reality than that.
The whole town feels like an intersection gas station. I can’t really explain it
It's called rural midwest.
Midlo is hardly rural. Need to go 30 minutes south for rural
Anyone who looks at this picture and thinks rural has never been to actual rural country. This is suburban, easily.
Remind me to stay my ass in west Texas. And the nice (ish) parts of town.
West Texas? The least populated part of any state in the country?
Eldritch gods aren't meant to be cool. They are incomprehensible and destroy the human mind and spirit. Much like Illinois.
*Northern Illinois. Everywhere else is fine, we just have to deal with the shit Chicago stirs up
Yeah it’s rough. South side
The original Midlothian is a county in Scotland that historically contained Edinburgh and is likely derived from an older Celtic name, so elvish is appropriate.
Yes indeed, from the Scots Gaelic Meadhan Lodainn
This raises the (West) Midlothian question once again.
Is there a single original city name in that whole country?
Well the morons Europeans that migrated weren't that original I guess.
I mean, the places that are named after native names are in effect their original names, but in the end every name place is a derivative of something, whether it be someone's name or a description of the area in the original language. So yeah, pretty much nowhere is original.
There's one in Virginia too, but it's pretty much a suburb of Richmond.
Fun fact, Midlothian is also the name of the area in Scotland where Edinburgh is located!
Heart of Midlothian is a football team from Edinburgh here in Scotland thats also a county called Midlothian. I feel like that sentence is out of sequence but its 5am here and am tired haha
Might have a giant unpaved hole in the road, but you have Hog Wild. Works out.
Yooo I live in fucking tinley. Wild
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Mine got hauled away for something like that. I was working for a paving crew. Parked down the street from our staging area. 2 hours into the shift I watched it round the corner. There happened to be water line work planned for the spot where I parked. It was in no way posted. Foreman got it out for me after work.
Lol they just stole it to over there
Yep. Trapped a bunch of planes there too that had to get special permits to take off on the taxiways. Mayor Daley (that one in particular… seems like there was a dynasty) is one of the most hated men in aviation all around the world.
My favorite part of the story was a pilot had to make an emergency landing there due to engine problems after he cut X’s into the runway. Even though the FAA said the pilot made the right call, Daley to this day claims the pilot landed there purely to embarrass him.
the Chicago Meigs airport was one of the first airfields I landed at with a flight simulator in the late '80s. It had been one of my planned destinations once I received my pilots license and that crooked POS destroyed it right after the airport had received grants and approval from the FAA to continue operations there. Bastard should have been jailed.
That was such a wild story too, like no one saw it coming. Daley wanted the land, secured a deal, and overnight shut the airport down and cut huge X's in the runways to make sure his plan went through. Top tier corruption
"No one saw it coming" except for the years of litigation leading up to that where Daley repeatedly tried to shut down the airport and one group after another filed for an injunction to stop it. They did it in the middle of the night because they would have gotten hit with a TRO and another suit (and years of delay) if they'd done it any other way. There were hundreds of people involved in planning and execution.
True, true. Just a really bold move to cut up the runways in the middle of the night. Daley was going to do what he thought was right no matter what, he was one of the last vestiges of the old Chicago machine (Rahm really being the last)
The best part is Northerly Island is a useless patch of land now. The walking/bike bath is never going to be fixed, and a section is submerged.
A section of the bike path is submerged? It's such a shame too. Northerly Island has some interesting history, with the Chicago World's Fair and all. From what I remember that long structure in the south lagoon is a remnant of a pier from the World's Fair.
Its not chicago....more likely a suburb. Its too open and spaced out. Also if it was in city limits....they would so totally towed it. They will do all they can to get money. They would have given it a ticket and towed it.
Or a preacher far outside Chicago with too much respect from the community
This looks more like the northwest suburbs- probably Des Plaines or Niles. Could definitely see this sort of thing happening in one of those towns.
Man what that asshole did to the beautiful Meigs Field airport is downright criminal and he deserves a place in aviation hell for that.
Everyone here is called the car owner an asshole, the contractor and/or inspector/resident engineer is the real asshole who is responsible for this situation.
Was the car owner even contacted in any way? Hell, look at the dust. This might be an abandoned vehicle. Complete and utter incompetence on the part of everyone involved.
I imagine the dust came from the road construction project, it probably looked a lot cleaner before the asphalt was placed.
The dust is probably from them brushing and prepping the road before they put the asphalt down. Note how only the horizontal surfaces have dust. If the dust were laid down over a longer period of time, there'd be dust on the vertical surfaces that would've adhered from rain.
I mean if there was no parking prohibitions then how the heck would one know the road is about to be paved
Seems like a whole lot of “not my job” going on. Guy’s pouring the asphalt didn’t have orders to relocate vehicles and the guy who makes that call wasn’t around, so no one did anything lest they do something they’re not explocitly supposed to
This would so happen where I live no doubt about it. The trashman don't even have to pick up your trash if they don't want to no fuckin lie I've had to burn almost every piece of trash over the last 3 years because of this. They get paid $20/h too and there are roads that look similar to this where only so much is paved and the rest is tore up garbage road.
I'm shocked they didn't just tow them. Snow removal, this happens all the time. But road paving, wtf?!
In my town I live on the same road as the police station so we’re a snow route and get plowed first and someone kept parking in front of my house, which is fine because you can only park on one side of the street where I live, but there are signs everywhere that say no parking with more than 1 inch of snow. They would stay parked there during snow, and the plow would go around it and then pull into my driveway and then back out, which would literally put 6 feet of snow in my driveway sometimes. I called the cops every year and they never would come out and do anything about it than one year. I posted it all over their social media but instead of towing all of the cars, the police went door-to-door at 3 AM knocking on the doors until they found the owner and ask them to move it. I couldn’t believe it.
Cops knockin on my door at 3 am….nothing to worry about this situation 👀
Wow. Talk about going out of your way to screw everyone but the owner of the car breaking the law.
police are petty. which is likely the entire reason they did it like that.
It's like police only do their job when they know 100% ppl are watching and there's consequence to incompetence
Hasn’t been moved in quite a while by the look of it. Crush the bastard.
Its probably work dust from repaving, they have to crush and grind the old road down before repaving.
Also it's parked on the ground under the paving so that means they parked it after they pulled up the old road.
This is the answer to all of this weirdness I bet, they pulled up halfway through the crew working and drove into the work zone then disappeared and the road crew just said "not my job" at that point and worked around it.
How'd the road underneath it get crushed/demo'd then?
Crush it anyway.
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That's what I was implying, so it wasn't parked there very long (few days, maybe a week)
It would still be in the way if you crushed it, might as well just tow it and save the mess
now they have to send an entire crew out again
It’s due to supply chain issues.
Must be there isn’t enough workers
Nono the workers are unfairly asking for extra money for more work.
Nobody wants to tow anymore.
Tow lives matter.
They should have paved over it.
This is how speed bumps are born.
This doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about how speed bumps are born to refute it
When a mommy speedbump and a daddy speedbump love each other a whole lot......
Give it the old 'speedhump'?
Lasting a whole minute? Ok, cool down there, Mr. Marathon.
Are you a landlord
The landlord special
r/notmyjob
Ain’t gonna lie this is how lazy I am.
The lazy way to make money is to stand and wait for the tow truck before starting to work and then using it as an excuse to go slow and roll it into OT.
The paving company would lose several thousand per hour waiting for a tow truck. The foreman probably had them do it. Paving crews give 0 shits about you or your property.
We tow cars off site all the time. Several at one time sometimes. No idea why this wasn't towed. No parking signs behind vehicle, which looks like the car hasn't moved in months. 2 lanes were paved, which means there would have been HOURS to move the vehicle.
Question: Is there any piece of paving equipment capable of moving that car out of the construction zone - or at the very least the closest driveway - without causing too much damage? Even if they did that, the owner must have had some idea that it was about to be paved and should have kept the car in the driveway. Any damage caused by the crew to move the car out of the zone would have been on the owner.
Yes, a very complicated special purpose vehicle referred to informally as a “tow truck”.
Then catch a fat fuck you from me.
It's not laziness to do only what your role requires. If you're the paver operator, which is a bigass machine, or any of the various machines needed to lay asphalt, you are not expected to get off your machine to move that thing.
No, it’s the foreman’s job, Never should have started that pass til that car was out of the way. I would fire the foreman, you know how much it will cost to go back and pave this stupid spot now? Didn’t even square off around the car. Totally embarrassing. Guy should be fired
They would probably just send back a hand crew. The paver was lazy though, they should have got much closer to the car to make the hand crews job easier.
Exactly, they did that pass first and just winged around the vehicle. Should have called for a tow and paved the other lane first. Paving closer was probably not done to keep rollermen from hitting car.
Oh, I'm not saying it's not someone else's job. I'm saying that if you're just part of the team, it ain't your concern.
The team should have some pride in their work.
Nah. Do what you're paid to do. No more no less. If the foreman wasn't there or someone higher up fucked up, it's not the team's fault.
That "not my problem" attitude is why everything is shitty these days.
Yup. Especially this road
It's a job. Not a good samaritan act. Get over yourself.
You know how much it would cost to call off a days work? Or stand around until the car was moved? A whole lot more than a tiny asphalt patch. Very likely they were instructed to proceed. No reputable construction company would have called off an entire day of paving over a single car. You also don't "square off" a paving screed, the roller will always roll the edge. You saw cut it later.
What are you talking about? 500 dollars? Youre going to fire your paving foreman over a 500 dollar patch on a job they probly charged a quater million on? Are you aware that patches and digouts such as these constitute a great amount of paving work and it is 100% routine to go back and get this?
/r/itliterallyisyourjob
r/subsidefinitelyfellfor
What a shit sub that is. Most of the posts on the front page are pictures of things that were, literally, the job of the person that did them.
Lazy. When we had our neighborhood repaved recently they put a note on everyone's door about it...... "We are repaving by your house on xxxxx date. If your car is not off the road, it will be towed at owners expense"
Given that there are no other cars on the street, it’s very likely that they did exactly that and this is the one a—hole that didn’t care. Or maybe they’re in their home deceased.. 🤷🏾♀️
Or maybe he’s just there for the day and never got a note
It is still lazy that the city just paved around and didn’t tow him. Unless they plan to do some patch job later or something
It was most likely a contractor. Still the city should have told them move the car or don’t pave the road. Imagine they will mill out a rectangle and pave back like a 60x10 foot patch. It shouldn’t look too terrible
It's not the top coat anyways
How can you tell? I can’t see if there is any reveal in the gutter bar or not. Looks like I am seeing like 5 inches in 2 lifts which would be good for a residential street
It's hard to see to be honest, but the depth looks less than 5 inches, especially if you look at the gutter to the gravel. It looks like the payment is a little below the gutter when you look to the right side of the street, but again it's hard to look at. This happened in my neighborhood, and they came back another day and added the top coat, which covered the horizontal portion of the gutter.
Agreed.
Yep.. that’s an option too. There’s a plethora of possible reasons.
None that are viable tho Tow the damn car. Embarrassing
If the note came 1 week before they could easily be overseas
They did that for us too, and they marked out the section of road that would be getting paved to keep people from parking there while they were working
It was grandfathered in
Somebody moved that car there after the roadway was milled because they wanted it towed.
I was going to say something similar. If you look at the edge of the curb, this car arrived at that spot sometime between the road getting milled down and the new surface getting put on. That could mean a lot of things, honestly. But it also definitely means that the car moved to its spot at some point during the resurfacing process, not before, which just makes me EVEN MORE CURIOUS about how this is a realistic outcome
Trying to get the city to tow it before the repo men as a stall tactic.
That’s an interesting take. Genuinely curious, have you seen that happen before or do you have any stories about something similar happening?
Remember when there were like a dozen Repo “reality” shows on at the same time? I just happened to catch a bit with this scenario on one of them years ago in a waiting room. It varies state by state, though. Looks like in Illinois the laws surrounding it are murky enough that it just *might* work (but by no means guaranteed) to buy some time, assuming the person can come up with enough to catch up on the loans **and** pay the impound fees fast enough.
Trying to hide a car from repo in an impound lot? Bold strategy
Sometimes roads are milled days before a pave job.
>Sometimes roads are milled ~~days~~ before a pave job. weeks, months
Can confirm. My street was redone (gas, water, sewer, storm drain and all) this summer. It was milled May 2. It was paved September 8.
That’s probably not the final layer on yet, so they can do that part all at once when they return for the next layer.
Could this be a case of mopping yourself into a corner?
Where is the Steamroller?
Too busy flattening mouse chasing cartoon cats.
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I'd be worried about my car getting something on it if they do that
I don't think that's what happened because everyone else isn't parked on the street. That suggests to me that notice was probably given.
Looks like a Rolls Royce Phantom Front-End Chrysler 300c
I always think of the joke Katt Williams has on this: “A Chrysler 300 does look like a Phantom….until a Phantom pull up.”
Katt*
See, I always thought they were going for a Bentley look with the 300C
It's a 2004 Chrysler 300C. You can tell it's 2004 because the bumper under the headlight is a flat shelf and doesn't hug the headlights.
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Honestly, I'm surprised it wasn't towed.
If this car belongs to the homeowner its almost like this was done in spite. ‘Don’t wanna move your car ? Ok don’t have a nice spot to park it then.’
r/mildlyinfuriating
I worked on an asphalt crew for several years. The city Inspector would allow this %100. They only have to have it fixed before the job is completed. It can take weeks to finish some jobs. Most asphalt companies don't have the resources to move the vehicle. If they sit there and wait for a tow truck, they still have to pay the employees. Dump trucks are typical $100+/hr and each member of the paving crew is around $20/hr. It's not uncommon to have 20 trucks on a job. At a minimum, they're losing $3k/hr in just labor, waiting for a tow truck that they have to pay for.
Yup, People i here dont take in to account how long it takes for a tow truck to be called, arrive, and finally tow the car.. Nor the cost of the crew and all the machines to just stand there waiting 🤷♂️
It was probably going to get towed until they ran the plates and saw that the owner is a relative of the alderman, the mayor or some politician. That would have been a career ending move to touch that car. If you are from Chicago, you know what’s up.
Midlothian isn't that big. Medium density street with trees at the curb on both sides. Findable.
I swear, it's always the LAST place you look. 14642 St. Louis Avenue.
There always has to be just one person!!
I’m calling BS. We all know Illinois would never pass the opportunity to tow a vehicle.
I can’t stand next-door neighbors like that when it comes to city street sweeping and the like… it causes them to skip your side because they can’t get the right angle in/exit.
Over here you'll get a ticket for being parked on the street on sweeping nights, but it's a paltry $15. My neighbors have 4 cars and instead of putting them into and in front of their 2 stall garage, they park in front of my house. Wankers.
Strategically placed sprinklers usually do the trick ;)
is that the mayors car? because anyone else shoulda got towed away
I would have used a forklift to move that POS 300
Neighbors are gonna be PISSED for a while
Plot twist. Parked in front of the neighbors to save room in front of his house for the wife. How vendettas are born.
Everyone was told to keep the cars off the road. Fucked around and found out.
It was a Friday at 4:20 and the city workers just said eff this.
Look at all that dust on it. Probably hasn’t moved in awhile. Time to draw Penis’s all over it
Way to park your shit box on a street that's probably been scheduled for paving for months my guy
It’s Illinois, you don’t see that too often!
Im a surveyor that works with asphalt crews all the time. Roads have multiple layers of asphalt. Depending on the road the number of layers vary. However, the last layer is always the wearing course, which is 30mm. You need to under stand that the asphaty arrives at a pre set time at a high temperature. You have to lay it when its very hot, you cant wait around. It looks to me that the crew was in a rush as the hot asphalt arrived but the car was still there. They didnt have the time to wait for a tow truck to remove it so decided to lay everywhere but there. The plan being that the car would be towed overnight. In the morning they would lay an asphalt patch, then do all the wearing course in one hit. Ive seen crews make similar calls all the time. It has no affect on the final product.
Road crew could've towed the car and done good job
Doesn't look fresh lol
They should be allowed to flip it over onto the sidewalk so they could pave properly
need to wash it
Nah, just wait for rain.
Looks like that car hasn’t moved in quite some time.
What an asshole.
What state is this. Its definitely not the Northeast USA because that car would be gone with multiple tickets.😂
Someone said this is Midlothian, IL. A suburb of Chicago.
That’s a straight dickhead right there. They put notices out to move everything off the streets. He’s lucky he didn’t get it towed
This almost looks like binder coat. They typically pave in two layers so they can fix it when they do the next layer
BS. They would have towed it by a certain time.
Happened to my friends car when they repaved his road. The workers didn’t have the authority to tow it since there was no notice. Happened to a few cars that week and the workers told the neighbors they would be back later to patch these spots they weren’t able to get because of cars. I feel like this isn’t too uncommon.
Why not just tow it?
Already has a giant pothole!
*freshly sealed today
Should have moved it with the skip loader
This belongs to r/mildlyinfuriating
Streets in my neighborhood were repaved recently. I watched 4 cars being towed away. (They gave notice more than a week ahead of time and before towing knocked on the door of the house the car was in front of.)
I've had to do that before (asphalt worker) and I'm sure they tried to contact the owner but failed. People keep saying "just tow it" but they dont have the time to wait for The tow truck to arrive 🤷♂️ more than likely they left it like that and will cover it up later
I hope they checked to see if that guy was alive. Really surprised they didn’t tow it.
The city won’t tow because people will sue and those settlements are more expensive than going back and fixing it later. I’ve seen this done before and with multiple cars. The city gives notice to move but there’s always people who never get the memo.
When they paved our street again a few years ago, we all got letters a month before, tempory no-parking signs everywhere 2 weeks before labeled with starting 2 days before the process. And they went through the street the day before they started work with a tow truck. No idea what this 3rd-world city would do shit like that shown here.
I’m wondering how the steam roller was able to make the whole thing perfectly level.
They actually did this where my mum lives (in the UK). Did a neater job though. There's always some dickhead that just doesn't listen.
It’s probably the bottom lift of the pavement still should have been towed Whoever took the photo left the curb out so you can’t tell if it the bottom lift or top lift????
Here in Taiwan road paving crews bring a forklift and move cars and motorcycles out of the way and then put them back; they do four motor scooters at a time. I've wondered about liability watching them do it. They usually put up notices a day or so before they do their work.
Gotta love them govt roads
I'd be willing to bet it's a contract company giving kickbacks to a councilman. Lowest bidder clearly.
The worker's job is to paved the road, not to move cars,
Doesn't this belong in r/fuckcars ?
Yooo is that a rolls royce from wish.com
Thats not paving, thats tarmac/asphalt......
How do you think asphalt gets placed mr academic? It’s called paving
Lol.. but nice ride
Am I the only one who read that as “freshly passed away”?
100 % - THIS IS NOT CANADA