Here’s a story that you’d have to live through to believe. (How many times have I said that?)
Yesterday began like any other Tuesday – Gossip Girl recaps with trola, looking forward to hitting the mall for some treats, and garbage day pickup on my street.
Well, the neighbour across the street (whose name and address shall remain anonymous even though I have a good mind to publish it across the net) decided to sneak in A CAN OF PAINT into their garbage. I mean, there’s a hazardous waste disposal centre about 2 km away, but I’m never surprised at how lazy people can brazenly break the law.
So the garbage truck comes by, the garbage man picks up their trash, and throws it into the hopper (of course, not realizing that there is in fact a paint can buried deep within their junk). Then the lever comes down to crush the garbage, and in the process, causes the paint can to explode.
It explodes all over my husband’s shiny black car, which is on the street.
To their credit, the garbage men (is that apropos? should I call them Waste Collection representatives? whatever) sprung into action and helped us hose down the car, and scrub the paint off before it dried. And, miraculously, we managed to remove it all, as it was latex paint (phew!)
The City Of Mississauga was called and the homeowners were fined on the spot (I wonder how much it was? They didn’t look too happy). The responsible party also agreed to pay for our car detailing and cleaning to make sure the car looks as good as new.
And that, my friends, are the consequences when bad neighbours happen to good people. (Coincidentally, their house is for sale. PLEASE someone buy it, I can’t wait to get rid of them.)
Holy crap! Tsk tsk. Hope the fine was substancial. Guess you won't be having an friendly neighbourhood BBQs with those neighbours.
ouch! dumb…m-neighbours.
oh my I totally know the feeling! My freaking neighbors son stole our car stero from our vehicle. We had no proof other than a collection of his friends came knocking our door giving us details on what happen since he stole from them as well. I also cant wait til I get good neighbors ourselves since there is a for sale sign on their LAWN!!!
and thats what happens when you dont recycle
OMG! That totally sucks! Sooooo glad the garbage men were so courteous and helped hose down the car! Phew! Imagine what would have happened if they just left it. Yikes!
Wow that sucks! Glad you were able to get the paint off before it dried.
I'm glad there was a happy ending to that story!!!!
Dannng! Silly neighbours… reminds me of some ppl in my neighbourhood who like to add their extra garbage bag to other ppl's corner just to avoid the limit =P.s your neighbourhood looks familiar… looks like my bf's area =o
To followup on my comment before, not to sound creepy…I recognize the garage door w/bb net, and a few other things… plus it was his garbage day yesterday.'Small World' if it "is" my bf's neighbourhood (he's few houses down) lols.
oh wow, that's horrible. sorry to hear about that!
Thanks everyone for sympathizing with me! It indeed sucks – the paint is still on the road, what a crappy reminder. At least our car looks great – just got it waxed and the interior detailed – I suppose something good came from it!cherz – just ask your BF is his street has a huge white paint splatter on it – if it does, then we're definitely livin' in a small world!
OMG — I feel your pain. The guy across the street is a DRUNK and he has driven home and tried to park his car — meanwhile,backing right into my parked car! Argh! When a group of neighbours (thankfully, it was mid-afternoon on a weekend) chewed him out — he cussed at us for being bad neighbours. What the? I didn't get any damage then — but since that incident, I've got two dings to my car. Both happened overnight. One guess as to who did them? Argh! Crap neighbours!!!Jgo
IsaLeiese: There's nothing worse than KNOWING someone is in the wrong, but having no proof! It's so frustrating. I'll cross my fingers that they sell SOON!Chin: ha. ha.Anon (Jgo): I totally feel your pain – at least my neighbour doesn't drink (I believe it's against their religion). I can't imagine having to deal with a drunk. Best of luck friend!
Glad your car is fine now- hope that house gets sold fast!!!
Holy bejeezus! having bad neighbors are like (living in) a never ending nightmare ( until they move ofcourse!) Have they sold their house yet?Well thank goodness the WDR helped clean the paint off your car! ( btw, we have an altima as well! :D)!
Update: the neighbours took the "Sale" sign off the lawn… which make me really nervous – did they sell, or did they take it off the market? Urggghhh!!!
I am a garbage collector and these things happen more often than you might think. Paint in the truck is always a disaster. Where were you standing when you saw it get squeezed?
I was indoors but my husband was actually sitting in the car, getting ready to go to work. All her heard was a SPLAT and the car was covered.I really feel the for collectors, though, as they told me exactly what you said – it happens often. They told me stories about how things have exploded in their face. It's for their safety and well being that I hope the City of Mississauga takes these jerks to court.There is a silver lining – I spent the whole afternoon with the garbage collectors, so now I made two more friends!
:) Cool…garbage men can be good friends. They are right, things shoot out all the time as the bags and whatever else are being pressed and forced into the truck. Had a woman on the route a few weeks ago who wanted to watch her old couch go in as she stood there and despite the warning to step back, she got hit with an orange peel as we compressed it all.