Submitted by ilikeboyswithglasses t3_127e6pu in nottheonion
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Duvelthehobbit t1_jedtutz wrote
Once is an accident. When your house gets crashed into 17 times, there must be a problem in the road design. The people living there should be compensated and something has to be done to the road to make it safer for the road users and the people living in the house.
Fetlocks_Glistening t1_jedygaw wrote
Or maybe a wall?
Raynafur t1_jee2s5c wrote
A few good landscaping boulders would do the trick as well.
Padgriffin t1_jef8aw1 wrote
That’s exactly what they’ve done. The problem is that the house isn’t inhabitable rn because of structural damage caused by someone hitting it anyways.
Raynafur t1_jegz3dk wrote
So he did. I missed that part.
Khaldara t1_jeei5ru wrote
“Hey! You can’t park there”
SomebodyInNevada t1_jegw7u8 wrote
It doesn't actually require a problem with the road. Rather, it simply takes something that requires a driver turn properly. I've never seen anything like this but there's a wall not too far from here that's been hit IIRC 4 times over the years. It's a bit hard to see the place to turn until you're almost on top of it, I presume the impacts have been drunks who saw the turn too late and went into it too fast. Drunks will fail to navigate turns, if your house is in the line of fire you're going to take hits. (Which is why I absolutely would not buy a house that could be hit by someone not turning sharply enough.)
UniqueUsername812 t1_jedt0g9 wrote
Wow. I thought I was unlucky after two separate police chases about a year apart ended on my property.
One was the local alcoholic little league coach and the other was a driver named after a Star Wars character (yes, really), I looked him up a couple years back and saw he had since passed away.
Lem0n_Lem0n t1_jedvzyb wrote
Chewbacca???
UniqueUsername812 t1_jedzrwc wrote
Dude that would have been epic.
Let's just say that on the second incident, I thought "this deal is getting worse all the time"
Thisguyh3r30 t1_jeds5qy wrote
Just tear down the house and start a McDonald’s franchise there. Poor guy!
misterfriend t1_jedz8x2 wrote
I mean, enough is enough, am I right?
McDonald's would first ask if that house was built on top of an old cemetary. Either way, they'll buy the property, they just want to know if they can exorcise the area first.
RigasUT t1_jedwka8 wrote
This is yet-another example of the major problems with the city design of most North American cities. This house is located on the junction of a stroad, making it especially vulnerable to drunk drivers.
Stroads are dangerous for the people on them and inefficient at what they are supposed to do.
Commercial_Board6680 t1_jeetd2w wrote
A former neighbor of mine had a very similar problem of cars careening around the sharp corner and ending up next to his porch, chewing up his lawn/garden in the process. One truck demolished the vegetable stand he had out front. He wanted to put up a border wall (stone wall) all along his property, which he had to fight town hall for permission. He told them if they wouldn't permit it, he'd start suing the town for recompense since they haven't done a damn thing to stop the speeding traffic. He ended up with a border wall.
InfamousAnimal t1_jefiemq wrote
My dad wanted to do this but the city inspector had a particular grudge against him. Instead My dad just started digging the rather larger rock out of the hill and rolled it over to the center of the problem curve it was a giant pink/quartz granite Boulder
TheMarksmanHedgehog t1_jedxx08 wrote
If I were forced to live in that house I'd make a fence out of steel I-Beams driven deep in to the ground, possibly even braced on the other side.
Heck, maybe line the strike face with old tyres for the sake of the idiots who keep crashing in to it.
QuentinUK t1_jefth44 wrote
""My insurance company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said Merriweather.” In cases like this the car drivers’ insurance should pay out. It was obvious the homeowner’s insurance would be limited.
SomebodyInNevada t1_jegwmpj wrote
It's probably a lot of uninsured drivers.
Lem0n_Lem0n t1_jedw377 wrote
All 17 came to extend their car warranty...
Commie_EntSniper t1_jef8r44 wrote
It wasn't the 7th or 8th crash that had him move.
vorpalblab t1_jefm4nr wrote
guy needed an extra heavy duty rubber fence
MrMann10k t1_jeg130f wrote
How do you sell your house after it has been driven into 17 times? Like who's going to buy it?
trollsmurf t1_jegovpn wrote
I'd like to see a map of the area. Probably a crossing just in front of the house.
fewding t1_jedt2ri wrote
Damn what a shame. I would be livid if it happemed a single time, but 17?!? Absolutely ridiculous. Sad to hear they had to move out.