Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> >Since the main branches that they could branch off from were not on our
> >side of our street, the phone company had 2 options: 1) dig a trench
> >across the street, or 2) dig a trench through the yard of a neighbor
> >whose property backed onto ours. And the neighbor whose yard was going
> >to have to be trenched for this had done some pretty elaborate
> >landscaping in their backyard (and it was gorgeous), and the phone
> >company had to make sure everything was gotten back to the way it had
> >been. The neighbors held the whole thing up a week or two, trying to
> >stop the phone company from digging up their yard, and wouldn't budge
> >until someone's lawyer pulled out the law that let the phone company do
> >that sort of thing.
>
> You mean people owned a piece of property but they had no control over what
> was being done with it, for the sake of a phone line? Sounds like another
> example that people are just renting the ground from the government.
Yeah, just like the time some doofus from the cable company threw his
stuff into the backyard and went over the fence while his buddy came to
knock on the door; I was *supposed* to put the dogs out and leave about
2 minutes after they had shown up, but couldn't, and they didn't replace
things properly, so it was *unsafe* to put the dogs out, and it was so
late in the day that when I called to complain and demand that they send
someone out *immediately* to fix the problem, they told me they
couldn't. So it ruined the whole afternoon and evening. Yeah,
utilities and their rights over the property of those using them can
suck.
Julia
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