Oops! Bulldozer hits wrong house August 30, 2002 Posted: 3:51 PM EDT (1951 GMT)
A bulldozer mistakenly tore a large hole in the roof of this Oliverea home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Olivera, NY (Reuters) -- A New York family's dinners were interrupted when a bulldozer tore down part of the roof of their house next to Full Moon camp as they sat inside. The bulldozer was set to demolish the entire Full Moon complex, but it rammed into the wrong house, police said Friday. Carlos Suarez and Yesenia Reyes were having dinner Thursday when the bulldozer came in through the back of their house, police spokesman Tony Rode said. It hit the rental home a second time before screaming neighbors and the couple prompted the driver to stop. "I started yelling at him, 'What the hell are you guys doing?"' Reyes told the Sun-Sentinel. Nearby Full Moon is slated to be demolished as part of an initiative by the Oliverea Town Council to eradicate all evidence of recent Joni Mitchell cultic worship. "What can you say? They screwed up. They hit the wrong house," Council President Barbara Littlefeather said. "I bet those Joni-istas gave a bad karma to our city equipment," Alcohol was not a factor in the bulldozer operator's mistake, The Joni-lastas drank Oliverea dry and trucks with new shipments of alcohol have not yet fought their way through the highways fraught with departing Joni-ettes. The city council plans to pave the entire Full Moon area and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot. Future development plans for the trashed Full Moon complex include a tree museum. Oliverea Fire Rescue officials estimated the damage between $5,000 and $10,000. The contractor, George Zaragozi General Contractors of Oliverea, promised to repair the roof immediately, local media said. Organic farmer T. Leary Freedman has started a collection to rebuild the wrong damaged home so the city can proceed with demolition of Full Moon. "I want every piece of ground leveled where anyone went deet-deet-dee-dee-dees. Sunshine "Sunny" Seagall, local potter, has called for John Ashcroft to investigate possible links to terrorism with the Joni Mitchell crowd. "This is America, god d*mn it, but all those Mitchcell-tistas were chanting "O, Canada..." and " I wish I had a river I could skate away on." Sounds like they have plans to infiltrate across the Canadian border in winter on one of our little unprotected waterways, maybe Finger Lakes. So I called the TIPS phone number and made a report that I hope John Ashcroft will act on!" Copyright 2002 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
