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Originally Posted by The Raptor,Jan 15 2008, 10:35 AM
Here you go, Mom:
I was at a job site in South Pasadena doing a geophysical survey with magnetics and ground-penetrating radar, looking for underground storage tanks, and a soil vapor survey with a probe installer and a mobile laboratory, looking for gasoline contamination in the subsurface soil.
This is a big site, surrounded by a high steel fence, with the new (not yet open) Gold Line light rail line abutting the rear of the property. They were testing rail cars on the tracks, moving them slowly back and forth. First a truck, then a BMW X5 SUV pull onto the site and guys start taking pictures of the cars.
We finish up and I tell them we're going soon and they'll have to leave. One guy tells me "We're Metro Rail, we go wherever we want." I say "This is private property and I'm going to lock up, you'll have to leave." The guy replies "We're taking pictures." I say "Fine, suit yourself." When we are ready to leave I say "Are you leaving or getting locked in?" He says "We're still taking pictures." So I lock them in on the way out.
About an hour later, I get a call from the broker (whose name and number are on a sign posted on the side of the building): "I've got some guy on the line who says you locked him in." I say "Yeah, I told them twice to leave, they refused to leave, so I locked them in." The broker says "What should I do?" I say "Give them my number and tell them I have the key."
Five minutes later, I get a call: "You locked us in." I say "I told you twice you had to leave. Are you deaf?" He says "You have to come let us out." I say "I don't have to do anything pal." He says "What'll we do?" I say "I don't know, you're Metro Rail, you can go anywhere, you figure it out." Then I hang up. He calls right back and I say " F@#k you" and hung up again.
I later found out from the broker they were stuck there over three hours before a Metro Rail guy came with a grinder and cut through the lock. The broker said to me "Remind me not to get on your bad side."
I've got some contaminated soil next to my house in NJ (I know, tough to imagine contaminated soil in NJ), could you approach the owner about bidding on the clean up?
George - can you handle the clean up regarding this little structure on my land. For some reason the authorities have a problem with the constant sewage that runs down the hillside from this little beauty. I keep telling everyone to lessen their beer intake or piss somewhere else besides inside the out house. We like to consider it our private enclosed unlined unsanitary landfill.
Unable to remove it since it could be considered an historic structure. Well. . . there have beem some historic moments that have occured inside this little gem!
