“It was an unfortunate, weird accident.”
Brent Randall, Town official, Sangerville, Maine
You know it’s gonna be a bad day when . . .
. . . A septic truck parks in your living room. It happened in Gaines, New York (population 3,628) late last month. The driver of the truck lost control, ran a stop sign, crashed through the house’s garage, and ended up in the living room. The truck was carrying 300 gallons of raw sewage and 200 gallons of water. The good news is no one was home at the time, and no sewage escaped. The bad news is the driver ended up in the hospital, and no one is coming home anytime soon: the house was declared uninhabitable.
. . . A firetruck slams into your wall. The fire chief of Sangerville, Maine (population 1,180) was backing the town’s 1975 pumper truck downhill into the fire station when the master cylinder gave out, rendering the brakes useless. Quick thinking on the fire chief’s part kept the firetruck, which was loaded with 750 gallons of water, from slamming into the fire station or the town’s other firetruck. Instead, the truck hit a three-foot retaining wall, suffering about $3000 in damages. No one was hurt, and the fire station was spared. As it turns out, not a bad day after all.
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