Poll of the Day > This 19 y/o Nebraska Kid faces a $10,000 BILL for driving on WET CEMENT!!!

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19 y/o Shadrach Yasiah from Nebraska faces up a $10,000 BILL after he plowed onto a newly poured concrete!!

He drove through a 24 gap between traffic control cones and ended up getting his blue Honda Civic stuck on fresh cement..

Police said it occurred on a portion of a road repair project and that they WON'T cite the 19 y/o driver because they said it wasn't obvious that the concrete wasn't dry.

But city engineer, Thomas Shafer disagrees sand said HE is responsible for the repairs and estimated it would cost 10,000 or more to pay to remove his car and scraping out the ruined slurry, repouring more cement and finishing it.

He said the cement was probably less than 30 minutes old" when he drove on it and says "it was really not set up in a manner or fashion for a vehicle and they sunk up to the axles in it"

Police said it took more than 2 hours to get it out and slowed traffic..

Shadrach apparently tried to force a shortcut and cut through the closed lane to get out of traffic...

Do you think he should foot the bill? let's see what people think

Shadrach's car

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/27/19/40D7861700000578-0-image-a-19_1495909306474.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/27/19/40DD137500000578-0-image-m-23_1495909320975.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2017/05/27/03/wire-651689-1495851011-734_634x475.jpg

Shadrach -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/27/19/40DD25DC00000578-0-image-a-24_1495909328044.jpg
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Depends how the pylons were set up when he tried to drive past them. If they obviously indicated "don't use this lane," then any damages arising from his attempt to use that lane are 100% his fault, regardless of whether or not he could see an obvious reason to have the lane blocked off. If there was enough of a gap to suggest that the lane might have been usable, then he can't really be faulted for trying to use it, and the crew should do a better job in the future of segregating their work site from the active road.
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mrduckbear posted...

Shadrach apparently tried to force a shortcut and cut through the closed lane to get out of traffic...

If this is true then yes he should foot the bill.
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adjl posted...

Depends how the pylons were set up when he tried to drive past them. If they obviously indicated "don't use this lane," then any damages arising from his attempt to use that lane are 100% his fault, regardless of whether or not he could see an obvious reason to have the lane blocked off. If there was enough of a gap to suggest that the lane might have been usable, then he can't really be faulted for trying to use it, and the crew should do a better job in the future of segregating their work site from the active road.

Agreed with this 100%
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Huh, you mean those little orange thingies are there for a reason?

Who knew.

Uh, yeah, that dumbass should have to foot the bill. Why should tax payers have to pay for this idiot?

At least from the pictures, it looks like there's a large gap for a car to turn, which is pretty common when road work is being done. So it really depends on whether or not there are orange columns under the car that he ran over, or if someone forgot to put the columns up. If the police didn't cite him, that probably means he didn't run over any columns, in which case the workers screwed up.
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"Traffic cones? What are those?"

Fuck this idiot. This was a good lesson for him and he absolutely should pay. Someone's going to have to pay not just for more cement, but extra labor as well, because of his dumbass.
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It depends if he thought he could make a U turn there still or something. Sometimes they do road construction but have the cones spaced so you can still turn right or left into businesses and sometimes they aren't marked clearly. This is probably a case where it could go either way depending on facts. If it wasn't really clearly marked the city engineer should train the construction workers to better mark their work. If the kid was just be an asshole then I think it'd be fair for him to have to pay.
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mrduckbear posted...

Police said it occurred on a portion of a road repair project and that they WON'T cite the 19 y/o driver because they said it wasn't obvious that the concrete wasn't dry.

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Jen0125 posted...

It depends if he thought he could make a U turn there still or something. Sometimes they do road construction but have the cones spaced so you can still turn right or left into businesses and sometimes they aren't marked clearly. This is probably a case where it could go either way depending on facts.

Ya I guess...I mean if there wasn't a median there.
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EvilMegas posted...

mrduckbear posted...

Police said it occurred on a portion of a road repair project and that they WON'T cite the 19 y/o driver because they said it wasn't obvious that the concrete wasn't dry.

That's a dumb argument.

It's like those parents letting their kids swim in Disney waters because it wasn't obvious that it had gators in it.
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

EvilMegas posted...

mrduckbear posted...

Police said it occurred on a portion of a road repair project and that they WON'T cite the 19 y/o driver because they said it wasn't obvious that the concrete wasn't dry.

That's a dumb argument.

It's like those parents letting their kids swim in Disney waters because it wasn't obvious that it had gators in it.

How is that a dumb argument? If the construction people had done their jobs correctly and spaced out the pylons it wouldn't even be an issue.

Just like if they had proper signage up at disney, like they do now, those kids wouldn't have been swimming there.
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EvilMegas posted...

How is that a dumb argument? If the construction people had done their jobs correctly and spaced out the pylons it wouldn't even be an issue.

Just like if they had proper signage up at disney, like they do now, those kids wouldn't have been swimming there.

I would agree, except we don't know that's the issue here. And traffic cones are proper signage. Isn't the fact that no one else was driving in that lane despite the traffic jam a good enough indicator?

All I see is another asshole driver who thinks that road laws don't apply to him like they do everyone else. His selfishness and stupidity cost not only the people who are working on and paying for those road repairs, but everyone else who is running late because the police and a road crew had to get this dipshit out of the way.
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lol his name is Shadrach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadrach,_Meshach,_and_Abednego
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Jerks like this always think they are more important than other people on the road.
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Mead posted...

Jerks like this always think they are more important than other people on the road.

Exactamundo.
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Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .
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EvilMegas posted...

Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .

You can't be serious.

They had to add more traffic barriers to direct traffic around the vehicle getting the moron out of the cement.
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EvilMegas posted...

Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .

They probably moved them so they could get the car out.
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Mead posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .

You can't be serious.

They had to add more traffic barriers to direct traffic around the vehicle getting the moron out of the cement.

That's in the later pictures, the first one had a large gap in between the two sets of cones, It was clearly right after it happened because cars are still rolling next to him.

I like how you guys just wanna create this narrative that he's an asshole driver and was doing some crazy shit when he's already been cleared of wrongdoing by the police. The third party that has nothing to gain out of this by lying,

I doubt the biased engineer would ever have a reason to make someone else pay for the error of his workers so it doesn't fall on him.
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They should make Mexico pay for it.
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EvilMegas posted...

Mead posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .

You can't be serious.

They had to add more traffic barriers to direct traffic around the vehicle getting the moron out of the cement.

That's in the later pictures, the first one had a large gap in between the two sets of cones, It was clearly right after it happened because cars are still rolling next to him.

I like how you guys just wanna create this narrative that he's an asshole driver and was doing some crazy shit when he's already been cleared of wrongdoing by the police. The third party that has nothing to gain out of this by lying,

I doubt the biased engineer would ever have a reason to make someone else pay for the error of his workers so it doesn't fall on him.

You have the order of the pictures wrong. In the last picture where he's clearly being pulled out, you can see that there's only one set of cones. Also, you can literally see a worker carrying and moving one. In the first picture, you can also see that there is only one set of cones. So the order of the pictures goes 2, 1, 3.
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Just looking at the pictures, it definitely wasn't marked clearly, as there was a very gap there, and I could see how he made that mistake
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Mead posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Just look at the picture at the top, the cones are not where the pavement is wet at

Then as the start pulling it out they magically appear .

You can't be serious.

They had to add more traffic barriers to direct traffic around the vehicle getting the moron out of the cement.

That's in the later pictures, the first one had a large gap in between the two sets of cones, It was clearly right after it happened because cars are still rolling next to him.

I like how you guys just wanna create this narrative that he's an asshole driver and was doing some crazy shit when he's already been cleared of wrongdoing by the police. The third party that has nothing to gain out of this by lying,

I doubt the biased engineer would ever have a reason to make someone else pay for the error of his workers so it doesn't fall on him.

You have the order of the pictures wrong. In the last picture where he's clearly being pulled out, you can see that there's only one set of cones. Also, you can literally see a worker carrying and moving one. In the first picture, you can also see that there is only one set of cones. So the order of the pictures goes 2, 1, 3.

Why isn't he being fined, then? You're just arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.
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Well the fact he's 19 and probably a boy racer automatically makes me think he's in the wrong.
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The first pic definitely makes it look like where he entered the cement wasn't blocked off at all and was inviting someone to drive around the cones.
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wwinterj25 posted...

mrduckbear posted...

Shadrach apparently tried to force a shortcut and cut through the closed lane to get out of traffic...

If this is true then yes he should foot the bill.

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yeah he looks like a fucking moron, too
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looks like every other entitled little shit about his age.
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