| Destruction of Property Several years ago Time Warner dug up our back yard when digital cable was installed in the subdivision. TW left with both fences damaged, a half filled trench that was a hazard to my kids and an attitude that they were not responsible for putting our yard back to as found condition. I called TW and complained and their reaction was they did not care since I was not a customer. I ended up paying for repairing the fence and the dirt to fill in the trench. It will be a cold day in hell before I use TW cable and a colder day before they have permission to do any physical work in our yard without a performance bond. |
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| This is went you buy a digital camera.
And post the photo's all over the net.
You'll get action..
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You could always just cut the wire and refuse re-entry to your property till they cut a check. |
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 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | reply to UnhappywithTW
said by UnhappywithTW :
It will be a cold day in hell before I use TW cable and a colder day before they have permission to do any physical work in our yard without a performance bond. Blah blah blah... And when they show up with the sheriff to force access (and the bill for the court costs and any associated fines for your actions), then what, big man?
If they have an easement, and any place with ground utilities does, you're SoL as far as keeping them off your property goes.
-tom
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| Just because they have an easement doesn't mean they get to wreck the place and not fix it when they're done. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by russotto:Just because they have an easement doesn't mean they get to wreck the place and not fix it when they're done. Actually, it does. If you build anything on an easement, it is strictly at their discretion to restore the easement to the pre-work condition.
-tom
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"Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care less." --Tony Pierce (paraphrased) |
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| Actually I spoke to a lawyer and my problem was that I had no before pictures. I had a conversation with a TW repair technician after the fact and complained to him and asked who in the food chain of TW I should have contacted. It appeared that there was a problem, again I find this interesting, as I was not a customer.
Vandalism is still vandalism. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | said by Unhappy withTW :
Actually I spoke to a lawyer and my problem was that I had no before pictures. I had a conversation with a TW repair technician after the fact and complained to him and asked who in the food chain of TW I should have contacted. It appeared that there was a problem, again I find this interesting, as I was not a customer.
Vandalism is still vandalism.
Any place that I've lived, the laws were such that:- don't need permission to come onto the easement, even if doing so required transiting non-easment lands
- are not required to restore anything disturbed on the easement beyond not causing any dangers (e.g., leaving an open ditch, altering flood drainage, etc.). Resident-installed fences, landscaping, etc. were all subject to removal, damage or destruction without any liability to the utility - regardless of whether you were a customer of the utility or not.
Does it suck when your land is the one being disturbed? Yup. However, it all falls under the umbrella of "the greater good" or somesuch crap.
-tom
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"Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care less." --Tony Pierce (paraphrased) |
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mmoon6
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Marietta, GA | reply to nixen
Cable isn't a utility. Check it out. |
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by mmoon6:Cable isn't a utility. Check it out. They do, however, share the same rights of way priviledges as utilities.
-tom
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"Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care less." --Tony Pierce (paraphrased) |
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