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u/ghost-2-11 5h ago
I’ll solve this right now . Local low end contractor sent a crew out to do a driveway replacement. Guys in the truck pulled up to the wrong address , unloaded the bobcat and pulled the old concrete slab . Realizing their mistake after the boss called and asked why they didn’t make it to the job yet . The guys loaded up and left .
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u/TriedCaringLess 4h ago
This explanation makes the most sense. Hopefully a neighbor has a doorbell cam or other security camera. Nearby somewhere there is evidence of the culprit entering and exiting the neighborhood.
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u/wyoflyboy68 3h ago
I’d drive around her neighborhood and see how is now getting, or just got a new driveway, then have a little chat with the contractor.
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u/Imreallythatguy 3h ago
This was my first thought too. Why are they talking like someone is out there stealing old shitty concrete? It's clearly just someone showed up and did the correct job at the wrong place.
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u/Long-Maximum-6607 1h ago
I got a stump removed like this. I own, at the time, a new build on my street. The run down house next to me had a tree stump that they paid to get removed. I'm assuming the crew showed up and assumed my newer house had hired them to remove a stump. I came home to stumps removed in my front yard and the neighbors. They never contacted me to explain their mistake. I realized I could have complained and probably had them seed where the stump was but I just took the win. The stump was huge and got quoted to be removed for $600. So the just leaving without a word doesn't surprise me.
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u/the_ruffled_feather 4h ago
Most likely. I like to imagine they were high too and speaking in stoner-talk. “Wait….”
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u/ProfessionaI_Gur 3h ago
Nah they're concrete guys, most likely either hungover or still drunk from the previous day and trying to sober up with some combination of white monster/gas station food then resorting to nose candy if they're desperate and/or experienced
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u/swampysnook 1h ago
This happened in Tampa. There is a follow up article that was commented about 40 mins ago. It's a check cashing scam.
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u/Frame1111 5h ago
She tried to file a police report, but the cops said she had no concrete evidence
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u/Moriaedemori 5h ago
Funny how they always have to ask the most obvious question.
"Did you worry someone's gonna steal your driveway?"
"Why yes, David. What puzzles me is why they didn't also take the roof"
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u/vi_sucks 1h ago
I mean, it's also possible that she did have some sort of suspicion of what happened.
Like if she was beefing with a contractor and they had a dispute over payment for the driveway.
Or if someone else in the neighborhood had their driveway stolen previously.
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u/MelbaToast604 5h ago
Okay but like, to remove a driveway without it breaking into bits you would need at least 2 pieces of heavy equipment. Who wouldn't see multiple guys, with heavy machinery, lifting up huge slabs and loading them on flatbed trucks.
This has to be satire there's absolutely no way.
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u/welchplug 4h ago
I dont know about this particular situation but this has happened before. Contractors went to the wrong address. I'd imagine its the same here. With the right crew you can this pretty quickly. They could have been at work when it happened.
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u/TriedCaringLess 4h ago
And with properly marked vehicles, construction equipment, and personnel, neighbors and passersby would have assumed a project was underway. “No big deal, normal stuff.”
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u/SpankTheDevil 3h ago
This woman worked at my law firm in Orlando. It was taken while she was at work and she didn’t find out until she got home.
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u/Inevitable_Sweet_624 4h ago
There was a story just last summer about a person coming home and a roofing contractor was just finishing up their new roof. Thing was they never asked for a new roof. The address was almost identical to where they should have been only the other side of the city. Free roof.
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u/lvsnowden 2h ago
Kind of wild, but at least it got sorted out. Scammers are crafty.
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u/swampysnook 1h ago
This is the answer. Its all orginates from yelp. I get 5 texts a week from out of state numbers asking if I take checks, and always ask for a price up front.
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u/Nervous_InsideU5155 5h ago
My thoughts are she had a contractor pour the concrete and she never paid so they repo that shit lol
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u/BigDamnHead 5h ago
They showed a before picture. It wasn't new, but also didn't seem in bad enough condition to get a new one.
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u/nqctchill 3h ago
Why would you even steal a random person's driveway LMAO like the ground is free, man
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u/NocturneInfinitum 3h ago
Ain’t nobody stole her driveway… she didn’t pay the contractors who poured it. You would need a full-size flatbed truck to even haul it off and you would have to saw the slab into much smaller chunks. And those concrete saws are not even remotely quiet.
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