Like, that's great for an action movie, and its great that they didn't just watch, but holy shit that was dangerously stupid actions on several levels. Clinging to the hood of a moving vehicle is extremely difficult and quite likely to just result in getting injured seriously. Starting a chase as a civilian is absurdly dangerous because of the risk to bystanders. Then ramming a car off the road alone would be the peak of dangerous because of how wildly out of control the cars will be and either of them could careen in to bystanders on the side of the road, other vehicles, in to building. Except its even more dangerous because there is a guy clinging to the hood of the car. Like, I don't see any way that worker walked away from this given it sounds like the car hit something off camera, which would have been head on where he was.
Hey, its great that the guy was stopped, but there were so many other things that shouldn't have been done.
Did he die?
Like seriously, ramming the guy at that speed with your coworker on the hood is just crazy.
Also pretty crazy to ride a hood at that speed anyway.
what did the thief steal? :O
They did all that, for what? Some construction material?
I think they stole his toolbox which costs hundreds to thousands and takes a long time to acquire.
[QUOTE=SEGnosis;52010311]I think they stole his toolbox which costs hundreds to thousands and takes a long time to acquire.[/QUOTE]
Hundreds to thousands? It's made of gold or what?
[QUOTE=DoorCloser;52010327]Hundreds to thousands? It's made of gold or what?[/QUOTE]
quality tools are not cheap
Man I feel for the guy on the hood, hope he wasn't seriously injured.
[QUOTE=SEGnosis;52010311]I think they stole his toolbox which costs hundreds to thousands and takes a long time to acquire.[/QUOTE]
Surely you'd have insurance on it, if it was so expensive and so critical for your work?
[QUOTE=SEGnosis;52010311]I think they stole his toolbox which costs hundreds to thousands and takes a long time to acquire.[/QUOTE]
[del]Would it actually be hundreds of thousands? I'd thinks thousands, maybe tens of thousands at most (unless there's some pretty specialized tools in construction I simply don't know about).[/del]
I misread.
[QUOTE=Trumple;52010612]Surely you'd have insurance on it, if it was so expensive and so critical for your work?[/QUOTE]
you're talking about fuckin contractors dude, these guys don't really have a ton of money to blow
many are freelance too
[editline]25th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=_RJ_;52010644]Would it actually be hundreds of thousands? I'd thinks thousands, maybe tens of thousands at most (unless there's some pretty specialized tools in construction I simply don't know about).[/QUOTE]
read "of" vs. "to"
[QUOTE=_RJ_;52010644]Would it actually be hundreds of thousands? I'd thinks thousands, maybe tens of thousands at most (unless there's some pretty specialized tools in construction I simply don't know about).[/QUOTE]
as brick said, 'to' has different connotation
think like 800-5000 depending on the contents they had in the box, some being impossible to come by at home depot. Even if insurance covers replacing some they could take weeks to get, and that costs your work a fuckton of lost time and money
[QUOTE=DoorCloser;52010327]Hundreds to thousands? It's made of gold or what?[/QUOTE]
See these brands? They have a lot in common in that they can last you a very long time and typically aren't going to need a replacement until like 10+ years down the road. Example is my father has had the same set of DeWalt drills since the late 90s and they still work today just as well as they did back then. You're paying for something that's expected to work for years and years without the need of extensive innovation,replacement or upgrades. Buying a drill for like 300$ from some the big brands means you're buying a damned good product that'll last.
[img]http://www.affordableelectricalrepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Power-Tool-Brands-GRAPHIC1.png[/img]
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;52010652]read "of" vs. "to"[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=dai;52010812]as brick said, 'to' has different connotation
think like 800-5000 depending on the contents they had in the box, some being impossible to come by at home depot. Even if insurance covers replacing some they could take weeks to get, and that costs your work a fuckton of lost time and money[/QUOTE]
Whoops, bad reading on my part (I'm tired, sleepy, etc.).
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think you'd get away with parking in the middle of the road in the middle of a neighborhood, waltzing up to an active construction site, and stealing anything let alone tools? What a fucking lemon, jesus christ.
How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged
[QUOTE=Trumple;52010612]Surely you'd have insurance on it, if it was so expensive and so critical for your work?[/QUOTE]
As an insurance agent, you have no idea how many people [B]don't[/B] insure things because they're cheap and they fully believe "Will never happen to me".
[editline]25th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
I don't know of many companies that do that to be honest
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
Maybe construction is different in the UK but in the US these dudes largely don't give a fuck. Construction can be a proper job that is all insured and done by the books and all that, but a lot of the time it's just kinda a thrown together business run by regular dudes who can lift heavy shit and have a buddy offering them a gig.
[QUOTE=DoorCloser;52010327]Hundreds to thousands? It's made of gold or what?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=unrezt;52010332]quality tools are not cheap[/QUOTE]
There's not going to be "hundreds of thousands" of dollars worth of tools in that box, you're confusing a general purpose toolkit with someones entire collection of tools. That box probably contained a few grand worth of tools at best, I highly doubt it broke the 10k mark.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
Construction workers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, and when someone runs away with something that's not only valuable, but necessary for your line of work, you're likely going to do something irrational to try and get it back. I'm a pretty dumb and irrational guy when people fuck with me, so I would've likely done something similar. Maybe not jump on the car, but I definitely would've gotten the plates and done some damage to his car to make it easier to track them down and enact some petty revenge.
How is there no news article about this yet? I need to know if the hood guy survived
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;52011546]There's not going to be "hundreds [b]of[/b] thousands" of dollars worth of tools in that box, you're confusing a general purpose toolkit with someones entire collection of tools. That box probably contained a few grand worth of tools at best, I highly doubt it broke the 10k mark.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DoorCloser;52010327]Hundreds [b]to[/b] thousands? It's made of gold or what?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DoorCloser;52010327]Hundreds to thousands? It's made of gold or what?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Trumple;52010612]Surely you'd have insurance on it, if it was so expensive and so critical for your work?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
It's a little different over here, but I've been working as an Operator/Laborer under my dad's general contracting company. Clients are often very inconsistent with payments, and even then a lot of the time we end up having to pay for material out of our own pockets to get a job done because otherwise it would take a long time to finish and we have other jobs lined up.
Now I'm not gonna say what these guys did was smart, but when you're on a job, you need to get things done. Even more so if you're a union worker which I assume these guys are. I don't know how it is wherever these guys are, but generally, tool insurance only covers the medium-sized stuff like generators, compressors, etc etc. It's usually more expensive to cover smaller tools via insurance because not only do you have to wait for your request to go through the union, you have to wait for the tools to arrive and all that waiting is costing you time and money. There is absolutely NO time for sitting around waiting for your tools to come in because it costs the project manager because he still needs to pay you, but it'll cost you too because what the fuck are you gonna do if you don't have basic tools?
Like many have said, Contractors usually don't have a lot of money to spend on insurance and, since many are freelance, they don't have that option. Hence why these guys were probably so desperate to get their tools back. It might seem kind of small, but when you lose tools or they get stolen, you only have one of two options. A: You either buy it back yourself, or B: you wait for the company to reimburse. If it's a contractor, B is not an option (Unless you have a really nice lead). If you're a union worker, A is not an option. So no matter what, losing small tools like this is a pretty bad setback, especially if it's a lead's tools.
TL;DR: It would take long to get tools back via insurance, but paying for them yourself is really expensive and time consuming.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
have you never made a bad decision in the heat of the moment? or have you been so sheltered that those moments just never happen to you?
obviously when the adrenaline gets pumping and your brain resorts to lizard-mode, usually logic kinda shutters itself and people start doing some reckless shit.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;52011248]How is this anything but fake? You seriously believe a construction worker would jump on some guy's car for tools? His company insures them. It's all staged[/QUOTE]
Nah man, gonna be a contractor, there's probably a house's worth of tools in that thing. Why do you think the thief decided to steal it in broad daylight with everyone in reach?
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Bad reading....
[QUOTE=Funion;52012527][/QUOTE]
English is hard and I can't read. I'm proof that the bad reading rating really needs to come back.
[editline]26th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Funion;52012527]Empty quote because you can't quote quotes[/QUOTE]
Now the system is fucking with me.
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