One of my field crews did a title survey of a residential property back in early June of this Year. It has been my policy since I started my department almost 10 years ago that we set permanent traverse points in the right of way outside of the property boundaries. My logic behind this is that our main work area is in a town with over 115K people and much of what we do turns into demolishing the existing dwelling, subdividing it and building zero setback twin homes, not to mention, when we survey one property on any given street, it usually leads to surveying many more in the same area.
When I checked my email first thing this morning their was an email from an owner from across the street who saw on IM set up on a nail in the sidewalk in front of his lot to set the property corners of the lot that we surveyed. Out of the blue, I get this email telling me that the nail is unsightly, located in the public right of way with a demand that I provide him with copies of and application and permit to set a nail within the public right of way. He went further to cite the town ordinance prohibiting barriers in the Town's ROW and proceeded to write about how unsightly it was and how it decreased his property value, then went on to threaten me with a complaint being filed with the State Board and legal action from the town, if I did not supply the demanded document within 10 business days. Keep in mind we are talking about a small masonry nail shot flush with the surface of the concrete with no paint or flagging.
Everybody who saw that email when it was forwarded to those of us in management, my Admin manager for the survey dept, my COO, my CEO and the tech that processed the survey were blowing up my inbox for about 6 hours today out of concern of the threat of a complaint against me being filed with the State Board. A stupid little complaint like that email and the threat against my license was a five alarm fire while I was simply laughing it off. Gotta love when your Monday starts like that and you get nothing done all day because of it.
That has got to be from a retired person. People who are working don't have time for that level of stupidity.
Neighbors like that usually come right out and demand what you are doing surveying in their neighborhood. Overhead, clear sewer main is the typical response.
I’m retired and I would have gone out and confronted your survey crew also. You know I would have chatted them up, asked them how they liked the gun they were using, did they use gps, important stuff like that.
Some people enjoy being unhappy.
He's a hunter, on the hunt to be offended. I bet he's a blast at parties.
I was once asked by a very young police officer if I had a permit to drill the hole in the sidewalk that I was drilling. I said no and mentioned to the officer that it was not a requirement and that I do this all over eastern MA. He replied that I needed to stop and obtain a permit for doing construction. I replied that I was not building anything but I was surveying and there is no permit process setup in that community to drill small holes in the sidewalk. He paused and I could tell he wasn't sure what to do next. I told him that he should call his sergeant and and ask if they were aware of where to apply for such a permit. He walked away and contacted someone....then never came back to me.
It always adds an extra splash of joy when they have an involuntary facial tick and a large caliber handgun stuck in their belt.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
We get pulled up sometimes by HP's when working in Highway ROW's. I will take some work orders along with me from DOT and flash them at the HP, that usually works. One of the work trucks has basically a permanent flasher mounted and that truck never gets approached. Go figure.
One of the work trucks has basically a permanent flasher mounted and that truck never gets approached. Go figure.
Most of the places I've worked at had permanent lights on the trucks. Some guys have tried to use them to use the emergency crossings over interstate medians and other guys don't dare. I had one coworker get stopped for using a crossing in his work truck but he didn't have the lights on and I believe he got away with just a warning.
One of the work trucks has basically a permanent flasher mounted
If you are working on the highway all your trucks should have flashers mounted. They aren't all that expensive. Really, every work truck should have them even for local work.
One of the work trucks has basically a permanent flasher mounted
If you are working on the highway all your trucks should have flashers mounted. They aren't all that expensive. Really, every work truck should have them even for local work.
Nah, I'm good.