I mean logically they went to the wrong house, but thought it was was This meaning they knew no one was home because the house was planned to be demolished Only problem is wrong address and could've caused a big mistake
@@SHAD0WKNITE The thing is even the news report says that the driver left a lot they were supposed to be doing work at and drove the bulldozer to another house. So they knew better. They knew that this was not the house. They just can’t explain why he left one lot and went to bulldoze another house.
The news report said that he does not _currently_ face any criminal charges, which doesn't imply that he wouldn't be charged later. It takes time for the police to investigate whether he has alcohol or drugs in his system and decide what charges are appropriate. A couple other commentators on this video have said that they have encountered follow-up news stories saying he was charged with reckless endangerment.
It becomes civil not criminal because he destroyed private property. The insurance company for the driver will have to pay out to fix the house/yard, but otherwise if he believed he was supposed to do it for work, it's not breaking any laws.
Wait, the lot he was supposed to be at was empty. Why would he bulldoze a perfectly good new looking house? Surely that isn’t his standard work day. I have questions!
They never stated that the bull dozer operator thought he was supposed to demolish the wrong house. Obviously there's something at play here, that's not been bought to light.
I found an update. The drug screen came back clean and the guy was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. I would love to hear his reason when he goes to court!
Then there is the lawsuit the by now has been filed, the damage to the house I would say is around $250,000 plus maybe more, then the is the structural reinforcement that has to be done, yeah Rhee is a few hundred thousand worth.
@@andrewfreeman88 A lot of people don’t realize property values fluctuate so much based on where you live. Where I am now for a basic house you’re gonna pay $125k-$250k Back where I’m originally from you can buy your self a nice house for $75k-$100k and for $250k you’re super nice place. I remember 15 years ago my boss had one of the biggest houses I’ve ever seen at the time and it was only $299k. I get that was 15 years ago but for that price in this area I’m in now it’s your basic nice house in a nice development. I mow for a family that has a nice corner 1/3 acre lot nice home and it’s a $450k home. I was blown away when I moved here and saw the property values. 8 years ago I almost bought little 3 bedroom place for $12k that needed work and down here that’s a $70k house.
@@andrewfreeman88 Oh yeah yeah California has way higher property value than us. I’m in a Pennsylvania. I grew up in the country in a Northern Pa but now live in Southern Pa not to to far from Gettysburg.
If the house was shaking as mentioned, do NOT just repair without have two structural engineers look it over top to bottom. There could be fine cracks bet all the bricks or base of the house. Windows could soon fal out of alignment which means they won’t open. Sm cracks will form throughout the house. Be very careful.
“When I asked him what he was doing, he didn’t really answer,” Parker said. “I said, ‘you just put a hole through my house,’ and he said, ‘I didn’t hit your house.’ I think he was on some kind of drugs, because he didn’t know what he did.” Parker said the bulldozer driver told him that the damage to the home must have been from a tree. “We have no explanation of [why] the guy [went] to that residence and drove the bulldozer through the house,” Whitwell said. “There were several explanations he tried to give us, but none of them were consistent, so we are still going to do our due diligence in regards to the investigation. As of right now, we have no idea [why] he went to the house - there’s no relation between him and the people that reside there.” I can't find any updates beyond that, several people have said the court case got dragged out cuz his lawyer kept asking for continuances so idk if it's even been settled yet. All I know is toxicology came back clean and he was charged with reckless endangerment.
Guy might have let the intrusive thoughts win. It's rare, but crazy stuff like this does happen some time. Either way, guy shouldn't be allowed to operate heavy machinery ever again.
But he was at the work site with the bulldozer, then left it to cross the street and start dozing this house, why? there is more to this than meets the eye
Well they did say he had been at the back of the guys house several times that morning.looks like they may be old enemies.Still reckon he should be charged with attempted murder
@@pattimessenger6214 Yeah, you don't just accidentally drive a dozer across the street and into someones house. This kind of thing only happens if you are totally out of your mind on drugs or you have anger issues and have a beef with the owner of the house.
@@travisdavis3974 there could be hidden damage bricks don't hold up too well to vibration that is why they are NOT allowed in earthquake zones for new buildings
Not applicable here as there is no criminal intent and the criminal negligence is open for debate DragonChasing. This is an issue for a Civil not a criminal court.
They never said his blood test came back clean Home owner just isn’t pushing chargers Only two states cops can push chargers if victims don’t Pennsylvania is one of them.
The entire foundation of the house is going to have to be inspected. It's not just the wall that needs repairing. His entire structuring is most likely fucked now. That SUCKS. Should be paid for though ;)
And not only that, once he tries to sell in the future, this situation will have to be disclosed and possibly lower the property value and # of potential buyers. Yeah all that mess!!!
Michael Clark cause it’s not a crime! So if a car accidentally rear ended your car should that person go to jail? It’s going to be a civil matter between the company and there insurance and that guys homeowners insurance. Don’t the USA have enough people in jail? Want to put more in for a petty ass reason!
dknowles60 not really both a house and a car are considered property . To be charged there would have to be malice involved. It’s clearly a huge accident and the company or the insurance will fix it
Vandalism??? That's way more then vandalism, vandalism is something minor such as throwing toilet paper or spray painting a house your looking at destruction of property, attempted murder or murder, assault and battery charges, disorderly conduct, drug/alcohol charges, fraudulent behavior charges including being an unlicensed construction worker, no license to operate construction equipment including machinery. Like bulldozers or dirt trucks.
Two strange facts: He had been to the right address and left. That placed looked like something to possibly demolish. The house he tried to demolish...did not!! WTH???
Id imagine the whole house needs to be rebuilt. The whole house was shaking. Who knows how much brick damage all over the house and how much the frame is now damaged. Probably knocked 60 years off the life of that house
Come sit in my house; It shakes every time a semi comes by. The good news is that after a 7 year fight with the county and hundreds of temporary repairs that never last, they finally have done testing and now believe us that there is no base under the road. The other good news is that starting Monday August 7th our road closes for 5 weeks, they are going to tear out two feet of the road and rebuild it. It was built in the 1930's and has a lot of fill. Not designed back then for 80,000#+ semi trucks. The trucks only use this road because it was too difficult to get onto the main highway using another nearby straighter road. Ours has a stoplight at the end of it where it meets the other highway after meandering for 7 miles. The state has built a truck friendly intersection at the end of the other road to enable them to get onto the other highway easily (left turn, cross one lane and protected merge). Trucks will now learn about the new intersection whether they want to or not.
WTF - how could that NOT be criminal negligence ? How about DWS - Driving a bull dozer while STUPID ? Public Employees can ALSO get off for INCOMPETENCE - this guy may be taking LESSONS ! Sue the dirtbags !
The messed up part is the fact that the lot they were working on didn’t even seem to have a house on it yet. So how did he get the wrong house if there was no house where he was supposed to be working?! 🤦♂️
It wasn't an accident. The worker was at the job site, and then decided to go to the other house. The question is what made him want to tear that house apart?
@@aly2889 well considering we don’t know all the details, it probably wasn’t an accident, but it is possible that the worker just got really bad information from an incompetent overseer. We’ll just have to wait and see how the case progresses
@@hektik2074 I doubt it. Edit: Ok, so this video said that the "driver took bulldozer several times to the back of the house" that morning. He was at the jobsite then left to destroy that house. In another article, driver said he was moving a mound of dirt (he was not authorized to do this) to the front of the house which is absolutely bs. This is a very old video from 2019 so there should be updates about it if you look hard enough.
'Well, this construction site is boring. I'll just go across the street and tear into this lovely home'. That guy had to be on drugs and was hallucinating or something. 😳🥴
Or the homeowner was in some kind of verbal altercation with the construction site folks across the street and it escalated. Who knows…regardless, the dude drove a dozer off the job site in a residential area. Usually dozers are brought in and out of job sites on truck. So the driver has literally zero excuses and the construction company is going to be bankrupt after this.
Tearing down houses without verifying whether they have the right house or even if they have the legal right to do so is scarily more common than people know.
The force twisted the frame enough that bricks will start to fall off in a couple of years. All the cracked mortar will allow water intrusion. Freezing and expansion. Not to mention the rot. Good luck.
No you wouldn’t. This is a civil matter and no one was injured physically or emotionally. The owners will be entitled to recover their losses (including repairing damages to their physical property and whatever it costs them to live somewhere else in the interim), but they’ll get nothing more of any substantial amount. In a lawsuit like this, the courts attempt to see that the aggrieved party is “made whole.” That’s about it.
That was clearly intentional... The guy likely didn't like people being well-off, so he decided to have some fun with their house. Also, the Dozer company should be responsible... It was their employee who went off the rales, so they need to pay, and then sue the employee to try to get some of the money back.
@@witchofbabylon5021 ... Well, first we know it was intentional because as the video showed the guy was working on another property across the street, and then choose to cross the street and attack the house with his dozer. As to what the guy might have been "thinking", sure, it's an assumption, but a reasonable one. How do I make that? Because I've worked in Construction and have lived in the lower class most of my life, and some of the people doing that job have "resentment", that they work hard building nice homes which they then don't get to live in. So, it would be no surprise at all that someone who often will be in the lower classes will have some anger. Of course, it could be a number of things, maybe he knew the guy, had some beef, etc. Just stating one possibility.
@@leeuniverse His JOB is to do what he does and large equipment operators are paid very well. He builds houses with Other people's equipment and other peoples money and he gets PAID to do a job. He's not entitled to be resentful that's nonsense. That's entitlement to something you haven't earned. Save your money and you can get a house too. When I worked some minimum wage job and counted the cash drawer at night, I never once thought that I was entitled to take that money. It was my job to count it and my employer TRUSTED me. It was just monopoly money to me, it wasn't mine because I Didn't' earn it. Something wrong with that man's head.
@@recoveringsoul755 Resentment and rage don't have to make sense. The most resentment I've ever seen is from guys getting rejected, responding over-the-top violently. They feel entitled to women. This guy probably felt entitled to a good house? Idk, it doesn't make sense but a lot of things in life don't. There's no evidence to back his hypothesis but it's not that much of a stretch if there aren't other reasons we don't know
Witch Of Babylon I thought of it too. I mean, there were no drugs/alcohol in his system, he clearly knew where the real job site was, and he had already been scoping out the house. Can you think of another reason someone would just randomly do something like this? Oh, and in a later update, the guy was charged and jailed. They just don’t seem to want to tell us why...
First thing I thought of. 🙄 Then I grabbed my towel and looked up in the sky to see if I could catch a ride with anyone before the planet was destroyed... and I can't find my Babble Fish. 😖
Bob Roberts Yes, but they were already worktop one house and the dozer left the property to smash into a house down the street. If the guy was in the shower then I bet his car was in the driveway.
I haven't seen this posted, but the driver of the bulldozer, Duane Larose, was arrested in Sept 2020 and charged with reckless endangerment, and was to appear in court later in the month. I have not found any information regarding charges. A structural engineer was brought in to investigate the home, and was deemed to be safe.
A real good story would have been if you had found out why he left the original site and went down to the end of the street. That would've been newsworthy. Reporters are forgetting the last item they need to find out: what, where, when, how and why.
Under Florida law, criminal mischief (also known as vandalism) is defined as the willful and malicious destruction of property belonging to another person. Depending on the amount of damage caused, criminal mischief may carry misdemeanor or felony penalties, including jail or prison.
ty gamer Well if you listened clearly you can obviously deduce that it was on purpose. The news reporter said it himself. The bull dozer driver went from the empty lot straight into the guys home. I don’t see how that’s not an accident. If anything that was on purpose
lol. pump the brakes. My guess is everyone from his family to the business owner told him not to say anything. Rule #1 from any lawyer is "STFU until I get there." You're already in deep shit, don't make it worse by giving interviews!
He should press charges and sue the company in charge. That's complete BS. No homeowner should have to go through that. The worker was probably drunk and had a relative in the police or he had bad intentions and is acting like nothing happened. Never be nice when put in a situation like this because you will lose more than they ever could. People need to be held responsible for their actions.
I should think his insurance company will fix the damage (to prevent further water damage,etc.), then the insurance company goes after both the driver and his employer.
I just read an article about this, trying to see what ended up happening The bulldozer driver was Duane Larose. He tested negative for drugs and alcohol. He told the guy that he didn't hit his house,that it must've been a tree. Lol. His boss said that he later gave several stories as to what happened but none of them were consistent. This happened in September 2019, but be was arrested june 2020 and charged with reckless endangerment.
This is literally so similar to the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I absolutely love it. Fr tho, I would press charges. There's no way repairing that hole will come cheap.
“It’s very simple,” said Ford, “my client, Mr. Dent, says that he will stop lying here in the mud on the sole condition that you come and take over from him.”
The driver of the bulldozer must be insane. At first I thought this was another one of those cases where someone gets the address wrong. But nope, the drive left the lot he was working on and headed towards this house! If he wasn't drunk or high, he either had a vendetta against the owner or is just plain nuts!!
Homeowner Parker said he and his family don't know Duane Larose, who knocked a hole in their house. After Parker stopped Larose and called police, Larose drove to the back of the home to dig up the flowers, grass, and dirt. He tested negative for drugs and alcohol. He was charged with reckless endangerment.
He might not face charges but him trying to find another dozer job after it being his fault his currant companys insurance will be paying into high 6 figure repairs!
Yeah that would be just around $4,000 to around $15,000 just to repair that hole to how it was before. That wouldn't be enough to be at least $100,000. Now building an entire house like this one would be well above $100,000, and I think it would be at least $200,000.
Dylan Walsh Are you calling him or me rich? Anyways, my point is that most people don’t build their own houses, so while his guess would be a little ridiculous to fix that hole, I think it’s unfair to tear into him like that.
@@what2a8guy Lmao, neither, he just completely missed your point and thought you were agreeing with him, lol, I really don't think that was sarcasm, but this actually could be well into 6 figures to repair. All we see is a hole, but the entire house may be structurally unsafe, there's really no way to know the extent of the damage from this picture
It’s amazing how often this happens. Would it hurt to go into the house to make sure it’s empty? I’d imagine if it’s to be demolished it’s either unlocked or you have keys
There was. A few days after this news report was filed, he was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment. I haven't been able to locate any news stories about the outcome of this case.
First instinct, this feels like Dozer boy felt the house was empty and decided to have a look see. Interesting the news didn't say anything about the driver. I would put money on it that he has a record and its theft.
That dozer is small, if it would have been a little bigger like a Cat D6 XE LGP… the whole house will have to be re-evaluated due to the high possibility that the overall structure has been loosened. Dozers are very powerful machines. Luckily it was a small dozer, but the operator should be fired and charged.
it a civil case so we can know what happen but best guess is got feel that the driver is not in right mind... due to many reason...well the owner is fuck since clearly the guy will never to be able to paid for danmge.
@@campkira it doesn't matter whether he can pay for the rebuild. The company he works for is responsible for it cause someone should have been supervising. If he's the supervisor then he should have been screened better which still leaves the company responsible!!!
That is criminal, the operator better be glad he didn't pick on a gun owner home this would be a justified reason to defend ones self for sure and I would have not worried about the towel, I would have grabbed a rifle instead.
I really can't understand how stuff like this happens - it's called an address. It should be checked and double checked then triple checked to make sure the wrong property isn't damaged. And if it is - the victims should be completely compensated.
stupidity .... best part is, worker was using wrong machine ... there was a good chance of him burying himself in debris ... this was a job for a large excavator
That house, pre-bulldozer, doesn't look like a house that should be bulldozed...you'd think someone with any brain cells would ask a couple of times to verify that was what was intended.
I smell a plot twist, lol. Plot twist: Home owner is having an affair with dozers wife. "He thinks he's so perfect, with his perfect house. I'll unfix that".
@@roberthertz6634 shoot his dick? Guess your going to prison for murder. Tear down his house? Well ok, the dude was in the house, so that would be assault if not manslaughter, but other than that, civil court for damaging property. But imagine having your house torn down? Endless misery, many, many questions brought up.
And yet once again this guy deliberately drove a dozer into a home that he knew full well wasn't part of his job, destroying private property, endangering life and yet he hasn't been charged. Gotta love law enforcement.
No charges???? Good to know. When ever I feel like destroying someone's home and getting away with it, I'll just get a job working as a construction worker or a politician.
Had the guy driven a dozer into my house, he wouldn't have faced any charges either. You can't press charges against a corpse with a bullet in its head.
True, but you can press charges on the person who put that bullet in their head. In most places, you have to be able to prove self-defense and there is no self-defense in this situation as you can easily walk away from the situation. Have fun spending the rest of your life in prison over a house. The proper way to handle this situation is a lawsuit and if the laws in the state allow it, have your lawyer go after their wages if they fail to pay up.
What if they offered to fix it & give you a pool ? I’m thinking that’s what happened Home owner dropped chargers Video said his blood test was clean Regardless he crashed into the house Not necessarily breaking & entry which is manual Where is ur self defense when his back his turned Seems hard to prove
Eh, You heard the large crash, grabbed your gun because you thought somebody kicked down your door to rob you. You came down stairs to somebody driving a bulldozer through your house and driving towards you. You were unable to get out of the way so you fired 3 rounds striking the man in the chest with all 3 rounds. Easy case for your lawyer.
I'm surprised the bulldozer driver wasn't scared off by the several dozen huge yellow slablike somethings hovering above the planet, huge as office blocks, silent as birds.
They had a permit. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard." Also, homeowner is changing their name to Dent Arthur Dent.
In addition to all the other points, it is stupid to bulldoze a house like this in the first place. It will just collapse on top of you or chunks of debris will end up going through the window or collapsing the roof of the dozer. A dozer can assist other equipment in removing rubble...but you definitely don't just turn on the throttle and charge a house. This guy probably saved the dozer driver's life.
They need to rebuild the entire house and get paid for moving out, storing their items, their stay in rented accommodations, and moving to the new house.
The bulldozer driver had to have been messed up on something! That would require not just a payout from the company, but restitution of some sort as well!
