@ChrisCudmore "Hey guys, so I was digging a trench for a fence I'm putting in my backyard, and I think the augur I rented ran into something because it started clanging and making noise, wasn't sure what it was but when I managed to get it unstuck I started to smell something from the hole it dug... I think you might want to send someone out here"
Had someone hit a gas meter in the neighborhood with their car (which way is reverse?). Fire dept shut it down and gas company was there within 30 minutes or so. They don't mess around if there's a possible leak.
@ChrisCudmore It is the law, and there's no way they can take you to court for claiming to have dug before you called as long as you didn't actually do it :)
The paperwork will run through the system with confusion and it'll all be reconciled by someone later looking at it and saying "O, someone sent this guy out with the wrong information because the fellow at the address called for X and we told him we'd send him someone and we did send him someone..."
@ChrisCudmore really? You think they would even bother?
If you say you got a whiff of gas now and then, they won't dispatch the fire department. That also happened to me, they replaced the meter and forgot the screw the new one on tight enough.
@BMitch Didn't the guy wand it down to check after he was done? Or his wand wouldn't have been able to distinguish a leak from what seeped while he was working?
@JimmyHoffa good question, I didn't even know they had replaced the meter, which surprised the repair man since they're supposed to give you advance notice, knock when they show up, and leave a note when they're done if you weren't home.
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