Time - Two owners of a Texas duplex found
their home destroyed after a demolition company accidentally tore down
the wrong house. An employee of the company blamed the error on a false
addressing listing on Google Maps, according to WFAA.
The Rowlett, Texas house had been badly damaged during a December tornado. The two owners of the building, Lindsay Diaz and Alan Cutter, had been waiting to collect insurance before repairing it. The demolition company was assigned to destroy a house a block away, but ended up demolishing their duplex instead.
An employee texted the duplex owners an image of Google Maps, with an arrow wrongly identifying their duplex as the address assigned for demolition.
The Rowlett, Texas house had been badly damaged during a December tornado. The two owners of the building, Lindsay Diaz and Alan Cutter, had been waiting to collect insurance before repairing it. The demolition company was assigned to destroy a house a block away, but ended up demolishing their duplex instead.
An employee texted the duplex owners an image of Google Maps, with an arrow wrongly identifying their duplex as the address assigned for demolition.
2 comments:
The demolition company tore down a house based only on Google maps information, even though anyone who has used Google maps knows they are full of mistakes. Why didn't the demolishers confirm the street address first, it isn't difficult. I hope the duplex owners get a nice fat settlement out of this.
"An employee texted the duplex owners an image of Google Maps, with an arrow wrongly identifying their duplex as the address assigned for demolition." Sounds like the employee made the mistake, not Google.
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