The tabloids went and caught up with the guy who shot yesterday's video of a truck towing a plow into an SUV. They also got a few words in with the man whose city-owned SUV was smashed. A day later, everybody seems to have calmed down a bit.
The videographer, wearing pants, described the scene to the Post:
"I knew it was going to end bad," said John K., 46. "They got this huge tow truck that's used for buses and tractor trailers and they're using it to lift up the front end of another snow plow. And they're flailing because they have the back wheels off the ground. And it just went from bad to worse...Why weren't they putting chains on while they were lifting it up," he asked. "They could have drove it out themselves. I went down after they pulled it into the intersection and I saw my landlord [whose husband drives the SUV] and she was baffled; really beside herself."
"It could had been completely avoided," the landlady told the News. "It was a poor decision."
Eugene McArdle, the city-employee who normally drives the Ford, seemed almost zen about the whole thing. "One car belongs to my daughter and one belongs to my work," he told The Post. "They called me at work and told me it got struck and they [Sanitation] destroyed my car."
Asked about the incident at a press conference today Bloomberg said that anybody whose property was damaged in the cleanup should file a claim with the city.
