{"id":570785,"date":"2010-05-19T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10006830"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:46:49","slug":"verizon-buries-bags-of-rocks-in-womans-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570785","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Buries Bags Of Rocks In Woman&#8217;s Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051910-003-verizon-rocks-thumb-210x143-40495.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>A woman in Albany, NY was gardening in her front yard and uncovered a white plastic bag filled with rocks. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=931556&#038;TextPage=1\" >she found more<\/a>, over a dozen in all, which turned out to have been placed there by Verizon workers who had removed an old utility pole last month and had run out of sand. <\/p>\n<p>A Verizon spokesman told the Times Union paper that the crew should have emptied the stones from the bags first, and probably shouldn&#8217;t have used them at all unless the ground was very wet. Another Verizon rep came out to the property and emptied the bags himself, then said he&#8217;d send out a crew to properly fill the hole and repair the damaged lawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=931556&#038;TextPage=1\" >&#8220;No stone unturned in the case of buried bags&#8221;<\/a> [Times Union]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Albany, NY was gardening in her front yard and uncovered a white plastic bag filled with rocks. Then she found more, over a dozen in all, which turned out to have been placed there by Verizon workers who had removed an old utility pole last month and had run out of sand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}