Aug 30 2007
Man May Have Built His Tomb Instead of Home
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BERLIN - A German man said on Thursday he feared he may have built his own tomb after a vehicle plowed into his house for the 10th time.
“If we stay, someone’s eventually going to kill us. We’re living in a time bomb,” Manfred Sedlazek, 59, told Reuters.
Sedlazek is reluctant to leave the house he built himself, which is on a bend of a busy road, but said it may be his only chance of survival.
Earlier this week, a 40-ton truck blasted through the side of the red-brick house in the village of Karlshoefen, in northern Germany. Sedlazek returned home from shopping to find the shattered vehicle sticking out of his living room.
Police estimated the damage at more than 100,000 euros ($136,100).
Nine previous smashes into the two-storey building Sedlazek shares with his wife have wrecked his kitchen, bedroom and garden, causing damage worth tens of thousands of euros.
You know this saddens me. This man worked hard to build a home for himself and now because traffic has increased and because drivers don’t know how to drive correctly he may be forced to abandon everything he worked for. That hardly seems fair or right to me. And what about their government? With so many consistent accidents in one area isn’t it clear that something needs to be done about that road?
If you were in his position what would you do? Give it up and move, tough it out, or maybe even lobby local authorities to do something?
