[Chat] This is Outrageous!

[Emil Volcheck]

At 2:25 AM, they are still jackhammering... I called 311
and they said they would send an officer.  A neighbor
told me that for a water line they should work during the
day, and only for a gas leak should they work at night.

Sleeplessly yours at 3040 Guilford,

--Emil

2008/8/21 David O'Donaghue <druben2 at hotmail.com>:
> At 1:30am Wednesday night the Water Department of the City of Baltimore
> started jackhammering outside my window at 3045 Guilford. The leak in the
> water main had been observed and reported over 30 hours before this and no
> one came out. I called the non-emergency police and they would do nothing.
> They said it was an emergency. No one came when it was called in so it
> wasn't considered an emergency at the time and they had all day on Wednesday
> to address the problem during daylight hours and no one was here. A
> complaint tomorrow is not going to help me get any sleep tonight. Is there
> nothing we can do? Sleepless in Baltimore, David O'Donaghue
>