Personal accountability seems to be a rare resource these days, especially in the current political climate we live in. Likewise, a random truck driver in New Jersey was attempting to pull his large vehicle out of a tightly enclosed parking lot when his tire pushed against a homeowner’s elevated driveway. The massive truck broke apart a chunk of the driveway as it backed out, and the driver quickly took notice of the damage. However, instead of calling the owner or leaving some form of contact, he tried to hide what he did and drove off before being confronted.
“So annoyed,” the homeowner remarks in their video post uploaded to Reddit. It showed their home’s backdoor cam displaying the driver and everything that happened until part of the driveway was broken off. “I rushed home from work to try to confront them, but they had already left by that point,” they explained, disgruntled. Fortunately, they caught the number on the truck and called the driver’s employer about the incident. “Hopefully, the company will fix it,” they remark expectantly.
Unfortunately, it seems very few Reddit users were sympathetic to the homeowner’s situation and instead either memed on the state of his neighborhood or criticized his driveway for being flimsy. “I can’t tell if you live in a third-world country or New Jersey,” joked the top comment, with over half a thousand upvotes. “They aren’t the same thing?” remarked a reply. It wasn’t until quite a ways down that commenters actually started discussing what happened.
“I think that [driveway] was broke previously, [and] the driver put it back how it was. I’m not sure what you really expect to happen,” said a Reddit user. Another chimed in, claiming they believe the same thing: “Honestly, looks like it was already cracked on both ends, and he just moved it.” This and similar comments with dozens of replies that called OP a “paranoid a**hole” or said something like, “Boi he was just putting the s***ty driveway piece back 😂.”
Fortunately, there was one commenter claiming to be a former truck driver who dealt with a similar situation in which they damaged someone’s driveway. “Tires hitting curbs all the time does not mean they’re supposed to hit them all the time,” they explain. “This guy f***ed up. Him trying to cover it up so what’s wrong about this.” They continue supporting the homeowner’s side of things, saying that the company who employed the driver should take responsibility for the damages. “This is how accountability works.”
Regardless of whether the driveway is very brittle or if the company will pay for the damages, it is rather irksome that the truck driver made a mistake but pretended like nothing happened instead of owning what he did and apologizing.
