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Wednesday, May 06, 2015 7:20:18 PM
Their homeowners Insurance will be going after the contractor & rightly so. That contractor had better thank God and be insured.
This could have been a very terrible ending story ............
Homeowners startled when metal object crashes through roof
By KOMO Staff
Published: May 6, 2015 at 3:13 PM PDT Last Updated: May 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM PDT
BOTHELL, Wash. - A Bothell couple had quite the scare Wednesday morning when a chunk of steel came crashing through the roof of their bedroom.
"I just heard a loud crash, felt the house shake," said Kipp Eckert. "It was louder and stronger than someone tripping and falling."
Eckert went into the bedroom and found a hole in the roof.
"I thought the (light) fixture had just fallen off the ceiling, but then there was this 6 pound chunk of steel on the carpet," he said. The piece had bounced off the foot of their bed and landed next to the dog pillow.
His wife Tami was in the shower but had just been in the bedroom about 5 minutes earlier.
"I started thinking, 'well, if it went 15 feet in a different direction through the roof, it would’ve landed right on me in the shower,' " she said. "The more you think about it, the more disconcerting it is."
Bothell police initially called the FAA, who after inspecting it, said it didn't come from a plane. Turns out, it was metal from a debris grinder being used at a construction site just down the road. The crews working in the 23300 block of 15th Ave. SE say they had just replaced all the teeth on an industrial debris grinder Wednesday morning.
"They were clearing a multi-acre property and using a very large wood-chipper object," said Officer Erik Martin with Bothell Police. "They had just replaced all the teeth in this object and one of the old teeth likely got into the grinder and was launched out accidentally."
Martin said there won't be any criminal charges, but the case could be handed over for investigation by the Department of Labor and Industries.
"I'm just so glad nobody got hurt," Tami Eckert said. "That it didn’t fall on somebody walking down the road or hit somebody’s car and go through the car and kill them."
Meanwhile, the Eckerts are hoping to get the metal piece back.
"It’d be a good conversation piece down the road," Tami Eckert said. " 'What's that big ugly piece of metal sitting on the mantle?' "
Until then, they'll be working with their insurance adjuster on what promises to be an unusual homeowner's claim.
This could have been a very terrible ending story ............
Homeowners startled when metal object crashes through roof
By KOMO Staff
Published: May 6, 2015 at 3:13 PM PDT Last Updated: May 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM PDT
BOTHELL, Wash. - A Bothell couple had quite the scare Wednesday morning when a chunk of steel came crashing through the roof of their bedroom.
"I just heard a loud crash, felt the house shake," said Kipp Eckert. "It was louder and stronger than someone tripping and falling."
Eckert went into the bedroom and found a hole in the roof.
"I thought the (light) fixture had just fallen off the ceiling, but then there was this 6 pound chunk of steel on the carpet," he said. The piece had bounced off the foot of their bed and landed next to the dog pillow.
His wife Tami was in the shower but had just been in the bedroom about 5 minutes earlier.
"I started thinking, 'well, if it went 15 feet in a different direction through the roof, it would’ve landed right on me in the shower,' " she said. "The more you think about it, the more disconcerting it is."
Bothell police initially called the FAA, who after inspecting it, said it didn't come from a plane. Turns out, it was metal from a debris grinder being used at a construction site just down the road. The crews working in the 23300 block of 15th Ave. SE say they had just replaced all the teeth on an industrial debris grinder Wednesday morning.
"They were clearing a multi-acre property and using a very large wood-chipper object," said Officer Erik Martin with Bothell Police. "They had just replaced all the teeth in this object and one of the old teeth likely got into the grinder and was launched out accidentally."
Martin said there won't be any criminal charges, but the case could be handed over for investigation by the Department of Labor and Industries.
"I'm just so glad nobody got hurt," Tami Eckert said. "That it didn’t fall on somebody walking down the road or hit somebody’s car and go through the car and kill them."
Meanwhile, the Eckerts are hoping to get the metal piece back.
"It’d be a good conversation piece down the road," Tami Eckert said. " 'What's that big ugly piece of metal sitting on the mantle?' "
Until then, they'll be working with their insurance adjuster on what promises to be an unusual homeowner's claim.
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