Crews clean up spilled copper pipe at Fulton and 30th Avenue on Wednesday morning. Photo by Jill B.
Around 5:25am on Wednesday morning, a contractor’s truck was stolen in the outer Richmond, with the thieves eying the copper pipe that was on board.
As they made their getaway, some of the pipe rolled off the truck and into the roadway near Fulton and 30th Avenue.
In the melee, the truck drove into the nearby meadow and crashed into a picnic table. So much for a quiet getaway.
Reader Jill B. says that around 6am, a morning dog walker “noticed a line of thick cable running along the right lane for a length of Fulton, turning and blocking 30th into the park.”
The city was summoned, and crews spent two hours cleaning up the spilled pipe. The pipe stretched nearly half a block and was so heavy, that the cleanup crew had to cut it into smaller sections to load it and move it.
Thanks to Jill B. and Elizabeth S. for the reports.
Sarah B.
I bet the picnic table was on it’s phone and didn’t hear the truck coming.
Um, you mean someone had their truck stolen and wrecked, *and* had their entire supply of copper pipe destroyed by the City on top of it?