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Man's House Mistakenly Destroyed

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(June 10) -- Imagine driving up to a house you own only to find it's not there anymore. That's what happened to Al Byrd of Atlanta on Monday afternoon.
Byrd received a call from a neighbor on June 8 telling him that his childhood home in Carrollton, Ga., had been demolished. When Byrd arrived on the scene with a Carroll County Sheriff's deputy, he found the home, which he still owns, in ruins, the Times-Georgian reported.
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“My dad built this house with his own hands in 1950,” Byrd said.
The company hired to inspect the house was apparently given only GPS coordinates for the home, not a street address. Byrd said he heard that a house across the road was the intended target for the demolition.
Though no one was living in the house when it was taken down, Byrd told the Georgian that it was full of family heirlooms, including his mother's china and the family Bible.
"This was more than just a house," Byrd told the Georgian. "This was a whole history."
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Dreolinagain

04:49 PMJun 19 2009

There are many reasons that he might have left belongings there. He might use it part time, he may have no other place to store them, he might have been waiting for other family members to claim them. Some of you are just being jerks! I recently had to move out of my childhood home so that it could be demolished because the county I lived in said it wasn't up to code. I was given very little time to move(not to mention I have the honor of having to pay for several different permits so I can tear the home down, even though I didn't even want to move out of it and didn't have anywhere else set up to go to, though I found a place since). The county was going to charge me $20-30 THOUSAND dollars to tear it down, but family members stepped in and are doing it for free. But during this time we had to move many items to storage, but others had to wait at the house until other arrangements could be made. So get over yourselves and learn to see things from other perspectives!

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TacMitch5

11:06 AMJun 19 2009

Most of these people take their property and rent them out to other people, some keep them as summer homes.If;and I say if, he was using this particular property as a summer home then all utilities would have been turned off.

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Dbaker3000

11:03 AMJun 15 2009

I would think any home targeted for demolishion would have signs posted on the property with a fence around the perimeter for some time prior. Please tell me that people are not this stupid!

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JusBythew

09:55 PMJun 14 2009

The house wasn't being lived in by a human, the gas and electricity was turned off by the Utility Company sometime ago. Sounds like black man trying to make a buck along with 15 minutes of fame!!!

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JusBythew

09:54 PMJun 14 2009

The house wasn't being lived in by a human, the gas and electricity was turned off by the Utility Company sometime ago. Sounds like black man trying to make a buck along with 15 minutes of fame!!!

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TRPete10

02:22 PMJun 13 2009

Strange that the house was not being lived in by this man but yet he leaves all of his so-called family treasures? If the utilites were shut off, which is what I'm assuming if nothing happend when destroying the house, then why leave the so-called valuables? Something seems a bit fishy here! There needs to be an investigation to see if ithere was any wrong doing by both parties here. I have my suspicions that the owner knew this before hand. Family treasures left behind seems a bit odd and careless. Fraud!

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BENKERT6

07:21 AMJun 13 2009

Can't he just call Oblabba and have him fix it for him?

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Westiesr2cool

12:03 AMJun 13 2009

takeachce1 ....I agree 100% with what you said in your post. If this house was built in the 50's that would mean it's a house suppied with GAS. If they just drove up and started demolishing it.....there would have been an explosion. Also the CITY has to give a permit for demolishions as well. Seems to me the utility companies would have been on sceen to ensure all went well. Something in this story isn't right.

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Arentany

09:56 PMJun 13 2009

Ah, the magnificence of free enterprise. Gosh, wish my social security could have been managed by the banking industry.

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Dd3075

09:33 PMJun 13 2009

cont'd............ This company should be put out of business, for shear incompetence. For anyone to even begin a demoliton, without double-checking the PHYSICAL address, is the epitome of an entitlement mentality (I can do whatever I want whenever I want, and to hell with whoeverr gets hurt).

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