On 12/20/2010 12:44 PM, McCoy, Alan wrote: > Here’s a link to a Bosey move gone wrong: > > I call it “Oops” This was chewed up for a couple of weeks on the "other" list. The reporting was far more incompetently done than the move. What we see is an incomplete photo set, out of sequence. The second photo shows the crew setting the piano on the dolly using the lift gate, quite under control and reasonably done. This should be the first photo in the series shown. The first photo shows the piano successfully atop the dolly, with the gate back up. This should have been the second photo in the series shown. The next photo we see is of the piano on the ground. This should have been the forth photo. The missing third photo would have shown the piano in position on the gate as it was being lowered. The effect is to portray this crew as total idiots, who can't tell when the back of the piano is still three feet inside the truck as the gate is lowered. What happened is that the back corner of the skid board barely caught on something as the gate lowered, and dumped the piano. It was a couple of seconds of inattention, during a move that was otherwise under competent control. Somebody screwed up, absolutely, but it was nowhere nearly as monumentally stupid a thing as the text indicates. It was an accident that, but for another inch, wouldn't have happened at all. Maybe you can remember something similar and more personal. I sure can. So, because of that couple of seconds of inattention by one individual, the unlucky lack of clearance at the rear corner of the skid, and the irresponsible and totally unrepresentative reporting of it on the internet this crew and this company has received a priceless and apparently immortal quantity of negative press making them look like utter morons. That has to have done the business wonders. Personally, I'd hire them for a move if they're still in business and haven't starved. I guarantee they're the carefullest movers on the planet now, and don't allow photographs. Ron N
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