{"id":729791,"date":"2010-05-19T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:38:35","slug":"verizon-buries-bags-of-rocks-in-womans-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729791","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Buries Bags Of Rocks In Woman&#8217;s Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051910-003-verizon-rocks-thumb-210x143-40495.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A woman in Albany, NY was gardening in her front yard and uncovered a white plastic bag filled with rocks. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=931556&#038;TextPage=1\" >she found more<\/a>, over a dozen in all, which turned out to have been placed there by Verizon workers who had removed an old utility pole last month and had run out of sand. <\/p>\n<p>A Verizon spokesman told the Times Union paper that the crew should have emptied the stones from the bags first, and probably shouldn&#8217;t have used them at all unless the ground was very wet. Another Verizon rep came out to the property and emptied the bags himself, then said he&#8217;d send out a crew to properly fill the hole and repair the damaged lawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=931556&#038;TextPage=1\" >&#8220;No stone unturned in the case of buried bags&#8221;<\/a> [Times Union]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Albany, NY was gardening in her front yard and uncovered a white plastic bag filled with rocks. Then she found more, over a dozen in all, which turned out to have been placed there by Verizon workers who had removed an old utility pole last month and had run out of sand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831272,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729791\/revisions\/831272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}