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I've had it with dead animals lying around for days around here! My child is just to to the age of noticing -- and being grossed out/facsinated by -- roadkill. One day last week we're traveling down 485 and there's a huge deer. This was around the Matthews exit 52.
The next day, it's still there, and looking pretty gruesome by now. And there was an abandoned car nearby with one of those orange stickers on it, so I know someone of authority had been by, but still it remained. So when I have a chance I google "dead animal removal/mecklenberg" on my iphone. I call and the person says since it's on 485, it's a state issue. So I google NC DOT. They transfer me around a few times and I finally get someone who says I need to call the Albermarle office. They give me the number and I call.
The person on the other end of the phone tells me I need to call another office. I told her the state office said I should call the Albermarle office. She actually uses the phrase "It's not my job" and says I need to call another office. I tell her I'm on my cell phone , this is the third call I've had to make, and couldn't she please make the call -- gave her the location of the carcass, told her it's been there at least 24 hrs and it's becoming a health hazard! She sighed -- loudly -- and mumbles something again about it not being her job, but agrees to make the call for me. Since I mumbled something negative about "government workers" I doubt she did.
Has anyone else noticed the abundance of roadkill around these parts, on state and city roads? Why don't they get this stuff cleaned up in a timely manner? Ick!!
That doesn't sound right. I'd have called 311 and asked them to send someone. I've seen the CMPD animal control paddy wagon on 485 all the time. That's a crock if they tell you it's out of their jurisdiction. If they do it again, ask for a supervisor. 311 has a relatively high turn around and/or influx of new employees who may not be up to speed on how to handle such calls.
I'm not sure it was 311 -- I know it was someone at Char-Meck though. Since I was on cell, I couldn't call 311. But I googled the internet right from my phone. They said since it was a state-maintained highway, it was not their job. It's ok, though, for this huge animal to sit there and rot! I just wish for once, someone would give a darn, you know? Sigh!
Maybe with the high unemployment rate, 311 will get some more capable and caring customer service folks.
I've used this in the past to file a 311 request online for a dog on the side of 77 near downtown. The dog was gone by the next morning. I even got a response in a few days later indicating that the problem had been resolved.
I'm betting you didn't talk to 311...and you should be able to call it from your cell phone. I do all the time. If you're within Mecklenburg County, you will go to the Charlotte 311 (other big cities have 311 systems too). I believe they will not ever tell you it's not their job...since they are just merely an operator who puts a work order in a system that distributes it do the correct person. If anything, that person that gets the work order would be the one to tell you it's not going ot be covered by them, if it happens at all.
I guess my gripe is that roadkill seems to sit around for a long time around here. And the treatment I got when trying to report it -- it's not like I was complaining about the color my neighbor painted their front door or something. It was a huge dead animal that had been there for more than 24 hours!
My girls are 6 & 8 and I say something like "Girls, look! There is a [insert quadruped name here] sleeping in the road."
Be careful, especially if you are an early commuter.
I commute between 5.30-6am and it is not unusual to see a few deer a week on Providence Rd and Hwy 51.
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