St. Louis trash truck damages new homeowners' garage
"They decided to deny the claim [saying] the pole fell as the truck drove by," said Porter. In its denial letter, the city said investigators found no visible marks on the utility pole indicating the refuse truck driver struck the pole. When the I-Team interviewed the city's director of operations, Todd Waelterman, in 2016, he described the possibility of something very similar to what the homeowners say happened. "You can see where you'll tear down a cable wire, to the point where you can knock a garage over," he told PJ Randhawa. At the time, Waelterman said the cause of the issue was the c...