Now council workmen fill in Sheffield pothole with remains of rabbit carcass
Pothole filled in with dead rabbit inside
council workmen tarred over a dead rabbit as they filled in a hole in the road – after attempting to fix another pothole by tarring around the wheel of a van which was parked in it.
The Star revealed last week that Simon Linfoot was left incredulous when he returned to his LDV Pilot van on Badger Road, Woodhouse, to find asphalt had been spread around one of the tyres by workmen attempting to fill in a pothole.
When he drove off, the remainder of the hole was exposed.
Now Ecclesfield taxi driver Carl Garnham, aged 41, has revealed he was shocked to find a newly-repaired pothole on Mortimer Road, between Dale Dyke and Strines Reservoir, with the rabbit’s body sticking out from under the tarmac.
He said: “I was out with a friend heading to the Strines pub when we parked to admire the view – and saw the pothole.
“At the time we laughed a little about it and thought that the council workers who had filled in the hole had maybe a strange sense of humour or perhaps were running out of tar.
“God forbid they start filling potholes in with cats and dogs!
“It is all very funny but what about the damage to the car suspensions because of poor road maintenance.
“Do they need qualifications to fill these potholes?”
Meanwhile, another motorist, from Halfway, has complained that workmen from the council’s Street Force service – which looks after road maintenance – filled in one pothole at the junction of Auckland Way and Windmill Greenway, near Halfway Centre, but left four others unfilled.
He said: “What other council but Sheffield would send a team of men out to repair a pothole, let them fill it and leave four more potholes within eight or nine feet un-repaired. Not only that but if you look carefully you can see that the repair they carried out is already sinking.”
Sheffield Council cabinet member for communities Coun Shaffaq Mohammed, who is responsible for Street Force, said: “We have received extra money to fill in potholes caused by the severe winter but we want to make sure that the job is done correctly.
“Clearly I am concerned to hear of these incidents.
“I will be taking the cases up with the head of Street Force to make sure that we are filling in potholes properly and incidents like these are not happening.”
Sheffield Council has been awarded £1.2 billion by the Government to be spent over the next 25 years, up to 2037, on repairing the city’s 1,200 miles of crumbling highways and then maintaining them up to a good standard in the years to come.
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Landers
Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 09:13 PMWell the rabbit got a half decent burial!
Jimmy Wang
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 02:55 PMLOL, what are you lot of keyboard warriors going to do about it? No one is going to get sacked over this, or anything else. Sheffield Council are laughing at you. They own a horse.
viper51
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 08:37 AMDont know what all the fuss is about really, the picture shows what is typical council work standard!!!
tomawest
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 02:00 AMtotally agree with expensive jobless sheffield. The workmen take the michael and have been doing so for years and the management, despite making public comments that they do care, clearly dont care as this is City wide and has been happening for years. The MAIN ROAD outside my house, one of the trunk routes to the M1 from the city centre, was re surfaced partly last year and the layer was so thin that you couldnt tell the difference when driving onto it or along it. It was almost as though they had just painted it a darker colour!!! Absolute joke. Sack the whole bloody lot before all of that government grant is wasted!!!
kidneystone
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 05:45 PMThe road where I live must be one of the worst in Sheffield for pot holes. Several weeks ago street force came and painted 98 yellow squares around pot hole on my road alone (yes I walked from one end to the other and counted them). The road in question is Griffiths Road at High green. I lost count of the number of yellow paint marks at the bottom of School Road and on Lound side. The paint is now starting to wear out. Its the same old story, someone marks all the holes with paint and nobody bothers to come round and fill them in. This has happened before. Has someone at streetforce made the guy who fills in the holes redundant and forgot to tell the guy with the paint can.
costadelsussex
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:11 AMmaybe it was the Easter bunny out delivering, shocking!
norbsa
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 09:22 PMThey have just spent about 4 weeks resurfacing the road near Morrisons at Ecclesfield, but left all the surrounding roads full of potholes.
IdWalkaMillionMiles
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 09:06 PMI saw what looked like a father and son contract "team" earlier this year, fill a pothole that was full of water (in a very cold temperature) then just tamped it down with head of a sledgehammer. Absolutely ludicrous. They were off before I realised they'd finished. I would have reported it otherwise. What a waste of good money.
Los Blancos Galactico Rossoneri Mancunian
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 08:14 PMSack the whole of Shit Force, Council and their workmen who can't do the job properly!
serendipity
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 07:08 PMPerhaps it was a rabbit hole and the poor little thing was just taking a nap.
hellletloose
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 07:07 PMThey could have at least buried the rabbit properly, ok you should not use rabbits to fill potholes but if you do make sure you at least don^t leave the little bits out after all they have hearts too, unlike our council. I cannot believe the mentality, of Street Force, not only has the project been funded but they get enough revenue from car tax and poll tax to do a decent job. It worries me if they are cutting corners like this what other corners are they cutting. or are they using this money for there election campaign What we need is a peoples council, for the people of sheffield.
educated bloke
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 07:03 PMNow come on, this story is not bunny. You all rabbit on about how poor the council workers are but these guys hare around everywhere trying to mend our roads and dont warren-t all this criticism.
PaulSheffield
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 05:59 PMTick Tock Chop Chop.....
Captain-Morgan
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 05:12 PMEverything in this country is done "on the cheap", but those in charge pay themselves more than generously.... They seem to confuse "cheap" with "value". When will we ever see value being delivered?
Alex3659
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 04:34 PMUnreal - how hard can it be to fil in a pothole correctly. Still , could be worse , a lot worse .....LABOUR COULD BE RUNNING SHEFFIELD COUNCIL .
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