cursed/jinxed jobs?

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ever get a job you'd swear is cursed?

it's happened to me a few times.

Once, I got this real uneasy feeling when we pulled up to landscape a house in a new development. The feeling just wouldn't go away...

at about 10am, a county sherriff's car pulled up, and a county coroner. they wheeled out a carpet layer who'd killed himself over the weekend, his body was in the house the entire time we worked there.

Another time, I was doing tree work for an older couple. Nice folks, but I always felt a little odd around them. I only ever dealt directly with the Mrs., her husband really kept to himself. One day, while I was working, and she was at work, all these rigs start pulling in. To make a long story short, he had been diagnosed with Alzheimers, and never told his wife. That day, he arranged for the coroner, a cleaning service, a mortician, etc etc, went in the garage and killed himself. He was cleaned up and gone by the time she got home from work.

the capper was the most recent job we did.... but i'd like to hear some other folks stories first..
 
We have a Regional Park that we workat. IF anything is going to go wrong, that IS WHERE it will go wrong, This is the only place we ever had any property damage, left a power pole saw hehind in the dark, hit an unmarked buried cable. NOT a fun place to work, and boy there is a lot of work to do there.

Sorry for the pun but it appears they are dieing for you to work for them!
 
Up in the ADK area where I spent a good 6 years. There where some areas we logged that were just spooky. One job was outside Inlet, Ny doing a selective log, when doing the mark out for the border lines of the job. We came across some caution tape surrounding about 5 acres. As we marked a tree out came a ranger telling us to stay outta the caution area do to that is where Sarah Ann Moods was supposedly burried.
 
U guys top anything that has ever happened to me. One time I got a spooky feeling in a very large oak tree when I came across a large hollow spot about 70' up, but that is about it. Jk

One time we did some tree work at a house in a very upscale neighborhood, but the yard was overgrown, and the trees and and just about everything that could be overgrown was. When the lady that I had spoken with showed up to pay us she said that the house belonged to her late brother and sister inlaw and their fam, and that they had all died in a horrific car crash 1 month b4 and that they were getting the house ready to sell. Not to exciting but that is my only one.

D.W.H
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Many years ago I was doing PacTel clearance in the mountains in a very remote and sparsely populated area across from Lake Henshaw below Palomar mountain.

To find my work area I had to read the pole numbers and was hiking from pole to pole when I noticed a couple dudes following me with rifles. I turned around and walked up to them to let them know I was subbing for PacTel. They got a little nervous glancing at each other and finally suggested that I let them lead the way between the poles so I didn't get accidentally hurt. I said sure guys lead the way. A few poles later I found the pole numbers I wanted and told them I'd be back tomorrow with a 4 man crew. They said fine, but insisted that we take the same route in we had just taken, and leave the same way.

I knew they were marijuana growers guarding their booby trapped growing patches, and was grateful to them for staying cool the few days it took my crew to clear the spans between the designated poles on their turf. I kept the secret from my crew and the owner of the company until many years later.

Utility clearance can be dangerous in many ways!

jomoco
 
We did a weeks work at a historic coastal site of Australian settlement, this site became a quarantine station, where many sick pioneers died, later became an army base, since abandoned.

The place was like a ghost town, various old abandoned buildings everywhere.

While working one section of a large avenue of cypress on the outer side, things got a little wierd.

Nothing went right in this one bit. The branches had to be retrieved from the other side of a fenced off area, only this one bit was fenced.

Dragging branches out, everyone was a fight, like someone else was dragging it in the other direction.

After sitting down discussing how crap things were in that section I wandered back in to have a look a plaque on a pedestal that was a bit further in.

It read that this area was formerly the graveyard for those who died sailing to, or soon after arriving in australia. I say formerly, because all the bodies had to be dug out & relocated after being washed out by erosion after a big storm. That would make for some unhappy souls i'm tipping.
 

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Trev, that's downright creepy! I read 'In a sunburned country' by Bill Bryson (that's about all I know of Australia), and it seems like there might be lots of similar places/stories 'down under!'

-Tom
 
Well this aint to creepy but it was kind of nuts! Years ago I was helping to do some surveys in some wind throws in the forests in middle TN. They were pretty remote spots. All morning long we were being buzzed by black helicopters coming in right over the tree canopy. Before we new what was going on a voice in the woods told us that we had guns aimed at us and to drop all of our packs and anything in our hands and to kneel down and place our hands on top of our heads. Of course we complied. Four DEA agents dressed in cammo with m4s then aproached us. They had us surrounded and we didnt even know they were there. Well they checked us out, figured out that we just out there counting damaged trees and all was good. It turned out that there was a massive meth problem happening out there and thought we were scoping out a place to do a little chemistry. They were nice guys and even sat with us a while for lunch.
 
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