A Friendly Call

Months went by.

Work on the old mans road was going to start soon.

I then heard that someone threw a monkey wrench in at the very last minute.

I received a call from a different McDonald's representative from their Corporate Headquarters. We spoke for a while, and then the gentleman asked:

Do you know the cost McDonalds is entailing for these repairs? I said yes and it’s not nearly the price I had paid over the years. He acknowledged the fact.

He mentioned the entities above and their role/s in McDonald's current property issues.

We spoke further.

A few days later papers were signed;

McDonalds and Pizza Hut replaced their drainage systems.

The slope area was then fixed and in the process the old man's road was replaced.

Peace; Breathing room for others to correct their troubled areas.
 

A Question and A Comparison - Question 1

McDonalds Corporation is a one of the largest International Corporations in the World with locations World Wide. The old man was around 81 years old at the time and was in very good shape, but because of his age he is one of the weakest individuals within a community.

Comparison 1: McDonalds incorporated a Professionally Engineered support wall that consisted of Metal "I" Beam Pilings and locked-in concrete blocks. This created a permanently engineered support wall.

Question 1: Why would a large international company attempt to do everything morally and legally correct in regards to this old man?

Said Support wall is as straight and solid as the day it was built.

Before	After

Another Question and a Comparison - Question 2

Comparison 2: Platinum Properties corrected their area in late 2007. Their slope support consisted a Professionally Engineered remedy of removing a fence line and trees, (natural support), and then placing concrete and blacktop debris from their damaged building over the hill and then covering it with soil and grass seed. (The current condition is not stated).

Question 2: Why would a large West Virginia Company, who faced the exact same problem, handle it in the opposite way, down to the last detail?

(As mentioned  in 2004; A Platinum Properties Insurance Company's attorney must have been correct when he stated that an engineered wall does not mean much, as an engineer is here today, gone tomorrow).

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