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?cache=rk4d3yg9s0&ops=crop_4_2_499_385,scalefit_720_noupscaleRoof leaking but can't decide whether to get it repaired or buy that AR-15 you always wanted? Problem solved---
Roofing companies in at least two states have adopted a bizarre marketing campaign in which customers who buy a roof get a free semi-automatic weapon as a bonus.
Digital Roofing Innovations in Decatur, Alabama, is the latest to offer the special. The company released a campy, over-the-top ad on July 4 ― complete with short shorts, beers, and gunfire ― promising an AR-15 to anyone who orders a roofing job.
Co-owner Zach Blenkinsopp, the scantily-clad star of the ad, promises its not a gimmick.
Youre gonna get you a free AR-15 rifle after we complete the roof. Hows that sound? he says. Donald Trump says, make America great again, I say, make America gun again"
Ahh - America- You can't make this shit up !
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/get-a-roof-get-a-gun-roofers-embrace-a-bizarre-ad-campaign_us_596103a9e4b0d5b458eac73f?mb6&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
shraby
(21,946 posts)not put on and when the person expects his gun, they'll tell him "we're not done with the roof yet".
And it never will get "done".
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)or later.
sinkingfeeling
(51,664 posts)think you're all under-educated, RW gun nuts.
Xolodno
(6,454 posts)...his workers are from south of the border.
panader0
(25,816 posts)dsc
(52,203 posts)If you like guys who look like a cross between ted nugent and hag fish. Slimy, slimy, slimy.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)dembotoz
(16,894 posts)A real bastion of home repair dishonesty.
onethatcares
(16,304 posts)in this case, I wonder what the mark up is on the gun. Ain't nothing free in this world.
BTW, the roofing regulations will soon devolve into a board of individuals lining their pockets with fine and fee money on the backs of the working guys. Of course there will be no oversight on where the money goes.
Check out the PCCLB fiasco in Florida.
dembotoz
(16,894 posts)But there has to be some standard somewhere. Building code should do it but in some places apparently not
A customer should have some expectation that a job will be done correctly by someone who knows how to do it
onethatcares
(16,304 posts)but the same conservatives and folks that call for such protections are not willing to pay an extra tax to pay for such a licensing/enforcement board.
It seems that building code enforcement is one of the first things to go in economic city downturns, plus if you were to take a survey most consumers would say there are too many inspections and hoops to jump thru when it comes to dealing with their own property.
hell of a dilemma
dembotoz
(16,894 posts)the person i referenced in the beginning from the networking group now has the nightmare of a poorly done roof that does not work and has problems all over the place. It looks like lawyer city....
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Mr. dixie built a lil workshop shed at the edge of our property, and, being from Cal. he went to city hall to find out what permits he needed.
None, they told him. When you have completed the work, let us know, someone will come out and check it over.
that was some years ago, and he still has not "completed" the work, it needs one more porch railing on the side away from the house.
and, turns out, before we bought this house, a "shed" had been built close to it, maybe as long as 30 years ago, but Hurricane Ivan blew it away. a year before we bought the place.
After teh shed was up, I had to go to city hall to file our homestead exception; clerk looked at the house records they had, to give an appraisal amount, and asked "do you still have a shed on your property?" so I said " Why yes, we do".
Mr. dixie might be finishing that shed any year now.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,265 posts)Don't get a new gun.
Shoot hole in new roof with old gun.
Get a new roof.