Pothole Patchers - Busted on the Job Classics
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- This is the original "busted on the job" report. Scott followed a tip and caught city pothole patchers doing everything but working. The story sparked an avalanche of tips and stories about other slackers.
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Outrageously funny, but hard hitting, these stories in the late 1990's and early 2000's made Scott Lewis a household name in Detroit. They exposed shameful slacking in a city once known for it's hard work ethic and put a stop to a lot of the outrageous behavior by some so-called workers.
Wow! What the hell are these guys doing working on the streets? They should be in management!
Or better yet run for office.
Yeah Why not make them mayor and governor.... They need some real supervision...lol
Wow I don't know what's worse, their lack of work or the one guy pissing wherever he wanted just like a "F'N" dog.....
DONTUO Harris those are actually city managers, ,mayors, and administrators in training.
Are they hiring? I'm fully qualified for this 🍺😁👍
I was wondering if they are hiring i have a bad back but this looks like a job i can handle
Me too we all can make a crew out of this
@@1968DodgePolara yes!!!! And I vote all safety meetings will be held at the local titty bar 😎
I mean I like the whole pot patching and stuff but I cannot drink that much. Not every job is for everyone.
i dont mean to be offtopic but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly forgot the password. I would love any tricks you can give me
Jeez, I was definitely born in the wrong generation. Sure wish I could go work in the 80's and 90's for an hour a day and drinking for a paycheck.
@@garyg6472 I'm gonna tell your mom your on youtube past curfew
@thenewshmoo Only thing that would be different from now is I don't have to wait till I get home to drink
@Ryan Kisnics Yeah, and I'll buy a house for $40k
Your comment implies it's stopped. That's cute.
Just move to Detroit, I'm sure not much has changed, you are black right? If so good, you can help destroy the city by doing nothing too.
You just gotta love the old narration. "he goes over to someones yard and recycles some of that beer"...... "he lets her rip right on the side of the truck". Too funny.
As soon as I heard "Detroit" I thought oh ok, now it makes sense.
Way to keep the stereotype alive and well fellas!
The boss doesn't care he has a contract with the city he doesn't care if the employees shit in the holes either way he gets paid
He looked like a fuckin' pimp.
And he knows he can't be fired!
Oh that's his side job.
Wayne Howarth ya hes a pimp city jobs just a cover
squid RR 508 oh they fill them full of shit? No wonder they just fall apart after they’re filled!
My dad retired early got bored and went to work for the county.
Said they went to work at 8 left the yard after 9 and drove a 10 wheel dump truck 60 miles to patch pot holes, arriving at about 11 am. At noon it was time for a one hour lunch and then back to work. At 2:30 the boss declared it was time to start back to the yard. This is not just a big city problem because it also happens in rural northern Utah!
A decade later and nothing has changed... Michigan roads still suck!
Boy! Wasn't that a surprise at what color they were!
@@lilolme69 Dumbass.
@@Cbd_7ohm For pointing out the obvious? lmao :)
Absolutely horrible
Of course the Boss doesn't want to see the tape. Those employees are his Brother, his half brother, his step Brother, his cousin and long time friend from the old hood.
Little Flower it’s waste taxes money
Lmao
That's how they do
Yikes
@@badtiger7471 brother from another mother
The story of my life. All the good jobs are taken, but the shitty jobs where you have to work I get. My co-workers sit around smoking, drinking coffee and bullshitting while I'm working.
It's a sick joke! I used to have a friend that worked for the city and half the time all they ever did was sit at the park and drink beer and smoke weed. The thing is, especially when it comes to government employees, their supervisors know this is what's going on just like they know it doesn't take 15 people to fill a pothole or replace a stop sign but keep them all on the payroll anyway. Even when they sub the work out to privately owned companies, the same standards apply. They hire 3x more than they need and pay them 3x more than they actually earn. That company is getting paid an enormous amount of money basically to do nothing because state and local governments have to find places to spend the money they have so they won't end the year with a budget surplus and lose their grants or have to lower their taxes.
So much politics wrapped up in this bullshit and it absolutely amazes me that these are the people and the system that so many Americans want to hand our healthcare over to. *FFS, our government won't even take care of it's veterans and soldiers!* and you want to put *everyone's* healthcare in their hands? Yeah, sure, you do that and then you can complain about your skyrocketing federal income tax so the government can pay legions of nurses who barely passed their exams but got hired anyway because of the color of their skin to sit around and do nothing all day on the government dole.
its called affirmative action and it plagues all democatic states
Government workers 😂
My man! Preaching truth!
Thank you for the educational wisdom, katiedastripper.
Dont wanna go back smelling of Olde English!
LMAO
Why not? They're all doing the same thing and they all stick together. Who's going to rat them out?
I gots me a 40 of OE Knowhatimsayin?
Well this just proves they're not always lying when they say "dindo nuffn"
You mean ,"did not do anything."
Yikes, well this is the most racist thing I’ve seen all day
@@MrRottweiler72didn't no dat
@@marcddailey more ignorance
@@MrRottweiler72 check your stocks & shares
What will make you even angrier, is if you go out at your own expense to patch potholes, you’ll get arrested and prosecuted if they catch you at it. And then the city will pay someone to rip out your patch job.
Boss man looks like "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
Looks like a punk ass to me
fun shooting baddest boss in the whole damn town
He Brown all right, same color as shit.
I was waiting on one of his ho’s to come stumblin around the corner after him!
@Pinkie Bell your mama
Wow! They drink more beer in one day than I do all year.
😂😂😂😂
Livereater00
Their throats get dry smoking weed and crack all day
Blacks love beer
I knew it was Detroit. We have so many potholes it's ridiculous! And when they fill the hole, they can't even fill it correctly. Hole fillers can't even fill holes, go figure!
DCNOS18 pothole city - I made a funny video on potholes. Check it out if you want to laugh
Ayee. Wallah your video is so true. I've done everything that you have in your videos. Looks like some of the video was in Dearborn too!
DCNOS18 Haha yes it was recorded in Dearborn🤣 these potholes are ridiculous this year.
Syracuse has a lot of potholes too.
And Dettiot wonders why their city has gone to pot. The patches are not even properly patching the roads they didn't prep the potholes and even when the filled the holes the didn't compress the patch so in other words it was a useless patch.
Houston has the same problem one guys fill one pothole and takes on average 30 mins then they break for 30th minutes.
What a joke accountability needs to be enacted.
Christopher NaPier dettiot DAHHH!!!
Christopher NaPier - the only difference is that in Houston they are lazy, beer drinking Mexicans.
Wayne Howarth beer drinking yes. Lazy? Na.
This is not news. seeing a black man work is real news.
Christopher NaPier be careful you'll melt some snowflakes. Lol
I wish we still had good reporting like this
affirmative action at its best!
Wats a bru'Thu to DO!!??
I would say 'unbelievable', but ....
Lol
"The pay is 10 dollars an hour" I would be doing the same thing as those guys. Get what you pay for.
You're pathetic!
They spent that much on one tip to the liquor store
You realize that was in 1998 right? 10 bucks an hour was pretty good.
similar situation happens in my state, while sitting at a red light I watched 5 state trucks and 13 state employees remove and replace a speed limit sign. I guess it takes one man to do the work and 12 to make sure the work is done correctly. If you need a highway patrol officer just call McDonald's there are usually 4 or 5 hanging out there.
Every thug knows better than to stick up a donut shop!
roy hoco 😂 haha
I once saw 5 seattle parks and rec people with 3 trucks pick of maybe a yard and a half of leaves. An usual 2 were working the other 3 were watching them work.
Lol see government workers Don't work . We need robots more efficient.
reminds me of the Air Force during peace time..2 people working and 10 standing around talking about it
The proper way to repair a pothole is with a "hotbox" - that is a heated trailer containing hot asphalt. The hole is first swept of sand (ballast, or small crushed bluestone about an 1to 2 inches can be used as filler). The asphalt is shoveled into the hole and left slightly proud of the surrounding surface. It is then rolled or compacted into the hole. Depending on depth, setting time would be anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour. Hard to do a good job in heavy traffic without closing off a lane. Ideally, afterwards, a sealer truck would then come and seal the edges to prevent water from seeping in and popping the patch.
Cold patch is not asphalt. It's a sticky chemical compound mixed with gravel. It only lasts about a day or two on a moderately traveled street. It is intended to be used as an emergency measure if there isn't a hotbox available. Usually at night or on a weekend. Most often used right after a snowstorm when potholes can appear out of nowhere. Using coldpatch in the manner shown in the video is completely futile. The city is wasting it's time and money.
ersikillian - thought that didn't look right at 9:32 thanks.
They could have used UPM, (Unique Paving Material) good stuff, used it for about 25 years on a busy interstate and secondary roads, usually held up very well and you didn't have to clean the hole. but what's the use in these guys case, It's quite unlikely these guys really care about your comment.
Thanks for the info.
It’s government you know they have to do a bad job lol
You now what you are talking about. Check out a product called (easy Street ) it comes in bags like cement. I loved it.
What a great job. Wish I had a job like that.
Is it just me or do city employees in Detroit love to smoke and drink on the job, while avoiding any kind of work possible. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
$10 an hour in 1998 in the US? That's actually ok.
mack cummy In my area $10/hr was pretty standard for labor jobs and trades in ‘98
How much was beer in 1998? I would wager they would save a fortune not drinking on the job.
Adjusted for inflation, that's $15.39 in 2017 dollars. For unskilled labor, that's a lot.
10 dollars an hour wasn’t bad back then...
... for not doing your job?...
That's pretty phenomenal!
Too funny I saw cranford and son on door of pickup and laughed to myself i remember Sanford and son that was a very funny comedy show on t.v. years ago
I thought the exact same.
Idk why I’m binge watching these videos lmao
The 90's were a hell of a time for pot hole patches
😂😂😂
Thank you Mr. Lewis! Outstanding work!! Thank you for informing the masses as far as the RIFF-RAFF NOT working on the job!!! Keep up your good work!
Detroit? Yeah, I remember during my Trucking days going to Detroit. I liked Philadelphia and Atlanta better, anyway there were two things I liked about Detroit. The Coney dog places, which were every where, kinda like Starbucks are today, one about every block, sometimes two. And the second thing? Leaving Detroit.
Dan Reed ...U lump altogether? City & metro area. U don't know shiiite.
Dan Reed haha love the second thing
I made a funny video on potholes. Check it out if you want to laugh
The people of Detroit need to start sueing the city for the damages to their cars. As the city is responsible for the roads.
"10am -- it's Miller time!" 🤣
Id be bored out of my mind doing nothing all day like that.
they work harder than congress
Good point
Fuck all the other comments, we have winner here
Affirmative Action at its finest.
Miley onDisney, sup gal
Exactly
Exactly
It's a scam that occurs everywhere. Being retired, I sometimes sit outside the building downtown, with other seniors. The topic in the afternoon is usually how many times the same DPW truck going around the block over and over from about 1 pm to quitting time at 3:30. Then you will see the same crew out and "working" on a Saturday, getting over time, probably.
Why on earth am I busting my ass off at Kroger's for $8.50 an hour, when for $10 an hour I can just slack off and eat all day. It's a literal dream job.
Wow.. Detroit looks like an awesome city...if you are into suicidal thoughts and depression.
Run by democrats for 60 years.
Barskor1 if Donald Trump wants to stop practices like this give the jobs to illegal aliens they will work like dogs all day
yea and they will do it under the table have a ton of kids take benefits and rape the country, gone with the illegals
Remember the premise of how Delta City came to be and why they were selected to be the first in the RoboCop program?
I miss the days when art imitated life and not the other-way-round.
This video shows exactly why it's in the shape it's in.
that looked like that self leveling asphalt I've heard so much about L O L
Anthony Smith 🔫
Springfield, Ohio has tons of pot holes. Hope sharing this helps open eyes.
Crazy how much time they spend just talking in the their truck. Not scrolling on their phones or watching TH-cam. They might not be the hardest workers, but i bet they were true friends
Ahhhh, the good ol' days.
Welcome to Detroit. These guys are union, pimp daddy boss man can't do a damn thing to them..
That job must be so bad they are all like. "I can do this only when we drive to the party store."🤣
times have not change in new York when it comes to patching and fixing potholes at all yet! the roads are awful and it's 2018 this was in the 90s! amazing
I didn’t know Fred & Lamont were also pot hole patchers? I seen their truck at :50...Sanford & Son? Hah cool and Lamont said he wanted a second job so he could get married...🥴
"I saw there truck not seen.
these guys must be former politicians or something
Brings back memories of childhood seeing all the white bottom dyed trees in the neighborhood!
This is incredible. Great leadership in the garden city of Detroit. No wonder it looks, smells and has a shrinking population like it does.
Who built the USA and who destroyed it ? . .
This country needs a good douching !! Couple of real beauties there
This report is so savage!!! I love it! Lol.
10 bucks an hour in 1991 ?? Fuck me thats a sweet gig
If it's one thing I've learned from Scott's videos, its that Detroit City workers are always getting fucked up on the job.
1:48 Is he wearing a shirt and tie under that jacket? Well that's your problem right there.
That ain’t repairing potholes! They said “coldpatch”. Well, that’s temporary at best, and still needs to be compacted!
A coworker told me once that when he took a business trip out to Georgia to visit one of our facilities, he said the black workers there were some of the laziest people he encountered. I thought he was over exaggerating, but this program has proved that he was under selling it.
If you work at Home Depot on midnights you’ll get away with this and more 😂😂😂
Is it any coincidence that all of them, including the boss, are black? Just a coincidence?
Totally a coincidence. Totally.
Phuck demokraps.
@obrbob194 Aww, what's wrong nigga boy, truth hurts?
@obrbob194 What's wrong nigga boy, truth hurts?
Oh its Detroit, I thought it was Vernon b.c. Canada I've seen potholes there for over 17 years never touched
I’m Watching this at work on the clock.
And it’s still the same today.
Nope. It's worse. Now they attend BLM protests while they are supposed to be working and do 0 minutes of work in 8 hours.
That was probably still their most productive day yet. Imagine their unproductive days probably 20 minutes of actual work. Hell why work hard if you can get away with not working. I don't blame them at all. I blame the people that hired them and those that let them slack off without any supervision and overseeing and accountability. Should fire all the whole of them including the higher ups who has to know this is going on but just playing dumb.
he should get him own show.going across the country
This shit got me rollin!!’ “I like a good beer buzz early in the morning” lmfaoooo
Haha what is this guy doing? Why is he laughing? Hahaha 😂😭😭
The fact that this is in Detroit is utterly unsurprising to anyone who has ever once driven there.
Affirmative action at its best..................They can careless about there own city pitiful.
And they also turned Detroit into a another ghetto. No one to blame but themselves. When it had white people working in the city it was clean and well kept and had areas that were safe
@@mstrychessboxn3520 Yes. I'm sure that the people who work tirelessly with the mentally handicapped will appreciate your playground-based vocabulary. Well done.
Are u suprised . They are going to sit on there porch couch soon
"Take a look at this" One of Scott's famous lines.
That 40oz Beer for Black Folks Is like a Water Bottle lol
What do you think congressmen do all day
The fact that the boss wouldn't even look at the video is solid proof that he is crooked. I've looked at a lot of these "caught on the job" vids, and the workers that are goofing off most of the day are all black people.
Kelley Manning Hahahahah Look at the way he is dressed.... More like a pimp .....
Stfu... whites, and I'm white by the way, are just as bad, if not worse...
Why do you think illegals go to the US to do all the hard work like picking fruit and vegetables???
White Americanswon't do it.
Hahahah and blacks would not do it either
2014? 😂
It's 2019 and guess who still does this? Our very own heroes in blue!
Good investigative work
Lmfao news back in the day was awesome
Now let's imagine for a minute if everybody will work like those 2 guys, what will happen to this country? it's ridiculous and outrageous... those guys should be fired immediately starting with their pimp boss. Even the boss was probably playing a game on he's Xbox and that's why he didn't have time to look at the tapes. I hope they all got fired.
giurcas actually if absolutely every able body person worked for at least 2 hours a day everything would get done and then some.
There was no xbox back when this was filmed but I get what you mean. Super NES probably.
Kandi Klover this nigga said Xbox this shiit is so old it's almost black and white 😂
this is proof you can't get a days work out of a 'N Word' in a year!!!
They said he was doing a puzzle. lol
They didn't even fill the potholes right at the entrance to the yard!!! O_o
Pothole-patcher: "Not my j... oh wait... it is!
Ah, who cares! As long as I get my paycheck!
No-one is paying any attention to us anyway..."
Whoopsie! Bummer!
Lol at the custom windshield washer and grille
The Boss looks like TeHee from live and let die. LMFAO
Is this the pothole business, or a Bond film? Makes me wonder what else is going on back at the "yard."
I own a business and i have some pretty nighmarish stories involving black employees. I basically learned my lesson and don’t hire them anymore. There are plenty of hardworking and honest black folks, but when you get burned so many times, you have to play it safe and just stop hiring from that demographic all together.
I've seen the same thing. I don't think it's simply because they're black, but more that they're victims and they're entitled to more. It's a culture as I've seen plenty of hard working blacks and plenty of lazy whites. But it does seem to affect blacks more. Not sure why.
Bullshit maybe u should just vett the employees better all of u r racist for ur comments
80% are ghetto.Open your eyes dude.Dont hire them or just regret.
I live in an all white community. Yes it is amazing, or was until other cultures started moving in. Have had nothing but problems with African employees. Lazy as F! Spend all shift trying to get Women's phone numbers, watching porn on the company computers and it goes on and on. Nobody is impressed except for ditzy blonds who want to rebel against their parents.
deport trump and his supporters youre racist because you dont like Donald Trump.
Basically every unsupervised worker with unquantifiable amount of work to do.
what's he laughing about? WELL, that wasn't a cigarette he was smoking... LOL.
It's no wonder the city went bankrupt.
lol true and now they city is too broke to fix the roads after all those years of not doing their job lol
Did you really think you would catch them working!
$10 an hour? That explains everything.
That dam music is on point plus the narrator...lol
DIND UNUF FINN on the job
And try firing these worthless POS. You'd have the NAACP up your ass strong arming you to put these fine, hard working, brothers back on the tax payers dime.
The boss says look I don't care how many hoes you do just fill the damn things up and I'll give you a buzz later
I never thought about filling pot holes for a living, but after watching this, I'm sold. Where do I sign up? I bet I can out drink and out smoke these clowns. I'm a real dirtbag lol
Thank you team for exposing another example of wasteful spending, laziness, dishonesty, lack of integrity that is rampant throughout American society.
i wish they still did this shit..i love it
Wow they worked more than I have ever seen one of them work
They all should be fine, fired and Jailed and driver license suspended.
At only $10.00/Hr.................I'd drink beer on the job too. They can go earn that at Walmart if they get fired. Keep up the good work guys! The company should be ashamed of themselves paying $10.00/Hr to fill potholes.
What the hell is a party store ?
Conn Guy lol! I was wondering the same thing. Looks like a liquor store to me.
Can you believe the security in those places? They should hand out awards for shooting thieves long before they had to make that giant plexiglass lazy Susan
I guess thats what unfuckable white dudes call the corner store
We should be regularly following civil servants around to find out what they really do including their work comp claims, disability, and contracts. We should include police, fire, courts, judges and the whole schmear. I'm sure everyone would be shocked. It's easy hire a private investigation firm and pay them commission for every one they catch. I mean how hard is it to catch guys saying they're disabled but out playing golf, not hard. Oh yeah then "sue" the fraudster for claims and damages, take their pension or part of it, and tell them if they don't agree you'll pursue criminal charges. That's what the IRS does. They tell you they have the proof and you can agree agree to pay the past due taxes in payments or go to jail. What do you want to do?
The slackers probably got a promotion. I mean hell that's what happens when you work for the city. You mess up, you get promoted. Right???
I worked for a city. And do you now what. You are correct 100%.
Since I have had to fill my own potholes, I’m definitely qualified!