Disaster of all Moves

Let's start with the truck.

This is your everyday, normal 14 foot moving truck. Because of bad experiences with U-Haul, my friend decided to rent the truck from Public Storage. It turns out that Public Storage is much worse than U-Haul. Not only do they lose reservations, but they also accept returns of trucks without their keys. Yes, that's right, even though my friend had a reservation, they double-booked the van and forgot to get the keys back from the previous user of the van. So, my friend waited until Public Storage called the guy up and had him drive by to return the keys.

Not too bad, right? It does get worse. After packing up the van with all manner of boxes and objects, we drive down to the new apartment complex. The PS van is the lead car, since none of us know where it is. While we're in the apartment complex's parking lot, looking for a place to park the truck and unload, we hear a loud crack, as if someone had clapped two pieces of wood together.

We look to the side and we see this:

Ok, so there's a little debris. We probably brushed the edge of those pylons jutting out, right? We look up and we see this:

Yep. That's right, the corner of the moving van smacked the corner of an apartment and practically tore the wall away.

My friend avoided the yellow pole on the side of the street, but notice, the pole and the overhang are off by about 3 feet.

This is the damage at the smallest point, where the wall here is pulled out about 6 inches.

This is the damage at the upper part, which is a lot more than 6 inches pulled out. You can see nails ripped straight out of the wood, as well as a broken pipe. The insulation is just about to fall out, and not visible from this angle is the light switch/electrical plugs which were pulled out with the overhang, leaving a nice square hole in the kitchen.