Expectant couple Alexandria Martin and Raphael Rodriguez headed off to work in Toledo, Ohio, one morning expecting to come home for a gender reveal party they planned that evening.
Then Martin’s phone started buzzing — issuing 261 security camera alerts — and she and Rodriguez were forced to come home much earlier. The city had demolished the vacant house next door. In the process, they tore off Martin and Rodriguez’s porch and damaged their fence.
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“By the time I got (home), there wasn’t anybody even here,” Rodriguez told WTOL 11. “So I was kind of tripped out. No note on the door, not a ‘sorry, we destroyed your porch (1).’”
The media outlet reviewed security footage (1) that appeared to show a worker warning a crew member not to push from a certain direction because the adjacent structure could fall onto the couple’s home…