Someone walked right smack dab in the middle of my blackberry bushes.

Dallas, Texas
January 17, 2016 4:26pm CST
The street lights are still out on the street out front, and at the corner and down the block west even farther, so at night, there is not much light on the lawn. The property is pretty darn dark when the sun sets. The thing I hate is, people like to take short cuts across our property from the alley to the streets. We do not have a fence or gate between our driveway in the front to our back yard and the back alley gate is not secure. I don't mind people sometimes taking a short cut because they are most often local residents, but the person who walked into my garden of blackberries must have not been from this neighborhood. Nope. Because from the looks of things, that rebar and those broken blackberry branches, someone just plowed right into them. And he or she had to be in some kind of pain from it. That will teach them to take a short cut in the dark across our property. It's been since December 26, last year, 2015, since our street lights went out and Oncor won't lift a finger to fix 'em. I guess they just don't care about my neighborhood or they are grossly understaffed.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
17 Jan 16
I suppose if there's no fence people may think it's public land. I hope the person wasn't hurt too much.
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• Dallas, Texas
22 Jan 16
Oh they know it's private. This neighborhood is lined up with track houses. Most owners have dogs that would do more damage to a person walking through just to take a short cut than any amount of thorns on a berry bush.
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• United States
17 Jan 16
I hope they fix the lights soon!
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• Dallas, Texas
22 Jan 16
I know that if they don't when ice comes and people are driving too fast they will not see the road ahead become a winding turn like the letter S. At that intersection there might be a serious collision before they get the lights back up and this doesn't seem to matter to the nice lady at city services 311 on the phone about it.
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• United States
22 Jan 16
@lookatdesktop That doesn't sound too safe. Hopefully they'll come around though!
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Jan 16
you would think that when he first got stuck he would realize he was in a blackberry patch and try anothere direction hope he got a f ew stickers to show he was in the wrong place. hope that they get the street lights back on very soon/
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• Dallas, Texas
22 Jan 16
Oncor said they were not taking any calls about street lights. It seems the December 26th, tornado did so much street light damage that they are swamped with repair orders for lights out in the streets and are aware of the problem. I contacted them online and have two separate incident numbers for both lights on my block and west of us on the next block two other street lights remain out since December 26, 2016.