Then, in 2022, another crash took out his garage.
The latest crash, in 2023, landed on the lawn but narrowly missed the house.
I’m sorry Mr. Gall.
I hate to see a fellow John be forced to deal with a terrible inconvenience like this.
I know how serious the whole thing is.
It really shouldn’t be a laughing matter.
But driving a car through a house is so preposterous it doesn’t even seem real.
It’s just so outrageously destructive.
Such an unfathomably bad mistake for a driver to make.
The images are something out of a cartoon.
The basement floods every time it rains more than an inch.
The neighborhood skunks hold a meeting on the front doorstep every night.
Things of that nature.
But the city decided to remove it.
How does a local government come to that conclusion?
Was the guardrail too unsightly?
Was it needed elsewhere?
Is the upkeep of a guardrail simply too much work?
For the city to even have a random guardrail on their radar seems ridiculous.
They removed the one thing he wants.
His entire life revolves around wanting one single guardrail.
The man has time for a war.
I suspect he’s enjoying this.
If Cleveland Heights Mayor Khalil Seren is to be believed, John Gall isn’t the most cooperative person.
He’s not especially open to compromise.
He said he even had a conversation with Gall about his concerns before being elected mayor in 2021.
“We here in city government have attempted to work with Mr. Gall in a variety of ways.
We’ve offered a number of solutions.
We’ve offered bollards.
We’ve offered wooden posts.
We’ve offered field stones and concrete barriers.
We offered the large boulders that currently sit on his property right now.
Those boulders stopped those cars.
That’s what they were intended to do: to protect the property, to protect him.
They were successful,” Seren shared.
Another option Seren said the city has offered Gall is purchasing his property.
There’s an impalement risk.
There is simply not enough room in that location to provide the impact attenuators that a guardrail would require.
Not only that, but a guardrail is not intended to or designed to stop a head-on collision.
Period," Seren added.
You could meet them halfway.
So they offered him a concrete one.
Which honestly seems like a better solution.
Maybe the concrete barrier they’re offering him is especially shitty or something.
I don’t know.
I would really like to see what exactly this proposed concrete barrier looked like.
But it sounds like there are non-guardrail solutions available.
Honestly the rocks there currently look pretty effective.
If they added a couple more of them, it seems like his house would be pretty well protected.
Regardless, I respect a good war with local government.
He thrives in this environment.
He’s gonna take interviews with any news station that’ll listen.
I have a feeling John’s got plenty of time on his hands for this.
