Snow Plow Driver ‘Dogg’ Fired After Posting Video of Himself Burying Parked Cars After Blizzard
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A Massachusetts snow plow driver was fired after he posted video online of himself gleefully burying parked cars in the snow.
The driver, who goes by “Dogg,” told WBZ-TV he lost his job as a contractor for the city of Lowell, Mass. Friday after his video went viral and was shown on the local news.
He said he shot the footage through his windshield earlier this month when Lowell was digging out from under a blizzard.
“At the end of the storm, I was already up for about 22 hours plowing and I decided to make a video of my favorite part of the day, which is when you push the snow banks back to the curbs,” he told radio hosts on WZLX Friday morning before he was terminated, according to WBZ.
He added that it’s “also the part of the day that the people shoveling their driveways absolutely want to kill me.”
In the video, Dogg whoops and laughs as he navigates the plow through the streets. Approaching one parked car, he says “now you see it…” before completely obliterating it with snow.
He said he was just doing his job to clear the streets.
“I have to push the snow back from curb to curb, so two fire trucks or a fire truck and an ambulance can pass each other on the road,” he told WZLX.
He asked WBZ, “If I can get some kind of enjoyment out of it, why not?”
Lowell City Manager Bernie Lynch didn’t see it that way, telling the station that he was appalled by Dogg’s video and that it was unprofessional.
“The words stupid, moronic – those certainly apply. It was truly just a bad reflection on the hard work that so many people do,” Lynch said.
Dogg wouldn’t talk on camera after he was fired, but said he was very remorseful and didn’t blame his boss for letting him go.
It might not be the end of the line for Dogg: he told WBZ he’s fielded several phone calls from television producers who said he’d make a good reality show star.
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Comments (65)
KyleD
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 7:35pmThis is ridiculous on so many levels. First, he HAS to clear the roads…this means those cars in the way get covered in snow…there’s now way around it. Second, the fact that he gets enjoyment out of his job just means he’ll do a good job of it. Third, firing a man that works 22 hours at a time is just cold, especially since he did nothing wrong. Lastly, a reality show about snow plows? Most idiotic thing ever.
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lookatthefactsjack
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:35amEveryone with half a brain would know that after a storm if you leave your car in the street it’s going to get buried. I suspect that the town issued a warning to residents NOT to park in the street. If people park like idiots, then they get what they get. BTW after those parked cars are moved, the plow is gonna have to come back and replow the street. Double the cost for the town, double the work for the drivers. I think the owners of the parked cars may have learned a valuable lesson.
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yohannbiimu
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:03amI won’t argue with the fact that he’s doing his job, and he can’t do anything about the cars in the path of the snow being cleared, That said, his advertising his glee about burying the cars is, well…STUPID. He’s probably being paid by the taxpayers of the community, and it gives the city or county a bad name when public employees like this are displaying such schadenfreude on a huge public forum like youtube.com.
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JGraham III
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:11amD*mn! Where is the public employee’s union when you need ‘em?
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I Love Howie Carr
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:39pmI don’t see the big deal. It IS his job. Here they just have parking bans and tow you while they plow even when everyone knows there’s not enough off street parking. I can assure you the tow truck drivers who get paid to do this enjoy their work more than this guy and they never admit mistakes.
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okaaay
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:27pmYeah, he would make a great reality tv star because he’s an idiot.
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Magyar
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:18pmLowell, Mass — not surprising –a mill town!…Arrogant Union workers… Fired? Naa,— he’ll get a slap on the wrist, a little vacation and be back on the job for the spring clean up. Betchya.
Lived in the state to the north and know how this works……….
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braddock66
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:54pmIt amazes me that neanderthals and technology cannot co-exist
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wilbstal
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:18pmit was not the plow or the snow it was the speed of the truck. the faster you go with the truck the farther thse snow will fly. This causes undue messes for all I am 70 yrs old and never until we had an( a hole )driver 2 yrs ago break everyones mail boxes and some windows 1st time in my 70 years at the same address. So dont tell me it was okay. all from Hot dogging with the snow plow truck. I pay his wages we dont need dangerous Punk drivers behind a snow plows, Dont waste my tax dollars with untrained Punks driving Town Property trucks we all pay for. Thank you all
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Jrocks
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:49pmDid you bother to watch to watch the video, he was was not traveling fast he was traveling slow and it still covered the car. It could not have been avoided.
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Dysfunctionaltyrant
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:32amDid you not read his comment, “it was not the plow or the snow it was the speed of the truck. the faster you go with the truck the farther thse snow will fly.” Now try again.
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jungle J
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 5:06pmHe is a typical public employee…he will be promoted to a public school teacher.
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Jrocks
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:56pmI agree with slig, how could it have been avoided, although he probably shouldn’t have video it and then bragged about it hehe
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Jrocks
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:48pmAnd they fired him for? LoL
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Slowman101
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:45pmWell if you park on the street thats what happens. It’s no different here in Syracuse, Ny. The snow has to go somewhere.
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myrwo6
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:50pmYour right, but the mistake was he showed enjoyment on video. Someone that stupid should not be operating snow plows.
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BadDog-NoBiscuit
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 9:29pmWell, right on MYRWO6, nobody should be allowed to have any fun at a serious job plowing show. Lighten up, the guy didn’t deserve to get fired…
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:38pmIt seems Snoop Dogg got busted while working high…
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:15pmIn this economy, and no jobs available.. he’ll be in the welfare lines!
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RedManBlueState
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:44amNo, he won’t need welfare. He will have a formerly undiagnosed back injury flare up and he will retire on a state funded full-disability pension.
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sligresda
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:07pmi dont see how he could have avoided it
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Obtuseangler
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:00pmHe didn’t do anything wrong. If you are parked on the street when the plow comes by you are going to have to dig it out. That’s life in the frozen north. Guess if he hated his job he would still have it.
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gyro
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:49pmhe mad it a joke ?
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Salamander
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:56pmHmmmm, 22 hours–poor guy! I’ll bet ALL of that was OVERTIME!
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:48pmIt’s refreshing to hear from an honest Masshole.
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Polarized America
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:18pm.
lol ..East … any chance that you are from Maine …lol
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Polarized America
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:35pmis there any chance of you getting past my ‘grammar’ geeeeezzzzz i’m getting tired ..;(
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stumpy68
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 6:33pm@Polarized America
Lmao i was thinking the same thing
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BurntHills
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:47pmeveryone across America with cold winters knows: cars OFF THE STREETS on SNOW DAYS. no doubt the democrat MASSholes leaving their cars on the street are better than everyone else. but 22 hours awake plowing, give him a break… justa typical stupid democrat moron POSTING IT.
rural IL, road comm for 19 years, everyone got nice clear roads, plus drive right-of-ways got a pass too so no mountainous drift to try to drive thru/over. — and the elderly and pregnant ladies and widows got their drives cleared too. just The American Way. = = a yuppie DEMOCRAT couple from CHICAGO moved in, built a mega McMansion on a tiny 1 acre place — and complained the elderly frail widow next door got her long lane cleared (for AMBULANCES) and they didn’t. no, we didn’t stop plowing innocent people out & we didn’t change our routine. 4 winters later, that emotionally-ugly Chicago democrat couple had moved away. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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RinkyDink34
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:44pmHow dumb can you get to fire the guy; anybody that lives in the Snow belt knows dame well when you leave your car parked on a street you can expect it will get BURIED when Mr. Snow Plow Driver Plows the Street. Furthermore there is almost nothing more boring then Plowing Snow for hours on end. Mr. Snow Plow driver got tired of talking to himself so he made a little film ……Big Deal;
Give Dogg back his job as long as he removes all that childish hardware from his ugly puss.
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Salamander
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:55pmFunny how things differ. I lived in New York City and had to park my car in an outdoor lot. I was worried about snow removal, but surprised to find out how they plowed THAT lot! One swipe and one swipe ONLY, plow blade centered, down each aisle. Then, leave it ALONE until the car owners come down and dig their cars out. It’s easy because the snow furrows are relatively small and not hard-packed! Next work day, after the commuters leave, the plows have plenty of room to move things around and bucket the stuff to a staging area! Too bad the cities tend to OVERPLOW in the name of fire safety! Yes, it’s a bad idea to leave cars on the street, but it’s an even WORSE idea to plow them under! And, it’s the pits to shovel out the end of a driveway (in Virginia), only to have it plowed back under time after time as the plows ‘dress’ the streets! All this does is make it that much harder to drive in and impossible to get from drive to street without major work! The stuff often melts a bit and refreezes, thus completely blocking a drive until you break out the pick axe! Yea New York!
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:40pm.
What did he do wrong?……
Looked like fun to me LMAO…..
Would that have made me a Bad Monkey?…..
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sensible99
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:25pmUhm…What did he do wrong? Every person who lives in a snow state knows that either you move your car before they plow, or spend three hours digging it out after. If this is because he got a kick out of it then every person who has ever plowed snow should be fired.
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GoodStuff
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:10pmWhat a loser. Then again it’s Mass., so who cares.
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wilbstal
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:09pmWinters are hard enough to dig out of here in the NE we dont need fat assed snow plow drivers making it tougher for folks to dig out. Glad he was fired I would have beaten him 1st with a snow shovel just for the instructional vlaue to a dummie
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13th Imam
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:17pmHere in S. CT we got about 38″. Our town has a parking ban. You park on the street you get plowed in. I bet the dolt who fired him, never had a real job. Just another community organizer.
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Polarized America
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:42pmPosting it on-line was his only mistake ..what do you think he should have done ? Pickup his plow every time he comes to a car and leave a pile of snow in the road ?
where i live there’s no parking on the side of the road between Nov.1st & April.1st……
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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:44pm13TH IMAM: Exact same thing where i live.
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SolitudeBliss
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:56pm@Polarized America Agree with you. Only mistake was posting the video. Why do people feel the need to post this dumb sht? Yes, if there is heavy snowfall and your car is on the street it’s getting buried people.
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Nuts-n-Bolts
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:08pmWell, there IS that problem about where to put the snow when there are parked cars. Bad taste to laugh about it, but it’s probably pretty near unavoidable. If he could pitch the plow on the fly to push the snow past the car, and if there was too much snow to do that, he ought to have been doing that, but most of the time even if you have on-the-fly pitch control there’s too much snow. And after 22 hours driving one might be a little punchy besides…
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Mike777
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:06pmwow come to Massachusetts thats where all the IDIOTS live. where the hell was he to put the snow.
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Salamander
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:58pmIt doesn’t really help a lot to bury a parked car! In fact, it just about guarantees that car will be there for days! If he’d plow down the middle, ONCE, then dress it a bit if he has to, but avoid his childish delight, EVERYONE would be a lot better off!
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:00pmDogg is a major jerk. He deserved to be fired.
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KevINtampa
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:11pmSomehow, I doubt the claim in this story that he’s looking for a new job. My guess is that he’s filing paper work in a benefits line. After all, we are talking about MA.
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The-Monk
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 2:58pmToo bad he didn’t bury his own car also…
I guess we know what WangDang does for a living now.
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chips1
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:04pmWANG DANG plows yellow snow.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:07pmHi MONK, LOL!
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Zipit
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 3:21pmMONK! I’ve plowed a lot of snow! If you are doing a good job clearing the street, there’s no way to avoid burying parked cars! I have buried cars, fire hydrants, driveway entrances, mailboxes, and even a couple of slow moving liberals! It cannot be avoided!!! On the flp side, I’ve had to dig my car, driveway, mailbox, etc., out many times! S#%€ happens! This guy probably enjoyed it a little too much, and wasn’t really showing off his smarts, (if he possesses any), by posting it!
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RaydocX
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 4:03pmMonk, if Wangie was driving he would have hit the cars. And then blamed the drivers/ owners.
unless he is going out of his way to bury them, though, it would seem an unavoidable consequence. Plows here regularly block driveways, forcing owners to scoop again if they were out earlier, just go get cars onto the road. But short of a snow vacuum I don’t know where they would put what’s building up on the blades.
And it beats having things eaten up by too much salt.
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Kregneva
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 8:03pmBut how do you tell when you have been hacked – successfully spear phished? What do you check to ensure your junk was not copied and sent out? Like, if you were buying something on Davis Island and somebody later followed up? This could be really hard to prove, I am guessing.
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