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This story is about Reginald Pitbull, general building contractor, and his wife during the years following the deaths of their two sons, Biff and Richie.
In the story postlude linked below, it is the year 2018 when Danny Otter and his wife, Lidia, who were also teenagers in 1960, tell of the highway racing accident 58 years ago where Biff and Richie were killed along with their friend, Gaston. Biff lost control of his dad's 1959 Cadillac, flipping it, and wrapping it sideways around a power line pole at 124 mph attempting to prevent Danny Otter from passing him.
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Danny Otter was the driver of the other car, a 1958 Studebaker Goldenhawk, racing with them. Lidia Otter, Carl Beaver and Susan Beaver were riding with Danny at the time of the accident. Danny Otter's car did not crash, though came to a safe stop with front end damage due to running off the road and plowing through bushes at high speed.", "writing": "As for Biff and Richie's parents, Reginald and Diana, they fell into depression and started drinking heavy following the deaths of their two sons. \nAfter their sons, Biff and Richie, were killed in a high speed car wreck out on highway 54 while road racing on the night before Christmas Eve of 1960, Reginald and Diana couldn't bring themselves to return the Christmas gifts they had bought for them. Those gifts that were meant for Biff and Richie on Christmas Day of 1960 stayed on the top shelf of Reginald and Diana's closet...and stayed there permanently as sort of a shrine in remembrance of their sons. \nFrom the start, Reginald Colendale Pitbull (R.C. as he was known by his associates) had always been a dishonest general building contractor...Following the deaths of Biff and Richie, Reginald Pitbull had become in addition to being a dishonest building contractor, also a drunkard of a general building contractor as well.\n\nExamples of Reginald Pitbull's drinking on the jobsite.\n\n[b][t]#1.[/t][/b] A house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a cat family in 1962...Reginald contracted Central Septic Systems Incorporated to send a crew to install a septic system for that house. While the crew was lowering the concrete septic tank in place by crane, the outgoing, precast concrete baffle was heard falling down inside along with the board that was to hold it in place until the mortar had set. Immediately, the crew chief, Moe Bear, had the crane operator, Larry Wolverine, raise the septic tank back out and set it back on the ground near the crane. After Reginald Pitbull finished talking with a utilities representative about placement of the water meter, he noticed the two laborers, a cat and a hound, preparing to unshackle the septic tank from the crane. \n\"Now what?\", Reginald, who had been drinking, retorted. \n\"R.C., the outgoing baffle fell down...Like I told you it would\", the septic company's crew chief, Moe Bear, informed Reginald Pitbull. \"Hopefully, it's not damaged. Otherwise I'll have to call the shop to have someone bring another baffle box out here\". \nReginald remarked, \"My guess is...Otherwise...it should not have fallen down to begin with\".\n\"Now hold on a minute, R.C.\", Moe Bear replied, then explained, \"Thirty minutes ago, you said everyone's knocking off for the rest of the afternoon. You told me don't worry about setting the tank in today, that we'll do that tomorrow morning. Then you told us just go ahead and mortar in the baffle so it will be set up and ready in the morning. Now that we've already mortared in the baffle and it needs time to set up, you're telling us different. Now you're saying go ahead and set the tank in the ground right away\".\n\"So...I made a change in plans\", Reginald remarked. \n\"And are you paying us any extra for the downtime your shilly shallying is costing us?\", Moe Bear asked Reginald Pitbull, then argued, \"Had you not told us to go ahead and mortar in the baffle today and hold off setting the tank in until tomorrow morning, we would have put the tank in the ground first, [b][i]then[/i][/b] mortar in the baffle after the tank had already been moved. As it is, you had us moving the tank immediately after we mortared in the baffle\".\n\"That's not my problem. And Hell no, I'm not paying your company extra. Your boss and I agreed on a set bid\", Reginald reminded Moe, then asked, \"Besides, couldn't your crane operator have been more careful?\".\nMoe retorted, \"That mortar needs overnight to set up before it can be moved or disturbed. Now two of my guys have to go down into the tank and reset the baffle all over again. And we [b][i]still[/i][/b] have to check if this one didn't crack or break when it fell\".\nReginald already being drunk, took a half pint bottle of Jack Daniels whisky from his hip pocket, took a swig, then told the crew chief, \"Ah, fuck that baffle, Moe. Just put the damn son of a bitch in the ground, pipe it to the drain field and butter the top\".\nMoe Bear exclaimed to Reginald Pitbull, \"The drain field will be destroyed without that baffle in place\".\nReginald retorted after screwing the cap back on the whisky bottle, \"Let the customer worry about that shit. I just want to get this damn job done\".\nAs Moe and Reginald argued over the baffle, the laborer cat discreetly said to the laborer hound, \"R.C. needs to lay off that booze bottle so he can run this job like he knows what the Hell he's doing\".\nThe hound discreetly replied to the cat, \"I'll say. It's like the right paw doesn't know what the left paw is doing\". \nMoe Bear mentioned to Reginald, \"You know that septic tank being the way it is will cause problems for the family owning this house\".\nReginald Pitbull further retorted, \"I'm the general contractor on this job. I'll deal with it\".\nMoe Bear was at this point disgusted with arguing with Reginald Pitbull, then told his crew, \"You heard him, boys. Install the tank like it is\".\nMoe's crane operator, Larry Wolverine, asked, \"What about the baffle?\"\nMoe replied to Larry, \"R.C.'s the general contractor. R.C. said put it in, put it in...The Hell with it\".\nWith that said, Larry Wolverine started the crane back up, and the crew installed the septic tank with the outgoing baffle laying on the floor\". Immediately afterwards, the two laborers piped the tank in and buttered the top (mortar sealed the top) without taking the time to reset the baffle...just the way general contractor Reginald Pitbull insisted. \n\"You just can't argue with a hard head who's too damn drunk to listen\", Moe Bear later said to his crew as they all agreed.\nIn less than two years, the cat family had problems with the septic system backing up. One of the cubs had to use the bathroom while her younger brother was taking a shower. When she flushed the toilet, septic water and turds came up out of the bathtub drain around her brother's feet. \nThe little brother kitten cried out, [b][t]\"Mom! Dad! Oooo gross! The bathtub has poo-poo!\"[/t][/b]\nThe family then called a septic company. The septic crew had to dig up the front yard and replace the drain field. The septic company the cat family called was not the same company that Reginald Pitbull contracted to install the system, thus they were unaware that a fallen baffle was the cause of the problem. \nA year and a half later, the septic system backed up again. A different contractor they called this 2nd time figured out, being there was a previous drain field failure before this one, the outgoing tank baffle might be the problem. Thus his crew had the tank pumped and the top unearthed and opened up, and sure enough, there was the original, concrete box baffle laying on the floor of the tank where the mortar had turned loose during installation. \n\"There's the cause of your septic troubles\", the septic contractor, Seymour Meerkat, told the cat family as he pointed out the baffle laying on the floor of the tank. \"Unfortunately, you're looking at another drain field\".\n\"Oh great\", the daddy cat retorted.\n\"This will be the second time it's been replaced\", the mother cat added.\n\"This drain field is only a year and a half old\", Daddy cat further added.\n\"I'm sorry as I can be to break that news to you all\", Seymour Meerkat said to the family, then assured, \"But I can assure you after we fix all this, your septic system will finally be right\".\n\"And no more poo poos in the bath tub?\", the little brother kitten asked as everyone chuckled.\n\"No more poopies in the tub, I promise you\", Seymour assured him. \nThe crew replaced the old concrete baffle with one made from 4 inch diameter PVC pipe and a Tee. They then dug up the front yard and installed another drain field. After all that expense, the septic system was finally made right. \nThe cat family tried to recoup expenses from Reginald Pitbull, but never got any satisfaction. \nAs for Moe Bear and crew, the cat family found out what septic system company Reginald Pitbull had subcontracted, though that screw up was still Reginald's fault considering the circumstances. Larry Wolverine who was the crane operator on that job testified what had happened on that jobsite that day...Despite Larry's testimony, Reginald Pitbull still tried to put the blame on Central Septic Systems Incorporated. \nAfter the cat family made an irate phone call to Central Septic Systems in reference to Moe Bear and his crew not resetting a baffle, the chief operations officer (C.O.O.) with the company had a talk with Moe Bear over that job.\nThe C.O.O., Jerome Panther, said to Moe, \"I've heard about that general contractor, Reginald Pitbull...a big time drunk, a shyster, and thinks he knows it all. It dazzles me how he's even been allowed to keep his contractor's license\".\nMoe Bear replied, \"When we did that job three years ago, I tried to set Reginald straight about that baffle. But I might as well have been talking to a brick wall\".\nJerome Panther then informed Moe, \"It's not easy getting anywhere with someone as stubborn as Reginald Pitbull\".\n\"Someone like that can't be taught anything because they already know everything\", Moe jested as Jerome chuckled.\n\"Yup. Nothing left to teach someone like that\", Jerome Panther agreed, then mentioned, \"Billy Wolf should have canceled that contract with Reginald. But, Billy's the owner of the company, so...\". \n\"Believe me\", said Moe Bear. \"There were times I felt like walking off that job. And my crew felt the same way\".\nJerome advised Moe, \"If you ever encounter another general contractor like him who orders you to do something the wrong way, go find a pay phone and call us to let us know what's going on. Let [i][b]us[/b][/i] deal with that contractor. As you know, we have a good reputation to uphold, and we want to keep it that way\".\n\"I'll certainly remember that\", Moe Bear assured Jerome Panther.\nBy the way, Billy Wolf made it a point to no longer do any future business with Reginald Pitbull.\n\n[b][t]#2.[/t][/b] Another house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for Jeffrey Otter and his family later in the year 1962...On that job, Reginald hired a slipshod electrician, Freddy Weasel, who submitted an extremely low bid to get the job. Like most subcontractors Reginald hired, Freddy was not an employee of an electrical contractor company. Freddy Weasel was a self employed entrepreneur with an electrician's license and two helpers working for him.\nBack in those days, fuse boxes with screw in fuses were still being used. Freddy Weasel ran short on 20 amp fuses, and because he had a gambling addiction he didn't have enough money to buy more fuses.\n\"R.C., can you to front me some money to get a few 20 amp fuses?\", Freddy asked Reginald. \"And I still got to pay my helpers\".\nReginald, being drunk, said, \"The Hell with that Fred, I'm not paying you until you finish the job. Just stick anything in there\".\n\"All I got are 30s. The house is wired for 20 amp fuses\", Freddy Weasel declared. \n\"I don't give a shit\", Reginald replied. \"Stick [b][i]anything[/i][/b] in there\".\n\"Okay\", Freddy Weasel agreed.\nThus, Freddy stuck 30 amp fuses in where 20 amp fuses should go.\nSix months later, the otter family's new house burned to the ground. Fortunately, all family members made it out of the house okay. During the fire department investigation, evidence turned up that 30 amp fuses were used for wire gauge rated for no higher than 20 amp. Upon those findings, the otter family then launched a lawsuit against Reginald Colendale Pitbull. However, Reginald's attorney was able to convince the court it can't be proven the otter family didn't put the 30 amp fuses in the fuse box. Thus the lawsuit was dismissed. \nJeffrey Otter later said to his wife, \"I believe there's a special place reserved in Hell for the likes of Reginald Pitbull\".\n\n[b][t]#3.[/t][/b] A house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a fox family in the spring of 1963...On that job, Reginald hired a roofing subcontractor, Grayson Bobcat, who had his roofing contractor's license revoked. Reginald already knew Grayson's license was not valid, but hired him anyway because Grayson Bobcat was one of Reginald Pitbull's good ole boy drinking buddies. \nDuring the roofing phase of the job, Grayson Bobcat's crew members would often pull nooners...In construction trade lingo, a nooner is when workers would go to a local tavern during lunch break, and it would be 2 or 3 hours before they returned to the jobsite. \nDays after the roofing was completed, it rained. There were roof leaks everywhere when Freddy Weasel and his electrician's helpers were trying to wire the house. Reginald assured the subcontractors, as well as the fox family, the leaks would get resolved. Thus, Reginald Pitbull called Grayson Bobcat and his crew back to fix the roof leaks. \nFrom that point on, it didn't rain all that much until the house was completed and the fox family moved in. The fox family were excited as they moved into their first house they've ever owned. However, after a week of them enjoying their new home, a torrential rain system came through in the predawn hours and lasting all morning. There were 23 roof leaks that Grayson Bobcat's crew still never fixed, with a few being as bad as though garden hoses had been turned on in the attic. The ceilings became so soaked, wet soggy slabs of drywall fell down throughout the house. Furniture, carpets, beds and clothing were ruined by rain water and soggy drywall. The fox family were awaken early that morning to their new home becoming a nightmare, which was no wonder Grayson Bobcat's license had been revoked. \nLater that morning, the fox family had to stay at a relatives' house. \nThe dad called Reginald Pitbull and the following is what he heard;\nReginald's wife, Diana, answers the phone, \"Hello\".\nThe fox dad explains the situation. \nDiana replies, \"Hold on a minute. I'll go get Reginal to the phone\".\nThirty seconds later, the fox hears in the background, \"Tell him I'm not here\".\nDiana comes back to the phone and says, \"I'm sorry but he's...\".\nThe fox interrupts, \"Yea, I know. I know. He's not there\", and hangs up.\nThe fox family finally gave up on trying to get Reginald Pitbull to do right by them, then hired a reputable roofing contractor, Harold Cheetah, out of pocket to fix the roof.\nHarold Cheetah and his crew were up on the roof for only 15 minutes before Harold broke the bad news to the fox family. \nHarold told the family, \"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, and I know you all don't want to hear it. That excuse called a roofing job is such a disaster, that entire roof will have to be done over again from scratch\".\nHarold Cheetah's crew leader, George Cougar, added, \"I've never seen a roofing job done this bad in all my life. It's a mess\".\nIt cost the fox family $1,700 to have Harold Cheetah's crew re-roof the house...the right way. \nIn the early 1960s, $1,700 was like what $17,000 is in 21st Century economy. On top of all that, the destroyed drywall also had to be replaced throughout the house. \nThere was yet another issue with the house two years later that bit the fox family in the ass. \nThe original threshold under the front entry door was wood, and was glued in place instead of being held with anchor fasteners and countersunk screws. When the glue holding the threshold finally turned loose, the fox family decided to replace it with an aluminum threshold. \nThe fox dad contacted a home improvement worker, Vincent Beaver, to install the aluminum threshold. The new threshold already had three countersunk holes for the screws. \nWhen Vincent Beaver was drilling the first hole for the concrete lead anchors, water pressure shot up out of the hole. \n\"Ain't that some shit\", Vincent retorted as he quickly pulled the electric drill away from the pressurized stream of water shooting up out of the hole in the concrete.\n\"What's with the water?\", Daddy Fox asked.\n\"Some lazy dumb ass embedded a water pipe in the footer\", Vincent answered. \"A trench should have been dug in the ground for that water pipe. Laying pipes in a footer is wrong\".\nAfter turning the water off at the meter, the thing to do now was to call a plumber.\nThe repair involved rerouting a new water supply pipe in a trench in the ground. \nThe plumber, Calvin Raccoon, mentioned, \"That's the way it should have been done in the first place\".\nThe repair also involved cutting out a section of footer to attach the new water line into the pipes inside the house. Melvin Binturong with two of his helpers were call in to do the concrete work. \nWhen Melvin Binturong heard about Vincent Beaver striking the water pipe with the drill bit, he said, \"That's why you don't embed water pipes into footers\".\nThat repair job had cost the fox family $540. That's like what $5,400 is now days. \n\n[b][t]#4.[/t][/b] A commercial retail store building Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a pawn shop in the summer of 1963...The masonry subcontractor, Homer Opossum, who Reginald hired onto the job, was another one of his good ole boy drinking buddies. \nReginald and Homer made a deal to skimp on building materials and they'd split the savings 50-50. Homer bought a few cases of beer for his crew in the deal. For starters, before the footer was poured, the trench, rebar and floor mesh was approved and signed off by the building inspector, Robert Beaver. Once the building inspector left, the rebar and floor mesh were pulled back up to use on another job they also had going, then the concrete company was called to send the concrete truck. The footer and slab were poured with no steel reinforcement. When the concrete block walls were erected, Homer Opossum had a large stash of 4 inch depth blocks back at his shop. Those 4 inch blocks came from a demolition job Homer Opossum had done. Exterior walls are supposed to be made of 8 inch depth blocks. However, there were some exterior walls that were constructed from those 4 inch interior blocks Homer had a stash of. That meant less blocks had to be purchased. Only the two load supporting exterior walls were built from 8 inch blocks, with the rebar in the top lentils being some of the same rebar pulled out of the footer and slab before they were poured. \nThis would have ordinarily presented a building inspection problem. However, Reginald and Homer knew a different building inspector, Herbert Fox, would be on duty a couple of days later. Herbert was good at passing shotty work for a sum of bribe money. So for those couple of days Reginald and Homer's crew worked on another job they had going. \nA few days later, Reginald and Homer slipped some bribe money to Herbert Fox, thus the walls of the pawn shop building passed inspection. To pour the lentils, Homer Opossum brought his trailer mounted portable cement mixer to the jobsite hitched to his pick up truck. The rebar was pulled back out of the lentils, and only short sections of the lentils were poured to provide enough concrete to set the roof anchor bolts. Construction then continued until the building was completed, though delayed at times by that other construction job going at the same time. The owners of the pawn shop were delighted with their new building, though they had no idea of the shotty substandard work that went into it.\nFour years later, in the summer of 1967, that pawn shop building began having severe structural problems. It was so bad, building inspector Robert Beaver ordered the building to be slated for demolition. The county had fired building inspector Herbert Fox 6 months earlier in the winter of 1966 when he was caught taking a bribe from a dishonest building contractor. Herbert Fox almost went to jail for that too.\nHomer Opossum came close to loosing his masonry contractor's license over that job too. Though Homer didn't get his contractor's license yanked, he was denied a journeyman's card he had applied for. \n\n[b][t]#5.[/t][/b] A carpenter subcontractor Reginald Pitbull would always hire was Travis Kelton Pitbull. Travis and his wife, Amber, were Gaston Pitbull's parents. Ever since Gaston died in that highway racing accident with Biff and Richie that December night in 1960, Travis and Amber started drinking heavy like Reginald and Diana did. Thus, when ever a bid that Reginald submitted was accepted for contract, those jobs not only had a drunk general contractor running the job, but also had a drunk carpenter subcontractor on the job site as well. And not to mention that crew members were also allowed to drink on the job site. I.e...a bunch of drunks building a house.\nBefore building inspector Herbert Fox was fired in 1966 for taking bribes, Reginald Pitbull and Travis Pitbull skimped on materials big time when contracted to build a wood frame house. Exterior plywood sheathing is suppose to be 1/2 inch thick. And any part of wood framing that contacts concrete is suppose to be pressure treated. When ever Reginald and Travis knew ahead of time that Herbert Fox was going to be doing carpentry inspection, they'd split the savings by not using pressure treated wood, and using 1/4 inch plywood for exterior sheathing. \nThey also used utility grade lumber for wood framing, which lacked proper strength and was not up to code, but way cheaper in price.\nStandard grade 2x4 lumber was often used only around door and window openings to give the illusion that standard grade 2x4s were used throughout the house once the drywall and sheathing went up, and before the doors and windows were installed. \nAnd it was common for tops of doorways and window openings to lack a proper stress supporting header. \nMost of the time, they didn't bother to install rafter tie down clips either. \nBut they knew that all they had to do was slip Herbert Fox some bribe money and their substandard work will pass inspection. And as long as Reginald could get by with Herbert Fox also doing the inspections on the roofing, electrical and plumbing, there was no longer a way to tell how slipshod the framing and sheathing was done after the drywall and siding went up. Which by the way, the roofing, electrical and plumbing subcontractors Reginald always hired were among his shady associate drinking buddies. \nHowever, Reginald and Travis, along with Reginald's other drinking buddy subcontractors, didn't dare pull those kind of shenanigans when they knew Robert Beaver was going to be inspecting their work. They did right when Robert was scheduled to inspect their work. They knew all to well Robert Beaver was upstanding and honest and was not on the take. \nOf course, wood frame structures contracted by Reginald Pitbull and associates soon developed structural problems and termites, and didn't stand up to storms very well, if they were built when Inspector Herbert Fox was on duty.\nThere were times Travis Pitbull had knowingly hired a fugitive who was on the run from the law onto his carpentry crew. Travis knew fugitives were willing to work for cheap due to not being able to find anyone else to work for. As long as a fugitive can measure lumber, run a circular saw and swing a hammer and was okay with getting less pay than the other crew members get, Travis Pitbull would hire a fugitive if he had a position open. \nA fugitive not being able to cash a paycheck was no issue either. Travis, like other subcontractors who usually hired on with Reginald Pitbull, paid his workers in cash. It was left up to the workers to deduct out their own income taxes each year...which most of them never bothered to do anyway. \nIn the year 1974, there was a house that Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build in a very respectable upscale neighborhood. And as usual, Travis Pitbull's carpenter crew had a couple of cases of beer on the jobsite. Early in the evening at the end of a work day during that job, a fugitive who Travis had hired onto his crew, Richard Weasel, was rip roaring drunk. So rip roaring drunk in fact, Richard Weasel was stomping and staggering around in circles in front of the house they were building, pointing his thumbs downward, and loudly singing his own version of Ringo Starr's No No Song, which went, [b]\"No no no no no no I don't [t]shit[/t] no more!...Cause it makes me wake up on da floor!...An it makes it hard to find da doorrrrrrr!...No no no no no no I don't [t]ptttt[/t] no more!...Cause it makes me fall down on da...floooooor!\"[/b]\nThis was in a respectable high class neighborhood, but just the same, the crew members were all laughing at Richard Weasel's drunken antics. \nReginal Pitbull told Travis Pitbull, \"If Richard keeps that up, the homeowners association in this neighborhood is liable to kick all of us out of here for good\".\nWith that said, Travis Pitbull went over and got Richard Weasel to calm down. \nRichard Weasel was the driver for Travis' step van, which the crew members nick named it 'the bread truck', because it was an old decommissioned Wonder Bread delivery truck. \nAs the crew finished loading equipment into the 'bread truck' to call it a day, Richard Weasel sat in the driver's seat with the driver's side sliding door open and hollered out at the neighborhood, [b][t]\"Get your hot breeeeeeead!\"[/t][/b]\nRichard Weasel's drunken behavior was nice negative advertisement with Travis' step van having large lettering on the sides that read, 'Travis Kelton Pitbull, Carpentry Contractor', including Travis' carpentry license number, journeyman's card number and phone number.\n\"Looks like Richard forgot this is a neighborhood of snooty snobs\", crew member Sammy Raccoon jested audibly enough for a few nearby neighbors to hear it as other crew members laughed. \nReginald, after putting his whiskey flask back in his hip pocket, asked Travis, \"Are you sure Richard is alright to drive?\"\nTravis replied while holding a can of beer, \"I don't think so. I'll ride with him in case something happens\".\nTravis Pitbull then pawed the keys of his own pick up truck to crew member, Johnny Rabbit, who wasn't as drunk as the others, and instructed him, \"Johnny, drive my truck back to the shop. I got to ride with Richard so in case he passes out, I can reach over and grab the wheel\".\nTravis Pitbull's step van never had a passenger's seat, so Travis placed an empty, 5 gallon, metal, roofing tar bucket up side down in the step van for himself to sit on next to Richard Weasel. And because the step van was an old truck built before motor vehicles had seat belts, Travis instructed Richard to slide the driver's door shut so in case Richard passed out while driving he wouldn't fall out of the truck onto the street. Richard Weasel refused to slide the driver's door shut at first, complaining it was too hot. But Travis Pitbull finally talked Richard into shutting the door. Thus they started on their way back to Travis Pitbull's shop.\nTravis Pitbull knew he could have easily driven the step van himself instead of letting Richard Weasel drive. However, even though violating DWI laws didn't carry severe consequences back in those days, Travis, who had also been drinking, already had enough points on his driving record to where one more point would mean a 6 month driver's license suspension. According to Travis Pitbull's thinking, he'd let Richard Weasel take the risk of getting caught drunk driving, being that Richard had no driver's license or other form of ID in his possession. Travis figured if they got pulled over, he could always say, \"Officer, I wasn't the one driving\". Thus Richard drove the step van with Travis riding along in case Richard passed out at the wheel. \nIt was a miracle the crew made it back to Travis' shop okay that evening without having an accident, and without getting caught drunk driving. \nBy the way, it was a year earlier, before Richard Weasel hired on with Travis Pitbull, he was driving drunk one day which caused an accident where he drove his car, a 1967 Buick Skylark, over a bear who was flagging traffic for a roadwork crew and killed him. Road workers got his license plate number as he fled the scene. Fifteen miles down the road, Richard abandoned his car and fled the rest of the way on foot. That's how Richard Weasel became a fugitive evading the law.\n\n[b][t]#6.[/t][/b] On a job Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build an addition of two bedrooms and a 2nd bathroom onto a house for Dave Pine Martin and his family. The phases of work by the subcontractors Reginald hired was slipshod as usual. A crew member, Gregory Bobcat, working for plumbing subcontractor, Maxwell Bulldog, accidentally stripped the threads to a fitting union. It was one of the two fitting unions installed into the original plumbing for a \"T\" between them to run the new pipe off of for the 2nd bathroom.\n\"Uh oh\", Gregory Bobcat exclaimed once he realized he had cross-threaded and stripped the fitting union.\n\"What is it?\", Maxwell Bulldog came over and asked.\n\"This\", Gregory said, pointing at the stripped fitting union.\n\"Ahhh, I ain't pulling that shit back apart [b][i]now[/i][/b]\", Maxwell replied, then said to crew member, Manuel Coatimundi, \"Manuel, go to my truck and bring back the cans of plumber's epoxy\".\n\"Good ole plumber's epoxy will fix [b][i]that[/i][/b]\", Maxwell assured Gregory.\nOnce Manuel returned from the truck with the cans of plumber's epoxy, Maxwell mixed up a batch of it and glopped it all around the stripped fitting union.\n\"There. Good as gold\", Maxwell remarked upon finishing the patch up.\nReginald mentioned about the patch, \"As long as the customer is happy enough to pay us, I'm happy too\".\nThus the job continued to completion.\nAfter the two new bedrooms and new 2nd bathroom were completed, the pine martin family were thrilled with having more room in the house.\nHowever...A week later, that fitting union busted apart in the middle of the night at around 2 am. \nBy the time the pine martin family were awakened by the sound of water gushing inside a hallway wall, all the floors in the house were flooded and all the carpet was ruined. Dave Pine Martin had to go out to the curbside in his pajamas in the dark of night with a pair of vice-grips and a crescent wrench and turn the water off to the house.\nNeedless to say, after sunrise, the pine martin family had to go out to a restaurant for breakfast being the water at the house had to be turned off. \nWhen the family returned to the house after having breakfast, Dave Pine Martin phoned his boss at Albuquerque Chrysler Plymouth where he works as a sales rep to request time off in light of the plumbing problem at the house. Once the sales manager granted the time off, Dave then promptly made a phone call to Reginald Pitbull. It didn't do any good though. Reginald's wife answered the phone, and Reginald pulled that old line of, \"Tell him I'm not here\". \nDave Pine Martin then contacted a reputable plumber, Marcus Cougar. Dave was already convinced he wasn't going to get anywhere dealing with Reginald Pitbull. \nWhen Marcus Cougar and his helper, Pabel Ocelot, tore off the ruined drywall and saw where the jury rigged fitting union blew apart, Marcus mentioned, \"I just can't believe what I'm seeing here. Who did this?\"\n\"Someone Reginald Pitbull hired\", Dave Pine Martin answered.\n\"Oh my gosh\", Marcus exclaimed. \"He's the worst shyster there is in these parts\".\n\"Yea, and a big time drunkard too\", Pabel added.\n\"So are his subs\", Marcus further added.\n\"Unfortunately, we didn't know that at the time we accepted Reginald's bid\", Dave's wife, Linda, said.\n\"They're dumb and stupid too\", Dave and Linda's 12 year old cub daughter, Mia, remarked.\n\"Yea\", their 8 year old son, Dave Jr., agreed.\n\"I also have to take time off from work because of that scallywag\", Dave added.\nA path of the new drywall running from the old bathroom to the new bathroom also had to be cut out to get to the pipe to reassemble it the right way. \n\"Some of these other pipe joints already had leaks\", Marcus mentioned. \"There was no pipe dope or teflon tape used on them\".\n\"I just hope we don't get the likes of Reginald Pitbull when we get this carpet and drywall replaced\", Dave mentioned.\nWith that said, Marcus Cougar recommended a reputable drywall contractor, Christopher Cheetah, and a reputable flooring company, Old Town Carpet and Tile.\nAfter the plumbing was fixed, which was done right, repairs to the drywall and replacing the carpets were all there was left.\nWhen the carpet crew from Old Town Carpet and Tile removed the ruined carpet, it was discovered the floor tiles had begun curling up and peeling off from being soaked, thus the floor tiles also had to be replaced. But once all that was done, everything was finally right. The pine martin family was then able to put Reginald Pitbull's nightmare behind them and go on with their normal lives.\nThere was the opportunity for Dave Pine Martin to recoup some expense out of the ordeal though. This incident happened in May of 1964, and the truck Marcus Cougar was using in business was an old 1952 Dodge pick up that had been seeing better days. Marcus knowing that Dave was an automotive sales rep, mentioned he was interested in getting a later model used truck. Dave assured Marcus the dealership presently has several nice used trucks that were taken in as trade ins.\nDave gave Marcus a business card and told him, \"When you come down to Albuquerque Chrysler Plymouth, ask for me, Dave Pine Martin\". \n\n[b][t]#7.[/t][/b] As for central A/C and heat contractors, Reginald Pitbull could never find one who'd play ball the way he wanted. On rare occasion, Reginald would offer the proposition to an A/C subcontractor to split savings 50/50 by skimping on equipment and materials.\nOne A/C subcontractor years earlier, a coyote, told Reginald, \"Hey look. I have reputation to hold up. I'll submit you a bid. If accepted, my helpers and I will do reputable work. You can take it or leave it\". \nAnother A/C subcontractor years later, a mongoose, told Reginald, \"I don't roll and click that way. As a matter of fact, if you propose another scheme like that to me again, I'll report the slipshod work in that house your boys and you are building\".\nThat mongoose definitely was [b][i]not[/i][/b] naive when it came to spotting slipshod construction work. \nThere was another job where Reginald Pitbull attempted to get an A/C subcontractor, a bear, to play ball that way right after submitting a bid.\nThe bear simply told Reginald, \"You're wasting your time and mine. Forget the bid, bud\", then walked away.\nCentral A/C and heat was a phase of construction where Reginald Pitbull had no choice but to do right. Reginald simply could not find a dishonest central A/C and heat subcontractor who would play ball his way, thus Reginald used the services of any A/C subcontractor who would submit the most acceptable bid.\nAlthough, during those times when other subcontractors on a jobsite had a fugitive employed on their crew, that fugitive crew member would attempt to steal copper tubing from the A/C contractor's truck when he and his helpers were doing A/C and heat work and were away from the truck. \n\nThere were many houses built by Reginald Pitbull, and approved by Inspector Herbert Fox accepting bribes, that should never have been issued a certificate of occupancy. \nThese kind of disasters were typical of jobs where Reginald Colendale Pitbull was contracted to build houses and small commercial buildings. And there were other general contractors who would advise potential customers when submitting a bid to steer clear of using the services of Reginald Pitbull. Every contractor in a several county area knew of Reginald's reputation, along with the reputations of the subcontractors he usually hired. It was said by other contractors that Reginald Pitbull is a drunken shyster as crooked as his legs (reference to crooked as a dog's leg). \nIn fact, some commercial property owners who contracted Reginald Pitbull became so fed up with him they discontinued using him and hired a different general contractor. Most of those commercial property owners who changed contractors simply accepted the loss of their down payment money they had paid to Reginald Pitbull for breaking the contract with him. They were just glad to send him up the road and get rid of him.\n\nReginald would falsify documents to reflect building materials costing more than they actually did. \nWhen ever Reginald purchased building materials for his own personal use, he'd charge it to jobs he had going and have customers foot the bill. \nOn many jobs, Reginald would tell a customer there are unforeseen problems when there actually weren't any. It was a tactic he used get a customer to agree to raising the price above the original bid. Though Reginald was hesitant to pull that on a customer who oversees the job, he would readily pull it on someone who he pegged as not knowing a chisel from a center punch.\n\nReginald would always try to talk customers into cheap shotty materials being better grade, which of course was bull shit.\n\"Think of the money you'll save. And for better materials too\", was always Reginald's line to his customers. \nIt would only save Reginald and his subcontractors money, thus maximizing profits, but still not produce the savings Reginald had promised his customers. \nReginald had always said, \"I can talk a customer into being happy buying 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag\".\n\nFixtures such as lighting, sinks, toilets and bathtubs were always the cheapest grade Reginald could get away with, some of which wasn't any better than what was used in house trailers back in the day.\nBack when grounded receptacles became required in electrical work, Reginald Pitbull and the electrical subcontractor he usually hired, Freddy Weasel, would split the savings 50/50 by omitting the ground wiring throughout the house. Freddy Weasel and his helpers would bootleg a ground on each receptacle by wiring the neutral and ground pins together in order to fool the building inspector when he plugged a test meter into the receptacles. That practice of bootleg grounds is against code, dangerous, and of course will fool most outlet test meters.\n\nWhen Reginald Pitbull was awarded a contract to build a house where natural gas service was available, that was a whole new 'can of worms' opened. Jeremy Raccoon was the gas system contractor Reginald would hire. Jeremy was among Reginald's good ole boys who skimped on materials labor procedures so he and Reginald could share 50/50 on the extra profit. \nSeven months after a house with natural gas service was contracted by Reginald Pitbull, there was a gas explosion that blew all the windows out of the house. Fortunately, the ocelot family who lived there sustained only some patches of cinged fur and a few 1st degree burns.\nThe family launched a lawsuit against Reginald Colendale Pitbull. However, Reginald's weasel defence attorney prevailed in court, thus dropping the lawsuit. \nFour years after another house with natural gas service Reginald was contracted to build, it exploded clear off of the foundation with enough force to rock the neighborhood. Fortunately for the jaguar family who lived there, they were out at a pizza parlor celebrating the birthday of one of their cubs when it happened. When they returned home, it was to a bare foundation with fire trucks and police cars everywhere among the scattered debris of what was once their home. \n\nWhen it came to paint, Reginald Pitbull and his painting subcontractor, Festus Bear, would split the savings using the cheapest paint they could get their paws on, which was of absolute garbage quality. And no sealer or primer was ever used either. Reginald would then bull shit his customers into thinking that Sherwin Williams primer and paint was used to paint the house. \n\"Sherwin Williams is the only paint we ever use. I wouldn't trust any other brand\", was a line Reginald would give his customers. \nNeedless to say, no empty paint cans bearing cheap brand names like; A to Z, Paint Genie, Brush Magic, Covers All and Paint-O-Rama were left laying around when they knew a customer was going to show up. Within two years, the cheap paint on houses they built would begin to blister and peel off.\n\nTravis Pitbull wasn't the only one of Reginald's subcontractors who would hire a fugitive on his crew. Other subcontractors working for Reginald Pitbull have also knowingly hired a fugitive a time or two, knowing they'd work for cheap just to have a job that paid in cash in order to keep a low profile. Reginald Pitbull was also aware of fugitives working with subcontractors' crews, but was okay with it.\nThere were a few times on jobsites building a wood frame house, Travis Pitbull and his carpentry crew had more beers than usual. When they were that drunk, they would nail down rafters, or trusses, out of alignment with wall studs. Rafters or trusses are supposed to be in direct alignment over top the studs for proper load support. If they knew the work was going to be inspected by Robert Beaver, they'd try to correct it the best they can.\nHowever, back before the winter of 1966, if Herbert Fox was scheduled to do the framing inspection, Reginald Pitbull would look up at it and say, \"Ahh, it's up there\", knowing Herbert would accept a bribe and pass it. \nThere were times when Herbert Fox was approving shotty work, he'd remark, \"Looks okay from [b][i]my[/i][/b] house\".\nOne of Travis Pitbull's famous sayings was, \"Looks good enough to me. Let's grab a beer\".\nAfter the county fired Herbert Fox in the winter of 1966, Reginald Pitbull and his 'good ole boys' no longer had the luxury of paying a bribe to get slipshod work approved and signed off. \n\nThe roofing subcontractor, Grayson Bobcat, who Reginald would usually hire, used the cheapest shingles possible so a roof wouldn't last as long, which was job security for Grayson and the boys on his crew when it was time to replace the roof. \n\nReginald and his subcontractor associates would fail to comply with building codes when they had the opportunity to get away with it. They failed to comply with occupational safety codes too. Homer Opossum's portable cement mixer was missing a safety guard over the drive chain and gears, and had no muffler, and had a pinhole in the gas tank. One of his shovels and two hoes had tightly wound electrical tape holding broken handles together. By the way, Homer Opossum's old 1957 Ford pick up truck had bad brakes. \nTravis Pitbull had a couple of A frame ladders that were in rickety condition, and an extendable ladder that had to be held together with tied rope. A couple of his hammers would have the heads fly off if you didn't bump the bottom of the handles once in a while. One of his circular saws was missing a blade guard. Crew members would often push lumber through a table saw with their paws where they should be using a push stick. Several power tools had damaged power cords where bare wire was showing through. \nGrayson Bobcat also had an extendable ladder that had to be held together with tied rope. The air compressor to run Grayson's roofing nail guns had a threaded plug where the safety release valve use to be and the pressure regulator didn't work. The compressor had to be manually turned on when the pressure ran low, and manually turned off to prevent it from blowing up. There were places where air hoses were joined together with copper tubing and hose clamps. There were a couple of times when a place where hose sections that were joined together that way would bust loose, resulting in a length of pressurized hose wildly whipping all over the place. \nIt was common for subcontractors and crews to have a cooler full of beer on Reginald's job sites. Reginald himself always had a bottle of whisky in his truck and a half pint in his hip pocket.\nIt was often said, \"Reginald Pitbull along with his subcontractors and crews were a major disaster waiting to happen\". \nReginald would also cheat on his income taxes, and never got caught. \nThrough the years, this has always been business as usual with Reginald Colendale Pitbull, General Building Contractor. \n\nAs for Reginald's wife, Diana, much of her spare time was getting drunk and watching soap operas on TV.\nIn December of 1977, Reginald Pitbull finally died of liver cancer from his heavy drinking, 17 years after the deaths of Biff and Richie. His wife, Diana, died in November of 1979, two years after her husband's death, due to developing type 2 diabetes from her heavy drinking. She was found dead on her kitchen floor 3 days after collapsing into a diabetic coma. A nearly empty 5th of Jack Daniels whisky was on the kitchen table.\nIt was said that Reginald and Diana Pitbull drank themselves to death because of the deaths of their two sons in 1960. At the time of Diana's death, the Christmas gifts her and Reginald bought for Biff and Richie in 1960 were still sitting gift wrapped on the top shelf of their closet. By then, the gift wrap had gotten dusty and partially eaten by silverfish over the years.\n\n[i]Had Biff, Richie and Gaston still been alive, they would have been in their mid and late 30s in the year 1979.[/i]\n\n\nAfter Reginald Pitbull passed away in 1977, no other general contractors in their right mind would hire the subcontractors Reginald had always used.\nGrayson Bobcat never did get his roofing contractor license reinstated. After Reginald passed away, Grayson got a job on a roofing crew as a laborer working for another roofing contractor.\n\nFreddy Weasel couldn't even get a job working as a crew member for an electrical contractor with the reputation he had. Freddy eventually got a job at a K-Mart as a sales rep.\n\nHomer Opossum no longer stayed in business as a masonry contractor. His reputation stunk on ice among those in the building trade. With the money Homer had saved up though, he was able to buy some used lawn equipment and a utility trailer to tow behind his old Ford pick up truck, and rehire some of his former crew members, and start a lawn maintenance business. \n\nFestus Bear was washed up as a paint contractor upon Reginald Pitbull's death. Festus eventually purchased an old pick up truck, built side boards for it, and went into business as a self employed trash hauler/handyman.\n\nMaxwell Bulldog, Gregory Bobcat and Manuel Coatimundi didn't stand a ghost of a chance of being hired to do any more plumbing work after Reginald Pitbull passed away. Maxwell did have enough money saved to purchase a used, 24 foot, box truck, and go into business doing local hauling and moving. Gregory and Manuel stayed on as mover's helpers with Maxwell.\n\nTravis Pitbull, no longer being able to get any more carpenter bids, got a job as a taxi driver in the Albuquerque area. It was only a few years later though when Travis and Amber died from liver cancer from heavy drinking over the loss of their son, Gaston, in 1960.\n\nAs for the septic tank company, Central Septic Systems Incorporated, who Moe Bear was a crew chief with, that was a reputable company. And employees drinking alcohol on a jobsite with that company was strictly forbidden. Thus, Central Septic Systems Incorporated had a large client base, and continued to prosper unaffected by Reginald's death......Billy Wolf, owner of Central Septic Systems Inc., had refused to do any further business with Reginald Pitbull after that mess up on that house construction job for the cat family back in 1962. \n \nThe A/C contractors Reginald Pitbull hired were reputable. Thus, Reginald's death was no loss to them either. Other general contractors were always willing to accept job bids from them.\n\nFast forward to the 1980s and 1990s, the store buildings and houses Reginald Pitbull had been contracted to build endured fallout among the real estate profession long after Reginald's death. Those buildings were known among realtors as \"Reginald's wonders\". \nOccasionally, someone who owned a house that Reginald had built would try to list it for sale with a realtor. \nIf it was known to the real estate agency the house was built by Reginald Pitbull, the realtor would tell the potential client, \"You'll have to find a different realtor to put it in listing with. We're wouldn't come near [b][i]that[/i][/b] place with a 60 foot pole\". \nEven the county building department and code enforcement referred to the buildings that Reginald Pitbull had built as \"Reginald's wonders\".\nOccasionally, someone who had recently purchased a property with a Reginald's wonder on it wanted to do upgrades and fix the discrepancies with the building.\nThere was one time when a new property owner came in and applied for a building permit to fix up a Reginald's wonder he had bought. The upgrades needing to be done read like a grocery list.\nWhile the property owner was reading off the list, Donnie Otter, who had been hired as a building inspector to replace Herbert Fox 20 years ago, asked Inspector Robert Beaver, who was not far from retirement, \"One of Reginald's wonders?\"\nRobert Beaver, remembering what place it was from years ago, replied, \"Yup. Sure is\". \n\nIt was for sure Reginald Colendale Pitbull, General Building Contractor, left many dubious construction legacies behind.\n\n\n [color=#4e9a06][b]The End[/b][/color]\n\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "As for Biff and Richie's parents, Reginald and Diana, they fell into depression and started drinking heavy following the deaths of their two sons.
After their sons, Biff and Richie, were killed in a high speed car wreck out on highway 54 while road racing on the night before Christmas Eve of 1960, Reginald and Diana couldn't bring themselves to return the Christmas gifts they had bought for them. Those gifts that were meant for Biff and Richie on Christmas Day of 1960 stayed on the top shelf of Reginald and Diana's closet...and stayed there permanently as sort of a shrine in remembrance of their sons.
From the start, Reginald Colendale Pitbull (R.C. as he was known by his associates) had always been a dishonest general building contractor...Following the deaths of Biff and Richie, Reginald Pitbull had become in addition to being a dishonest building contractor, also a drunkard of a general building contractor as well.

Examples of Reginald Pitbull's drinking on the jobsite.

#1. A house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a cat family in 1962...Reginald contracted Central Septic Systems Incorporated to send a crew to install a septic system for that house. While the crew was lowering the concrete septic tank in place by crane, the outgoing, precast concrete baffle was heard falling down inside along with the board that was to hold it in place until the mortar had set. Immediately, the crew chief, Moe Bear, had the crane operator, Larry Wolverine, raise the septic tank back out and set it back on the ground near the crane. After Reginald Pitbull finished talking with a utilities representative about placement of the water meter, he noticed the two laborers, a cat and a hound, preparing to unshackle the septic tank from the crane.
"Now what?", Reginald, who had been drinking, retorted.
"R.C., the outgoing baffle fell down...Like I told you it would", the septic company's crew chief, Moe Bear, informed Reginald Pitbull. "Hopefully, it's not damaged. Otherwise I'll have to call the shop to have someone bring another baffle box out here".
Reginald remarked, "My guess is...Otherwise...it should not have fallen down to begin with".
"Now hold on a minute, R.C.", Moe Bear replied, then explained, "Thirty minutes ago, you said everyone's knocking off for the rest of the afternoon. You told me don't worry about setting the tank in today, that we'll do that tomorrow morning. Then you told us just go ahead and mortar in the baffle so it will be set up and ready in the morning. Now that we've already mortared in the baffle and it needs time to set up, you're telling us different. Now you're saying go ahead and set the tank in the ground right away".
"So...I made a change in plans", Reginald remarked.
"And are you paying us any extra for the downtime your shilly shallying is costing us?", Moe Bear asked Reginald Pitbull, then argued, "Had you not told us to go ahead and mortar in the baffle today and hold off setting the tank in until tomorrow morning, we would have put the tank in the ground first, then mortar in the baffle after the tank had already been moved. As it is, you had us moving the tank immediately after we mortared in the baffle".
"That's not my problem. And Hell no, I'm not paying your company extra. Your boss and I agreed on a set bid", Reginald reminded Moe, then asked, "Besides, couldn't your crane operator have been more careful?".
Moe retorted, "That mortar needs overnight to set up before it can be moved or disturbed. Now two of my guys have to go down into the tank and reset the baffle all over again. And we still have to check if this one didn't crack or break when it fell".
Reginald already being drunk, took a half pint bottle of Jack Daniels whisky from his hip pocket, took a swig, then told the crew chief, "Ah, fuck that baffle, Moe. Just put the damn son of a bitch in the ground, pipe it to the drain field and butter the top".
Moe Bear exclaimed to Reginald Pitbull, "The drain field will be destroyed without that baffle in place".
Reginald retorted after screwing the cap back on the whisky bottle, "Let the customer worry about that shit. I just want to get this damn job done".
As Moe and Reginald argued over the baffle, the laborer cat discreetly said to the laborer hound, "R.C. needs to lay off that booze bottle so he can run this job like he knows what the Hell he's doing".
The hound discreetly replied to the cat, "I'll say. It's like the right paw doesn't know what the left paw is doing".
Moe Bear mentioned to Reginald, "You know that septic tank being the way it is will cause problems for the family owning this house".
Reginald Pitbull further retorted, "I'm the general contractor on this job. I'll deal with it".
Moe Bear was at this point disgusted with arguing with Reginald Pitbull, then told his crew, "You heard him, boys. Install the tank like it is".
Moe's crane operator, Larry Wolverine, asked, "What about the baffle?"
Moe replied to Larry, "R.C.'s the general contractor. R.C. said put it in, put it in...The Hell with it".
With that said, Larry Wolverine started the crane back up, and the crew installed the septic tank with the outgoing baffle laying on the floor". Immediately afterwards, the two laborers piped the tank in and buttered the top (mortar sealed the top) without taking the time to reset the baffle...just the way general contractor Reginald Pitbull insisted.
"You just can't argue with a hard head who's too damn drunk to listen", Moe Bear later said to his crew as they all agreed.
In less than two years, the cat family had problems with the septic system backing up. One of the cubs had to use the bathroom while her younger brother was taking a shower. When she flushed the toilet, septic water and turds came up out of the bathtub drain around her brother's feet.
The little brother kitten cried out, "Mom! Dad! Oooo gross! The bathtub has poo-poo!"
The family then called a septic company. The septic crew had to dig up the front yard and replace the drain field. The septic company the cat family called was not the same company that Reginald Pitbull contracted to install the system, thus they were unaware that a fallen baffle was the cause of the problem.
A year and a half later, the septic system backed up again. A different contractor they called this 2nd time figured out, being there was a previous drain field failure before this one, the outgoing tank baffle might be the problem. Thus his crew had the tank pumped and the top unearthed and opened up, and sure enough, there was the original, concrete box baffle laying on the floor of the tank where the mortar had turned loose during installation.
"There's the cause of your septic troubles", the septic contractor, Seymour Meerkat, told the cat family as he pointed out the baffle laying on the floor of the tank. "Unfortunately, you're looking at another drain field".
"Oh great", the daddy cat retorted.
"This will be the second time it's been replaced", the mother cat added.
"This drain field is only a year and a half old", Daddy cat further added.
"I'm sorry as I can be to break that news to you all", Seymour Meerkat said to the family, then assured, "But I can assure you after we fix all this, your septic system will finally be right".
"And no more poo poos in the bath tub?", the little brother kitten asked as everyone chuckled.
"No more poopies in the tub, I promise you", Seymour assured him.
The crew replaced the old concrete baffle with one made from 4 inch diameter PVC pipe and a Tee. They then dug up the front yard and installed another drain field. After all that expense, the septic system was finally made right.
The cat family tried to recoup expenses from Reginald Pitbull, but never got any satisfaction.
As for Moe Bear and crew, the cat family found out what septic system company Reginald Pitbull had subcontracted, though that screw up was still Reginald's fault considering the circumstances. Larry Wolverine who was the crane operator on that job testified what had happened on that jobsite that day...Despite Larry's testimony, Reginald Pitbull still tried to put the blame on Central Septic Systems Incorporated.
After the cat family made an irate phone call to Central Septic Systems in reference to Moe Bear and his crew not resetting a baffle, the chief operations officer (C.O.O.) with the company had a talk with Moe Bear over that job.
The C.O.O., Jerome Panther, said to Moe, "I've heard about that general contractor, Reginald Pitbull...a big time drunk, a shyster, and thinks he knows it all. It dazzles me how he's even been allowed to keep his contractor's license".
Moe Bear replied, "When we did that job three years ago, I tried to set Reginald straight about that baffle. But I might as well have been talking to a brick wall".
Jerome Panther then informed Moe, "It's not easy getting anywhere with someone as stubborn as Reginald Pitbull".
"Someone like that can't be taught anything because they already know everything", Moe jested as Jerome chuckled.
"Yup. Nothing left to teach someone like that", Jerome Panther agreed, then mentioned, "Billy Wolf should have canceled that contract with Reginald. But, Billy's the owner of the company, so...".  
"Believe me", said Moe Bear. "There were times I felt like walking off that job. And my crew felt the same way".
Jerome advised Moe, "If you ever encounter another general contractor like him who orders you to do something the wrong way, go find a pay phone and call us to let us know what's going on. Let us deal with that contractor. As you know, we have a good reputation to uphold, and we want to keep it that way".
"I'll certainly remember that", Moe Bear assured Jerome Panther.
By the way, Billy Wolf made it a point to no longer do any future business with Reginald Pitbull.

#2. Another house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for Jeffrey Otter and his family later in the year 1962...On that job, Reginald hired a slipshod electrician, Freddy Weasel, who submitted an extremely low bid to get the job. Like most subcontractors Reginald hired, Freddy was not an employee of an electrical contractor company. Freddy Weasel was a self employed entrepreneur with an electrician's license and two helpers working for him.
Back in those days, fuse boxes with screw in fuses were still being used. Freddy Weasel ran short on 20 amp fuses, and because he had a gambling addiction he didn't have enough money to buy more fuses.
"R.C., can you to front me some money to get a few 20 amp fuses?", Freddy asked Reginald. "And I still got to pay my helpers".
Reginald, being drunk, said, "The Hell with that Fred, I'm not paying you until you finish the job. Just stick anything in there".
"All I got are 30s. The house is wired for 20 amp fuses", Freddy Weasel declared.
"I don't give a shit", Reginald replied. "Stick anything in there".
"Okay", Freddy Weasel agreed.
Thus, Freddy stuck 30 amp fuses in where 20 amp fuses should go.
Six months later, the otter family's new house burned to the ground. Fortunately, all family members made it out of the house okay. During the fire department investigation, evidence turned up that 30 amp fuses were used for wire gauge rated for no higher than 20 amp. Upon those findings, the otter family then launched a lawsuit against Reginald Colendale Pitbull. However, Reginald's attorney was able to convince the court it can't be proven the otter family didn't put the 30 amp fuses in the fuse box. Thus the lawsuit was dismissed.
Jeffrey Otter later said to his wife, "I believe there's a special place reserved in Hell for the likes of Reginald Pitbull".

#3. A house Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a fox family in the spring of 1963...On that job, Reginald hired a roofing subcontractor, Grayson Bobcat, who had his roofing contractor's license revoked. Reginald already knew Grayson's license was not valid, but hired him anyway because Grayson Bobcat was one of Reginald Pitbull's good ole boy drinking buddies.
During the roofing phase of the job, Grayson Bobcat's crew members would often pull nooners...In construction trade lingo, a nooner is when workers would go to a local tavern during lunch break, and it would be 2 or 3 hours before they returned to the jobsite.
Days after the roofing was completed, it rained. There were roof leaks everywhere when Freddy Weasel and his electrician's helpers were trying to wire the house. Reginald assured the subcontractors, as well as the fox family, the leaks would get resolved. Thus, Reginald Pitbull called Grayson Bobcat and his crew back to fix the roof leaks.
From that point on, it didn't rain all that much until the house was completed and the fox family moved in. The fox family were excited as they moved into their first house they've ever owned. However, after a week of them enjoying their new home, a torrential rain system came through in the predawn hours and lasting all morning. There were 23 roof leaks that Grayson Bobcat's crew still never fixed, with a few being as bad as though garden hoses had been turned on in the attic. The ceilings became so soaked, wet soggy slabs of drywall fell down throughout the house. Furniture, carpets, beds and clothing were ruined by rain water and soggy drywall. The fox family were awaken early that morning to their new home becoming a nightmare, which was no wonder Grayson Bobcat's license had been revoked.
Later that morning, the fox family had to stay at a relatives' house.
The dad called Reginald Pitbull and the following is what he heard;
Reginald's wife, Diana, answers the phone, "Hello".
The fox dad explains the situation.
Diana replies, "Hold on a minute. I'll go get Reginal to the phone".
Thirty seconds later, the fox hears in the background, "Tell him I'm not here".
Diana comes back to the phone and says, "I'm sorry but he's...".
The fox interrupts, "Yea, I know. I know. He's not there", and hangs up.
The fox family finally gave up on trying to get Reginald Pitbull to do right by them, then hired a reputable roofing contractor, Harold Cheetah, out of pocket to fix the roof.
Harold Cheetah and his crew were up on the roof for only 15 minutes before Harold broke the bad news to the fox family.
Harold told the family, "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, and I know you all don't want to hear it. That excuse called a roofing job is such a disaster, that entire roof will have to be done over again from scratch".
Harold Cheetah's crew leader, George Cougar, added, "I've never seen a roofing job done this bad in all my life. It's a mess".
It cost the fox family $1,700 to have Harold Cheetah's crew re-roof the house...the right way.
In the early 1960s, $1,700 was like what $17,000 is in 21st Century economy.  On top of all that, the destroyed drywall also had to be replaced throughout the house.
There was yet another issue with the house two years later that bit the fox family in the ass.
The original threshold under the front entry door was wood, and was glued in place instead of being held with anchor fasteners and countersunk screws. When the glue holding the threshold finally turned loose, the fox family decided to replace it with an aluminum threshold.  
The fox dad contacted a home improvement worker, Vincent Beaver, to install the aluminum threshold. The new threshold already had three countersunk holes for the screws.
When Vincent Beaver was drilling the first hole for the concrete lead anchors, water pressure shot up out of the hole.
"Ain't that some shit", Vincent retorted as he quickly pulled the electric drill away from the pressurized stream of water shooting up out of the hole in the concrete.
"What's with the water?", Daddy Fox asked.
"Some lazy dumb ass embedded a water pipe in the footer", Vincent answered. "A trench should have been dug in the ground for that water pipe. Laying pipes in a footer is wrong".
After turning the water off at the meter, the thing to do now was to call a plumber.
The repair involved rerouting a new water supply pipe in a trench in the ground.
The plumber, Calvin Raccoon, mentioned, "That's the way it should have been done in the first place".
The repair also involved cutting out a section of footer to attach the new water line into the pipes inside the house.  Melvin Binturong with two of his helpers were call in to do the concrete work.
When Melvin Binturong heard about Vincent Beaver striking the water pipe with the drill bit, he said, "That's why you don't embed water pipes into footers".
That repair job had cost the fox family $540. That's like what $5,400 is now days.

#4. A commercial retail store building Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build for a pawn shop in the summer of 1963...The masonry subcontractor, Homer Opossum, who Reginald hired onto the job, was another one of his good ole boy drinking buddies.
Reginald and Homer made a deal to skimp on building materials and they'd split the savings 50-50. Homer bought a few cases of beer for his crew in the deal. For starters, before the footer was poured, the trench, rebar and floor mesh was approved and signed off by the building inspector, Robert Beaver. Once the building inspector left, the rebar and floor mesh were pulled back up to use on another job they also had going, then the concrete company was called to send the concrete truck. The footer and slab were poured with no steel reinforcement. When the concrete block walls were erected, Homer Opossum had a large stash of 4 inch depth blocks back at his shop. Those 4 inch blocks came from a demolition job Homer Opossum had done. Exterior walls are supposed to be made of 8 inch depth blocks. However, there were some exterior walls that were constructed from those 4 inch interior blocks Homer had a stash of. That meant less blocks had to be purchased. Only the two load supporting exterior walls were built from 8 inch blocks, with the rebar in the top lentils being some of the same rebar pulled out of the footer and slab before they were poured.
This would have ordinarily presented a building inspection problem. However, Reginald and Homer knew a different building inspector, Herbert Fox, would be on duty a couple of days later. Herbert was good at passing shotty work for a sum of bribe money. So for those couple of days Reginald and Homer's crew worked on another job they had going.
A few days later, Reginald and Homer slipped some bribe money to Herbert Fox, thus the walls of the pawn shop building passed inspection. To pour the lentils, Homer Opossum brought his trailer mounted portable cement mixer to the jobsite hitched to his pick up truck. The rebar was pulled back out of the lentils, and only short sections of the lentils were poured to provide enough concrete to set the roof anchor bolts. Construction then continued until the building was completed, though delayed at times by that other construction job going at the same time. The owners of the pawn shop were delighted with their new building, though they had no idea of the shotty substandard work that went into it.
Four years later, in the summer of 1967, that pawn shop building began having severe structural problems. It was so bad, building inspector Robert Beaver ordered the building to be slated for demolition. The county had fired building inspector Herbert Fox 6 months earlier in the winter of 1966 when he was caught taking a bribe from a dishonest building contractor. Herbert Fox almost went to jail for that too.
Homer Opossum came close to loosing his masonry contractor's license over that job too. Though Homer didn't get his contractor's license yanked, he was denied a journeyman's card he had applied for.

#5. A carpenter subcontractor Reginald Pitbull would always hire was Travis Kelton Pitbull. Travis and his wife, Amber, were Gaston Pitbull's parents. Ever since Gaston died in that highway racing accident with Biff and Richie that December night in 1960, Travis and Amber started drinking heavy like Reginald and Diana did. Thus, when ever a bid that Reginald submitted was accepted for contract, those jobs not only had a drunk general contractor running the job, but also had a drunk carpenter subcontractor on the job site as well. And not to mention that crew members were also allowed to drink on the job site. I.e...a bunch of drunks building a house.
Before building inspector Herbert Fox was fired in 1966 for taking bribes, Reginald Pitbull and Travis Pitbull skimped on materials big time when contracted to build a wood frame house. Exterior plywood sheathing is suppose to be 1/2 inch thick. And any part of wood framing that contacts concrete is suppose to be pressure treated. When ever Reginald and Travis knew ahead of time that Herbert Fox was going to be doing carpentry inspection, they'd split the savings by not using pressure treated wood, and using 1/4 inch plywood for exterior sheathing.
They also used utility grade lumber for wood framing, which lacked proper strength and was not up to code, but way cheaper in price.
Standard grade 2x4 lumber was often used only around door and window openings to give the illusion that standard grade 2x4s were used throughout the house once the drywall and sheathing went up, and before the doors and windows were installed.
And it was common for tops of doorways and window openings to lack a proper stress supporting header.
Most of the time, they didn't bother to install rafter tie down clips either.
But they knew that all they had to do was slip Herbert Fox some bribe money and their substandard work will pass inspection. And as long as Reginald could get by with Herbert Fox also doing the inspections on the roofing, electrical and plumbing, there was no longer a way to tell how slipshod the framing and sheathing was done after the drywall and siding went up. Which by the way, the roofing, electrical and plumbing subcontractors Reginald always hired were among his shady associate drinking buddies.
However, Reginald and Travis, along with Reginald's other drinking buddy subcontractors, didn't dare pull those kind of shenanigans when they knew Robert Beaver was going to be inspecting their work. They did right when Robert was scheduled to inspect their work. They knew all to well Robert Beaver was upstanding and honest and was not on the take.
Of course, wood frame structures contracted by Reginald Pitbull and associates soon developed structural problems and termites, and didn't stand up to storms very well, if they were built when Inspector Herbert Fox was on duty.
There were times Travis Pitbull had knowingly hired a fugitive who was on the run from the law onto his carpentry crew. Travis knew fugitives were willing to work for cheap due to not being able to find anyone else to work for. As long as a fugitive can measure lumber, run a circular saw and swing a hammer and was okay with getting less pay than the other crew members get, Travis Pitbull would hire a fugitive if he had a position open.
A fugitive not being able to cash a paycheck was no issue either. Travis, like other subcontractors who usually hired on with Reginald Pitbull, paid his workers in cash. It was left up to the workers to deduct out their own income taxes each year...which most of them never bothered to do anyway.
In the year 1974, there was a house that Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build in a very respectable upscale neighborhood. And as usual, Travis Pitbull's carpenter crew had a couple of cases of beer on the jobsite.  Early in the evening at the end of a work day during that job, a fugitive who Travis had hired onto his crew, Richard Weasel, was rip roaring drunk. So rip roaring drunk in fact, Richard Weasel was stomping and staggering around in circles in front of the house they were building, pointing his thumbs downward, and loudly singing his own version of Ringo Starr's No No Song, which went, "No no no no no no I don't shit no more!...Cause it makes me wake up on da floor!...An it makes it hard to find da doorrrrrrr!...No no no no no no I don't ptttt no more!...Cause it makes me fall down on da...floooooor!"
This was in a respectable high class neighborhood, but just the same, the crew members were all laughing at Richard Weasel's drunken antics.
Reginal Pitbull told Travis Pitbull, "If Richard keeps that up, the homeowners association in this neighborhood is liable to kick all of us out of here for good".
With that said, Travis Pitbull went over and got Richard Weasel to calm down.
Richard Weasel was the driver for Travis' step van, which the crew members nick named it 'the bread truck', because it was an old decommissioned Wonder Bread delivery truck.
As the crew finished loading equipment into the 'bread truck' to call it a day, Richard Weasel sat in the driver's seat with the driver's side sliding door open and hollered out at the neighborhood, "Get your hot breeeeeeead!"
Richard Weasel's drunken behavior was nice negative advertisement with Travis' step van having large lettering on the sides that read, 'Travis Kelton Pitbull, Carpentry Contractor', including Travis' carpentry license number, journeyman's card number and phone number.
"Looks like Richard forgot this is a neighborhood of snooty snobs", crew member Sammy Raccoon jested audibly enough for a few nearby neighbors to hear it as other crew members laughed.  
Reginald, after putting his whiskey flask back in his hip pocket, asked Travis, "Are you sure Richard is alright to drive?"
Travis replied while holding a can of beer, "I don't think so. I'll ride with him in case something happens".
Travis Pitbull then pawed the keys of his own pick up truck to crew member, Johnny Rabbit, who wasn't as drunk as the others, and instructed him, "Johnny, drive my truck back to the shop. I got to ride with Richard so in case he passes out, I can reach over and grab the wheel".
Travis Pitbull's step van never had a passenger's seat, so Travis placed an empty, 5 gallon, metal, roofing tar bucket up side down in the step van for himself to sit on next to Richard Weasel. And because the step van was an old truck built before motor vehicles had seat belts, Travis instructed Richard to slide the driver's door shut so in case Richard passed out while driving he wouldn't fall out of the truck onto the street. Richard Weasel refused to slide the driver's door shut at first, complaining it was too hot. But Travis Pitbull finally talked Richard into shutting the door. Thus they started on their way back to Travis Pitbull's shop.
Travis Pitbull knew he could have easily driven the step van himself instead of letting Richard Weasel drive. However, even though violating DWI laws didn't carry severe consequences back in those days, Travis, who had also been drinking, already had enough points on his driving record to where one more point would mean a 6 month driver's license suspension. According to Travis Pitbull's thinking, he'd let Richard Weasel take the risk of getting caught drunk driving, being that Richard had no driver's license or other form of ID in his possession. Travis figured if they got pulled over, he could always say, "Officer, I wasn't the one driving". Thus Richard drove the step van with Travis riding along in case Richard passed out at the wheel.
It was a miracle the crew made it back to Travis' shop okay that evening without having an accident, and without getting caught drunk driving.
By the way, it was a year earlier, before Richard Weasel hired on with Travis Pitbull, he was driving drunk one day which caused an accident where he drove his car, a 1967 Buick Skylark, over a bear who was flagging traffic for a roadwork crew and killed him. Road workers got his license plate number as he fled the scene. Fifteen miles down the road, Richard abandoned his car and fled the rest of the way on foot. That's how Richard Weasel became a fugitive evading the law.

#6. On a job Reginald Pitbull was contracted to build an addition of two bedrooms and a 2nd bathroom onto a house for Dave Pine Martin and his family. The phases of work by the subcontractors Reginald hired was slipshod as usual. A crew member, Gregory Bobcat, working for plumbing subcontractor, Maxwell Bulldog, accidentally stripped the threads to a fitting union. It was one of the two fitting unions installed into the original plumbing for a "T" between them to run the new pipe off of for the 2nd bathroom.
"Uh oh", Gregory Bobcat exclaimed once he realized he had cross-threaded and stripped the fitting union.
"What is it?", Maxwell Bulldog came over and asked.
"This", Gregory said, pointing at the stripped fitting union.
"Ahhh, I ain't pulling that shit back apart now", Maxwell replied, then said to crew member, Manuel Coatimundi, "Manuel, go to my truck and bring back the cans of plumber's epoxy".
"Good ole plumber's epoxy will fix that", Maxwell assured Gregory.
Once Manuel returned from the truck with the cans of plumber's epoxy, Maxwell mixed up a batch of it and glopped it all around the stripped fitting union.
"There. Good as gold", Maxwell remarked upon finishing the patch up.
Reginald mentioned about the patch, "As long as the customer is happy enough to pay us, I'm happy too".
Thus the job continued to completion.
After the two new bedrooms and new 2nd bathroom were completed, the pine martin family were thrilled with having more room in the house.
However...A week later, that fitting union busted apart in the middle of the night at around 2 am.
By the time the pine martin family were awakened by the sound of water gushing inside a hallway wall, all the floors in the house were flooded and all the carpet was ruined. Dave Pine Martin had to go out to the curbside in his pajamas in the dark of night with a pair of vice-grips and a crescent wrench and turn the water off to the house.
Needless to say, after sunrise, the pine martin family had to go out to a restaurant for breakfast being the water at the house had to be turned off.
When the family returned to the house after having breakfast, Dave Pine Martin phoned his boss at Albuquerque Chrysler Plymouth where he works as a sales rep to request time off in light of the plumbing problem at the house. Once the sales manager granted the time off, Dave then promptly made a phone call to Reginald Pitbull. It didn't do any good though. Reginald's wife answered the phone, and Reginald pulled that old line of, "Tell him I'm not here".
Dave Pine Martin then contacted a reputable plumber, Marcus Cougar. Dave was already convinced he wasn't going to get anywhere dealing with Reginald Pitbull.
When Marcus Cougar and his helper, Pabel Ocelot, tore off the ruined drywall and saw where the jury rigged fitting union blew apart, Marcus mentioned, "I just can't believe what I'm seeing here. Who did this?"
"Someone Reginald Pitbull hired", Dave Pine Martin answered.
"Oh my gosh", Marcus exclaimed. "He's the worst shyster there is in these parts".
"Yea, and a big time drunkard too", Pabel added.
"So are his subs", Marcus further added.
"Unfortunately, we didn't know that at the time we accepted Reginald's bid", Dave's wife, Linda, said.
"They're dumb and stupid too", Dave and Linda's 12 year old cub daughter, Mia, remarked.
"Yea", their 8 year old son, Dave Jr., agreed.
"I also have to take time off from work because of that scallywag", Dave added.
A  path of the new drywall running from the old bathroom to the new bathroom also had to be cut out to get to the pipe to reassemble it the right way.
"Some of these other pipe joints already had leaks", Marcus mentioned. "There was no pipe dope or teflon tape used on them".
"I just hope we don't get the likes of Reginald Pitbull when we get this carpet and drywall replaced", Dave mentioned.
With that said, Marcus Cougar recommended a reputable drywall contractor, Christopher Cheetah, and a reputable flooring company, Old Town Carpet and Tile.
After the plumbing was fixed, which was done right, repairs to the drywall and replacing the carpets were all there was left.
When the carpet crew from Old Town Carpet and Tile removed the ruined carpet, it was discovered the floor tiles had begun curling up and peeling off from being soaked, thus the floor tiles also had to be replaced. But once all that was done, everything was finally right. The pine martin family was then able to put Reginald Pitbull's nightmare behind them and go on with their normal lives.
There was the opportunity for Dave Pine Martin to recoup some expense out of the ordeal though. This incident happened in May of 1964, and the truck Marcus Cougar was using in business was an old 1952 Dodge pick up that had been seeing better days. Marcus knowing that Dave was an automotive sales rep, mentioned he was interested in getting a later model used truck. Dave assured Marcus the dealership presently has several nice used trucks that were taken in as trade ins.
Dave gave Marcus a business card and told him, "When you come down to Albuquerque Chrysler Plymouth, ask for me, Dave Pine Martin".  

#7. As for central A/C and heat contractors, Reginald Pitbull could never find one who'd play ball the way he wanted. On rare occasion, Reginald would offer the proposition to an A/C subcontractor to split savings 50/50 by skimping on equipment and materials.
One A/C subcontractor years earlier, a coyote, told Reginald, "Hey look. I have reputation to hold up. I'll submit you a bid. If accepted, my helpers and I will do reputable work. You can take it or leave it".
Another A/C subcontractor years later, a mongoose, told Reginald, "I don't roll and click that way. As a matter of fact, if you propose another scheme like that to me again, I'll report the slipshod work in that house your boys and you are building".
That mongoose definitely was not naive when it came to spotting slipshod construction work.  
There was another job where Reginald Pitbull attempted to get an A/C subcontractor, a bear, to play ball that way right after submitting a bid.
The bear simply told Reginald, "You're wasting your time and mine. Forget the bid, bud", then walked away.
Central A/C and heat was a phase of construction where Reginald Pitbull had no choice but to do right. Reginald simply could not find a dishonest central A/C and heat subcontractor who would play ball his way, thus Reginald used the services of any A/C subcontractor who would submit the most acceptable bid.
Although, during those times when other subcontractors on a jobsite had a fugitive employed on their crew, that fugitive crew member would attempt to steal copper tubing from the A/C contractor's truck when he and his helpers were doing A/C and heat work and were away from the truck.      

There were many houses built by Reginald Pitbull, and approved by Inspector Herbert Fox accepting bribes, that should never have been issued a certificate of occupancy.
These kind of disasters were typical of jobs where Reginald Colendale Pitbull was contracted to build houses and small commercial buildings. And there were other general contractors who would advise potential customers when submitting a bid to steer clear of using the services of Reginald Pitbull. Every contractor in a several county area knew of Reginald's reputation, along with the reputations of the subcontractors he usually hired. It was said by other contractors that Reginald Pitbull is a drunken shyster as crooked as his legs (reference to crooked as a dog's leg).
In fact, some commercial property owners who contracted Reginald Pitbull became so fed up with him they discontinued using him and hired a different general contractor. Most of those commercial property owners who changed contractors simply accepted the loss of their down payment money they had paid to Reginald Pitbull for breaking the contract with him. They were just glad to send him up the road and get rid of him.

Reginald would falsify documents to reflect building materials costing more than they actually did.
When ever Reginald purchased building materials for his own personal use, he'd charge it to jobs he had going and have customers foot the bill.
On many jobs, Reginald would tell a customer there are unforeseen problems when there actually weren't any. It was a tactic he used get a customer to agree to raising the price above the original bid. Though Reginald was hesitant to pull that on a customer who oversees the job, he would readily pull it on someone who he pegged as not knowing a chisel from a center punch.

Reginald would always try to talk customers into cheap shotty materials being better grade, which of course was bull shit.
"Think of the money you'll save. And for better materials too", was always Reginald's line to his customers.
It would only save Reginald and his subcontractors money, thus maximizing profits, but still not produce the savings Reginald had promised his customers.
Reginald had always said, "I can talk a customer into being happy buying 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag".

Fixtures such as lighting, sinks, toilets and bathtubs were always the cheapest grade Reginald could get away with, some of which wasn't any better than what was used in house trailers back in the day.
Back when grounded receptacles became required in electrical work, Reginald Pitbull and the electrical subcontractor he usually hired, Freddy Weasel, would split the savings 50/50 by omitting the ground wiring throughout the house. Freddy Weasel and his helpers would bootleg a ground on each receptacle by wiring the neutral and ground pins together in order to fool the building inspector when he plugged a test meter into the receptacles.  That practice of bootleg grounds is against code, dangerous, and of course will fool most outlet test meters.

When Reginald Pitbull was awarded a contract to build a house where natural gas service was available, that was a whole new 'can of worms' opened.  Jeremy Raccoon was the gas system contractor Reginald would hire. Jeremy was among Reginald's good ole boys who skimped on materials labor procedures so he and Reginald could share 50/50 on the extra profit.
Seven months after a house with natural gas service was contracted by Reginald Pitbull, there was a gas explosion that blew all the windows out of the house.  Fortunately, the ocelot family who lived there sustained only some patches of cinged fur and a few 1st degree burns.
The family launched a lawsuit against Reginald Colendale Pitbull. However, Reginald's weasel defence attorney prevailed in court, thus dropping the lawsuit.
Four years after another house with natural gas service Reginald was contracted to build, it exploded clear off of the foundation with enough force to rock the neighborhood. Fortunately for the jaguar family who lived there, they were out at a pizza parlor celebrating the birthday of one of their cubs when it happened.  When they returned home, it was to a bare foundation with fire trucks and police cars everywhere among the scattered debris of what was once their home.

When it came to paint, Reginald Pitbull and his painting subcontractor, Festus Bear, would split the savings using the cheapest paint they could get their paws on, which was of absolute garbage quality. And no sealer or primer was ever used either. Reginald would then bull shit his customers into thinking that Sherwin Williams primer and paint was used to paint the house.
"Sherwin Williams is the only paint we ever use. I wouldn't trust any other brand", was a line Reginald would give his customers.
Needless to say, no empty paint cans bearing cheap brand names like; A to Z, Paint Genie, Brush Magic, Covers All and Paint-O-Rama were left laying around when they knew a customer was going to show up. Within two years, the cheap paint on houses they built would begin to blister and peel off.

Travis Pitbull wasn't the only one of Reginald's subcontractors who would hire a fugitive on his crew. Other subcontractors working for Reginald Pitbull have also knowingly hired a fugitive a time or two, knowing they'd work for cheap just to have a job that paid in cash in order to keep a low profile. Reginald Pitbull was also aware of fugitives working with subcontractors' crews, but was okay with it.
There were a few times on jobsites building a wood frame house, Travis Pitbull and his carpentry crew had more beers than usual. When they were that drunk, they would nail down rafters, or trusses, out of alignment with wall studs. Rafters or trusses are supposed to be in direct alignment over top the studs for proper load support. If they knew the work was going to be inspected by Robert Beaver, they'd try to correct it the best they can.
However, back before the winter of 1966, if Herbert Fox was scheduled to do the framing inspection, Reginald Pitbull would look up at it and say, "Ahh, it's up there", knowing Herbert would accept a bribe and pass it.
There were times when Herbert Fox was approving shotty work, he'd remark, "Looks okay from my house".
One of Travis Pitbull's famous sayings was, "Looks good enough to me. Let's grab a beer".
After the county fired Herbert Fox in the winter of 1966, Reginald Pitbull and his 'good ole boys' no longer had the luxury of paying a bribe to get slipshod work approved and signed off.

The roofing subcontractor, Grayson Bobcat, who Reginald would usually hire, used the cheapest shingles possible so a roof wouldn't last as long, which was job security for Grayson and the boys on his crew when it was time to replace the roof.

Reginald and his subcontractor associates would fail to comply with building codes when they had the opportunity to get away with it. They failed to comply with occupational safety codes too. Homer Opossum's portable cement mixer was missing a safety guard over the drive chain and gears, and had no muffler, and had a pinhole in the gas tank. One of his shovels and two hoes had tightly wound electrical tape holding broken handles together. By the way, Homer Opossum's old 1957 Ford pick up truck had bad brakes.  
Travis Pitbull had a couple of A frame ladders that were in rickety condition, and an extendable ladder that had to be held together with tied rope. A couple of his hammers would have the heads fly off if you didn't bump the bottom of the handles once in a while. One of his circular saws was missing a blade guard. Crew members would often push lumber through a table saw with their paws where they should be using a push stick. Several power tools had damaged power cords where bare wire was showing through.
Grayson Bobcat also had an extendable ladder that had to be held together with tied rope. The air compressor to run Grayson's roofing nail guns had a threaded plug where the safety release valve use to be and the pressure regulator didn't work. The compressor had to be manually turned on when the pressure ran low, and manually turned off to prevent it from blowing up. There were places where air hoses were joined together with copper tubing and hose clamps. There were a couple of times when a place where hose sections that were joined together that way would bust loose, resulting in a length of pressurized hose wildly whipping all over the place.  
It was common for subcontractors and crews to have a cooler full of beer on Reginald's job sites. Reginald himself always had a bottle of whisky in his truck and a half pint in his hip pocket.
It was often said, "Reginald Pitbull along with his subcontractors and crews were a major disaster waiting to happen".
Reginald would also cheat on his income taxes, and never got caught.
Through the years, this has always been business as usual with Reginald Colendale Pitbull, General Building Contractor.

As for Reginald's wife, Diana, much of her spare time was getting drunk and watching soap operas on TV.
In December of 1977, Reginald Pitbull finally died of liver cancer from his heavy drinking, 17 years after the deaths of Biff and Richie. His wife, Diana, died in November of 1979, two years after her husband's death, due to developing type 2 diabetes from her heavy drinking. She was found dead on her kitchen floor 3 days after collapsing into a diabetic coma. A nearly empty 5th of Jack Daniels whisky was on the kitchen table.
It was said that Reginald and Diana Pitbull drank themselves to death because of the deaths of their two sons in 1960. At the time of Diana's death, the Christmas gifts her and Reginald bought for Biff and Richie in 1960 were still sitting gift wrapped on the top shelf of their closet. By then, the gift wrap had gotten dusty and partially eaten by silverfish over the years.

Had Biff, Richie and Gaston still been alive, they would have been in their mid and late 30s in the year 1979.


After Reginald Pitbull passed away in 1977, no other general contractors in their right mind would hire the subcontractors Reginald had always used.
Grayson Bobcat never did get his roofing contractor license reinstated. After Reginald passed away, Grayson got a job on a roofing crew as a laborer working for another roofing contractor.

Freddy Weasel couldn't even get a job working as a crew member for an electrical contractor with the reputation he had. Freddy eventually got a job at a K-Mart as a sales rep.

Homer Opossum no longer stayed in business as a masonry contractor. His reputation stunk on ice among those in the building trade. With the money Homer had saved up though, he was able to buy some used lawn equipment and a utility trailer to tow behind his old Ford pick up truck, and rehire some of his former crew members, and start a lawn maintenance business.

Festus Bear was washed up as a paint contractor upon Reginald Pitbull's death. Festus eventually purchased an old pick up truck, built side boards for it, and went into business as a self employed trash hauler/handyman.

Maxwell Bulldog, Gregory Bobcat and Manuel Coatimundi didn't stand a ghost of a chance of being hired to do any more plumbing work after Reginald Pitbull passed away. Maxwell did have enough money saved to purchase a used, 24 foot, box truck, and go into business doing local hauling and moving. Gregory and Manuel stayed on as mover's helpers with Maxwell.

Travis Pitbull, no longer being able to get any more carpenter bids, got a job as a taxi driver in the Albuquerque area. It was only a few years later though when Travis and Amber died from liver cancer from heavy drinking over the loss of their son, Gaston, in 1960.

As for the septic tank company, Central Septic Systems Incorporated, who Moe Bear was a crew chief with, that was a reputable company. And employees drinking alcohol on a jobsite with that company was strictly forbidden. Thus, Central Septic Systems Incorporated had a large client base, and continued to prosper unaffected by Reginald's death......Billy Wolf, owner of Central Septic Systems Inc., had refused to do any further business with Reginald Pitbull after that mess up on that house construction job for the cat family back in 1962.
 
The A/C contractors Reginald Pitbull hired were reputable. Thus, Reginald's death was no loss to them either. Other general contractors were always willing to accept job bids from them.

Fast forward to the 1980s and 1990s, the store buildings and houses Reginald Pitbull had been contracted to build endured fallout among the real estate profession long after Reginald's death.  Those buildings were known among realtors as "Reginald's wonders".
Occasionally, someone who owned a house that Reginald had built would try to list it for sale with a realtor.
If it was known to the real estate agency the house was built by Reginald Pitbull, the realtor would tell the potential client, "You'll have to find a different realtor to put it in listing with. We're wouldn't come near that place with a 60 foot pole".  
Even the county building department and code enforcement referred to the buildings that Reginald Pitbull had built as "Reginald's wonders".
Occasionally, someone who had recently purchased a property with a Reginald's wonder on it wanted to do upgrades and fix the discrepancies with the building.
There was one time when a new property owner came in and applied for a building permit to fix up a Reginald's wonder he had bought. The upgrades needing to be done read like a grocery list.
While the property owner was reading off the list, Donnie Otter, who had been hired as a building inspector to replace Herbert Fox 20 years ago, asked Inspector Robert Beaver, who was not far from retirement, "One of Reginald's wonders?"
Robert Beaver, remembering what place it was from years ago, replied, "Yup. Sure is".

It was for sure Reginald Colendale Pitbull, General Building Contractor, left many dubious construction legacies behind.


                The End


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