Roofing Companies with Many Loose Shingles

[packman]

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Roof leaking but can't decide whether to get it repaired or buy that AR-15 you always wanted? Problem solved---

Roofing companies in at least two states have adopted a bizarre marketing campaign in which customers who buy a roof get a free semi-automatic weapon as a bonus.

Digital Roofing Innovations in Decatur, Alabama, is the latest to offer the special. The company released a campy, over-the-top ad on July 4 ― complete with short shorts, beers, and gunfire ― promising an AR-15 to anyone who orders a roofing job.

Co-owner Zach Blenkinsopp, the scantily-clad star of the ad, promises it’s not a gimmick.

“You’re gonna get you a free AR-15 rifle after we complete the roof. How’s that sound?” he says. “Donald Trump says, make America great again, I say, make America gun again"

Ahh - America- You can't make this shit up !

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/get-a-roof-get-a-gun-roofers-embrace-a-bizarre-ad-campaign_us_596103a9e4b0d5b458eac73f?mb6&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[shraby]

1. There's the kicker. "after we complete the roof" They will leave a few nails out and a shingle

not put on and when the person expects his gun, they'll tell him "we're not done with the roof yet".

And it never will get "done".

[Hoyt]

2. White wingers love that junk. Plus, the roofer knows they'll shoot a hole through the roof sooner

or later.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Oh, stop, Zach. You're giving Alabama a bad name. People will

think you're all under-educated, RW gun nuts.

[Xolodno]

4. $20 bucks says..

...his workers are from south of the border.

[panader0]

6. $20 bucks says crank is involvrd.

[dsc]

5. the gun stuff is ridiculous but I have to say the model is easy on the eyes

[ProudLib72]

8. Sure

If you like guys who look like a cross between ted nugent and hag fish. Slimy, slimy, slimy.

[GallopingGhost]

14. lmao

[dembotoz]

7. Rather funny my conservative breakfast networking group was calling for regulations for roofing

A real bastion of home repair dishonesty.

[onethatcares]

9. that problem is everywhere.

in this case, I wonder what the mark up is on the gun. Ain't nothing free in this world.

BTW, the roofing regulations will soon devolve into a board of individuals lining their pockets with fine and fee money on the backs of the working guys. Of course there will be no oversight on where the money goes.

Check out the PCCLB fiasco in Florida.

[dembotoz]

10. Wow pcclb looks like quite the snake pit

But there has to be some standard somewhere. Building code should do it but in some places apparently not
A customer should have some expectation that a job will be done correctly by someone who knows how to do it

[onethatcares]

11. agreed

but the same conservatives and folks that call for such protections are not willing to pay an extra tax to pay for such a licensing/enforcement board.

It seems that building code enforcement is one of the first things to go in economic city downturns, plus if you were to take a survey most consumers would say there are too many inspections and hoops to jump thru when it comes to dealing with their own property.

hell of a dilemma

[dembotoz]

15. so the pr should be the building inspector is a consumer advocate instead of the permit police

the person i referenced in the beginning from the networking group now has the nightmare of a poorly done roof that does not work and has problems all over the place. It looks like lawyer city....

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. In my lil southern town, you don't need permits

Mr. dixie built a lil workshop shed at the edge of our property, and, being from Cal. he went to city hall to find out what permits he needed.
None, they told him. When you have completed the work, let us know, someone will come out and check it over.
that was some years ago, and he still has not "completed" the work, it needs one more porch railing on the side away from the house.

and, turns out, before we bought this house, a "shed" had been built close to it, maybe as long as 30 years ago, but Hurricane Ivan blew it away. a year before we bought the place.

After teh shed was up, I had to go to city hall to file our homestead exception; clerk looked at the house records they had, to give an appraisal amount, and asked "do you still have a shed on your property?" so I said " Why yes, we do".

Mr. dixie might be finishing that shed any year now.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Accidentally shoot hole in roof. Get a new roof.

Don't get a new gun.

Shoot hole in new roof with old gun.

Get a new roof.

[GallopingGhost]

13. Oxygen deprivation is a terrible thing. n/t