Originally Posted by
Ron Bibler
I got wind of an inspector that was up in the attic of a home in LA and some Dudes took away his ladder and would not let him down for some time.
I know an inspector who was on a commercial building roof and someone stole his ladder (in Miami, probably sold it for $5 as scrap), leaving him stranded where he had to call for help on his cell phone.
That's why I always (on commercial buildings) took a rope up with me. I tied it to the ladder and to a strong anchoring point on the roof. One day while on a two story commercial roof I heard my ladder moving around and looked up to see it being jerked all over, by the time I got over to that edge of the roof, no one was down there, but I know someone thought they could just take it down and be gone - but I had it tied off on the roof.