'The issue with being a city employee is we are obligated to pay any city obligation,' said paramedic Lisa Beard.
Beard is herself a city employee.Beard would face the city's wrath if said on camera where she works, but we can still tell you. She is actually Paramedic Beard, with the Chicago Fire Department.Paramedic Beard, a single grandmother, called us – saying, again, that she needed help, and the City of Chicago is not going to help her.Beard's Getting Hosed story started with a series of three notices about her water"running continuously.
Then, she got an odd overdue notice for $40.96. The reason it was odd was because she autopays her water. Then, her bimonthly bills went from $51.24, to $61.98, to $75.98 – and then suddenly, on Oct. 19 of last year, $566.55. This happened out of nowhere, she said."If I do not pay a city debt, I risk discipline - up to an including termination," Beard said."That's why I paid the $1,200 bill that I don't think I owe.
In addition to the obvious lack of car washes, waterparks, or swimming pools in Beard's backyard, there is no evidence of a leak either. There is no yard ponding, and no basement puddles.And the meter is kosher – she showed us. We know of these systemic inaccuracies because the CBS 2 Investigators have fixed bad water bills for years.
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