Monster truck action on suburban street!

As I was getting my gear together to head out to work this morning, there was a resonant boom from the street. When we got out the front door, this is what presented itself to us:

Apologies (as usual) for the poor photo quality: shooting directly towards the sun using a Treo cellphone camera is pretty much a crapshoot on getting any image at all.

The lot directly across the street from us is a public school site, and they're digging the foundations this week. The truck was attempting to back in to the site (I assume — I wasn't watching when this happened), and either got nudged by the digger arm visible in the background or just overbalanced. It's blocking the entire street now, as you can see, and an email I got a few minutes ago says there's a pair of other trucks now lined up to take the place of this one.

Update: Elizabeth emailed me with more information she discovered after I had to leave for work:

They are still cleaning up. They've brought in a special clean up crew to upright the truck. The new school principal came over to talk to us. She was most embarrassed. I'm certainly getting to meet all the neighbours. They were all outraged at the safety issues involved. [Our next-door neighbours, whose driveway is completely blocked] arrived back at about 10:30 and were shocked. Even now, people are trying to walk their kids to and from school and there is a bob-cat running back and forth picking up gravel.

I was talking to the MOT guy who knew one of the neighbours and he was saying that apparently the driver was still moving as he was raising the load which caused an imbalance and the whole thing toppled.

The second driver who tried to unload did the same thing in front of the police! I guess that's why they were sent away.