That article was as clear as the Pittsburgh sky.

So best I can tell is that he was here: https://goo.gl/maps/esGatTESg1on76St5

He had his bucket truck in the left lane with his bucket extended over the right lane and was low enough that the truck hit the bucket, which knocked him out of the bucket and off of the elevated portion of 376 onto the ground near or on Second Ave here: https://goo.gl/maps/Lav49NNK5SKx2oZVA

A fall like that would only be possible if he was not wearing safety restraints.

Ejected from the bucket and fell from the overpass really sounds like no fall protection device was in use at the time.

Also from the article it says that he was ejected and fell. Was he wearing a fall protection kit? Was it even possible for the semi to see the bucket in time to stop? Why was the boom extended over a live traffic lane? This sounds like a lot of safety corners were cut.

Right. OP's story doesn't add up. I had my first university ID before the semester started. Got it when I went a couple of months before to register for classes. I couldn't do shit without it. Couldn't use the library, ride the bus, get into the dorm, eat at the cafeteria, register for a class, go to the laundry... nothing.

People really don't understand why I say if you're hiring a service to clean your house, mow your lawn, wash your windows, etc... you make sure that they are a business and that they are insured for injuries and any potential damage that may happen in the course of them doing their work.

A while back my neighbors hired a company to do some work for them. During the course of that work, a pretty large piece of wood got away from them and it hit my deck breaking several boards. It was that company's insurance who had to pay to have my deck repaired, not my homeowner's insurance.

He said university, so they probably don't have "school board meetings", although I've never heard of a university where ID cards were just '"passed out on the first day of class".

I had to go to to the university's ID center to get my picture taken and they produced and handed me the card there. If you don't know where to start, or you're not being helped, the university should have an ombudsman's office. Given that the university student ID card is almost always used for everything from registering for classes to public transportation, it seems unusual to go this long into a semester without one.

People who are licensed to carry firearms are, as a demographic, even less likely to commit a crime than police officers.

Even the organizations that try to claim this is a myth can only lean on the fact that those who are licensed to carry are pre-selected as people with no known, documented criminal background so it's "unfair" to call them more law abiding. "Of course you'll claim they commit less crimes, they passed a criminal background check!"

Your friend was helping you do something. That is not the same scenario as hiring a company to perform a specialized service.