Louisiana men who tried to illegally transport house leave trail of havoc

Modular home left abandoned in street after dead-of-night move damaged mailboxes road signs and trees

Two men attempted to illegally move a modular home in Louisiana in the middle of the night before they abandoned the house in the street and left a trail of havoc in their neighborhood, the local sheriff reported.

Sheriff's deputies in the state's Iberia parish, near Lafayette, jailed the pair after getting a call at 3.30am on Sunday to report an illegal transport of a house. Deputies arrived to find an abandoned truck, trailer and house," the sheriff's office said in a statement on its Facebook page.