The “Bumper Bully” was no match for this tree limb.
A Queens driver got out of his car just minutes before it was destroyed by a falling branch — which would have flattened him and his passenger, witnesses said.
“The guy parked his car behind mine,” said Itzik Nagar, who had pulled into a spot on Onslow Place. “I watched him walk down the block. Four minutes later, my daughter came in yelling, ‘The tree fell!’
The Hyundai got hammered along with a red Mazda 3 Saturday afternoon at the southeast corner of Onslow Place and Park Lane across from Forest Park.
John Hoyt, 34, a stay-at-home dad who owns the Mazda, said that he, his wife and 2-year-old daughter were moving to Connecticut soon, and that he saw the mishap as a bad omen.
“I guess this was Queens’ way of saying F you,” he said, adding that the 2-foot-wide Elm tree limb crushed his roof so completely that it was touching the top of his daughter’s car seat.
Irate neighbors said that they have been complaining about the dried-out, decaying century-old trees, but that the city has been slow to prune.
Sinetta Avram, who has lived on the block for 20 years, says she calls 311 about the trees every year. She even complained to a Parks Department crew that removed the branch from the totaled car.
“There’s still a branch that’s about to fall,” Avram said. “We told them today, but they left without doing anything. They couldn’t care less.”
A Parks Department spokesman had no immediate comment on the incident.
“This is a problem in our neighborhood that needs to be addressed,” another neighbor fumed.
“These are enormous trees. You used to be allowed to trim your own trees, now the city doesn’t let us. You can’t touch them. You’re at the mercy of the city. Any of them can fall at any given time. It’s amazing that nobody has been hurt yet.”