Raife
4461
Wait, this has never happened to you before?
kerzain
4462
Damn, Snooki. Even if you don’t press criminal charges I hope you at least sue for doctor bills etc.
Well, do you know who the guy was? Err…person? I shouldn’t assume it was a guy, I guess. Maybe you use ‘dude’ for any person! In any case, you should have called the police right then. Maybe they can still figure out who this is, but people who punch other people without provocation need to be charged every single time. Even with provocation, they should be charged most of the time.
Was this in view of any security cameras?
tiohn
4465
It was unprovoked, but I don’t really recall who hit me or even being hit at all. I remember walking through the parking lot and then all of a sudden my nose was gushing blood and my friend was calling 911. I think I may have been mistaken for someone else, as another guy was more-or-less jumped, or so I am told. The police arrested someone and my friend tells me that it was the guy that hit me. I have no idea. An officer took my statement, which was probably borderline incoherent, but I expect that I will be contacted by an officer early next week. Omniscia raises a great point, so I will be trying to find out if there were any security cameras in the area of the officers have not already done that.
Jarmo
4466
My 13-year-old son recently finished building his first radio controlled model aeroplane. It’s a glider with a seven-foot wingspan. Today he flew it for the first time. The guy who runs the model club came with us and showed him how to do it.
We used a sling shot to shoot the plane up. It’s made of one hundred feet of latex tube and six hundred feet of nylon line. It was a beautiful day and we went on for several hours. We had to plow through knee-high snow in the field we used but it was easily worth it.
It was great to finally see the plane built with such care and attention up in the air. My son took to the flying like a duck to water. At first the older guy took the plane up and let my son handle it once it was in level flight. The teacher also took care of the landings. One flight was about two minutes or so.
After about ten flights my son started on the landings. They went fine and after a while he graduated to handling the pull-up too. At the end he did it all. The club guy has been doing this for over fifty years and he told us my son was the third person he has ever seen learn to fly in one sitting. Needless to say, I’m feeling pretty proud of him at the moment.
Rward
4467
Probably because you swore at his mom at the supermarket ;)
Hope it all heals quickly and there isn’t too much unpleasantness.
WarrenM
4468
Wait, this has never happened to you before?
You guys make going to bars sound super awesome.
We had a little girl. She looks exactly like our boy did at this age, but trust me she’s a girl. Here she is doing a pretty credible Dr. Evil impression:
Awwww. The camera loves her. Beautiful baby, man.
My eight year old son announced that one of our chess matches was “epic fail, Dad”.
I have no idea where he got that. He’s 8. I’m sure I’ll hear it all the time now, given that I burst out laughing.
My 8 year old just gave an incredibly dirty rendition of a classic children’s tune, a version I hadn’t heard before. It probably didn’t help any, that me and my mother was laughing our asses off.
Acid
4474
Friday, I become a full-time, fully-implanted, permanent cyborg.
The neurostim trial went so well, I might have found the answer to my crippling sciatica.
Assuming all goes well Friday, my next step, since I’ll actually be able to exercise, will be to lose 120 lbs…
kerzain
4475
Estranged Father-in-law (estranged as in: I’ve been with my wife for 12 years and have never met him, she hasn’t seen him in almost 15 years, and they only talk about once every five years) sent us a letter today telling us to sell his house and land (he’s a hermit living in a rural area ten hours from us) because he’s been arrested, but he didn’t say why he had been arrested.
Google informed us he is being charged with the murder.
Huh. Do you have the proper rights and/or paperwork to sell his stuff?
kerzain
4477
No. I set up an appointment with a local attorney so we could get a little guidance, but the property is in a Trust that belonged to my wife’s grandmother, and we don’t have any information at all about the trust. We are now trying to figure out a way to talk to her father in jail.
He has been on this path a long time, and has decades of criminal history behind him. To say this shocks us would be a white lie. Though we were surprised, he’s been building up to this for years, and his antics are a reason we’ve never tried to make him a part of our life.
We didn’t even have an address for the property (he wouldn’t tell us, and didn’t in his letter) until I saw the news story.
I’m ready to just say ‘fuck it’ and let the state take everything, but it’s a $700,000 property that was paid for with money he stole from my wife when his mother died several years ago (we never pursued it, as we considered the money a worthwhile loss just to keep him away from us)… so even though we won’t be getting back everything that was owed to her, whatever we get out of it is hers do do with as she pleases.
Better find a copy of that Trust, man. I don’t know what state you’re in, but is it possible it may be recorded in the land records with the deed? At the least, there may be some indication on the deed as to which attorney prepared the papers.
kerzain
4480
A room mate. We don’t know why, the article didn’t elaborate. He was hiding the body and it was found only after the victims friend’s went looking for him and called the cops.
We’re in the process of finding out how to do that.
I think if my wife and I were greedy by nature we’d be much more motivated to deal with all of this in the hopes of cashing in… but we’re not, and we’d rather just ignore it and let it go away… add that to the fact that the victim may have family that could file a civil suit for wrongful death and get the money anyway, it hardly seems worth the effort. Neither I or she would be willing to fight them over money. So, if they’re out there we feel they can have whatever money is left after the property sells, seriously, we just don’t care.
We’ve worked very hard to make sure we never need anything from him or anyone else, so we’re just as happy to leave it for him and his lawyers to deal with since I don’t see any other way he’s going to pay for a defense except to use the property as collateral, so I feel as though we’ll either be fighting him and his lawyers (I wouldnt put it past him to try to get the property sold quickly, while at the same time try to use it as collateral for something, stupid as it sounds it’s the way his mind works), or the potential family the victim may have had.
But anyway, we’ll be going to this appointment with the lawyer that I set up, because we don’t know anything and we need to make sure we’re doing whatever we can do to find out whatever we can about the situation.
