Tell us what's happened to you recently (that's interesting)

TimJames · 2010-02-10T18:36:57.000Z

Everybody on QT3 do a status check on friends, family, and former coworkers to make sure no one else is going to get murdered.

Brendan · 2010-02-10T20:36:23.000Z

About the family suing and getting the money from the house, is that possible if the trust isn’t in the fathers name?

kerzain · 2010-02-10T20:38:02.000Z

Brendan:

About the family suing and getting the money from the house, is that possible if the trust isn’t in the fathers name?

It’s stuff like this that has us seeing a lawyer. We have no idea whatsoever.

tiohn · 2010-02-11T09:08:50.000Z

I went down to the police department to pick up the police report on the incident last Friday night. The report doesn’t mention me at all.

Mightynute · 2010-02-11T09:13:25.000Z

tiohn:

I went down to the police department to pick up the police report on the incident last Friday night. The report doesn’t mention me at all.

Duh. You should know better than to ask about Project Mayhem.

Rward · 2010-02-11T09:51:46.000Z

Mightynute:

Duh. You should know better than to ask about Project Mayhem.

That’s exactly what I was thinking!

shift6 · 2010-02-11T11:00:55.000Z

Family trusts are easier to “take over” for legal administration than, for instance, people who have lost their minds and need a custodian. In addition, the state can’t just “take” the property. The guy was arrested and everything, sure, but that doesn’t lead to a forfeiture of his stuff or something. It’s all good man. Thankfully you’re on the family law side of the ordeal and not the criminal side! ;)

Robert_Sharp · 2010-02-11T11:06:58.000Z

700k would NOT pay back the money he owes your wife? Wow.

Peter_Jones · 2010-02-11T11:07:21.000Z

Not too recent, but highlighted last night.

My wife and I added our newest little one to the family 5 1/2 months ago. He really is just about the happiest little baby I have ever seen. Sadly, last night he got hit with a stomach bug, so I was up late with him as the pain and retching would come in waves every 10 minutes or so. Fortunately, today he seem pretty much back to normal.

Other news (great news for me IMO), is I started running in earnest in the past few months. I have dropped 35 lbs and did my first ever half-marathon two weeks ago.

kerzain · 2010-02-11T13:26:57.000Z

Robert Sharp:

700k would NOT pay back the money he owes your wife? Wow.

I wasn’t very clear on this part. Of the 700k that is owed to my wife he tied it up in real estate that isn’t worth half of what he put into it. This is more than a matter of the market being crap compared to what it was when he bought, but has a lot to do with the retarded upgrades he also put into the property that do not add a single penny to the value (think of it like his own personal criminal fortress & Neverland-level-of-crazy ranch).

He basically pissed away hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that wasn’t his, but that’s nothing new for him. To say that he is ‘different’ would be putting it mildly.

Mightynute · 2010-02-11T13:47:20.000Z

kerzain:

I wasn’t very clear on this part. Of the 700k that is owed to my wife he tied it up in real estate that isn’t worth half of what he put into it. This is more than a matter of the market being crap compared to what it was when he bought, but has a lot to do with the retarded upgrades he also put into the property that do not add a single penny to the value (think of it like his own personal criminal fortress & Neverland-level-of-crazy ranch).

He basically pissed away hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that wasn’t his, but that’s nothing new for him. To say that he is ‘different’ would be putting it mildly.

But on the upside - you could be inheriting an evil supervillain fortress…

Bad_Neighbor · 2010-02-11T18:36:47.000Z

kerzain:

I wasn’t very clear on this part. Of the 700k that is owed to my wife he tied it up in real estate that isn’t worth half of what he put into it.

As much as it sucks, you better get that shit straightened out before the state decides who pays the property taxes on it. You could end up paying tax on a house you’ve never seen just because you’re wife is the next of kin.

tiohn · 2010-02-11T19:54:58.000Z

Huzzah! The officer says that “there were too many conflicting stories” and so no one is being charged for punching me in the fucking face and breaking my nose for no reason. Brilliant police work!

Editer · 2010-02-11T22:03:35.000Z

tiohn:

Huzzah! The officer says that “there were too many conflicting stories” and so no one is being charged for punching me in the fucking face and breaking my nose for no reason. Brilliant police work!

Well, you have his identity now, right? Civil suit!

tiohn · 2010-02-11T22:15:41.000Z

Editer:

Well, you have his identity now, right? Civil suit!

I’m considering it, but the lawyer I spoke with earlier seemed to think that a civil suit would most likely just lead to me having a slip of paper that said the guy owed me money and that it was unlikely that I would ever see any money from him. And I would still have to pay whatever attorney I hired.

BobJustBob · 2010-02-12T10:36:17.000Z

It’s been a solid week since I had any caffeine whatsoever. Thank god I can still drink alcohol. I’m not addicted to alcohol.

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-02-12T11:14:53.000Z

Editer:

Well, you have his identity now, right? Call a couple of hard, pipe-hitting niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy?! I ain’t through with you! Not by a damn sight. I’m gonna get medieval on yo’ ass!

Fixed.

John_Many_Jars · 2010-02-12T19:23:29.000Z

I just set off the alarm at Safeway.

The security guard by the back entrance let me walk right by, because he had his eyes closed and was swaying and muttering to himself and didn’t see me. I was watching him do this and didn’t see the “ALARM WILL SOUND” sign.

An instant before the alarm went off I realized he was praying toward Mecca…Though now I realize he was facing the wrong way and standing on his rug instead of bowing. It was a complex incident.

Tortilla · 2010-02-14T10:24:18.000Z

Earlier today I managed to get off a plane in Munich, arriving from Chicago, and accidentally wander right past customs/passport control without showing anyone my documents. In my defense, it was my first time in Munich and I was arriving on Lufthansa but had to connect to a different airline. The Lufthansa gate agent lady gave me some totally bogus instructions that involved me wandering around between terminals and taking buses. I ended up totally lost in the wrong terminal and asked a bunch of different people for directions. Finally I asked an airport cop and explained how I’d gotten so lost which is when it came out that I hadn’t gone through passport control. They were nice and understanding but still escorted me out of the terminal quickly and firmly. I had to get my passport stamped and my bags searched and then exit into general ticketing and come back through security (again) like a newly arrived passenger.

The fact that I was able to, purely by accident, bypass passport control just reaffirms many of my existing views about security theatre in airports.

krayzkrok · 2010-02-14T17:56:29.000Z

Kraaze:

The fact that I was able to, purely by accident, bypass passport control just reaffirms many of my existing views about security theatre in airports.

Something similar happened to me at Syndey Airport a few years ago. Walked off the bus towards passport control and ended up in the terminal near the gate (along with half the plane). Didn’t think too much about it at the time, but I paid for it at every passport control in every country en route back to Australia who claimed I didn’t have a valid re-entry into Australia because I never “left”!