On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 06:11:31PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > If they'd just woke me up while the guy was still there, I could have > called the police & got a police report.
A crime was committed, you can call the police and get a report. You can explain to them the information as you know it, and they can go and have a chat with the people responsible, and eyewitnesses. > > But after the neighbor made sure the old man and his vehicle got home > before anyone decided to tell me about it, I've got no "evidence". I > "know" there's an old man who drives up and down my street on an > unlicensed vehicle, and the neighbor says that's who hit my car. I don't > even know the man's name or where he lives. > > All I have is the neighbor's word that he knows who the man is from his > church & he's going to get the man's caregivers to pay for the repair. > Haven't heard anything from the man's caregivers. I've got nothing a > court would accept as proof of his liability. If he drives up and down the street on a tractor, it shouldn't be hard to follow him home. Once you do that, you can always sue him in small claims court. And, while you are at it, the guy that helped him home without waking you. > > I'm trying not to be angry about this so the anger won't make me sick, > but it really irritates me. > > From: Bob Sullivan > >John, Maybe it's time for the local sheriff to get involved. Regards, Bob > >S. > > > >On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:39 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Got nowhere else to vent. > >> > >>Someone hit my car yesterday morning - smashed the driver's side brake-light > >>& busted off the driver's side mirror. Left a couple of gouges in the rear > >>fender. > >> > >>I know who it was, an old man driving an UN-liscensed John Deere Gator. I've > >>seen him driving it on my street before. > >> > >>One of my neighbors helped him get his "vehicle" untangled from mine and > >>then shepherded him back to his home. Later, another of my neighbors came > >>over & knocked on my door to wake me up and tell me my car had been hit. > >> > >>No police report, no license information, no insurance. Don't know if he'd > >>been drinking or not. Got no way to find out now. > >> > >>The neighbor who shepherded him home says he goes to the same church & will > >>get the people who take care of him to pay for repairing the damage. > >> > >>I ain't holding my breath. > >> > >>Assholes! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
