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Re: Hi Vogue no I don't find you patronising but
You are dead right to stand up against that kind of manipulations! I wish you luck and I thank you for your comment on my entry.
posted by
vogue
on May 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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A simple life with work and fun seems harder to come by in this day and age. Pitfalls are everywhere, as are those who would take advantage of, or scam decent, hard-working people. Good luck.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM
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Hi Vogue no I don't find you patronising but
legal aid can't represent me in court. They can help me put together the documents and tell me how to deal with this but they don't represent me in the court. I am going to get a statement from the trailer hire company to the effect that there was no damage to the trailer plus I have the pics and the police also found no evidence of a scrape.
There are people who are quite clever in working with the assessors at the car panel beaters and they get work done on their cars if they can accuse someone else of damage to their car. I very much doubt that there has been a paint match because they refuse to give me the details and show the pictures of the alleged scrape.They have also said that I have to subpoena them.
I was told that I was right to stand up to them and there have been a few cases like this lately. I was bitten by this sort of fraud last year. The scratches on the car that the woman said my car had made did not even match where the paint scrape was on her car. I actually know that there was only white paint from my car on hers as I touched her pulling into a park and left her my phone number and name. Where my car touched hers and the scratches did not match. The scratches were under the curve of the bumber bar and lower than where I touched her car. It would have been impossible for my car to have scratched her car but the guy at this place Inkerman Panels was supporting her as he would as he does a lot of insurance work and they are known in the Legal Aid office for these bogey claims.
The woman rang me and started screaming "what have you done to my car? What have you done to my car?"
I knew it was only paint and I said to her,"Hang on what are you talking about. It is only a paint scrape." She kept screaming "What have you done to my car?" I said to her, thinking that maybe someone else had hit her car in the meantime,"Well what is the damage to your car?"
She replies "I don't know! I AM TOO AFRAID TO LOOK!What have you done to my car!" I felt like I was talking to a crazy person.
So I have an idea what goes on. I ended up paying out $400 that I could ill afford and used some money I had set aside for charity to pay this witch.
posted by
Norwood
on May 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM
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Representing yourself in court in a case like this is not a good idea. Can't you get legal aid? I apologize, but I guess, once a lawyer, always a lawyer, that's why I couldn't resisit to say what I said. I hope you don't find me pompous or patronizing.
posted by
vogue
on May 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM
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Thanks for sharing your experience
posted by
Kayzzaman
on May 7, 2008 at 5:45 AM
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