Posted by John Merchant on October 09, 2004 at 15:52:41:
Be smart, don’t deal with that co. unarmed. Have your lawyer make contact with them, and insist that the co. deal with him/her only.
And if you’re called again by them, tell them that your lawyer (whose name you can’t remember, as he’s just one of the 100+ lawyers in that big office bldg down town) told you not to talk to the pest any more.
I once was moving a dead bug (VW) and because it had no lights, parked it overnight in a closed gas station’s overhang…and sure enough, Murphy being alive and well, that gas station operator drove by after it closed, got angry when he saw my bug and pushed it out onto street.
From the curb where he’d re-parked it, the E Brake being defective, )along with most everything else on it), the Bug took off downhill on its own journey of destruction and managed to do a lot of damage to a bunch of parked cars.
So, very early the next AM, I got a threatening phone call from some insurance adjuster, re MY alleged liability to his insureds…thankfully I was awake just enough that I parried him and told him I’d have to check into it and I’d get back to him.
Fortunately I made no agreements to pay anything, as all the liability ended up on the GS operator, as he was the dummy who parked my wild bug on the street and was responsible for its erratic journey.
I’ve found that most phone threats of lawsuits, prosecutions, etc. have a way of evaporating. And promises by the victim, made in an effort to mollify the pests, are frequently regretted in hindsight.