A course in Risk Management may help.
Posted on 05/23/2009 4:46:02 PM PDT by decimon
FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio -- A broken road reflector cost Paul Holden the price a new tire, and now it could cost him his home.
That's the threat from the Ohio Attorney General if Holden doesn't pay another $24.66 the state says it spent investigating his claim for the flat tire.
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Then more bills started coming from the state. The first was for an additional $22.00 for the state's investigation. Ohio officials were even charging Holden more than $6.00 in postage for letters they sent to him, including the bills.
Each subsequent bill added more fees, and a few cents in interest. Holden decided not to pay the bills because he'd figured -- as the victim -- he'd already paid enough.
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(Excerpt) Read more at wcpo.com ...
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Un-freakin’-believable. No, quite believable actually. I sent the link to Drudge even though it’s a few days old.
I read the article. He ought to move from that crazy state!
Shoot, if you haven't got it...print it, create it or something!...What a crazy world we live in.
Just an example of why I just left Ohio after they helped kill my business, which cost me my home. Ohio is trying to emmulate Michigan’s recipe for economic prosperity, and Columbus gets more like Detroit every day and in every way.
In NYC, I was once run off a parkway and into the upright of a guardrail. The upright because the guardrail was back of the uprights, dented and twisted from multiple hits. I determined that the only damage to the car was to the front bumper.
It was too late to go after the sob that ran me off but I saw a couple of cops parked off the parkway and on the grass. They couldn't help me because I hadn't anything like a plate number of the offender. They offered that if I reported the accident I might get charged for that mangled guardrail. Didn't know if that was true but I didn't report the accident as it occurred.
Lets bring back tar and feathers for the greedy politicans...
the Ohio thugocracy at work.
“You lazy paper pushers pretend that I have a responsibility not just to prove your negligence, but I have to prove how long you've been negligent! It is either poor design, poor installation, or poor maintenance that caused damage to my tire, and posed an ongoing threat to the motoring public.
For you to arbitrarily declare my report invalid and then have the nerve to bill me for my trouble is the height bureaucratic arrogance and it will NOT be tolerated!
If you believe that threatening me with the loss of my home in the event I don't pay your dictatorial hush money has me concerned, you ought to consider my next step in this escalation!”
Sounds good but what cards have you to play when the game is rigged? Maybe they'd just pass you off to Homeland Security.
Too bad the Republicans were so corrupt that it allowed the Democrats to take over.
A course in Risk Management may help.
I hope DRUDGE goes with it!
But then charge you a fee to investigate... while I can see a purpose - to prevent folks from just filing to try to score a check... to threaten someone's home and persona property for not paying a $26 bill? Absolutely insane.
But I also have a problem with the article and the reporter's own bias in this:
Meanwhile, the state recently repaved the section Route 286 where Holden's tire was damaged. Surprisingly, they installed the very same steel reflectors that have caused serious injuries to dozens of people across the nation.
While I have no doubt these things can be a problem if they bust away from the pavement - I have done a couple of Google searches and can find no references to "dozens of injuries" cause by them. Sloppy journalism and an attempt to hyper-dramatize (like the title).
That part seems reasonable.
...to threaten someone's home and persona property for not paying a $26 bill? Absolutely insane.
Not insane because it works for them. Criminal is more like it.
I have done a couple of Google searches and can find no references to “dozens of injuries” cause by them. Sloppy journalism and an attempt to hyper-dramatize (like the title).
There was a little gal hurt by one down by Springfield Mo checking on Google for story I found this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2058432/posts
"Don't file a claim unless you've got some good high-powered lawyers behind you," says Holden, "because as the little guy, you're just out of luck."
One of the comments to the article:
He needs something high-powered, and it's not an attorney.
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