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Someone was attacked by a bum who was wielding a meat cleaver. He then waited almost 2 years without any medical treatment, probably because his injuries healed and didn’t result in anything permanent. He called about 1 month before the statute of limitations would expire and he wanted to sue the government instead of the bum. His reasoning was that the police allowed it to happen because they were in on the secret communist party following him from his homeland and that the bum was also a communist agent. He also had absolutely no proof. The scar was barely visible. There was no footage, no documents from police or anyone. To me there were also no damages at that point. The guy was nuts. I explained that the statute of limitations for government would be 6 months according to the facts I see, so he should check around for someone else’s opinion.

There was also another guy who wanted to sue the city and Donald Trump for allowing “the water supply to be poisoned.” There was no evidence of any poisoning. He also wanted to bring a class action even though he couldn’t prove there was anyone else who wanted to join the lawsuit and there were no common damages among the people he said were harmed. He then said he’d called 5 law firms already, all lawyers are the same and don’t care about justice, so we don’t want to help him because we’re also in on the conspiracy, etc. He made no sense. I asked him what he was talking about explained how a class action lawsuit works and he became really hostile and threatened me.

Oh, and a funny guy who had $10,050 in property damage so he insisted on a civil limited lawsuit. This was for property only. I explained that small claims would be much cheaper and faster and that civil limited wouldn’t be worth the time, added costs, and attorney fees for litigation despite the cap of small claims being $10,000 causing him to lose $50. He still insisted on civil limited. Like…why? He would rather the case languish for a year in litigation with contested liability and lose $5,000 instead.

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