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Fact: I sued an RV manufacturer a few years ago for selling me a defective unit. I hired a lawyer, expert witness, the works... Should have been a pretty easy case to win by all accounts. It took 3 years of paperwork, emails, mediations, emails, appeals, negotiations, more paperwork, blah, blah, blah... In the end I won, and found myself out of pocket about $8,000.
So please forgive me for not wanting to go through the legal system and spend that time, energy, and frustration to hopefully win what would amount to a new predator Z3 and a couple bottles of booze, which was exactly what I was going to buy with it. I actually already bought the shaft, so it's all good.
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When I was 20 or 23, I had gotten into an multi-week argument with someone I used to be good friends with. He was training to be a cop. I was worried if he could do anything to me once he became a cop, and asked my uncle who is a lawyer his advice. He basically told me to either stay away from him, or make up with him. (not completely because of the cop part, but because fighting was stupid). (I made up with him...) Anyway, relative to being an ambulance chaser and this thread, my uncle told me the following:
My uncle is Greek and represents many of the Greeks in my community. He told me he tells this story to everyone who comes to him for legal advice because of fighting. He told me a story of a client he represented many years prior. It was a father of a 10 year old boy. The boy was riding his bicycle on a lawn of a neighbor's house, and the owner of the house (another Greek) took a garden hose to the boy and soaked him. The boy went home crying. The two adults involved both knew each other. It escalated from there, and the two adults went at it. They ended up suing each other. Two years later, and 20k in court and lawyer fees, they finally had their day in court. The two Greeks started bickering at each other in the court room. The judge heard them for a few minutes, then called the two lawyers up to his bench. He told them "Get your ****ing clients out of my courtroom right now and don't ever waste my time again!" And dismissed all the cases.