Hammer Time! : The Attorney With Sticky Hands
Some would call it extortion. Others look it as charity. I would just call it a unique New Jersey way of re-balancing the scales of justice.
Last week may have been Good Friday, but I had an even better Wednesday.
It started off with sending a couple of cars to a movie set out here in Atlanta. Our film industry in Georgia is booming, and one of the nice by-products of owning an old clunker from the 1990s is that you can get around $150 to $200 a day to bring it to a movie set.
This happens to me maybe a half-dozen times a year. Enough to pay for insurance and an annual repair or two that comes with owning a 20+ year old car.
I brought two cars to the set.
This 1992 Buick LeSabre Limited that was owned by a hardcore polka lover.
And this 1997 Volvo 960 which was owned by a sociology professor who probably studies why people love polka in the first place.
I own a car dealership, and I always like to keep older cars just so I can enjoy a weekday off where I can turn off the phone and read a nice thick book. But this time, I forgot to turn off my phone which turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
A fellow who was planning on getting a Volvo from me had a check bounce from an attorney's office that was supposed to give him an insurance settlement from way back in early-2016. I looked online and apparently this firm had stiffed other clients in the past.
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So I made a couple of calls during my one-day vacation at the movie set, and told them I was a writer for some big-wig media outlet. I invited them to Google my name along with that particular publication and I expressed in my brutally blunt New Jersey way that they had until this Friday to get this man his money.
If not, I would write an article about legal malpractice that would be immediately sent off to a certain official at the State Bar Of Georgia.
Long story short, he got a new check and hopefully it goes through this afternoon. In the meantime, I'm going to put a few online feelers out there to see if this firm has screwed other folks as well.
Not a bad way to spend your off-time. Maybe I should get into politics? Nah! The used car business is a lot more fun.
