Posted by Gremlin [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 23 May 2002 at 01.27.03 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Could someone enlighten me please? posted by John on 23 May 2002 at 00.30.06 ZuluTime:

Anyone that could enlighten me would be thanked accordingly

Okay. I can do that.

I am feeling very injured. I ought to have complained like this non-stop from the second I could!

Yeah: it helps to have a hobby.

See, I have 2 problems - a BIG one and a little one from that.

Which one limits you to using arabic numerals?

BIG: I was hit by a car in 1995. That injury STOLE THE TALENT I had spent 5 years getting -- I WAS a concert-violinist/percussionist/hot-drummer/even-hotter-fiddler, but the brain injury STOLE all that.

All units: be on the lookout for a roving brain injury; may have in its possession five years' worth of talent....

Regardless of who is to blame, I am OWED at least $84,000 from it (figuring I would have made $12,000 a year these past seven years.)

I have to wonder how talented someone is when their salary is nearly as much as a 7Eleven employee's would be. After taxes.

little: A certain lawyer, (WHOM I CAN NAME WHEN I HAVE THE MONEY,) arranged for the insurance company (of the man who hit me) to pay $100,000. The lawyer convinced me to sign the money over to him for "research purposes" -- the mistake I regret.

I see no causal relationship there. Why can't you name names until [unless] you get this money?

Bringing the total amount (OWED TO ME) to $184,000.

Your math is off. The $100,000 would logically include the $84,000; those damages are factored into the award.

Otherwise: I'm not quite getting this yet. You got $100,000 and gave it to the lawyer, or you wrote him a promisary note for the $100,000 if and when you ever got it, or you gave him power of attorney and let the insurance company give it to him directly, or what? And what makes you think his phantom was a lawyer in the first place?

(Of course, that is not including the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in hospital expenses incurred by the responsible parties -- which I might spend time naming when I HAVE MONEY.)

You spent hundreds of thousands on hospitalisation at a salary of twelve grand a year? I don't believe you.

GIVE ME $184,000. I'm thinking that the government ought to GIVE ME $184,000. I think that the government should GIVE ME $184,000, because numerous people OWE ME $184,000 - and the government, (of THE PEOPLE, for THE PEOPLE, by THE PEOPLE,) does not want to see how I would COLLECT MY $184,000. I'm sure the government can then turn and find excuses to take THE $184,000 THEY GIVE ME out of the responsible parties' hands.

It doesn't work that way. For a number of reasons.

For one thing, the government aren't responsible for the money at all--regardess how much it actually is. It's not a public matter. The only way your idea could work would be if the US were a communistic system with totalitarian leadership. On paper, that's not the case.

Second: you haven't yet shown how this figure has reached $184,000 plus $x00,000 in additional damages. You seem to have arbitrarily decided that you should get all this cash. For that, it might be a good thing that you haven't named any names, since that would fall under libel: suggesting that a given party had been ordered by a court to pay you something you never got. That doesn't appear to be the case here.

Third: even if all conditions were met, and it was ultimately the government's responsibility to pay you, the existence of Governmental Immunity--bullshit though it is--would be the first major obsticle on that approach. You'd be better off demanding that the government of France paid you, since they're exactly as directly involved in all this.

I have not the time to fully explain what I'd do with the money. But YOU CAN TRUST ME WITH THE MONEY. I am Jay Hubbard, a man with an IQ of about 150, and I'd be good with the money. I don't care to think on how you would feel if I did not have the money.

I assume you haven't had your IQ tested since the brain damage was inflicted. Because you're dead wrong here.

Summing up, I NEED 184,000 dollars. I can either accept it or take it, but I WILL have it.

Whoopty shit. As long as you don't take it from me, that's great. But I doubt you're going to take it from anyone else and survive.

Speaking for Money,

And walking for bullshit

Jay Hubbard