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Defense Exhibit: a few Q and A to Pedestrian
Q. Are the plaintiffs lucky to have you as a neighbor?
A. Absolutely! We don't believe in calling the police on our neighbors, we don't believe in suing our neighbors, and we firmly believe in the admonition to love your neighbor. We want a peaceful neighborhood, with folks that get along. We didn't even know the bikers were plaintiff's kids when the bikers were speeding on our private property, on our private road, with reckless disregard over blind hills, that would have gotten them killed, or others killed, or we surely would have let these neighbors know this.
Q. What do you think of the Town having a Court?
A. I was happy when it happened, to catch drug dealers, predators, etc. but if it becomes a neighbor vs. neighbor forum, it will destroy the image and lifestyle of our Town, because using the Courts and police to work things out between neighbors is always a zero sum game-- someone has to win and someone has to lose. The Town policy is to work things out, not call the police on your own neighbors.
Q. Were you surprised that they called the police on you?
A. Shock is too mild a word. I saved the lives of these kids by calling them on their speed, and I'm the one on trial! It is unjust and absurd. Everyone I've told about this has said "You've GOT to be kidding me..." If neighbors can no longer chide kids for reckless speed on their own private property without being put on trial, what has this country come to? If it was me as a kid, or my own kids, and a neighbor bitched me or my kids out, we would have gone to the elderly neighbor and, at a minimum, found out what was going on, and more likely apologized for our kid's reckless speed. You don't dress your kids up in racing uniforms, send them to the neighbor's private road and property, and expect them not to race!
Q. Why don't you sue them?
A. When my friends saw this website, my polygraph, and the irrefutable evidence that these bikers lied to get me in trouble, they, one and all, said I should sue them. The problem is we don't believe in suing our neighbors, even though these neighbors have sued other neighbors, and given that I've only got 12 to 18 months left to live, or of cognitive functionality with these strokes, do I want to spend my last cogent moments battling my neighbors? Granted, it would have saved me legal fees and other costs since PI firms take defamation on contingency, but I want to get along with my neighbors, not sue or call the police on them, it's how I was raised, and what I believe.
Q. Why did you put up this website?
A. My function is rapidly declining, and I got a bunch of friends to help me with all the technologies on this site, to prove, as my legacy, to anyone who is interested, that I am innocent. I don't want the biker's lives hurt, they are young and I am old, so we've left out any reference to them or their identities or their families from this site. When you are innocent, and when someone lies to get you in trouble, it is a horrible feeling, a devastating feeling to be wrongfully and unjustly accused. But the truth always comes out in the end, and my character will be vindicated. Some day these boys will have to take a polygraph, and the examiner will ask them if they ever lied to police, or lied under oath. Even if it's 10 years from now and I'm long dead, for an employment application, or many other jobs, even then they will know they lied, and will not pass that poly. They don't know it now, but they will carry these fibs for the rest of their lives.
Q. Why do you think these bikers lied?
A. They needed to get out of trouble for speeding on our property, and endangering their lives and the lives of others, by diverting the focus to me. They needed to make me seem menacing, to take the focus off of their own dangerous speeds. They had to make my motives seem trivial ("scaring my dog") and my actions seem grave (multiple swears and false threats), when in fact my actions were trivial (calling them on their speed) and my motives grave (saving their lives and the lives of others). Once police arrived, they were terrified about being caught for their reckless conduct, and had to lie to take the focus off their own actions. We gave the family many chances to keep them from having to commit perjury and lie under oath. Here's my question: if the family thinks I'm so menacing, why would they send their kids to drag race on the private road in front of our house? There are only two possibilities, either they don't care what happens to their kids, or they don't really think I'm menacing. You decide!
Q. Why do you think these neighbors are so adamant about taking this to court?
A. Let's get this right, this is about one thing, and one thing only: territory. These neighbors know I am no menace (otherwise, why would they let their kids turn our private street into a drag strip?). I did NOT know these bikers belonged to these neighbors, in fact, I thought they had been trailered in to our street. Let's imagine these neighbors DROVE their kids to another town, in another neighborhood, and let them set up someone else's property and private road as a drag strip. They then terrorized an old, disabled pedestrian on his own street with reckless, high speeds. Would pedestrians have a shred of a case if the pedestrian then called them on their speed? It would be absurd, just as this is! Let's be clear: this is about the oldest human conflict in history: territory. As the courts know, 99% of neighbor disputes come down to territory, so let's not divert the focus from what's really happening here. The neighbors are taking this PERSONALLY because they did not know I had no idea these were their kids! The proper venue for territorial disputes is the civil, not the criminal courts. Once the Court knows two things: 1. This is a territorial dispute and 2. This is a private road, and the private property of the defendant for which he is liable, it will become obvious that the proper venue for this is civil, not criminal. These neighbors know that it is far less expensive to use the police and criminal courts to fight their territorial battles, than the proper civil venue, which is highly offensive, and improper, for the criminal court system.
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