Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Extreme Makeover (You'll never guess what ishappening...)

[Dennis Liu (bigheaddennis]

Dr. Steve wrote:

>Of course, you will have to deal with a really pissed neighbor, but then  
again he didn't give a damn about anyone else when he entered the contest in
the  
first place.
 
=============

Yup, anyone in that situation: you could do (have done) all that.

Or, you could not be a jerk, invoke attorneys and lawsuits, demand money, or
cause a fuss - and instead just suck it up for a few days of chaos and
inconvenience so that:

A single mother and her four children living in a soon-to-be-condemned house
in Kirkland gets a new one for free.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/122572.asp

Wait - a single mom caring for four kids doesn't make living with noise and
displacement for a week worthwhile for you?

What about:

1.  A woman police officer who was paralyzed when shot on duty by a gang
member, now in need of a handicapped accessible house?

2.  Or how about a new home for the Marine who rushed to lower Manhattan on
9/11 to help rescue two police officers - and then kept his identity a
secret because he wanted to avoid the publicity?

3.  Parents to six kids, five of whom have been diagnosed as autistic?

Still not good enough?  Plenty more stories here:

http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/bios/424.html


But Dr. Steve is probably right, if everyone made a big enough fuss, I'm
sure those jerk, heartless TV crews will just move on...

Vty,

--Dennis



-----Original Message-----
From: BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com [mailto:BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:51 AM
To: Dennis Liu
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Extreme Makeover (You'll never guess what
ishappening...)

It is probably too late now, but if, in the beginning the neighborhood  
banded together to continually call the police, photograph violations,
including  
violation of curtilage, etc., you might have moved swiftly to find a
friendly  
judge and serve them with a TRO to stop the actions that cause dimunition of

your property rights and personal rights as well.
 
And, of course, a quick group action to perhaps block the roads yourself  
with disabled vehicles, e.g. a group with two flat tires when they went down

because you didn't hold the tire gauge tightely enough against the valve,
lost  
the keys, etc, (anything that could be rapidly rectified should someone
attempt 
 to have it towed, parked neighborhood cars on the street in locations that 
you  thought might be necessary for the TV crews to use, well you either get

the idea  or you don't...
 
And, of course, consult with an attorney, you may have a class action cause

of action against the show and all others involved personallhy to recover
the  
costs of the damages you suffered and punitive damages as well as any other

remedies available to you at law.
 
TV crews can be bullies and I would suggest that on some occasions (read
the 
disclaimers below, particularly those about legal advice but all others as  
well) any lawful tactic that can be used to disrupt their schedule for the
sole 
 purpose of preserving the peaceful exercise of all rights and privileges of

property ownership of all others in the vicinity of the production target, 
and  the peaceful exercise thereof must be implemented rapidly, preferably
as a  
concerted action of all affected, in that once they have accomplished their 
goal  of completeing production they simply won't give a damn about anything

and will  take the "so sue me" attitude. If, however, you refuse to yield to

them, have  them arrested for property offenses such as trespass and cited
for 
such offenses  as littering, their equipment moved when it blocks access to
your 
driveway or  towed if it is located on private property you might be 
effective enough to get  them to give up and move away.
 
Of course, you will have to deal with a really pissed neighbor, but then  
again he didn't give a damn about anyone else when he entered the contest in
the  
first place.
 
Dr. Steve
 
Dr.  Stephen B. Spies, CES, CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences  Laboratory
Explosives Engineering Technologies

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