If I controlled society
If I were able to control society, I would make lying a more serious offense, and not just lying under oath. I mean lying for gain.
Example: At the end of July, while my family was here visiting for a week, we got into a car accident at Turner Field (obviously trying to go to a Braves game). Heidi was driving, and she said she had checked all her mirrors and saw no one, and I believe her. The other lady was going pretty fast for a heavily pedestrian area, and she was in a wrong way lane. That's not out of the ordinary as they make some roads one way before or after ballgames. However no officers indicated to us that the road had become a one way (and for us trying to turn left in the normal center turn lane, seeing no cars going the same way to the left of us reinforced our notion that it was still two-way). Well we later find out from our insurance that it is a no-fault accident, but the other lady has had the officer alter the original police report to try to make it our fault. Problem is, what she had the officer add to the report is total bull. The office said that she was in the outside lane. If she had been, we'd have never made contact seeing as we just started moving from a total stop in the center lane of a 5 lane road, and she was nearing 35-40 mph (never braking or swerving mind you - leading me to believe she wasn't looking where she was going). Not only this, but I heard her tell the officer that the sheriff's deputy who was directing traffic waved her through. Pretty impressive, considering the deputy told the police office he had his back turned talking to a pedestrian (which he was).
When this first happened, I hoped it would be a no-fault deal and that would be that, no court or anything. But after hearing all this, I want her to sue us so much, just so I can take the stand and bury her ass under oath.
This goes back to what I first said: If I controlled society, lying would be a more serious offense. In this case, because this woman is lying to try to get us to pay, I would say to her "well you obviously are lying, and while I would have originally declared no one at fault, your lies have placed fault entirely on you." Is that fair and legal? Well under the law, not really. But this trend of lying for gain just keeps occurring. Maybe if there were more punishment, it wouldn't happen as much. I know there is the charge of perjury, but I'm suggesting her lies leading to the suit should be punished.
I know this is rambley (not a real word I know), but I don't care. We've been dealing with this for almost a month now, and this lady keeps appealing our insurance provider's decision not to pay her.
Oh and did I mention she works for the City of Atlanta's Tax Commissioner? Guess who's getting audited next year? This guy. Good thing I never throw away receipts.
Example: At the end of July, while my family was here visiting for a week, we got into a car accident at Turner Field (obviously trying to go to a Braves game). Heidi was driving, and she said she had checked all her mirrors and saw no one, and I believe her. The other lady was going pretty fast for a heavily pedestrian area, and she was in a wrong way lane. That's not out of the ordinary as they make some roads one way before or after ballgames. However no officers indicated to us that the road had become a one way (and for us trying to turn left in the normal center turn lane, seeing no cars going the same way to the left of us reinforced our notion that it was still two-way). Well we later find out from our insurance that it is a no-fault accident, but the other lady has had the officer alter the original police report to try to make it our fault. Problem is, what she had the officer add to the report is total bull. The office said that she was in the outside lane. If she had been, we'd have never made contact seeing as we just started moving from a total stop in the center lane of a 5 lane road, and she was nearing 35-40 mph (never braking or swerving mind you - leading me to believe she wasn't looking where she was going). Not only this, but I heard her tell the officer that the sheriff's deputy who was directing traffic waved her through. Pretty impressive, considering the deputy told the police office he had his back turned talking to a pedestrian (which he was).
When this first happened, I hoped it would be a no-fault deal and that would be that, no court or anything. But after hearing all this, I want her to sue us so much, just so I can take the stand and bury her ass under oath.
This goes back to what I first said: If I controlled society, lying would be a more serious offense. In this case, because this woman is lying to try to get us to pay, I would say to her "well you obviously are lying, and while I would have originally declared no one at fault, your lies have placed fault entirely on you." Is that fair and legal? Well under the law, not really. But this trend of lying for gain just keeps occurring. Maybe if there were more punishment, it wouldn't happen as much. I know there is the charge of perjury, but I'm suggesting her lies leading to the suit should be punished.
I know this is rambley (not a real word I know), but I don't care. We've been dealing with this for almost a month now, and this lady keeps appealing our insurance provider's decision not to pay her.
Oh and did I mention she works for the City of Atlanta's Tax Commissioner? Guess who's getting audited next year? This guy. Good thing I never throw away receipts.