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"First of all, i would like to point out that the police sketch and the pictures were taken after the collision."
-atty. maricel echavez
ang talino mo, hija.
My dad got into a car accident. I got so freaked out when i saw the damage to our little SUV. I am so thankful to God that nothing bad happened to dad. I probably would have killed the genius who stated the abovequoted line. The woman was speeding down the spiral parking lamp on the wrong lane. My dad was at the time driving up the ramp to get to his parking space, and when he turned at a blind curve, SURPRISE! there was a CR-V barreling down in right in front of him. Poor dad could only swerve his car over the curb to avoid a head-on collision, ended up swiping the side of the woman's car and rammed into the wall. It's a good thing his airbags were functioning properly and the cabin is the reinforced kind. He ended up with just a few bruises and a spinning headache. As if things weren't bad enough, when dad stumbled out of his car, the first thing the genius said to him was, "Manong, ang bilis bilis niyo kasi!!"
Huh? My dad does not look like a manong. And he's like, the only member of the family nga who likes to drive slowly eh. Labo mo, hija. I'm so offended. The dumbass proceeded to yell at my dad and blame him for the accident, even when his entire office descended to the locus criminis to check on their chief (BPI Bancassurance probably lost money during those 30 minutes. Work stoppage. hehe.). I can't believe the gall of this woman. My dad's a 58-year-old executive. She's just a 28-year-old lawyer who probably passed the bar only a year ago. Regardless of my dad's status, she should have treated him with respect if only because he's a much older guy. How would she like me to scream at her father?
When they went to the Makati Police Station to file their sworn statements and to try to talk things out, the entire unemployed Tejada clan (the architect had a meeting) + 1 (benjamin) was there to back up dad, 'cause, you know, mahirap kausap ang mga abogado. hehe. She might suddenly start spouting legalese to obfuscate my dad into admitting liability. Benj and I were there to laugh at her if she suddenly goes, "lex loci celebrationis" or something. Oh well, it turns out we weren't needed. She started digging her own hole and kept going deeper.
The theory of the defense was that she was in the proper lane and that it was dad who hit her, and the force of the collision brought them to the other side of the ramp, and then dad hit the wall because he was going so darn fast. Ok...
She also made capital of the fact that dad's car sustained the greater damage so it must have been his fault. Gaga. I have a maxim for you, Atty. Echavez: non sequitur.
She then started to assail the evidentiary value of the police sketch and the pictures taken by the insurance assessor, and in fact, attached her own sketch of the accident to her affidavit. Uh, ok. Someone needs to re-take her Evidence course. It was then that she stated the champion line abovequoted. I sense a tiny little bit of desperation on her part. The pictures alone would clearly put her at fault. Oh my gosh, i have another maxim for you Atty. E: res ipsa loquitur. Just give it a rest, woman. Know when you're beaten.
Grabe, her mom and dad were also there to support her. I understand they need to show solidarity and everything, but I do hope that they make an attempt to teach her some basic human decency. Like at least checking first if the other person is all right when involved in an accident, before making outright accusations. And also to learn to be big enough to say sorry when she knows she did something wrong.
Too bad dad's too nice to press charges. He doesn't want to make a mountain out of a molehill daw. Oh well... I would have had a lot of fun listening to that Inday Badiday lookalike's (I swear she looks like the girl version of Dolly Ann Carvajal's gay son) testimony on the witness stand. I'm sure it would have been hilarious.
On the Bright Side of things, if she passed the Bar, so can I!!! hahaha!!!
-atty. maricel echavez
ang talino mo, hija.
My dad got into a car accident. I got so freaked out when i saw the damage to our little SUV. I am so thankful to God that nothing bad happened to dad. I probably would have killed the genius who stated the abovequoted line. The woman was speeding down the spiral parking lamp on the wrong lane. My dad was at the time driving up the ramp to get to his parking space, and when he turned at a blind curve, SURPRISE! there was a CR-V barreling down in right in front of him. Poor dad could only swerve his car over the curb to avoid a head-on collision, ended up swiping the side of the woman's car and rammed into the wall. It's a good thing his airbags were functioning properly and the cabin is the reinforced kind. He ended up with just a few bruises and a spinning headache. As if things weren't bad enough, when dad stumbled out of his car, the first thing the genius said to him was, "Manong, ang bilis bilis niyo kasi!!"
Huh? My dad does not look like a manong. And he's like, the only member of the family nga who likes to drive slowly eh. Labo mo, hija. I'm so offended. The dumbass proceeded to yell at my dad and blame him for the accident, even when his entire office descended to the locus criminis to check on their chief (BPI Bancassurance probably lost money during those 30 minutes. Work stoppage. hehe.). I can't believe the gall of this woman. My dad's a 58-year-old executive. She's just a 28-year-old lawyer who probably passed the bar only a year ago. Regardless of my dad's status, she should have treated him with respect if only because he's a much older guy. How would she like me to scream at her father?
When they went to the Makati Police Station to file their sworn statements and to try to talk things out, the entire unemployed Tejada clan (the architect had a meeting) + 1 (benjamin) was there to back up dad, 'cause, you know, mahirap kausap ang mga abogado. hehe. She might suddenly start spouting legalese to obfuscate my dad into admitting liability. Benj and I were there to laugh at her if she suddenly goes, "lex loci celebrationis" or something. Oh well, it turns out we weren't needed. She started digging her own hole and kept going deeper.
The theory of the defense was that she was in the proper lane and that it was dad who hit her, and the force of the collision brought them to the other side of the ramp, and then dad hit the wall because he was going so darn fast. Ok...
She also made capital of the fact that dad's car sustained the greater damage so it must have been his fault. Gaga. I have a maxim for you, Atty. Echavez: non sequitur.
She then started to assail the evidentiary value of the police sketch and the pictures taken by the insurance assessor, and in fact, attached her own sketch of the accident to her affidavit. Uh, ok. Someone needs to re-take her Evidence course. It was then that she stated the champion line abovequoted. I sense a tiny little bit of desperation on her part. The pictures alone would clearly put her at fault. Oh my gosh, i have another maxim for you Atty. E: res ipsa loquitur. Just give it a rest, woman. Know when you're beaten.
Grabe, her mom and dad were also there to support her. I understand they need to show solidarity and everything, but I do hope that they make an attempt to teach her some basic human decency. Like at least checking first if the other person is all right when involved in an accident, before making outright accusations. And also to learn to be big enough to say sorry when she knows she did something wrong.
Too bad dad's too nice to press charges. He doesn't want to make a mountain out of a molehill daw. Oh well... I would have had a lot of fun listening to that Inday Badiday lookalike's (I swear she looks like the girl version of Dolly Ann Carvajal's gay son) testimony on the witness stand. I'm sure it would have been hilarious.
On the Bright Side of things, if she passed the Bar, so can I!!! hahaha!!!