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By: Ralf
Date: 4/21/00 6:31:58 AM
# Replies: 4
You come home from work one day and find that your crazy landlord has sold all your worldly possessions in a massive day-long estate sale. Everything's gone: your clothes, TV, books & music, computer, microwave. He even used the food in your kitchen as refreshments for the event!
You confront him, and he tearfully apologizes, explaining that he didn't KNOW you were at work, and thought you'd be PROUD of him. He shows you the $1500 in cash he got for all your stuff ("I sold your couch for 60 cents!"), and offers you that as compensation.
Sadly, you know the poor schmuck is broke and seriously sick. There's no way you could sue him for anything -- he doesn't even own the property you live on.
What'll yo do?
#1. Take the $1500 and start over, someplace far, far away from this maniac.
#2. Refuse the $1500, call the police, raise a stink. At this point you're so mad at the little weasel you don't CARE about the stuff -- you just wanna see him twist.
Rules:
Assume insurance will pay for replacement of some, but not all of your property... maybe 40%. If anyone's contemplating violence against the little twerp, assume he's an ex-Navy SEAL, gone mad from exposure to octopus resin (or something). After he stops crying and picks himself off the floor he could snap your spine with his pinky, while still apologizing. He's crazy, not defenseless.
Response #1
By: rorschach
Date: 4/21/00 10:40:53 AM
#3 all of the above (after all it IS your money, and the insurance DOES have a deductable and payout limits...) you don't get ALL your stuff back, you get SOME of your stuff back, you get what little he DOES have in the lawsuit assuming it is worth the legal fees..., he gets locked up in an insane asylum where he needs to be. and life goes on....
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/23/00 12:57:47 PM
If the landlord is not the owner, then I go to the owner and say, "You will pay for the damage your employee has caused me. You'll also make sure he gets whatever mental health assistance he needs, and is replaced with someone who I can trust with my property. My lawyer will be getting in touch."
Response #3
By: sooz
Date: 4/23/00 6:32:20 PM
I'd really probably do #1. While justice and/or revenge seem the most sane, I'd probably just be too shell-shocked to work out the details.
Response #4
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 4/28/00 11:13:00 PM
I'd buy $1500 worth of kiddie porn and have it sent to his house, inform the police, THEN start over.