Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

Compared to others here, I feel a bit of a fraud, but I am almost totally disabled today. I tripped over a bollard yesterday and fell quite heavily. I thought it was just a grazed knee and walked home. Then I got dragged round shopping. Today, I can't put any weight on my knee or even bend it. I tried going downstairs but gave up. It gets really, really, really painful if I bend it more than about 60 degrees. I guess that I have bruised something inside.

lostinrates wrote: »

Why fraud?

Take care of it. Temporary things can become serious if not taken care of properly. .

Exactly lir - hope you're feeling better soon GDB. Do you think you should get it checked out?

Doozergirl

I have to go to court in the morning. Car accident four years ago - a very simple case of someone slamming into the back of me until they fabricated a witness.

I've spent years arguing with my own insurers about getting this witness to testify - see if they will perjure themselves.

Fmound out a month ago that the witness refuses to communicate with either solicitor. Surprise. Their statement is being submitted as a 'hearsay statement' which my sols say won't be accepted. It's been written by someone with awful handwriting - a mixture of caps and lower case, who refers to 'the car' and 'the silver car' but manages to state that 'The third party' is to blame. The third party being what I am to the other driver, not a witness, surely?

The other driver's statement doesn't metion the witness at all, nor an opportuntiy to speak to one. This wasn't reported to the police and I don't know who they could have proactively contacted when referring to a dark car and a silver car?

I've spent the entire night picking apart the other witness statement apart and ordering my comments for the barrister. Not remotely tired, very stressed and my anxiety has returned for this. Need to dig out some propanolol in the mornung or I'll be a jibbering mess . I broke down in front of a parking ticket adjudicator last time

Miserable. I did buy a new top for the occassion on my way back from work

LydiaJ

Sending hugs your way, Doozergirl. Hope it all goes much less stressfully than you expect.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sending hugs your way, Doozergirl. Hope it all goes much less stressfully than you expect.

Thank you. So do I. I am a nice person, I really hate it when not-nice people interrupt my flow.

I changed three of my tyres when they got to 3mm, 'cause of you.

The other one was over, not under, btw

zagubov

GDB, my sympathies, injuries to joints need to be seen and sorted out. Look after yourself.

DG, good luck tomorrow. I reckon the court will be well suspicious of the witness who nobody saw. You might as well pull out the Ghost Who Never Lies as your own witness!

Back in the 60s my dad had just driven out onto the road when a car hit him. Nobody was hurt but my dad had just returned from the US and had a fancy new camera with him in the car that ejected the photograph out the front and it developed on the spot (a version of the Polaroid Land Camera) but nobody here had ever seen it before.

He leapt out of the car and took photos of all the scene and the witnesses and asked for their addresses to write on the back. Brilliant it was, as they could verify the other guy was in the wrong and they all treated him like he was in charge. The bloke that caused the acccident was really on the back foot.:rotfl:

Doozergirl

Lovely story, zag. I keep thinking about getting a dashcam, but I'm worried they'll look like something worth breaking in for.

I'd love to sneak the ghost who never lies into the room. I think I probably could.

vivatifosi

Good luck Doozer. Hoping that right is on your side. Sounds a crazy case.

Nikkster

Oh doozergirl. Hope all goes exactly as it should today. Sending hugs and vibes xxx

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

Exactly lir - hope you're feeling better soon GDB. Do you think you should get it checked out?

Thanks. I'm feeling quite a lot better this morning. I'm going to chance going downstairs to make some coffee.

I don't think that I could cope with another day in bed watching TV and reading, especially with such beautiful weather.

silvercar

Good Luck Doozer.

I had the exact opposite. Someone went in to me on a midi roundabout. A young female driver, with a male passenger. Eventually gets to court driver attends with mother. I asked where the passenger was, why no witness statement etc. She totally denied the existence of the passenger. Mother clearly confused as she thought her daughter was alone in car. Daughter (driver) was asked by the judge where she was going at the time and daughter claimed to be just driving around aimlessly. Judge disbelieving. I won case.

It did make me wonder how easy it would be for someone to ask about a fictitious passenger, in the hope it would make the opposition look less reliable.