- Landlady did not transfer electricity back into her name after I moved out, so I had them shut off electricity. Now she's keeping the security deposit because of the measures she took to keep her pipes from freezing.
- [MD] Tenant entering my bedroom without permission, cat cam picking him up
- Does someone have a legal right to take a picture of my mailbox, without my consent, and sell it for profit?
- [GA] Upstairs neighbors (and kids) have caused repeated damages to our apartment due to negligence, have left trash and dumped cooking oil onto our porch, and cause an outrageous amount of noise issues. What can we do?
- Is it legal for an advisor to let go of their graduate student because of an episode of mental illness? [X-post from /r/academia]
- My father may be viewing child pornography
- Is it legal to lie about the contents of an object you're selling if it can be deadly to people handling it?
- Supervisors follow us into the restroom.
- My landlord updated/resigned my lease without my knowledge.
- Job claims they literally "ran out of money" to pay employees?
- [CT] could neighbor force 89/M to move out of his home? civil protection order
- [NC] Is it legal for a company to have 1 warranty policy that is public, but another internally?
- Arrested for burglary tools..
- I need help with my step brother
- Kicking out roommate that isn’t on the lease but won’t respond to messages
- How to garnish wages?
- Unknowingly purchased phone stolen from Rent-a-center through Swappa
- Internet harassment
- Arrested for PI for helping a friend
- Are no left turn signs posted in parking lots to enter a public road legally enforceable?
- Traveling very soon, lost my passport. I am a dual-citizen, but my irresponsibility has put me in a complicated situation where I can't apply for a new passport in either country.
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 10:39 PM PST I'll admit, I should have done things differently. I'd just let her keep the deposit to avoid having to deal with this psychopath, but the company I work for put it up and are expecting it back. I did not talk to her before shutting off the electricity for the following lengthy reason: The day we moved in, we called to ask why there were feces and urine stains in the carpet, especially since she said that professional cleaners had come by. We asked if we rented a carpet scrubber if we might be reimbursed. Initially she agreed, but called back minutes later in an emotionally charged conversation I hadn't thought to record because I didn't suspect anything amiss, about "country living." In so many words she said that if we're going to bother her with questions and concerns, she would evict us. In hindsight, that was a pretty big red flag and we probably should have just packed up and found a different place, but I had just got on with a new company after a year of unemployment, they were footing the bill for our housing, and the project I was assigned had already begun. I was desperate. In more recent hindsight, eviction was not a valid threat after having already vacated the property, but I had already mentally established the rule to never contact her. A full week and a half after vacating the property, I logged into my electricity provider's website to pay my bill for the now supposedly empty property and noticed that there was still significant usage--seemingly more than when we lived there. A phone call to the provider confirmed suspicions that "usage would suggest someone living there." He asked if I wanted to transfer service but I didn't know who was living there. I just said "We don't live there anymore, we're not interested in paying someone elses' bill." To which he suggested terminating service. Now, if I had known it couldn't just be turned back on right away, I wouldn't have gone that route, but here I am, having gone that route. I figured it might have been a day or two without lights; a mild inconvenience in protest of this absurdity. According to my livid ex-landlady who is now roping my boss into the mess, the heating system is dependent on electricity to operate. Shutting off the electricity at this time of year, in Maine, runs the risk of freezing the pipes and now she claims to have spent the better part of the deposit renting a generator for the 3 days she had to wait to have the power reestablished. Part of me doubts she even did this and I want to ask her for a copy of the receipt just because I think there's a good chance she doesn't have it, but I'm at the point now where I might not want to proceed without at least some advice. Another important detail is that I moved out on the 15th of November, shut off power on the 26th, and she says I was still responsible for the utilities through the end of the month. TL;DR - Moved out of a place, electricity usage suggested someone else had moved in but the bill was still in my name. I shut off service and now my ex-landlady is keeping the deposit my employer is expecting back because she had to rent a generator to keep the pipes from freezing. Edit: I don't know when the lease was supposed to end. I assumed it was the day I moved out, but she insists it was the end of November. The lease was very loose because I was only there for 6 months of the 12 month lease and there is nothing in it about early termination. Edit: Sounds like I screwed up. Thanks for everyone's input. Edit: Not sure why everyone is assuming that I haven't scoured the lease for answers since it all started going down. There is no definitive outline for early termination, specifically move out date in relation to end of lease. I assumed they would be the same, and assumption was my undoing. [link] [comments]  |
| [MD] Tenant entering my bedroom without permission, cat cam picking him up Posted: 01 Dec 2019 06:01 AM PST Some background info: I am 30sF, I own a home in Maryland and I am renting a bedroom to a 30sM tenant. It's a shared kitchen/bathroom/living room and separate bedrooms. I have 2 cats so I need to keep my bedroom door slightly open for them to get in/out. I became suspicious my tenant was entering my bedroom without my permission so I got a motion activated camera and put it on my bedside table pointing at my bedroom door. 10 minutes after I left the house the next day, I see him open my door, enter my bedroom, go to my bed to do something, and look towards the camera. Later on, he returns to close the door to the original position. I returned home and didn't mention anything. The next day I am home watching a movie downstairs. I moved the cam to my desk to get a better view of the door. While I am downstairs, I can now see him peeking through the door frame towards where the camera used to be. He is in full view because of the new position. He enters my room a few feet and stands there for 30ish seconds just looking around my bedroom. He again looks towards the camera in its new location. There are zero reasons for him to be entering my bedroom and I am afraid of escalation. The way he acts on camera, it is hard to describe just how creepy and malicious it seems. I don't want to confront him about entering my room because I'm afraid he will just retaliate or attack me in another room. Him just not entering my bedroom anymore is not an adequate solution for me to feel safe. I want to get him out ASAP. I have a few questions I haven't been able to answer by looking through the wiki/faq/google. Is this enough evidence to begin eviction? Is the motion activated camera legal in MD? MD is two party consent but Ring security cams seem to be legal. Is it legal to record my own bedroom? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 09:13 AM PST I have a very unique mailbox, and someone took a picture of it, along with several other unique mailboxes, and they are selling a calender made up of these pictures. They left a short note saying all of this, and offered to sell me a calender for $20. I find it strange I should have to pay someone for this calender never giving them permission to take a photo of it, and feel it's not right. I don't intend on taking any legal action, I just wonder what the legality of this situation is. At the very least, they should send me a free copy for the use of that picture. Maine, USA. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 10:21 AM PST I'll at least make it as succinct as possible. We've lived here almost a year and a half, our lease runs up in July 2020. We can't leave unless we pay ~$3k, and right now we don't have that. These people have: - left boxes of take-out food in our chairs and thrown off their porch onto our porch area, - causes so much noise just from running around and playing (I guess?) that they startle and scare our friends who come over (as well as us of course). - had such bad jostling and rattling that it caused a glass some light fixture to fall and shatter in our tub as well as a leak due to messing with the overflow gasket in their tub, causing the ceiling to fall and water damage above ours, and caused enough of a flood in their kitchen that it basically looked like it rained in our kitchen/laundry room area (connected). - left a small dog to howl and whine for 11+ hours, as well as moving it in the later hours to howl and whine above our bedroom - as well, have left their kids (early high school and maybe middle school age?) home alone for hours and hours at times, as informed by the maintenance team that works on the units. (Aug-nov '18) I've had to make calls to the apartments courtesy officer, who just said "if we can't reach them, we can't do anything," meaning they attempted to call and knock, but of course they cannot barge in. I get that. After the courtesy officer somehow managed to meet with them and the management to essentially say "you guys need to keep it down," they've gone tenfold and just got worse. They know how much noise they make and have just gotten worse. Screaming matches and yelling constantly, the kids run up and down the length of the apartment constantly. Stomping and dribbling things too. (Sometime in '19) I've overheard screaming and thumping along with a girls voice screaming "mommy I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." So I kind of can't help but suspect there's something worse going on in there as well. I've made a case with local CPS, but haven't heard anything regarding that. (Three or four times in 2019) I've tried knocking to ask them to quiet down, we've left notes — they don't reply. (Aug '19) Eventually I got so fed up with the banging (trying to go to bed, so around 11 PM), so I called our county's non-emergency line to have someone come out. The officer arrived and knocked and knocked for around 20min, and came back to our door to tell us they asked who it was, was told it was a [county] police officer, and was told (I wish I could even make this up) "oh HELL naw." He came back to our apartment to inform us that he attempted to speak with them and got nowhere. (Nov 19) I called the non-emergency line again after the rattling got bad enough to cause some of our shelved items to topple off. I was told someone would come out but it would be a bit. I did not specifically hear anyone come out, and I never heard a knock on my door from an officer to follow up or anything. I've sent in emails (8/13 and 11/2 of '19) and called (god knows how many times) and spoken to the office management about what they can do, and their response has just been "if we can't reach them, there's nothing we can do." I get that, that's fine. But what can we do? We have just as much right to live in our home as they do, so I'm not to the point of wanting to kick them out or anything like that, but what in the world can we do to at least drive the point home that they're being obnoxious as all hell? We basically can't move out until our lease is up and they show no signs of going anywhere. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 09:59 AM PST This happened to one of my close relatives (let's call him X). X had an episode of psychosis without any warning and ended up in the hospital overnight. He was in a Ph.D program for a year by that point and his advisor was in general a decent person. After the news of the hospitalization reached me, I rushed to the town that X was living in to be with him and take care of him. His advisor called me to his office next day and told this straight to my face: "I am sorry, I can't keep X as my graduate student anymore. I had a student in my group in the past who had a mental illness and I was accommodating of him - and it turned out to be a mistake. I can't repeat this with X. I can keep him on RA funding until the end of the semester (which was 2 weeks away). After that, he is on his own. Please note however that this does not prevent him from applying to other faculty in the university." The professor's actions just seem extremely scummy to me. Is there any room for legal action? Note that the professor's actions were taken without any consultation with the doctor. Further, X was not a threat to anyone in any obvious way. Before anyone asks how the prof knew about the mental illness: the prof along with X's best friend were among the first responders at the scene and it was pretty obvious to everyone there that X was having a mental health problem. [link] [comments]  |
| My father may be viewing child pornography Posted: 01 Dec 2019 04:27 AM PST My father has been exceedingly secretive about his browsing habits, and recently my mother discovered he was watching a lot of pornography, by accessing his search history via his unlocked tablet. They're religious, I'm not, so it's a big deal for them but not for me. The bit that's bothering me is that I was recently told by both of my sisters that, in past occurrences of getting caught talking to other women, he knew some of them were underage and he continued to make inappropriate remarks and ask inappropriate questions. One sister also reports seeing him "eyeing up" young girls when in public with him. He has declined to engage with his wife (my mother) and has instead... "taken matters into his own hands", when he thinks she is sleeping. I think it is probable that this is because he is viewing child pornography. I know I can access his Google account and find the things he thinks he has deleted, such as his browsing history and account activity, the various chat apps he has downloaded and his conversations therein. He's probably not even smart enough to have used incognito mode. Do I have any legal protections if I do so? Is there any other avenue of less dubious legality? I would, if possible, like to remain anonymous. If he found out I had reported him to the police, I would likely be homeless by the strike of the hour. I am 20 years old, and I live in England, if that makes any difference. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:45 PM PST So I know this will sound weird to some people but I'm very into military gas masks and respirators. So, for gas masks, Soviet-Russian are very common because there is hundreds of millions of them around the world, but Soviet filters all contain asbestos, which can cause lung cancer. But, the sellers selling these filters will lie and say they only have charcoal in them, which is pretty much completely harmless. Are they breaking the law? Id report them to eBay but there isn't an option in the report form for the thing they're doing. I live in South Dakota. [link] [comments]  |
| Supervisors follow us into the restroom. Posted: 01 Dec 2019 07:57 AM PST For a few weeks now, many of my coworkers said the same thing. "I feel like I'm being followed. Maybe I'm just being paranoid? Maybe it's coincidence." Every bathroom trip, a supervisor pops up. Our job already makes us notify our supervisors through instant message that we have to use the restroom, so they know exactly where we are going and why. I got a write up for taking longer than 10 minutes the other day. I asked my boss why he thinks it's appropriate to allow his coordinators follow us. He admitted they are told to follow us into the restroom to ensure we are not getting coffee or smoking a cigarette. This micromanaging is so intense that it feels like harassment. Can they legally follow people into the restroom? We already have so many systems in place where we are being watched, that I feel like this is overkill and should not be allowed... [link] [comments]  |
| My landlord updated/resigned my lease without my knowledge. Posted: 01 Dec 2019 11:41 AM PST I know something is completely wrong about this, but I don't know how to approach this situation. Earlier this year in May I renewed my lease. Two months later the property transferred in a new property manager. Under her I was asked by her secretary to resign my lease with updated information. Apparently she had been auditing the files from the previous property manager and realized some things did not match up with many of the leases, i.e. the names and weight of my dogs were not listed. My husband and I both thought it was weird that we would have to resign our lease just because they missed the opportunity to input information they now deem pertinent to the lease with the new property manager. We ultimately disregarded their request and carried on abiding by the original lease we signed together in May. Fast forward to today when I log in to the online tenant portal, I see that we now have two leases attached to the apartment where we currently live. The second one was dated two months after our original move in date. Mind you it NOW includes the information requested by the leasing office, but now it says that the lease was electronically signed by both of us. Since we denied signing the "updated" version at the property manager's request we find this very peculiar. From my understanding, if anyone in the office updated and "signed" our names electronically that is potentially grounds for forgery and a breach of contract. I live in South Carolina and have reviewed the tenant/landlord codes, but I cannot find anything that pertains to this particular situation. Hiring an attorney is very expensive, and just a consultation is several hundred dollars. I know there is something wrong with all of this. What can I do? This is such a peculiar situation. Has anyone else been through this before? [link] [comments]  |
| Job claims they literally "ran out of money" to pay employees? Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:36 PM PST (To preface, I'm posting this for someone else, and we're in Texas, USA) So, my bf is a server that is cashed out every day for his total tips (otherwise makes $2.13 an hour). So far, the restaurant has typically owed him 75-100 dollars per shift. Yesterday, he made about $75 total and at the end of the day when he went to tip out, the restaurant told him they were simply out of money and couldn't pay him. I don't even think they offered to put it on his next paycheck or anything. He wasn't the only employee who this happened to either. From what I've heard from him its the same situation today. I waited tables from 2015-2019 at a couple of different places and have never heard of something even remotely like this happening. It just seems so bizarre. I understand restaurant wage laws can be fickle, but does he have any legal standing here? If this happens again, does he have a right to walk out without getting fired? (He's currently looking for other jobs but needs to keep some sort of income for the time being) Has anyone heard of this happening? Any help would be appreciated, thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| [CT] could neighbor force 89/M to move out of his home? civil protection order Posted: 30 Nov 2019 07:36 PM PST my husbands 89 yr old grandfather was served last night, his 81/F neighbor applied for civil protection order in which statement of conditions from which you seek relief was written exactly as follows: " Stalks me everyday, he has a key to my house, the locksmith gave him a set of my keys. He has a camera in my apartment and watches me. When I fall asleep he sends his female friend over and she steals my clothes and other items. He has stolen my tools and dishes, hose and shovel. He has taken my knives, seran wrap, wax paper cleaned out my drawers. He follows me outside. If I go to the store he has someone go into my car and steal things. He stole 38 plastic containers. " Along with no contact she is requesting respondent stay 100 years away. 89/M lives in a 55 and over adult community (20-25 homes) on small cul de sac built in 2016. 81/F is next door neighbor, homes are less than 30 ft between them, no fences are allowed in the community. All homes are owner occupied approx. 1500-2000 sq ft / $300K-350K (I mention to provide context re: the neighborhood) The allegations are (obviously) completely false. 89/M and 81/F neighbor were friends but 89/M became less interested in continuing the friendship after he noticed neighbor had a pattern of delusional/ irrational behavior. When they first met she believed an unknown someone aka "THEY" were watching her, she believed "THEY" had recording devices in her car and home, came into her house, etc. 89/M didn't want anything to do with neighbor anymore and got a new Girlfriend (female friend mentioned in her statement) , and since this time 81/F neighbor has been accusing him of stealing, and stalking him. Grandpa tries to ignore her but she comes over to his door/windows and into his yard when he is gardening and tries to make conversation with him and get his attention, her home being just a few feet away - with zero fence, makes it very difficult to avoid her. He is an avid gardener and if he ignores her whilst gardening she has come over and destroyed his plants/shrubs by pouring on liquid weed killer. She has come to his door when we were visiting very emotional telling us what is basically the elderly version of "he ghosted her'. We believe there is a mental / dementia element + jealousy retaliation. it appears she is losing things or misplacing items and has convinced herself it was him who has "stolen it". Police have knocked on his door several times on her allegations of stealing. she believes the locksmith for some reason gave him copy of her house key and said he stole 50 thousand dollars in cash from her dresser drawer, garden tools, etc. 89/M invited police to search his home each time and no items were ever recovered and each time he was cleared of the allegations. But her harassment is continuing and now escalated to court order. I believe he should in fact file a no contact order against her, and possibly even a suit for harassment. We worry she may be trying to get him pushed out of his home, or use court order as a weapon and falsely claim he is violating the protective order. He thinks she is just crazy and judge will see that. He thinks he can handle the going to court alone, however we would like to get him an attorney and are working on that. Any advice? What happens in a restraining order situation when proximity of homes are an issue? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| [NC] Is it legal for a company to have 1 warranty policy that is public, but another internally? Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:58 PM PST So I have some iRobot vacuums. On their public policy they have nothing within it saying that a consumer has to pay for shipping after 6 months. But, their internal policy has this. After talking to them on the phone for a bit today since the cheapest shipping I can find was $36.60. I flat out asked for them to send me an email saying where in the policy it says this. The person on the line said that is a policy I wouldn't be able to see since it isn't public. Note I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact word by word. Is this legal? The reason why I'm asking here is it feels like a bait and switch. Like I'm happy there is any warranty at all. But, part of the reason why I bought iRobot and spent a stupid amount ($853.99 on just this 1 robot) was due to their customer service, warranty, and so on. If they were upfront in this, then OK I would've took that into in account with looking at the products. But to me it feels like the closest thing you can get to lying without actually lying, and it feels like a bait and switch. And if anyone who does work at iRobot sees this. Note I most likely won't sue you, but I don't think I will get another iRobot device again. Like I simply don't have the money to afford taking such a company to court. The pricing of everything is already high. I pay a high price so i don't have to worry about being screwed, and so I can have my stuff in working order. Modern people do not have brand loyalty, and I have no problem switching to a Shark or another brand during my next buy. My suggestion is be as transparent as possible in the future. And maybe help out customers who already bought before this transparency came out. But something I might do is report this to the FTC. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 03:53 PM PST I was pulled over for my registration being a month expired, still had insurance. He asks if he can search my car, my dumb ass thinking well i have nothing on me so why not ... well he and 2 other cops tore my car apart, tore my side panels off my door, my dash out, my subwoofer out of the box.. once they didn't find anything he then asked me about my bolt cutters in my trunk, I explained to him that I use them for my job, which is in the oil field. He then puts me in and handcuffs and says I'm under arrest for possession of. Burglary tools ... i have no priors for anything like that. Am not on probation or parole. Well they impound my car and tell me its gonna be on a 30 day hold so I wait 30 days just to find out my car had been repossessed 2 days after it was impounded, and sold. And now am stuck with a 7k bill with no car and a bs charge .. do I have action against the pd for unlawful arrest? Or anything like it to where I can pursue damages? Or do I just have a hardLesson learned on never let the cops search even if u think u have nothing on you? I reside in california. [link] [comments]  |
| I need help with my step brother Posted: 01 Dec 2019 08:37 AM PST Sorry for the format I'm on mobile My step brother has been having terrible urges to sexually assault me. He's admitted to touching my chest while I was sleeping (he did it over my clothes). I don't know if he'll do it again and I got him verbally admitting to me while I was recording our conversation (I'm in a 1 party consent state, New Jersey). I have no clue on how to bring this up to my step dad and my mother. But I was hoping to apply for emancipation but I have no job and I have an injured knee. I have no idea how to bring it up or what to do with the recording. My boyfriend is super mad and wants to kill him (I keep them away from each other for that reason). My boyfriend is getting me a motion sensor camera (kinda like a nanny cam) that can hook up to my phone, so if he does it again I have concrete evidence. Please help me with this, I need it. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Kicking out roommate that isn’t on the lease but won’t respond to messages Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:53 PM PST I had a friend move in - it hasn't worked out because they aren't covering their share of finances for our apartment. I need them to move out asap. I told them to look for somewhere else and they answered that isn't going to happen any time soon. They won't respond to my messages and won't come out of their room when I'm home. I've offered them to move out within two months to no response and they probably won't even start to look for a new place. I don't have a lease with my landlord and he doesn't have any info on my roommate situation point blank. Roommate moved in when last person moved out so nothing is on paper. My landlord is pretty hands off, he lives far off so involving him is a whole situation of its own as I just handle my apartment needs myself usually. State is RI. I've never been in this situation - can someone help me understand what I have to do? Would I have to go a legal route? Is texting and verbally giving a roommate two months notice legal? Would I be able to change the locks after the two months? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:25 PM PST I won a small claims case against my former roommate earlier this year. After I received my judgment, I sent a demand letter to her but never received a response. Now I want to start garnishing her wages because that's going to be the only way to get my money since I know she won't pay me willingly. I'm not in any hurry to get the money, which seems to be a good thing since these processes take time. I live in Washington County, Oregon, which is where the claim was filed and where the defendant and I both live. So in Oregon, how do you go about filing garnishment paperwork and who do you file it with? I know where she was working earlier this year but I don't know for sure if she still works there, all I know about her now is where she's currently living. [link] [comments]  |
| Unknowingly purchased phone stolen from Rent-a-center through Swappa Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:16 PM PST I purchased a Note 9 from a small electronics business through Swappa for $370. The business is located in Texas, I am located in Indiana. I paid through Paypal and received the phone a week after paying. A couple seconds after I connected the phone to my WiFi a screen popped up stating:
I called the listed number for the Rent-a-center and they confirmed that a phone with that IMEI was listed as stolen by them. They then asked me to ship it to them in Texas. I also contacted the seller through swappa and they said they had the information of the person that sold it to them and requested I send it back to them (also in Texas). They said they would issue a refund after that. I also requested a refund through PayPal. A relative has told me that I shouldn't ship it to either of them since that would be shipping stolen goods across state lines (Indiana to Texas) making it a federal crime, likely in felony territory considering that you could argue a used Note 9 is worth more than $500. They said I should go to a local small claims court and file a claim against everyone involved and leave the phone in escrow locally for the Rent-a-center to pick it up. What is the best approach for getting a refund without implicating myself in any crime related to this stolen phone. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 10:00 AM PST I've had someone harassing me on every social media account I've had for almost 3 years now. It got so bad I deleted everything but my Instagram and Facebook accounts. They have tried tirelessly to catfish me on multiple different accounts and have succeed a few times. They say all they want from me is a nude photo and they'll leave me alone forever. They've made fake accounts pretending to be me and catfished other people using my photos. I always kinda knew who it might be but they finally confessed to me that they are someone I knew from High school, upon finding this out I outed them on a Facebook post and found out there are many other girls who has been doing the same thing to as well. My question is, is there anything we can do legally to get him to stop when he has been making tons of fake accounts to message? Once an account is blocked he makes a new one almost immediately to continue the harassment. I have a msg of him confessing it's him but again it's just on another account and how could I ever prove he was behind the other 30 accounts. I just keep blocking them but it's really bothering me that he keeps getting away with harassing so many other girls! Making new accounts won't do anything since he knows everyone I know he would easily find me again to continue the harassment! Any advice is appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Arrested for PI for helping a friend Posted: 01 Dec 2019 01:46 PM PST My friend and I pregammed for a football game I honestly don't know how much he had, but I had about a shots worth of vodka. While at the game he started to get clearly very drunk so I decided I would walk him back to his dorm. As we reach the gate the police stop us saying I cannot take him back. They then ask for my age which is 18 and if I had anything to drink. Since I was worried for my friend I say that I had a little. They decide to detain both of us, ask questions, and decide to call my friend and ambulance. However, they decide to arrest me, so I end up spending the night in jail, and will soon have to go to court. My questions are 1. I drank a little, but wasnt even drunk, also I was trying to help my friend. Is that enough for a PI charge. Note I never took any form of breathalyzer test or anything simular. Then 2. Is it possible to get the charge dismissed, and eventually expunged from my record. Finally, 3 how should I best go about the situation? Also since it varies by state this occurred in the state of Texas. [link] [comments]  |
| Are no left turn signs posted in parking lots to enter a public road legally enforceable? Posted: 01 Dec 2019 09:01 AM PST My part of town has these in such frequency it makes many establishments almost impossible to access and leave. For example a gas station near an intersection. It would be easier to take my business elsewhere than abide by these ridiculous no left turn signs. I generally ignore them if it's safe to do so and nobody is waiting behind me. But can I get a ticket? The angled driveways are privately owned, although technically crossing a city easement. The signs are also in this grey area. Can I get a ticket and would it hold up in court? I just had to break this "rule" 3 times trying to get fuel this morning without driving several miles out of the way. Should I have just found a different gas station? It often forces people to turn around in odd places creating other safety hazards and trespass on other private property bringing non paying customers into other establishments' lots just to turn around. I really have no time for poor, inefficient traffic engineering and dont want to get hit wading through other congested parking areas that I have no business in just to make a legal turn if it was safe to do so and not inconveniencing anyone. Then when I do try to follow the signs and turn around elsewhere, that lot will have the same signs. It is aggravating, unsafe, and a waste of fuel. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2019 10:34 AM PST To start off, I was born in Chicago but I have lived in Toronto since I was 1.5 years old (I'm 23 now) and have dual Us/Canadian citizenship. I became a citizen with my mother when I was 8 years old and I was issued a citizenship card. Here is where my nightmare begins. I am supposed to fly to NYC very soon (12 days), but I recently lost my Canadian Passport (yes I am stupid). I already reported it missing, but now I need to apply for a new one. To apply for a new one, I need proof of Canadian citizenship. I'm not sure what happened, but my parents can't find my citizenship card anywhere. We are moving and we expected it to turn up somewhere but it has vanished off the face of the earth. I applied for a replacement certificate, but it takes anywhere between 5-10 months to get proof of citizenship, so getting a Canadian passport seems to be out of the picture for now. I thought I could apply for an American passport instead since I have a birth certificate to prove my citizenship status and I had American passports in the past. I went to the US Consulate General in Toronto and I was told that they have to put my application on hold until I can provide my SSN number. I thought I didn't have one, but apparently, I do have one. I have absolutely no recollection of it at all. I do not have an SSN card and my parents barely even remember applying for one. There is no SSA office in Toronto. To apply for a replacement SSN, I must travel to the SSA office across the border but processing could take up to 10-14 days. So, in short: I am traveling in 12 days and conveniently lost my Canadian passport. I've also lost my proof of citizenship and do not have time to receive a new document. I have my American birth certificate, but I don't know what my SSN and do not have time to receive a new card. My question is, am I SOL? I've pretty much almost already accepted defeat. I have read that the US consulate can issue a temporary/emergency passport, but would I have to provide my SSN for that as well? Does Canada offer a temporary passport without proof of citizenship? Can I find my SSN on any other existing documents I might have? Do I have any other possible options? [link] [comments]  |
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