RANT!

[domino43]

OH. MY. FREAKING. GOD!  Seriously!

God d*mn, mother-f*cking, stupid a*s Magistrate!  I swear to God, I HATE that man!

Okay, I guess I should give you some background first, huh?  Well, I guess I should start way at the begining.  Back in '02 I had a couple cases in front of him.  One for no seatbelt, one for a bad check.  The no seatbelt, I plead no contest, $30 fine & court costs.  It was my first time ever being in trouble and the guy was still a major a*shole.  That's just how he is.  The bad check one got dismissed because I made restitution before it got there, so it was just court costs I owed.  Well, I paid some on that one.  But then I lost my job and the two I had after that I had for such a short time that I never had the money to make any more payments.  Well, a couple months back I got another no seatbelt.  He was all p-o'd that I still owed for these other cases.  Well, I explained that I hadn't had a job since then, but I was looking.  So he set the payment date for Aug. 31st and said if I didn't have the money by then, I'd have to appear in court that morning at 10.  Fine.  Except that my dad is working now and has to be there early.  He leaves the house around 7am.  Like I'm going to show up at the courthouse 1 1/2 hours before the building even opens!  Yeah, right!  And since I don't have a phone at home, I couldn't very well call them and just talk to the Magistrate (Judge only handles "real" cases).  So I just missed court.  I'm surprised the didn't issue a bench warrant and come pick me up and throw me in jail.  But anyway, by the time I COULD get to a phone during the day, it was a week later (this past Wed.).  So the chick in the Clerk of Courts office told me to just show up today, when they handle some of the "real" cases and they'd probably just squeeze me in when they could.  So I woke up early, after only a couple hours of sleep and got ready.  Got to court, waited a couple minutes, expected to see the judge.  Then who walks in to see if there were any cases he could take cuz he was just sitting on his fat a*s in the next courtroom?  That's right, the a*shole himself.  So I ot stuck with him.  And here is the reason I'm so p-o'd right now.  These are actual exerpts from our little interaction:

(after telling him I still didn't have a job and I hadn't worked since after the last set of cases)

Magistrate: Do you mean to tell me that in three years you haven't gotten your hands on any money at all?

Me: Yes.  I have a little bit of money that's owed to me for babysitting, but...

(after a little more of his whining)

M: Who feeds you?

Me: My dad.

M: Who clothes you?

Me: I'm wearing the same clothes I had then. (in fact, the shirt I wore today I had in H.S.!)

(blah, blah, more whining from him)

M: Have you asked your dad to help you pay for any of this?

Me: My dad just started working again.  He wasn't working for a long time, either.  He's only been working for about a month.

(Nasty look from him and then some more whining)

Finally he told me that I have until Nov. 16th.  Another Pay or Appear date, but if I don't have everything paid off by then I'm a paying it off by sitting in jail.  What the F*ck ever.  Not that I have a problem paying it off by sitting in jail for 3 or 4 days.  It's just that this idiot is such an unbelieveable a*shole it's rediculous.  I really wish I had seen the judge instead.

So that's my rant.

Comments

[carelessmemory.livejournal.com]

Hm. That sounds just plain stupid, for you to go to jail if you can't pay. What good is that going to do? :(

[domino43.livejournal.com]

That's just how they do things here. Since you normally have to pay to sit in jail, if you owe the courts money, they consider it paid if you sit in jail at a rate of $30/day.