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More power to you, Ed, as you did exactly the right thing! BTW, you asked whether that "Constitution-spouting" jerk had any common sense. Unfortunately, I tend to believe that "common sense" has been pretty well bred out of much of our "dumbed-down" population, due to a combination of our now atrocious, tenure-protected, lazy school personnel, the over-reliance by the "Darwin Award winners" upon the supposed protection of the "nanny state", and the overly-litigious nature of our modern society managing to convince these nincompoops that they can get away with anything if they just have a "good" attorney. It reminds me of something that I witnessed back around 1995, shortly before I had to temporarily drop out of the workforce due to cancer diagnosis and long-term nasty chemotherapy regimen. At the time, I was doing a special job for my then boss on my supposed "day off" meeting with a representative of the Navy/Marine Joint Legal Office at the northernmost gate of Camp Pendleton (near the San Diego County/Orange County boundary line) to be escorted into the base to serve some legal papers upon a Marine dependent who was part of a major fraud case. After I had completed my job and left the base, I decided to do a little railfanning and headed to a nearby park in south San Clemente with beautiful views overlooking the tracks and the ocean, hoping to see a few of that afternoon's parade of Amtrak San Diegans (now Pacific Surfliners), Metrolink commuters, and BNSF freights. Looking down at the tracks from the short bluff at the park, I spotted a couple of college-aged surfers playing "chicken" with the trains. I yelled down at them how dangerous that was, and advised them to back away from the ROW and to give these 90 mph trains a wide berth, otherwise they would be looking at trespassing and endangerment charges. One of the little snots yelled up quite a few epithets, and said that his daddy was a powerful attorney who would "sue the s**t out of anyone f*****g with him". I used the payphone at the park to call the Sheriffs who do the policing in that area under contract. The Deputies came and arrested the two creeps, and took my statement since I readily agreed to testify against them. Between that day and the day of their court appearance, the one little jackass's slimeball scumbag attorney/daddy managed to bribe someone in the County Clerk/Recorder's Office to give out my home phone number, and subsequently began a campaign of telephone harassment to try to get me to recant what I had seen. He also threatened my then boss that he would use his "influence" to badly affect us. My boss wound up having to file a number of complaints against that crooked Shylock on our behalf. The two college-boys were found guilty, but they received such a ridiculously light "slap on the wrist", that I seriously doubt that either of them really learned anything from it, especially since their wealthy daddy's paid both of their fines. [:(!]
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