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Originally Posted by carterbeauford
finally met one of these guys the other day. he rolled into my place of business in a Buick and served some papers. most of the people named on the papers were no longer there, so I gave him their addresses, cleared a few things up for him and sent him on his way.
not good enough, he wanted my name, address and phone number. I gave him my name. not good enough. need your address and phone number. I said unless you are a law enforcement officer or a lawyer, no go. he said I'm neither, thanked me for what help I gave him, and left. at least he was honest.
didn't even realize it was a constable until later on. looked to me like an old dude in a Buick, never identified himself or anything. is it procedure for them to roll in, not identify themselves, serve papers and start asking questions?
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pretty much yes. I was at my buddies car stereo shop once when one came in to serve papers because he was being sued by a plumbing company who screwed him over so he wouldn't pay. anyway at that point my friend said screw it, and went to get a check for the whole $140 but while the constable was waiting he was taking inventory on all his items and just started being a dick trying to get behind the counter and such, I didn't know this guy from a hole in the ground so I wasnt gonna let him near the register and stuff as my friend told me to hold down the fort while he hit the bank. so I started to get into it with him, asked him to stand outside and he said no he had a right to be there, I asked to see a warrant he said he didn't need one to serve papers and I said no but once your asked to leave you must comply, and since you didn't your now tresspassing, so I picked up my phone to call my stepdad(an officer in that township) so he came over and tresspassed him, because he wouldn't leave the inside of the store to wait for the cash. Then he wouldn't take the money and left , never did another thing out of that magistrate office.
With that story told, I do know 1 or 2 good constables who are some of the hardest working people I know, so they aren't ALL bad. Just 95% or so