Friday 28 June 2013

Unjustice

CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG!              12th Edition    June 28, 2013

By Author Bryce A Baker

Unjustice

Child support is a sensitive subject. Sometimes a single parent that needs such support gets lost in the bureaucracy and struggles on their own. But I have a story that abuses that right to be financially compensated. Not because of neglect from the separated parent, but because of the need for revenge and disruption.

The divorce was settled well before this incident. The parents were married for seventeen years and had two children together, a girl and a boy. The father was apparently injured in a car accident eighteen or so years ago and hasn’t worked since. He collects twenty eight hundred dollars a month after taxes from pensions and settlement. The mom took more education and started work to assist financially.

During the later years the father was drinking and a chronic user of cannabis. The marriage broke down quickly as the two children were in their teens because of his abuse and threats. Documented are police reports of his threats of suicide in front of the children, threats and physical violence against the mom and also a police documented case where the teen daughter was grabbed by the throat by her father and was threatened with death for taking ‘moms’ side.

After the mom and daughter moved out for safety reasons the teen boy was coerced by his dad to stay. The boy had a get together with the mom and decided to maintain a relationship with her. But when he told the dad this, his ‘stuff’ was tossed into the front yard. The boy was convinced mom was bad and decided to stay at home. The mom has not had contact with her son for over four years. The daughter is in agreement that her brother is under threat by his dad and under constant monitoring by him. The father is a heavy drug user and a threat to the well-being of the boy.
When the children were seventeen, and sixteen for the boy, the parents divorced. The mom’s lawyer advised her that she had the right to half of his pensions and half the value of his two classic cars valued at a conservative number of sixty thousand dollars. She decided that since her son was with him he could keep his pensions and half his cars out of consideration for her son. The mom got sole custody of the seventeen year old daughter and as far as child support, they cancelled each other out.

The daughter moved away from home when she was eighteen and is on great terms with her mom. Not with her dad. When he found out the daughter moved out he sued the mom for child support. He had a lawyer and she was expected to pay in excess of six thousand for legal counsel. She was not in a position to afford that and represented her own case in court. This I witnessed. The judge didn’t take a thread of her testimony or her considerations during divorce. The father was awarded support for the son until he is nineteen and retroactive one year. She was unemployed, and the judge said to get a job.

I tried to get Child Protection to look at the case of the boy’s safety in that environment but because he was eighteen they declined to pursue.
The money is irrelevant in this case as far as the main issue, it is the boy’s safety.

Now considering the abuse of spouses and children I had to deal with as a Detective this case infuriates me. I have witnessed miscarriage of true justice a thousand times and this is one of them. I know for a FACT that it isn’t the money he is after but the opportunity to disrupt the mom’s life. He has nothing better to do than toke up and connive. I should also mention that his twenty six year old son from a previous marriage is living with him too. That son is addicted to morphine. Great setting for an impressionable eighteen year old!

If a parent is duly and morally responsible for child support, so be it, but in this case there is something grotesquely wrong!
I have exchanged emails with this… I can’t find a reference name disgusting enough… and he shared his intent in black and white, so I know where he stands.

Oh!!!! I should also mention the process server that came out to serve the court papers on the mom was the infamous disbarred lawyer from Vernon that is now in jail for organized crime connections.

This will not end here. I believe in true justice and JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!

Please... CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG!

Bryce A Baker
www.bryceabaker.com

Thursday 13 June 2013

Road Raging 101


CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG!           11th Edition       June 14, 2013

 By author Bryce A Baker

ROAD RAGING 101

In the beginning of my career, my duties included motor vehicle accident investigation. To those that don’t know what that is, it involves scene evaluation, witness interviews, interviews of the involved parties and the physical engineering behind the accident itself. Now to have a detailed investigation called, it meant there was a fatality. It was a gruesome duty but because of my mechanical skills it was my first posting.

The reason for this subject has been brought through constant criticism from my wife about my constant criticism of dangerous drivers. Understandably we have all gone through driving stages of stupidity but after dealing with the horrors, I find some drivers just haven’t got a clue that they are not immortal and the weapon they drive is lethal.  I don’t have to describe these acts of IQ less donuts. It’s like watching an unknowing child taunt a two ton chunk of steel and not heeding warnings that it is dangerous. No matter how many lectures I and others have given to teenage school kids, they still don’t get the picture.

It is an ordeal for my wife to take me to the grocery store. It seems they… the navigators of the shopping carts, bring their driving skills into the store with them. Blinders on, petal to the metal and hell bent for the next item on the shopping list. They take NO prisoners and fail to understand that dragging me under their grocery laden cart is not acceptable to my fragile state of mind. I feel like shooting out their tires. Maybe we need grocery cart police.

My pet peeve is tailgaters. When I rode motor bike they thought that the closer they got to my tail light the more they loved me, but after taking a hand full of marbles across their windshield the romance ended. I know it was improper of me to use marbles but ball bearings were too expensive.
Seniors and driving… I have to be careful what I say, but I am proud of my mom who is fully capable of safely driving but feels the roads are just too crazy for her to add to it. Kidding she is a good driver… Taking the freedom of mobility away from someone in their senior years is a brutal decision. They need to evaluate when it is time to park the covered wagon and take the trolley. I responded to a minor accident one time that involved an eighty five year old lady driving a big old Cadillac. She approached a courtesy intersection and failed to yield to the vehicle approaching from the right. She toasted the other vehicle. When I asked why she didn’t yield right, she replied that since she had the bigger vehicle, she had the right of way. One would assume with years of experience, common sense might be a small factor in the equation.

Just today on the highway a vehicle approached me from the rear and tailgated. Speed of the traffic was 90 to 100 km an hour. I moved over to let her pass. As she passed I noticed a young child in the front seat and a younger one in the back child seat. She took off like a shot with speeds in excess of 120. A truck was slowing for a 50 km an hour construction zone and she ever so slightly avoided a rear end collision. Now it is bad enough to be young and speed obsessed but this ‘woman’… put two young lives at risk and for what!? Let her talk to the families of road carnage and see how her actions are no different than putting a gun to someone’s head.
We all make mistakes while driving but premeditated idiocy should be grounds for sending them back to kindergarten and learn from the children.

WOW does that feel good venting ever so slightly. Now I can travel with my wife on our next trip with a revitalized verbal assault on the stupid, lame, dirt bags that jeopardize everyone’s safety!!

I can’t put a cushion on how I feel about this subject… just sorrow for the victims.

Please... CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG!

By Bryce A Baker



www.bryceabaker.com