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Jul. 31st, 2006 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickIt's illegal in Bedford County to write bad checks. You can prosecute assholes who give you bad checks UNLESS, and this is both (a) important and (b) not written down anywhere so that you can only find out about it when it happens to you, UNLESS that bad check is for rent and/or deposit on an apartment.
So, y'know, the seven hundred and fifty dollar rubber check that the cunt at 633 gave us? That one? We were told by the district attorney that he "declines to prosecute bad checks for rent" and so we can't do a fucking thing about it. Since this was the first time we'd ever gotten a bad check for rent that was not made good, we didn't KNOW that our district attorney "declined to prosecute" bad checks for rent. Bad checks for all other things are okay, though. You can prosecute those in Bedford County, just not bad checks for rent. Apparently the choice of which bad checks to prosecute is a matter of preference for the district attorney and if he (or she, but ours is a guy) does not feel it's a prosecute-worthy matter, you're up the fucking creek without a paddle. Huzzah!
This has been your daily helping of and justice for all.
So, y'know, the seven hundred and fifty dollar rubber check that the cunt at 633 gave us? That one? We were told by the district attorney that he "declines to prosecute bad checks for rent" and so we can't do a fucking thing about it. Since this was the first time we'd ever gotten a bad check for rent that was not made good, we didn't KNOW that our district attorney "declined to prosecute" bad checks for rent. Bad checks for all other things are okay, though. You can prosecute those in Bedford County, just not bad checks for rent. Apparently the choice of which bad checks to prosecute is a matter of preference for the district attorney and if he (or she, but ours is a guy) does not feel it's a prosecute-worthy matter, you're up the fucking creek without a paddle. Huzzah!
This has been your daily helping of and justice for all.
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Date: 2006-07-31 04:50 pm (UTC)I mean, checks for rent are typically for large dollar values, so you'd think that'd make it a juicier prospect for prosecution than something piddly and small.
Maybe it's because people need to live somewhere even if they can't afford to pay the rent. But that's really *not* a good precedent to set.
On the other hand, it is probably for the best that it's not written down anywhere because otherwise assholes would be bouncing rent checks like a rubber ball factory.