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[which_chick]

It'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.

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We deserve the same protection under the law as, say, Giant Eagle, Bedford Carpet One, SAC Motors Inc., Oralee's Golden Eagle Inn, and a slew of other local businesses, none of whom are told that they have to suck it up when presented with a bad check. This is selective lack-of-enforcement aimed at a single kind of business. Either kiting checks is wrong or it is not wrong. You can't make it *wrong* to kite a check at Giant Eagle (for groceries) but *okay* to kite a check to VHDAI (for rent).

I'm writing a letter to the local paper. :)