porsche case

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JipHEz53sU&feature=fvwrel

so the blog around late may about getting hit by a porsche is coming home to roost...

but first, i noticed (again) parking my car after a long and enjoyable taxi shift tonight, that included driving out to 'schofields' - a rural area not far from my home town in sydney's west.... it's always nice to visit home like that....

i noticed parking that there's an old cupboard left by the previous owners of my wife and i's apartment... it has handles that are uncannily the same as the handles on the bedroom suite in my parents' bedroom when i was a little child... in fact, i can still remember one day, as a four year old or so, going about with the claw on a hammer and forcibly removing all of these handles, one by one, until they were rendered useless, don't ask me why... but what's amazing is that in all my travels around the world the multitude of situations and spaces i had found myself in, whether it was the apartment of the former french ambassador to vietnam, or wherever, i never once found the same handles as the ones in my parents' bedroom, until i bought my first apartment here in auburn... what a mystery

also, since mentioning the porsche case, i never did tell anyone, in conversation, almost never, that my father was, to all extents and purposes, a lawyer, as he had finished a law degree although he never ended up making a career in that path... i still remember his two tomes on 'cases on torts'.... anyway, as a taxi driver, i can meet experts in a number of fields daily... civil engineers that know about studying meteorological records for designing freeways, lawyers, you name it...

anyway, the porsche guy, alex, that hit me, his insurance company had their credit collection agency hit me up for thirty one thousand dollars, for repairs on a seventy-five-thousand dollar car that hit me as i was pulling out from park position with no insurance in a 50kph zone (about 34mph).... they decided to settle for sixteen thousand dollars for the sake of avoiding court expenses and the expense of keeping the file open, which is common practice here in australia where property damage insurance isn't mandatory, i agreed to paying out a lump sum of sixteen thousand dollars when yesterday i finally received the witness statement from witness bushby that approached me after the accident... her statutory declaration is pretty clear in assigning blame to the porsche driver

i intend to write the credit collection agency and request a lower settlement, despite having already agreed to pay out the 16k.... and potentially taking it to court after that... unfortunately in the british legal system, even with 'contributory negligence' taken into account, even if i were found to be only 10% at fault, i run the risk of potentially thousands and thousands of dollars in court costs to pay for the insurance company's lawyers, at this point, my only way out would be to sign over my share and title deed of my wife and i's apartment solely to her name and then put my equity in said apartment into a bank account in spain under someone else's name and declare bankrupcy, i would hate to do that, but i would also hate to get shafted and pay out more than i should

sux