drama... drama... drama...

whew, lots of it going on this past weekend...

so on friday, i get in the mail a subpoena to testify as a witness for the state of maryland against some dude i don't know... i had no clue as to what it could have been about, and to top it off, the court date is scheduled right in the middle of my florida vacation... boy was i pissed... some dirtbag has screwed up, and i'm getting screwed for it... so immediately, i call the court to find out what it is about, and to see if i can get the date changed... well, lo and behold, no one is in the office at 3:59 on a friday afternoon... so i have to wait all weekend to find out what it's about... stewing the whole time and worrying about having to change my vacation plans...

so first thing monday morning, i call the court again... this time someone was able to help me... they caught the guy that stole my license plates!!! woohoo!!! they ask if i would be coming to court that day, and i explain that i would like to, but will be out of town at that time... no problem she says... we'll just reschedule the court date to a time that will be more convenient for you... i'm so psyched... for once the justice system is working... and on my side, no less... now if only this dude doesn't get off on a technicality or something like that...

so after i talk with the court clerk, i call my mom to let her know what the whole thing was about... and she tells me of the happenings in meadowview this weekend... (little background for those who don't know the area: m'view is a small town... maybe 1500 ppl, at most...) she says that my dad, his gf (becky) and my youngest bro (nick) were attacked on friday night... i'm thinking by an animal... but no, by humans!!!

so it goes like this: the three of them were on the way home from my grandparents (5 miles from my dad's place) when dad turns off of one road onto another... there are no cars around when he pulls out, then 5 sec later, there is a car riding his ass, flashing the lights and honkin' the horn... so my dad thinks there's some emergency and pulls over to let them pass... as the car passes, the three ppl inside are flippin' dad off and shouting obsenities... dad thinks "some ppl are idiots" and pulls out, and goes on about his drive... all of the sudden, the ppl in the other car stop dead in the road and wait for dad to catch up... when he does, they would speed up and slam on the breaks all the while taking up both lanes of the road, so dad had no hope of passing them... finally, 2 miles later, dad gets to where he turns to go to his place... well the car in front pulls a u-turn in the middle of the road and comes after dad... dad lives on a really windy, rinky-dink road, and the ppl were doing everything they could to run my dad off the road...

when dad pulls into his place, before he could even get the car completely stopped, one big dude was already out of the other car, and had yanked the passenger door open... my brother was sitting in the passenger seat and was trying to kick the guy or get out and run or something... anyway, he had his legs in the door... and the big dude kept slamming the door on his legs... it takes dad a few seconds to get the car stopped, in park, out of his seat belt, and out of the car himself... he starts yelling at the guy "mother fucker, who the hell do you think you are pickin' on a defenseless 14 yr old?? you wanna fuckin' fight, i'll take ya!" and with that the guy got back in his car and they drove off...

during the attack, becky had called 911 on her cell phone... but because the attack wasn't audible 911 hung up on them... no kidding, didn't send a rescue team or police... HUNG UP!!! so, when dad, becky and nick get inside they call the local police... police say since they only got 3 of 6 digits in the tag (along with make/model of the car, and detailed descriptions of the ppl in it) there is nothing they can do to help!!! COPS REFUSE TO HELP!!! well... my sister works for a state trooper... he's appaulled by the way my family was treated, and knows that with a partial tag, and make and model of the vehicle, the ppl can be tracked down... so he's agreed to help my family... thank goodness they finally get a break...

and what's scarier, is at the same place that the ppl first ran up on dad that night, the following night, a woman was dragged out of her car and beat... there wasn't a lot of info on that attack, so no one is able to tell if it's the same ppl... pretty scary, huh? and it's even scarier that in a situation like this the authorities were of no help... hell, i feel safer here in DC than i would in SWVA right now... that just totally ruins my idea that if you live in a small community, you're more likely to be safe (and helped when in trouble) than if you lived in a big city...

well, that's all i got for today... gotta get back to pretending to work... always fun...