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and this is by BABYWCCHS the Voice of Charleston. I'm Jeff Jenkins with Harvey
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Payton or the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro. It's Thursday morning. We're on
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the air, and that it means you can give us a call. Three
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oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three four three four five fifty
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eight fifty eight. Harvey, good morning, how you doing well. I'm
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doing quite well. That's uh. You know on these almost fall spring mornings
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like we have. We had a false spring afternoon yesterday. It was gorgeous
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and I got a dose to the spring fever, took a dog out for
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a long walk. But you know, it's a little overcast. It's an
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easier drive at Charleston when you've got a little bit of an overcast morning,
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because if you hit that sun coming eastbound, it's really especially get around the
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Institute Hill there when you're looking due west or coming down I sixty four almost
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due east into Charleston before the bridge. But just lovely in about twenty minutes,
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twenty five minutes from right down in the middle of days valley to here.
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And actually during the day, I mean our office is in Nitro,
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and you know we take clients. Our clientele is all over southern West Virginia,
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southeastern Ohio, Charleston, Saint Auban's Cross Lanes of course, mostly a
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lot of clients from Putnam County, hurric and Winfield, Poker, Buffalo.
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But if you're in downtown Charleston in the middle of the day and you get
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in your car at an office downtown and drive to Arveston and Nitre, it's
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going to take twenty minutes. I noticed that. Of course, I'm a
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fanatic about noticing the time because it's convenience. People go where things are convenient.
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So Monday we had to be in Morgantown. I had to be in
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Morgantown early in the afternoon. He had a meeting at the Well. The
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WDU now has a freestanding art museum and they were looking for a new museum
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director. So we had interviews on Monday, and I'm on the advisory council.
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So it was a trip to Morgantown and left Tays Valley on the way
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to Morgantown. By the time we got to Charleston, and this was after
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ten because I was going to stop over here Iron Blacks office to have him
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look at a too thing he'd worked on, it was twenty one minutes.
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And that's ten o'clock in the morning. Yeah, that's from deep that's from
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the Militay Valley. Nitro is closer by the way. I saw in the
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paper this morning, the Gazette that a business. I guess there's a distillery,
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Capitol City Distillers, that was located in the old security building there at
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the end of Capitol Street. Capitol and the Boulevard, which I always wondered
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when he opened that they might have a great product, but how do you
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get there? There really isn't a much parking. You can park across the
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street on the river bank, but that's a hard intersection across the street.
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I think that's why the Union building there has never really caught on with Alternative
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US. It's just there. It's a tough spot. It is a tough
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spot. So the gentlemen they're closing their doors and looking for another location.
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Maybe you know the city has shifted its emphasis. It's the Slock Plaza,
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Fife Street or whatever it's called. Now we're in Elk City. Well,
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I've got a word for the the estabsment Nitro. Nitro called down and talked
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to Kim Reid at the Nitro land Reuse Agency. We've got land and I'm
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sure there's some buildings around Nitro and you're going to find the rents are far
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more reasonable and the city is at least as easy, if not easier to
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deal with. We have for new businesses, we've got to be an O
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tax exemption. It extends over a period of time. So uh, if
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the security building at the end of Capitol Street on the boulevard wasn't welcoming as
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you thought. Nitro will gladly open their arms. So if you're listening,
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call Nitro. Here you go. K I thought about that yesterday. Uh.
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You know, Nitro has been like a little hidden gem for a long
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time. I mean I grew up in Saint Albans and Nitro was considered sort
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of the stinky place across the river. The big driver Saint Aubins was the
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railroad with Ceno and Carbide somewhat some bit of DuPont, but you know,
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Carbte had the big works at Institute, and good Rich Golf had the rubber
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plant over there, and then of course you had the FMC Carbide complex in
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South Charleston. I would say probably twenty percent of the workforce in Saint Albans
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directly associated with Carbide. Across the river in Nitro, you didn't pay much
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attention, you know, if you went across the Interstate bridge once it was
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opened in the late sixties, the smell was bad hydrogen sulfide. But he
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had Monsanto, which was probably the highest paying industrial operation in the valley,
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and that was just it was a union shop. It was specialized work because
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they had a lot of high temperatures, a lot of high pressures in their
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processes, and so people tended. You know, if a man went into
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work at Monsana after the Second World War and got through the six months on
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the yard, got in a good hourly position, they could walk out thirty
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five years later with a million dollars right from stock and centered plans. We
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also had FMC and Ohio Apex, a lot of prosperity. So you know,
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when I first went over to Nitro to practice law in seventy seven,
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Oh, we had an old optometrist, Doc Warner. He said, you
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know, it's just businesses rough down here. You can't make a living down
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here. Well, Sam Kaufman made a living down there the other day he
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said, Well, Warner told me the same thing when I asked him and
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nobody that was the mantra from the professional Oh no, no, no,
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you don't want to just want to keep the competition out because everybody in Nitro
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was making money. It's been good to me. You know, we're under
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lawyers now, there's just two of us, me and Tom. Jerry McCormick
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had an office up the street and he passed away and Luke Michael had just
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a dean of property work and then that into the valley. Luke passed away
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some years ago. Saint Albans at one time had I think twelve lawyers practicing
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there when I got out of law school, and now there's one and a
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half, which is not good for the community. But I was just looking
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around town. It changed a lot in the forty I guess it would be
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forty seven years, right, That's a long time to be in one place.
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And we had some rough times, you know, when Risco's closed down,
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mon Santo pulled out there. There was a point of time there.
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The railroad I actually cut back their operations a good bit. But we're on
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the rebound, you know. So mister Charleston Capital City Distillery, come on
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down. We'd like to have that. We'd like to have another deli restaurant,
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maybe one of these craft brew establishments to go with the other shops and
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merchants that are there. We've got, you know, I guess Larry Dawson
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was on the other day and talked about the change in his dealership. He's
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he's leased his business location to Boon Motor, says Richard Stevens and his company,
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but carry on the same type business. That's what's good for business,
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is good for Nitro and good for the valley. You know. Of course
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we've got any hand both the Putnamankinawa counties, which is really good, really
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good. So today, uh, I guess there's some news. Yesterday broke
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in the paper. There was an advertisement in the morning paper here the gazette.
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Uh under the legal ads which I obsess and look at every day because
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I'm a throwback to an older age of lawyers, and I noticed, you
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know, here's this, uh, the Greenberg Sporting Club. I noticed a
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foreclosure which is pursued to Adida Trust. Now you want to go to the
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lines, Sure, let's got it. We've got a call. Call.
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That's good, lou Anne, you're on the air. Go ahead, lou
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Inn, good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Go ahead,
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win, go ahead and say it again. Go ahead, We hear you.
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Go ahead, Louinn, thank you for taking my call. I'm calling
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for legal advice as to how to handle a situation that occurred on Monday morning.
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I live on Tyler Mountain and my family had a wholesale meat company for
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many years. My dad died and the business was closed. My brother inherited
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the property and established a different business, but we had three barn cats left
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on the property. The barn was torn down. The cats were essentially homeless,
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so I built a nice dog kennel with a roof and a floor.
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I had two dog igloos with straw in them, so it was a nice
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humane situation. They were very comfortable there and during the winter covered it with
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tarps so that it was cozy and I could come and go when I was
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feeding them or changing the litter boxes, leave the door open. And they
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were so comfortable there that was their home, that they would not leave.
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On Monday morning, a pack of violent dogs, there were three dogs,
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two black and one white, attacked the kennel. They ripped the tarp off
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the kennel. They broke the metal frame of the kennel. They tore the
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chain link fence away from the frame, entered the kennel and killed my cats.
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The cats were old, they were fifteen or sixteen. They were gentle.
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They were close to the end of their life and I really wanted them
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to die a natural, peaceful death. And I am a committed animal owner.
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I'm always with my animals to the very end, and they died a
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very violent death, and I'm sure that they suffered. They were mutilated.
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When I got there, I spoke with well. We captured images of the
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dogs on a field camera, and a person that was coming to work at
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my brother's company saw the dogs on the property but did not witness them killing
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the cats. So I have pictures of the dogs, and I have a
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witness that saw the dogs on our property, and I have posted this on
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the Tower Mountain page, and I've offered the reward for people that will help
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me to identify the owners of the dogs. I spoke with a humane officer
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who said, if I can identify the owners, all they can do is
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go talk to the owner and tell them they must contain their dogs. But
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the dogs have been seen after Monday's murder running loose in the community, so
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these are dogs that the owner is not likely to contain. I'm wondering what
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my legal options are. I'm tired of being told just suck it up.
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You know, life sucks, you know. I think people that irresponsible need
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to have some consequence. And I'm not talking about money money. What I
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really would like to do is to shame them, to make it known who
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they are in the community and make them feel some degree of remorse. It
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breaks my heart that the animals suffered the way they did and that I could
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not be there to protect them. And in fact, on Monday night,
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I dreamed all night of my cats coming to me needing help, and I
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could not get to them. So I'm interested in knowing if I have any
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legal options, and I know it will be a negative result for me,
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I will pay more in the long run than I get that there will be
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some satisfaction knowing that my cats did not die in vain. And I'm also
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concerned that if these are aggressive dogs, they will kill other people's animals and
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may attack children in the community. So I'm calling really for some guidance from
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you. Listen to you every week and respect your opinions. So what,
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Unless you have questions of me, I'll hang up and listen to your answer
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on the air. The other thing I was going to ask it very first
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was Edison VELDI, Taylor, your family is that who had to meet play
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out there? It's okay, I got you Milburt Buch out there on that
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little tower. Yeah, that's that's my dad. He died twenty years ago.
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Yeah, really really nice man, I'll tell you Milburn mckewell, I
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think so too, But I'm not objective. Well I could have been objective.
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So let's start at to begin. Thanks, Louanne will take you down.
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You can listen off the air. Their'st The most important thing you have
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to do is identify with some reasonable degree of certainty the animals themselves and who
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owned them. You know, there are feral packs of dogs, and may
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there may well be in some of those more wooded areas between Little Twler and
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Big Tyler out in the Crosslands area here northwest of Charleston. If it's a
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pack of feral dogs, it's they're feral dogs. They're just they roam.
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They're not accountable to anyone, nor is anyone accountable for them. If they
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worry she are lives stock or domestic animals, and you perceive them in the
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act of that sort of attack, the law allows you to kill them.
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Now that wouldn't be an option for you as an animal lover. And you
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know we've had trouble over in Saint Albans on a little farm that we had
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over there where my daughter now lives with some dogs getting in and they're killing
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the chickens. But you know, I don't want to shoot a dog or
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any other animal. Really. Now, if you can identify the owners with
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reasonable certainty, I think the humane officer is correct. The first time that
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this happens, they can talk to them and warn them. After that,
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if the rampage continues and other animals are injured or killed, or children or
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adults are threatened, then there's a procedure whereby vicious dogs can be taken and
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ultimately destroyed. Again, that may not be an option you want to con
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There is, however, a statute in West Virginia that imposes strict civil liability,
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that is money damages on the owner or keeper of any dog who allows
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that animal to run at large and inflicts any damage on person or property.
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Now, the dogs tore up your kennel, they ripped off the wire,
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they tore off the tarpouli in the head, and there for protection that has
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value. That's an volume of damages for which you can present a claim.
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You'll find that most homeowners policies or farm insurance policies cover those things. For
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the owner of the dog. They can pay you Now that's just money.
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That's not going to bring your cats back or take away the pain of the
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manner in which they died. The law, I'll just say, has no
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real solution for the social impact. It's as a a pet gets hit by
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a car, maybe by somebody speeding. An animal gets loose and kills a
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pet. The law doesn't place a lot of value from the standpoint of civil
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damages on the death of a domesticated animal. I mean, until a Supreme
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Court decision of about twenty years ago, there was no recourse at all.
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If the animal wasn't listed for property tax purposes, and most of the domestic
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animals are not, then there was no recovery at all. The question of
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whether there is any recourse for the sadness and grief experienced by the owner of
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an animal, the answer at law is no. If if you witnessed,
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you know, if you're leading your cockapoo down the street, minding your own
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business, and somebody sticks their pitbull on the dog and it's killing your presence,
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be might well be a cause of action for the intentional infliction of emotional
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distress. But that's not the situation you have here. You came upon a
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scene of carnage after it had taken place. So and keep in mind,
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however, social media allows you to exercise your right of free speech to expose
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to shame, so long as what you tell is the truth or there's a
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reasonable basis in fact for what you say. If you identify the energy,
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you certainly are free to identify them, to make reasonable editorial comments that you
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feel appropriate about their conduct, and to expose that to the community. Period.
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It's a free country. So I mean, I don't know if that
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answers your question. There's not much the law can do for you. There's
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just not much the law can do for you. There's a civil remedy for
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the damage, the actual property damage, if there's anything incurred, for instance,
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maybe cremation of the animal remains that happens frequently. There are vet bills
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that were incurred that might be recoverable. Your personal emotions and feelings are not
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going to be compensated. You can. I would encourage you to, however,
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to follow up, keep up with your efforts to identify the owners and
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the animals, because the second and third time around, the animal control authorities
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can do something. If they're vicious dogs running at large, they can be
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taken into custody and ultimately, after due process to the owners destroyed. So
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I don't know. I mean as a pleased I'm glad you're listening. It's
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an honor. I mean, I know your dad does McCown meat packing.
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They were out there on little Tower for decades and decades, and I wish
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you the best. Sorry for your bad experience. I mean, I know
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that my daughter they had a rabbit hatch over on the farm. Well I
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think it was raccoons, because those little crafty devils can get into anything and
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got in and the rabbit system, which the rabbits went away. As far
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as the kids were concerned, they went to live on a farm in the
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country. But it was a pretty bad scene to clean up. It's a
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bad thing. But that's about all the law can do for you that I
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know of. Okay, all right, well, thanks, thanks for the
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coal to land. We appreciate and appreciate you listening. That's a different that's
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a different take on things. You know, the law reaches out to everybody,
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and today we got these big issues in the United States Supreme Court about
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disqualification of presidential candidates, and we've got maybe a trustees sail down in Greenbrier
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County of this exclusive high dollars sporting club. And at the same time,
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here's a real down to earth sea level human being who suffered a real significant
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loss in their life, which unfortunately is just one of those areas where the
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law, the law doesn't go there because we've made a societal cultural decision.
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We cannot address every economics sts social ill and the varying attitudes of folks about
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pets and animals are so diverse that the law's not going to get into it,
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period, over and above dollars and cents. And that's just because you
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The voice of Trust and Harvey Payton's with me of the Peyton Law Firm in
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Nitro here on five ady whs and number to call three or four three four
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five fifty eight fifty eight three or four three four five fifty eight fifty.
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So we're talking about property that the governor and his family own, and they
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owe Carter Banking Trust in Virginia three hundred million dollars, and Carter Bank and
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Trust is trying to get some of their money right well, The allegation,
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of course, by Carter Bank is that they are a three hundred billion dollars.
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The governor, as he made plain in his press conference yesterday, disputes
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that this action in Greenbrier County is actually separate in the part as I read
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it, from those attempts to enforce confessions of judgment. This is a mortgage,
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you know, like when you buy your house. If you don't have
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the money to pay cash for your house, you go to a bank or
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lender and they front you the money and at the closing they give you the
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money to pay the seller and you receive a deed and then you sign what's
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called a deed of trust. You actually convey legal title to your home to
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a third party who's a trustee, usually a lawyer or a bank representative,
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who holds legal titles subject to the terms of the trust. The terms are,
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if you pay us back and you keep it insured and you keep it
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in good repair, we will release the lean that this creates when your loan's
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paid off. If you don't pay us back, we can sell your property
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on the courthouse steps to get our money. That's just a contractual at obligation
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between arms length parties. There really isn't a lot of defense to adeda trust
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fraud. You know, fraud's a defense to everything. But you know,
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I would assume that when the governor says more things are going to happen,
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perhaps an attempt would be made by the Greenbrier Sporting Club to go to the
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Circuit Court of Greenbrier County and asked for some sort of an injunction saying that
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there's either fraud or inequitable conduct related to the execution of this trust and the
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sale, and asked to have the sale deferred or delayed. The ultimate defense
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to the foreclosure on a data trust for all bankruptcy. I assume they could
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put the Greenbrier Sporting Club into some sort of reorganization which is an automatic stay
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of any enforcement procedures until the bankruptcy court can sort it out. But this
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is really a little more immediate, uh, I think, in pressing problem
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for the justice interests and what's going on down in Virginia, Because deeds of
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trusts are self executing. If you don't pay, we can sell if you
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don't pay, and it's made plane and any reasonable business person knows, and
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you know, I do some real estate work. Used to do a little
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more and always make a point to stop say now, okay, you have
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to sign this. Now, before you sign this, you have to understand
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there's a lot of words. You can sit here and read every word if
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you want to, and we'll take it a little while to do that.
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Or that's why I'm going to tell you. You pay the money back,
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you pay the interest, you keep it insured, and you pay the taxes.
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When you pay off the loan or sell the house, you'll get a
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release. But at the back of your mind, you've always got to know
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if you don't make the payments, they can sell your house. I mean,
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that's made plain and I would look at this. Some immediate actions is
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going to have to take place if you get down. What happens is whoever
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the trustedis goes down on the courthouse steps. Now it's going to take a
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long time because they read the entire notice, and the notice was about five
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columns. Yeah, it was a lot in the gazette, the description of
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the property that's being sold. And once the trustee knocks it off, then
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they have to file a report of the sale within thirty days. They sign
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a deed conveying the property to a third party. Now, I will say
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this, the most common purchaser to trustees sales is a lender themselves, because
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the lender they've got the lean I mean they won't generally, they don't knock
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them off on the courthouse steps for any less than the outstanding balance. The
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lender will just bid it in and they'll take title of the property and try
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and sell it on the open market for what they can get to reduce the
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debt, sometimes at a loss, sometimes on a short sale. But what
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are their rights? Harvey? And I think we've got a third I wonder
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if we'll hear from the sporting club property owners themselves, who you know who
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maybe their properties might be damaged by well, the sale of some of those
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properties, the golf course and the clubhouse and those type of things eyes wide
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open, I mean those are not standard homes and subdivisions. I mean,
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you're talking about the Steed golf course worth probably four or five million dollars across
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that much to build it. You've got a clubhouse down there, there's probably
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a couple of million dollars. From my recollection. I've only been in it
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a couple of times. You know, when you buy one of those properties.
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If you've got eight or ten million dollars to buy a house or buy
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a lot and build a house, you get out and you didn't look at
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the records in Greenberg County online. You take subject to whatever the outstanding leans
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and preconditions are that we're put on record prior to you acquired ownership. So
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shame on you. Now they may try, but the burden's pretty heavy on
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a subsequent property. Here, you buy a piece of property, it's subject
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to adida trust. Where you buy into a development where the common areas and
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the amenities are subject to a lean, Well you know that right, And
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so you think, well do I trust the developer enough to take the risks.
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They'll make the payments, all right, Let's go back to the life.
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Good day, a ray from Scott Depot. You're on the rego ahead.
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Good morning morning, Good morning. Well I got a little different thing
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I asked you about there. I've had a medical problem with a medical device,
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a pacemaker. I had one in ten years ago and I just had
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to replaced about a year ago, and about a month ago they had to
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take it out. It infected my whole body. That is, pacemaker was
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infected. Do I have a legal right to go for them? Yeah,
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you may well have one. You may well have not, perhaps not against
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the the physician, the electrophysiatrist, whoever implanted the device, but somebody made
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it, and you know some of those. And I've got a particular interest
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in this, to be honest with you, Ray, because I've been getting
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worked up over the last month or so. I might have to get a
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pacemaker. My pulse is kind of slow. And it's not a big deal.
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I mean, I think you know, it's not a great big procedure,
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and it's something you need, you need it. But some of these
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devices have a history of either detaching leads or irritation internally the causes infection.
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So yeah, I think it's certainly worth your while. You know, we
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never charge anybody for a consultation. If you want to call the office,
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as for Tom, get some infoul on what type device you've got. We
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can look and see. Sometimes there will be some national litigation pending or at
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least some reports of similar occurrences. So yeah, I would. I would
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if it laid you up and you were overwhelmed by an infection, you know,
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you got to have a lot of antibiotics that can cause neuropathies and give
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you trouble that you didn't need, you didn't sign up for. So yeah,
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the answer is yes in a yes, mate, I spent twenty three
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days in the hospital, my goodness, and I'm still not out of lefty
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week and breathless, and so I'm gonna come in and see you. You
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know who I am. You know who I am? Yep, Okay,
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right, okay, appreciate the car. Appreciate the car. Rade three oh
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four, three four five fifty eight fifty eight, three oh four, three
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four fives. Yeah. Always look, you know that in the background of
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a lot of these medical devices. But other you know, you go and
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a service provider and good faith gives you a product or performs a procedure.
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But remember somebody made that right and everything. You take a look at what
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happened out in Alaska Airlines, right, there's a company in was it home
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a Hall and Boeing pulled out. They got out of Nebraska because after they
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sold the McDonald douglas, so they merged with McDonald douglas. McDonald douglas took
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over management and they're bean counters, they're not safety airline people like Bowing was.
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They shut the plant down in Kansas or in Nebraska, wherever it was,
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wherever spirit is now, and they turned all the fuselage manufacturer over to
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a subcontractor. Then they moved it east to South Carolina to keep it away
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from the unions, to completely eliminate the possibility of a highly highly skilled workforce.
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This fuselage was shipped to Alaska Airlines. The bolts were never put in
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the door plug. We now understand. Well, for those folks who were
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on that flight, I'd say they're the value of their claim against the manufacturer
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just went up significantly. No excuse for it. So that's one of the
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important things about It's like Ray, did just ask a lawyer, you know
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we don't charge and I actually see a lot on TV ads. Well,
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there's no charge, no cost unless we recover for it. Well, that's
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the way we work. You know, lawyers who work for the general public,
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who practice law at sea level, who have an office that John Q
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citizen can walk in and ask, do I have a claim against the biggest
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corporation in the world. You're not going to be charged for that? Are
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We're here to help people, so we can listen to the facts. We
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can investigate the facts and tell you if you have maybe have a case.
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If you do, then we undertake the case and we take the risk of
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working and never being paid and never being reimbursed the expenses in exchange for some
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percentage of what we recover if we recover it. And just like Ray,
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if you ask, the lawyer knows all the questions. Answer what are the
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points along the line here where someone may evote a duty that was violated And
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it's not always at the end point of the transaction, somewhere back up the
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chain, like an engineering you know, if it's an engineering defect, the
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law is that that engineer is a duty not only to the person that he
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did the plans for, but to the public at large, anybody who may
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use that structure or facility. So I mean, I can't stress enough.
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If you think you have a claim or you think you have an issue and
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you want to ask a question, call it's called the Peyton Law Firm,
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or go online to Peytonlawfirm dot com and send us an email and we'll honestly
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and objectively assess your situation and it's not going to cost anything unless we think,
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well, you've got a case, then we're going to talk about what
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sited communication We've got sort of want to bring up on one thing that I've
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been listening to on the radio, the feet disputes about the opioid settlement.
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Keeping in mind the state of West Virginia had zero from these opioid manufacturers and
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distributors until a group of lawyers was hired. There's a lot of political statement
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about Patrick Moore. See I'm not going to vote for him, but they
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put out requests for proposals to see who is the most competent and able law
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firm in the world to handle the case for West Virginia, and they chose
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the number one firm, and now they're going to pay him, which is
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a significant amount of money. It's like eighty ninety million dollars, which means
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we still get almost a billion dollars. Now. I have heard a particular
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individual who's described as a quote operative say that that conduct on behalf of the
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General General wasn't truly quote conservative because he hired lawyers who are Democrats. Well,
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that doesn't have that says that being a conservative means you'll hire the second
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best or third best and maybe not get a good result just to satisfy someoney's
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partisan party registration. That doesn't make sense. That's not ideology, that's just
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raw, stupid partisanship. And I would hope that the person who's given an
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audience to say that time and time again will rapidly fade from public hearing.
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Unfortunately it often happens shortly after I leave this building. Anyway, that's my
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pitch call and ask because the Peyton Law Firm we have an office in night
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a very nice office. Actually, you can come in. Our staff's quite
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helpful. If either Tom or I are there, we'll be glad to talk
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to you that day. If you're not there, we'll get some information ork
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for a tie up. We'll call you back. We'll set an appointment.
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Send us an email at Peyton Law Firm dot com. Call us at three
35:37
oh four seven five five five five five six, and you'll talk to people
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who like today. I got a caller whose father was a friend of mine
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when I started practicing forty plus years ago, and a businessman in the Cross
35:52
Lanes area. So we've got a depth of knowledge about the area and about
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what goes on that can really help us help you do. That makes sense
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yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense again. The number at the
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office is three or four seven fifty five fifty six, three or four seven,
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five five fifty five fifty six or Peyton Lawfirm dot com. Harvey,
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good to see you, Good to see you. Maybe next week, yes,
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next week, yes, well the Tom or I will be here.
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Tom. Lets you there's going to be another day in March. Well,
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I if that was will be gone because it's the oldest grandson's last spring break
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in college, and we're going to go to Florida and go fishing in March.
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And yeah, Jim Holiday always told me how great it was when Doc
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was recruiting down in Florida. The judgment go down and Doctor, oh just
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great, great, I'm looking forward to it. ABC News is next,
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Thanks Harvey. Good seeing. ABC News is next. And this is five
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eighty w c HS.