A couple things. First, it would appear that Lloydminster's Patrick "Nexus of Assholery High Noon Bad Company Author Actor Director Quintuple Threat The Whole Fucking Deal Kid Cash Thunderbolt $21 Burger Super Mullet Street Fighting Man" Ross has gone quiet on his Twitter "OutlawTory" account. Commenter "RogueNerdOne" -- in reality one Peter Skinner who Patrick recently (and rather unwisely) sued for defamation despite Patrick being an undischarged bankrupt who has no right to initiate legal actions -- opined that this is because Patrick was being mocked so roundly on that account that he bailed to lick his wounds.
No, that's not it.
I can assure you from personal experience that whenever Patrick disappears from view, it's because he later wants to be able to claim that he was unaware of something. In this case, since numerous of Patrick's mortal enemies were pointing out to him his lack of standing to sue anyone, if he responded to such jibes, those responses could be used in court to prove that Patrick was aware of his transgressions, whereupon it would go very badly for him indeed. Hence, Patrick's vanishing act, so he could come back later, whining, "What? Gosh, I had no idea, if only someone had told me!"
That this is what is happening is obvious from Patrick's redoubled efforts to be a total douchebag on his other Twitter account, "dragonfireideas", which means that if you want to get his attention, you should tag him there until he realizes the futility of his dodging and weaving, and returns to his primary account, knowing that the game is up.
And speaking of the game being up, it is distinctly possible that collection efforts against Lord Baron Twatrick von Loadenhosen might commence far earlier than I thought. The original estimate was that it would take SK sheriffs a couple months to get down to our recent filing. However, because we previously filed a collection order for a few thousand in cost awards against Patrick, my coruscating SK lawyer is checking if we can simply piggyback our more recent filing on top of the earlier one. After all, since the only difference between the two filings is the amount, it would seem to make sense to enforce the two simultaneously, so we'll find out shortly if they're willing to do that. If so, enforcement could begin literally any day now, with hilarious consequences.
I don't know how the collection enforcement process works, but I don't think The Man has any obligation to notify Patrick when it starts. Patrick has already been served with our filings, so he knows collection is coming. Beyond that, I don't think the sheriffs have any responsibility to give Patrick a heads-up before freezing and emptying his bank accounts, whereupon Patrick might learn of this only when he tries to pay the bill for another $21 "Better than Fred"s house burger in Grande Prairie and finds his debit card de-activated.
I just thought some of you might want to know all this.
P.S. As we've discussed here on previous occasions, there are actually some benefits to the collection process not starting for a couple months.
First, now that the interest rate on the outstanding amount is increasing at 5 per cent as opposed to the earlier 2 per cent, Patrick's $100K+ debt to me can now be viewed as a moderately good investment. Assuming that I eventually squeeze out of Patrick every dollar he owes me, the fact that what he owes me is going up over $5,000 a year is better than what I'd get from any normal savings account.
On top of that, as long as Patrick keeps working at his Northern Alberta contract, he is building up a history of both income and expenses, all of which he will be required to turn over once collection starts, whereupon I will see not only what money is coming in, but where it's all going (besides $21 house burgers in Grange Prairie).
Finally, given Patrick's history, it's safe to assume that he will be as unforthcoming as possible, meaning that once he refuses to reveal his financial situation, this will escalate to the SK Sheriffs Voluntary Questionnaire and, after Patrick refuses to co-operate, to the SK Sheriffs Mandatory Questionnaire, which will require Patrick to attend in person to answer any and all questions under oath which, given Patrick's contempt of the legal process and his unswerving belief that he knows all the legal loopholes available to him, opens up the distinct possibility of perjury and criminal charges.
Did I mention that Patrick had the chance to get out of all of this years ago with just an apology and paying my at-the-time legal fees of less than $10,000? Yeah, I think I mentioned that.
The road not taken.
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Now that his vexatious million-dollar lawsuit is predictably failing, I wonder what pathetic tactic Twatrick will use to try to delay or get out of this next. A sane, intelligent person would have realized they were out of options years ago. However, we will say that Twatsy is a fascinating innovator with stupidity and sociopathy.
ROD: Let me give you a moderately serious answer to that.
Until now, Patrick has relentlessly argued complete nonsense, insisting that he was in the right, and that he didn't have to pay, and that he knew the law, and that I committed fraud and perjury to get my judgment so it's a "nullity" and lots of other idiocy, as long as he was just spewing all of that all over social media. However, that all changed every time he got to court, where the judge had no patience with Patrick's know-it-all bloviating, and kicked his ass, which should have taught Patrick that all of that bloviating, while potentially persuasive to truly stupid people on Twitter, did not translate well to the courtroom.
The perfect example of that was my last legal victory, when Patrick submitted a 65-page affidavit of sheer idiocy, like "Well, CC said this about Richard Evans in 2009, and he said this to Stageleft in 2008, and he replied to someone named Sandman, and then he ...". It was appallingly stupid and off-topic, to the point where the judge dismissed all that rubbish as "baseless and scandalous," and awarded me enhanced costs. What this means is that he's totally out of road in terms of legal tricks, and that's where the Sheriffs come in.
Once the collection process starts, it will be enforced by men. Big men. With guns. And those men (or, not to be sexist, possibly women) will have no patience with Patrick standing at his front door, whining, "Well, it turns out that CC's judgment is a 'nullity', and you should read his blog post from 2009, hang on, I'll print it off for you, and besides, he called me names, and that's harassment, and ..."
I think you get the idea. No one cares what Patrick thinks anymore. This has all gone way over his head, and all he can do now is watch while I take all his stuff for the next several years.
Thus the characterization of his behaviour as a form of sociopathy. He doesn't seem to have developed intellectually or emotionally past the per-adolescent stage where there is are people, forces and things out there in an objective world that is not defined by his will, preferences or beliefs. THAT'S going to be the real crash for him. He seems to have a pretty marginal life as it is, which he no doubt explains to himself as a consequence of his heroic iron will and a bold indifference to the society of inferiors. I don't think he has the cognitive or emotional tools to deal with the collapse of an entire world view, which is what's now knocking on his door. Could be very ugly indeed.
Anon@10:36: I think your most relevant observation is that Patrick sees life only through the lens of his feeling of superiority to his fellow man. Numerous people have commented on his obsession to "win" arguments on social media; every single exchange he ever gets into on Twitter ends with his proclaiming victory based on his clearly superior intellect. And the ends of his arguments generally involves some sort of grade school taunt like, "Wow, I sure am smarter than you!"
Other people see success as, say, getting a college degree, and buying a home, and getting married, and having kids, and maybe writing a book, and starting their own company, all sorts of things. At the age of 40, Patrick has done absolutely *none* of the above. None. He has accomplished absolutely nothing of any significance -- all he has going for him is his relentless obsession to "win" arguments on social media.
He has nothing, and I'm going to make sure he spends the rest of his life that way.
We're all the heroes of our own autobiographies, and we all find ways to interpret the world and the other people in it that sustain that picture of "Me As The Good Guy". When that self-image and actual reality diverge too greatly, a mature adult will examine and adjust the self image. A sociopath reinterprets the universe to maintain themselves at the moral and heroic centre of it.
It's reminiscent of an early Christian orrery depicting planetary and stellar motion in a geocentric universe. It CAN actually be done, but you have to hypothesize an extraordinary and completely illogical set of irregular concentric and transparent spheres with the stars and planets affixed to their interiors, occasionally weaving, dipping and reversing courses.
OR, you can assume a heliocentric universe, and everything suddenly makes perfect sense.
Similarly, Patrick could suddenly blink and say: "My God, I've been an irresponsible, egocentric and deluded wastrel who's thrown away half his life. THAT'S the problem."
But like our medieval cosmographer, I suspect he will find that too great a leap.
Anon @ 1:10: I remember clearly reading about how ancient astronomers defended their geocentric universe: "Well, we can explain retrograde motion if we put that planet on an epicycle with an eccentric deferent and an equant point ..."
Yeah, that ended well.
Anonymous @ 1:10: Based loosely on what I've been able to observe of Patrick's behaviour, the odds are very good that he will never make that leap of insight without considerable professional help.
Heard from the lawyer.
We have to file a motion to dismiss, so if/when there are penalties for Patrick, they can be levied at that time by the overseeing Justice.
Based on procedure alone we could have it kicked because Twitter is _not_ a method of service acceptable in Alberta. No ands, ifs, or buts about it. The legaleze of it all surrounds initial service and IF substitution of service was sought out, email and Facebook are usually the first options. There's no guarantee a person will see what's posted to Twitter or other "non-broadcast" mediums. Twitter and Instagram have _not_ been added to the acceptable means of service in the terms of broadcast medium.
If seems my case may be the one heard before all others where this is being argued. We may get to define this, because the Judge in Ontario that allowed Patrick's motion before has been reversed, but Patrick will _never_ show that. It's about bravado with him. It's attention seeking.
Well he's going to get it. By highlighting all the inaccuracies in the SoC, the blatant lie in the SoC and simply his inability to file the SoC will lend to our argument to have him labelled a vexatious litigant. I'm going this extra mile because I want to make sure Patrick can't do this again to me, or anyone for that matter. In my opinion his life isn't worth cupping shit in one hand and clapping, let alone a million dollars.
I will be filing my response on Monday morning, serving Patrick later that day in Lloydminster. If he's not there, not our issue. Patrick put his Lloyd address for service. Of course, we will not be attending in person and will instead opt for a Cisco meeting or phone call hearing due to distance from GP. I don't want to be within 50 feet of Patrick.
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