Chronicles of Twatrick: "Head in the sand" edition.

If Lloydminster's Patrick Ross thinks he has problems right now, let me present you with another one that is going to make any legal action he files really, really difficult to justify to any judge.

It was back on Oct. 14 (two full months ago) that Patrick tweeted the currently pinned tweet on his abusive, harassing "@OutlawTory" account, and Oct. 18 when he tweeted his very last tweet on that account, deciding to take his idiocy exclusively to his hilariously childish, alternative "@dragonfireideas" account. And why is this going to cause trouble for Patrick? I'm glad you asked.

Given that Patrick was engaging with numerous critics on his Outlaw Tory account, that is where people had an expectation that, if they wanted Patrick to know something, they could tweet and tag that account and he would see it. So why would he suddenly abandon it? Easy.

Plausible deniability.

Quite simply, what Patrick is trying to do is, when the situation arises, to be able to claim that he was unaware of something. I am not making this up because he's done this a number of times with me over the years -- vanish from social media or stop responding to e-mails, for the sole purpose of being able to say later, "Gosh, Your Honour, I had no idea ... if only someone had told me."

That is exactly what is happening here -- having tangled with countless other Twitterers on his Outlaw Tory account, Patrick has suddenly stopped having anything to do with it so that, in court, he thinks he can make the argument that all sorts of things people were trying to tell him only just recently came to his attention. He's done it before, and that's what he's doing now.

I'm just pointing this out, and I will leave it to others to ponder what sort of deep shit Patrick will be in if he tries to claim that he was, for months, unaware of something significant, only to have numerous people be able to prove that he was being tagged sufficiently such that he simply cannot plausibly claim ignorance of particular events.

I'd explain why that's kind of important in the context of a defamation action, but that would spoil the surprise.