Yesterday, I received from one of my confidential informants this recent drive-by pic of Casa Ross, with a blue Chevy Avalanche parked in the driveway. There is no apparent "For Sale" sign so one suspects this might be one of Patrick's siblings perhaps maintaining the place while the will is still being processed, who knows?
It's a few days early but I'm heading out today for a week and a half of European vacation, that being a bunch of cool stops in Spain and Morocco (where I have every intention of riding a camel). In the meantime, it will surprise precisely no one that I have heard nothing from Lloydminster's favourite bankrupt, Patrick "Atkins Cheeseburger Diet" Ross, who appears to have relocated on a somewhat permanent basis to Grande Prairie to further his mid-life career in the swamping industry.
When Patrick decides to proceed with his idiotic lawsuit against me, he knows precisely where an actual process server can deliver the papers. For the time being, I'll soak up some sun and see what Moroccan happy hour looks like.
P.S. I almost forgot ... it's now 33 months since a Saskatchewan judge told Patrick how much he owes me and jacked up the interest rate:
You can do the math.
P.P.S. If anything exciting is happening at Casa Ross in Lloydminster, drop me a note.
AFTERSNARK: I don't spend much time these days checking out Patrick's petulant, childish excuse for a Twitter account as the vast majority is little more than gleeful celebration over people he doesn't like getting beat up. However, if anyone spends any time there and sees Patrick continuing to brag over his dead-in-the-water defamation action against me, please take a screenshot or, even better, save a copy at the Internet's "Wayback Machine" since all of that is immensely useful for me when I decide to have his action dismissed, as the court is typically unimpressed with people who gloat over launching a legal action, only to not do anything with it.
"I'm Mullet Boy Patrick and I'm here to say,
Declaring bankruptcy is A-OK."
Pretend to be surprised that one of Patrick's idols is a guy who crossed a state line to kill two people.
In a recent comment, regular reader "MgS" writes of the almost wholly nonsensical filings of undischarged bankrupt Patrick Ross:
"That’s kind of the problem with a statement of claim - a claimant can put all sorts of nonsense in it, and it comes down to the court process to winnow out what’s actually relevant to the claim of libel. (And self-represented litigants are far more likely to insert huge amounts of irrelevant material into those statements)."
While I agree with most of that, I will take minor issue with the idea that, when one files total rubbish, it is the court's job to "winnow out what's actually relevant."
When a filing originates with an actual lawyer or someone who knows the law, that filing is typically concise, focused and to the point, as it's been written by someone who wants to be taken seriously and who has taken the time to understand what the Court needs to know related to the matter at hand. As MgS suggests, self-represented litigants are more likely to submit rambling rubbish that is more like a grievance fest than a meaningful filing.
But in the latter situation, is it really the Court's job to "winnow" through all that nonsense to figure out if there is a point? That's a good question, especially with Patrick, whose submissions and Affidavits are so vacuous and irrelevant that they have been pointedly slapped down by the respective judges. In 2018, a judge made it clear that Patrick's filing weirdly tried to claim "cruel and unusual punishment" related to his bankruptcy Conditional Discharge Order:
A later submission of Patrick's was such rubbish that the judge wrote ... well, read it for yourself:
So the question is, when a judge is faced with the sort of sophomoric twaddle as that produced by Patrick, at what point is the judge within her rights to throw up her hands and say, "I'm sorry, it's not my job to parse this dreck to see if there's a point buried somewhere herein"?
Thoughts?
As a few people have observed, one of the favourite tactics of undischarged bankrupt Patrick Ross is that, regardless of the focus of whatever motion is in front of him, Patrick consistently tries to re-litigate my 2010 judgment against him, and is just as consistently pasted by the Court for doing so. Herein, I reproduce the majority of the ruling that dismissed as abandoned (after 3.5 years of no action) Patrick's appeal of the 2014 Conditional Discharge Order against him, where you can see Patrick doing what he always does:
The end result of that hearing was that I won that motion, and Patrick's moldering, three-and-a-half-year-old appeal was unceremoniously fed through a woodchipper, but I thought it was worth you seeing the utter lack of merit of Patrick's filings, and how Patrick likes to make dramatic claims in his Affidavits but is completely unable to back them up in front of a judge.
Same as it ever was.
P.S. Note how even the judge seems put off by Patrick's obsession with trying to use two-dollar words by putting Patrick's adjective of "deleterious" inside quotes.
Note also how Patrick loves to brag about how skilled he is at The Law, only to -- when push comes to shove -- plead with the Court about how he didn't understand the simple concept of who to serve with the perfected appeal and hopes the Court takes pity on him.
P.P.S. When I (eventually) file to have Patrick's current lawsuit dismissed as abandoned, you can count on my putting the above before the Court as the perfect example of how Patrick uses the legal system purely for the purpose of harassment. I'm pretty sure any judge will be more than a little interested in Patrick's history of filing actions, only to stuff them in a drawer and leave them there for years without acting on them.
