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Nice work, now did you spend the time reading through all those pages ? Im sure to Telkom the bill was just one of those small things they owed money for...MaD said:I would have handed the pages out to the homeless people to use as fire material or toilet paper, but unfortunately the lawyers needed the document.
You wanna know how I got the 399 page legal doc? The Sheriff of the court called on the cell:
Sheriff: Hi is this Gregg Stirton
Me: Maybe. Who'm I talking to.
Sheriff: My name is [something garbled] and I have something important to give to you.
Me: Really...... what is it?
Sheriff: You will see when I give it to you. Where are you now, at your flat?
Me: Huh? How do you know where I live?
Sheriff: I'm in the area, are you at your flat or can we meet somewhere?
Me: I've just finished doing my shopping & stuff but seeing that I'm such a nice guy, maybe I could meet you somewhere. Where are you?
Sheriff: At West Beach. You know where the BP is?
Me: Ja I know where it is.. what car are you driving?
Sheriff: A white Opel Corsa.
Me: Mmmk, I drive a red Golf, looks hot, very nice mags.
Sheriff: OK, so how's 20 minutes time?
Me: Ja OK.. it better be good though!
Sheriff: OK great you're saving me an extra trip, see you there.
Me: K, cheers.
Next thing I'm sitting at the BP waiting for someone in a white Corsa.. he arrives and half stumbles out of the car, clearly struggling with the forward-pulling momentum of the sheer weight of my brand new Notice of Motion, and attached to it - a copy of it. So a good 800 pages of gumph the poor chap had to tug from his vehicle, which was at this time very relieved to have the heavy documentation (as well as the fellow) removed from its seat.
The chain of events that followed:
Receipt of Notice of Motion >> Laughter >> Bemused rage >> Phonecalls to lawyers >> Legal stuff >> more legal stuff >> Checking under the car occasionally for flashing red tracking devices >> more legal stuff >> Telkom 0wnage >> Telkom pays Hellkom's lawyers in full.
So yes at the end of the day it was definitely a waste of paper.. cost them a small fortune, and in the process created a LOT of bad publicity for them. lol, they basically paid for Hellkom's advertising and awareness! Sweet!
I skimmed through a few pages, it was interesting to see what they were thinking up. One interesting page was the one that the private investigators gave Telkom.. all incorrect information, and the addresses were 5+ years old! They said on eht one page that "we contacted Mr. Stirtons residence and questioned the lady who answered the phone as to Mr Stirton's whereabouts. She pretended to not know what we are talking about and was clearly hiding any evidence that she knew Mr. Stirton or that he resided at the premises". <<<< They called a woman who was living in my house from over 5 years ago - no bloody wonder she didn't know who I was!Person said:
Oooff.. yep.. hey if they were to have come to the table with an idea of working together to improve things then I would have been all ears.. no such luck now though, their bridges are burned to a fine crisp, and any support should and would go to the SNO, once up and running.Person said:
MaD said:
