my man is vastly over estimating the work police will do
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vateso5074@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just be careful, a lot of parking lots are video recorded. If he goes to the security desk for the store and they’re able to see you leave the note and walk back to your car, they’ll have someone to connect it to, and suddenly you are under investigation for potential damages, even if they’re not real.
Or if the car has already been dinged up somewhere, you could even land the blame for that, even if you didn’t do it.
Sorry, this is just my paranoia coming through.
FarmTaco@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
vateso5074@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There’s minimal police work here, it’d be a civil suit. At most the police will verify claims and take a report of an incident, but there’s no investigating beyond what each party brings to the table themselves.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The police will only write a report if there’s clear evidence of a crime. So no report will be written day of if there’s no evidence beyond an obviously fake note.
No person is going to charge into a store, obtain surveillance footage, track down the person who left the note, realize said person did not hit their vehicle and left a fake note, then contact the police and report them.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
If they have video of you leaving the note, then they also have video of the truck being parked, sitting there without being hit, and the owner returning without any real incident.
And from experience, the cops would tell the owner of the truck to contact their insurance, and if pushed, the most they’d do is file a report. There wouldn’t be any investigation, especially without evidence of damage.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Paranoia? That’s just Flock cameras
dan1101@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Good point. Don’t park nearby at least. If you do wind up getting identified and blamed you could probably tell the truth and say he was being an asshat in traffic and you were trolling him, but you never know how the justice system will work.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 13 hours ago
That’s why I have front and rear dashcams.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I don’t that’s why I just strap GoPros to my car with duct tape
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 11 hours ago
That works too.
Bruhh@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They’d have to file a police report and report to their insurance before security will release/show any footage. This was a while ago from someone who worked at a red retail store.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
If they have the video of you placing the note then they will have the video of you not hitting them.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ideally. But you just confessed to it through your note anyways, and if there are existing damages, that could be enough to make a reasonable case against you. They have more evidence than you have not-evidence, if that makes sense.
If you didn’t get the video footage yourself, they have no obligation to reveal any part of it that would indicate your innocence. They’d show footage of you leaving the note, they’d show images of damage, and a judge or jury would side with them.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
After reading your posts, I’ve come to the conclusion that you know absolutely nothing about the law or how a case would be tried.
Please do not listen to this person on any legal matters.
ttyybb@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Or anyone else that your arnt paying to be your lawer, even if they are a lawyer.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think you might not know how litigious Americans are, and how little evidence is really required to bring in a civil trial to present to judges who just couldn’t care less.
It doesn’t take much to make a case against someone in an unfair system.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
So you just don’t understand how the legal system works at all, amigo. What you described is completely false. One of the first phases of any court case is discovery, where the opposing party supplies the evidence that they have to support their case. Not including this type of evidence during discovery could get an attorney disbarred and a court case thrown out entirely.
Serinus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
To expand on that, the prosecution wouldn’t have an obligation to reveal that evidence to the jury, but they would have an obligation to provide it to the court and/or defense during discovery. And, you know, that seems like something the defense would both use and request if it were missing.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
And which bit of damage did you confess to? They have no evidence of what you confessed to doing.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If they had an existing ding on their car from smacking into a guard rail or opening their door into a post.
The malicious angle is they see an opportunity to blame someone else for their own fuckup and extract money from it. Or the stupidity angle is people honestly forget but will suddenly have the synapses in their brain cross to associate existing damages with this confession they just received.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
What if they removed the word “hit” from the note.
So it just said “I accidentally your car”
Then you’re not really admitting to anything.
Would also probably frustrate the guy even more.
lauha@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Just go super ambiguous
“Sorry about your car. Call me.”
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
“Sorry about that, please call me! I have the thing that fell out”