r/Bestof Bully Me? I'll Bully You into Oblivion

welcome to r/b of redditor updates where a douchebag tries to sue op into Oblivion and gets a heaping dose of Justice instead our next Reddit post comes from r/ entitled people I'm 26 years old and I decided to open my own business this year I should point out that I'm from a small town of a thousand people in the rural Midwest because of this everyone in the town has some kind of connection with everyone else in town we went to one of the liquor stores in the closest city about 30 minutes away a small city of 8,000 people when we were grabbing some alcohol for a party I was looking at the prices and saw how insane the prices were for a sixpack of local beer we were charged $15 I was thinking about it and I figured that I could probably make bank opening a liquor store back in February I was Furious about my terrible job and I was thinking out loud about how cool it would be to own my own business to a friend my friend's mom happens to be the president of the local bank he told me hey with the pandemic the bank has been struggling to find customers to give out loans right now the bank is giving out loans for cheap a couple weeks later I went in and met with my friend's mom and pitched the idea with my research that i' done on alcohol prices potential demand and estimated income I got the loan at a fantastic interest rate I bought a building which happened to be a former bank and I hired my dad to help me renovate the building my dad is a general contractor and he gave me an excellent quote on materials and labor after working everything out with the Distributors getting the proper licenses and getting my paperwork I needed for the government I was ready to open my liquor store in May IID started taking out ads in the local newspaper advertising my store and my prices when I was talking to Distributors I learned that liquor stores in the city have like an 80% markup I talked to a local business owner and he suggested I should have like a 35 to 40% markup because of this difference I was significantly cheaper than the closest liquor store and I had a much wider selection than the gas station and small local stores nearby my hometown is near a national forest as such we have a ton of people who come up for weekends and recreational activities year round my first week after opening the week before Memorial Weekend I'd made a $44,000 profit it was great being my own boss if someone was rude to me or my girlfriend oh I'm sorry you can buy your alcohol elsewhere if someone tells my girlfriend go back to China you H racial slur b word then they can pay me 15% more at the register did me and my friends run out of alcohol time to grab my keys and go to the store that's not to say that it wasn't difficult running my own business especially since my only employee was my girlfriend and we were both working like 80h hour weeks I was the manager accountant and cashier but man it is so much nicer knowing that I can tell someone to pound sand for being a prick a couple of weeks after Memorial Day some some old guy walks into my store a couple of minutes after I opened he seemed friendly enough but eventually he offered to buy my store I'm not going to say the amounts but it wouldn't have even covered my principal on the loan I rejected the proposal outright and refused to negotiate for a higher sum he walked out of my store saying wellp you'll be sorry you rejected that offer the next month a guy walked into my store and asked if I was the owner after saying yes I was informed that my business was being being sued by this random guy I never heard of for Lial after he left I was freaking out and decided that I was going to close early when I got home I Googled the guy and I soon saw a picture of the guy that tried to buy my store it turns out this is the guy who owns both the liquor stores in the nearby City it also just so happens that he's on that City's council with a little bit of further digging I learned that the city has an ordinance that reads any business institution that doesn't fulfill the definition of a restaurant Tavern or liquor dispensary will be excluded from obtaining a license for the sale of alcohol later I discovered that the same guy happens to be the head of the board that approves liquor licenses I love small town corruption either way I had a major issue my uncle happens to be a lawyer in a neighboring state I decide to call him and try to get some legal advice after I gave my uncle all the information he said hang on I got to make a call and he hung up at this point I'm freaking out I'll be honest I just wanted someone to tell me that it was going to be okay and I didn't need to crawl to this guy on my hands and knees as I was writing this post my uncle called back he said hey op I just got off the phone with my partner and he agreed that we can take on your case pro bono if you'd like to accept we can discuss this at my office tomorrow at 1:00 this is how I learned that my uncle is on the bar in three states so we meet and discuss the case it turns out this guy filed a Lial suit against my business based on the ads that I took out in the local newspapers he claims that my ads were targeted to damage his and his business's reputation there were a few other things referenced that I had no idea about but my uncle assured me that we would win this case no problem 3 weeks later the case is dismissed but afterwards my uncle warns me people like this piece of work will likely try to file another suit against you if this happens call me and I promise I'll help the next day I got served again but this time I'm the defendant not my store me I swear to God I looked at the documentation and the only thing that changed was instead of my business name listed as a defendant it was my name the same thing happened four weeks later the case was dismissed over the next 3 months I was sued three more times before the fifth cas's hearing we had a settlement meeting my uncle the judge the guy suing me his lawyer a bayith and I were all sitting in the room the judge says you two have been in court four times already is there any way that we could come to an agreement that'll stop this cycle of faulty litigation the guy's lawyer says they have an offer and hand it to my uncle who then hands it to me it essentially read that he'll stop all litigation if I sell my business for about 30% of the remaining loan principal I outright rejected the offer and he made a counter offer I said if you drop this case I won't sue you for harassment he busts out laughing Sumi with what money the legal fees alone ought to have drained you you should be happy I chose to extend this offer and not sue your butt into bankruptcy and buy that hole from the bank when they foreclose on your dumbass the judge the bayi and the guy's own lawyer were all looking at him a gas for saying the silent part out loud my uncle straight up said to him oh I'm sorry apparently you were never told I've taken all of my nephews case is pro bono the only money he spent on your litigation is gas and bluntly and bluntly sir I think your Outburst has just ensured a suit against you after that we just left and I was then informed a few days later that the litigation was dropped right now my uncle and I are talking about the future suit against this guy I want to sue the guy for a very high amount to try to get press attention on the guy and his sketchy actions although my uncle warned me that we need to be careful because if we set the damages too high it'll look like we're just being vindictive this new suit will not be pro bono but after getting sued five times for free essentially I'm not going to complain so I'm not super familiar with the legal system but I'm guessing if op sues this guy then he'll have then he'll have witnesses about this guy's outburst and one of the witnesses is a judge so I guess op's lawyer will be able to call up the judge and give testimony about what this guy did did to another judge in a separate case and if that isn't damning testimony from a judge then I don't know what is I don't know can judges be called to testify I guess they can right as long as it's not their case then about 3 months later op posted an update as of now the case is over so I can talk about it we filed the complaint about a month after the last case against me was dismissed what we filed for was multiple accounts of malicious misuse of due process after filing the complaint we had to serve the papers to the guy someone I don't know who must have told him because he dodged getting served for multiple weeks the only reason the process server was able to serve him was because there was a meeting to approve the transfer of a liquor license between two businesses in the city ironic he and his lawyers answered the complaint and said that everything in the complaint and the summons was a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts that none of the suits filed against me were in any way malicious but given that the only thing that changed between most of the suits was the name defendant that kind of disproves that he then went on to say that my lawsuit against him was simply a move by me to get revenge on him for trying to protect his business pretty much the entire answer was him just saying no you through the discovery process there were a couple of motions for dismissal by the defendants Council the first was just a general all the facts are wrong and this is a lawsuit filed in bad faith the judge immediately threw out that complaint since this guy had tried to sue me four times back to back the second motion was that these weren't malicious because the defendants were different effectively they were trying to say that if all the lawsuits had the same defendant then it would be a malicious suit but it's not so it's not but because they kept changing the defendant in each case that means there was a legitimate complaint against each person trying to get sued which technically is legal and in that case I wouldn't be able to sue him however the judge acknowledged while the argument you're making is is legally sound it completely violates the spirit of that law also the actions of the defendant only serve to confirm that the previous lawsuits were filed in bad faith so the judge tossed out that motion too later during Discovery the defendant filed for a venue change I filed in my local court and they argued that a local jury would be biased towards me this was dismissed because they forgot to ask for a jury trial so there was no jury we were perfectly fine with proceeding with the bench trial so we didn't ask for a jury so the judge threw out that motion too so back to Discovery the whole process was extremely slow and throughout it we received multiple settlement offers and rejected all of them then at the end of November the defendant decided to fire the manager of one of his businesses that manager then decided to turn over some text messages to the court you see we' requested all Communications about the militia filings from last year that the defendant had made including text messages the fact that these text messages were missing clearly shows that the defense did not do what they were supposed to do with this coming to light and all the shenanigans the defendant had been pulling the judge was just over it by this point our lawyers had to meet with the judge at the beginning of December and the defense's council was reprimanded after this the defendant offered me a really big settlement after my fiance and I discussed it we decided to accept the offer our wedding is getting close and and frankly we don't want to deal with court stuff anymore the whole trial process was months away and there wasn't any guarantee that we would have gotten more money unfortunately it's not the nuclear Revenge that I was hoping for however the settlement did pay for my lawyers repay the remainder of my loan and I'll have a nice big chunk of money left over so in a way op that guy did buy your business he gave you the money for it he just let you keep it in the end so instead of getting a loan from the bank and pay paying it back this guy generously gave you the money to start a business that competes with him what a our next Reddit post comes from r/ relationship advice I'm a 26-year-old woman and my 28-year-old male fiance told me that I wouldn't be able to pull anyone else and I'm offended how do I manage my emotions me and my fiance have been together for 5 years engag for 6 months we've never had issues where one of us was mad for a long time until this and he my mom and friends think that I'm overreacting I had a dream a couple of nights ago that I ended up dating a famous actor by accident we've both had dreams where crazy things happen and told each other about it I told him in the morning and we laughed about it however he made a comment about how my dreams are always extremely delusional I asked him to elaborate thinking that it would be something funny but instead I was met with a comment about how I wouldn't be capable of pulling someone half as attractive as that actor let alone him I was taken ab and he doubled down and told me to be realistic that most men wouldn't even look my way because I look like I'm already taken and I stopped looking interesting some time ago and now even more so after I got engaged I told him that I don't want any men to look my way but the implication of his words hurt me he told me it was irrelevant because we're together and I wouldn't leave him and to stop being offended over something I asked and left for the record my way hair and general appearance have stayed the same and I'm low-key high maintenance so I have not been letting myself go I called my mom for reassurance and she agreed that I was overreacting I called my friends for the same purpose and I was met with the same response I feel hurt because I love my fiance and I find him very attractive and I know other people do too I'm grateful that he chose to be with me and that makes me value him even more I thought he thought the same about me but apparently he thinks that I wouldn't ever leave him because I can't pull another man that somehow is making me feel like he doesn't value me as I do and worst of all I might be wrong for how I feel but I can't control it also everyone is asking who the actor is and op reveals that it's Adam Driver then 2 months later op posted an update first you guys gave me the courage to reach out to my other friends outside of my closest Circle and they were shocked by what happened and told me not to brush it off they echoed many of your comments and even called it negging also my therapist backed up my feelings and said that I needed a straightup chat with my partner and to set some clear boundaries and decide what's best for me and what I wish to enforce as my non-negotiables second I did follow someone's advice and I started going out more with my supportive friends my birthday actually fell in between these two posts and I decided to celebrate it by bar hopping in my city and it went great my ex was invited and was sulking the whole time because I did get external attention which I shut down after talking with my therapist I did explain my feelings to him again and I reiterated that those comments will not be tolerated if we were to continue this relationship I also said that we needed counseling as a couple because this could stem from insecurities from both sides he did not apologize but rather Justified his actions under three arguments and yes these came from a 28-year-old man one I do look less interesting and it's unfair to use my birthday as an example of me attracting anyone because I was catfishing as a younger woman because the girls I invited were mostly 22 to 24 two Adam Driver the actor that I dreamt about is taller than my boyfriend we're both 5' s and he's insecure about it so dreaming with people taller than him is disrespectful and emasculating three even if I'm objectively attractive ever since I started therapy I became cocky and more demanding so he took the chance to bring me back to Earth all of this was a shock to me I felt as if the man that I was with for The Last 5 Years wasn't there anymore this was a complete 180 from who he was before and I do believe that this is a mix of his mask slipping after the engagement and the fact that he changed jobs to a male-dominated corporation and those new friends did give me a weird vibe regarding their stance on women and equality regardless of what prompted this change I ended it I returned the ring packed a bag with my essentials and left while he threw a tantrum he was super uncooperative about returning my remaining stuff he sent me my stuff in trash bags full of glitter and wouldn't let me enter his apartment anymore he he also sent me all the star war DVDs with Adam Driver in them broken and destroyed this made all the pain that I felt almost immediately disappear which feels weird because I did love him and it was a long relationship yet I grieved him for only like one week I did count my losses and just accepted some things that I won't get back I blocked him and I haven't heard or seen him since thank God I live in a big city my immediate circle of close friends was cut off as they valued going to a wedding more than my well-being I'm low contact with my mom and I'm being supported by my dad and my siblings so when I was reading the first original post I had a feeling that the reason why he insulted op was to lower her self-esteem so that she was less likely to leave him and I was right about that but the whole thing about it's rude to have a dream of a man who's taller than your boyfriend that one that one came out of left field I did not see that one coming that was r/b of redditor updates and if you like this content check out my podcast where I publish the exact same episodes also hit that subscribe button 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Length: 17min 56sec (1076 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 04 2024