There's only one thing TO do! Throw the book at them with eveything you've
got!
If this young woman gets away with it, it's my guess the whole thing "will
have been a laugh for her" when talking to her friends.
Her next incident is likely to be a child or adult who she kills or leaves
permanently injured.
Talking of leaving people permanently injured, there's one individual to
whom I'd like to do the same. Happily, this person is not on the Triumphs
list but that doesn't stop me from wanting to visit his house with a
slavering Rottweiler which hasn't been fed for a week or more. He just
dealt me what I call "a double Dunlop" in payment for some tools. My bank
took his cheque at face value, 'cos we already had a trading track record
with him without any problems. Both bank and yours truly thought this would
be the same and my bank paid out the US Dollar proceeds to my account in
Sterling as per usual. Wasn't until the receiving bank in Chicago finally
got the cheque that it came back marginally slower than an E-Mail. I'm now
down the tube (my bank isn't of course) to this jerk for the better part of
six hundred dollars. Many morals here but one is while some internet
traders rook customers for money and no goods, there's at least one
customer happy to rook a little trader for goods and no money. From now on,
I greatly regret that everyone paying for my tools will have to wait at
least a further ten days so it can be proved they are good for the money
they write on their cheques. This is a classic example where a tiny
minority make everyone else suffer. Why don't I take CC's in payment? I
would if the great British banking system extended such a facility to small
businesses, like me, with sales of less than a quarter million Sterling
annually.
John Macartney
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