Chronicles of Twatrick: Happy (early) birthday!

First, today is the first day of the thigh-suckingly exciting estate sale of the late and massively unlamented Ken Ross of Lloydminster, where offspring, undischarged bankrupt and financial fugitive Patrick "Dragon Fire of Assholery" Ross and his hillbilly siblings will be clearing out a garageful of velvet Elvis paintings and collectible "Castrol" oil cans or whatever it is that's been piling up over there in Lower Mayberry RFD.

 

More importantly, though, if you happen to be in the area and run into Patrick (perhaps trying to serve him with legal papers), you can also wish him a happy birthday since, as of this coming June 17, Patrick will hit the big "45", and it's worth appreciating that, as someone now firmly in middle age, Patrick's life achievements can be summarized as not owning a home, not having a business, being personally bankrupt and massively in debt to me, and constantly looking over his shoulder wondering if that's a process server or a debt collector.

Quite the accomplishment for someone who, years ago, challenged me to ...

 

And we all know how that turned out, don't we?

P.S. I just heard that at least one of my followers/confidential informants is going to stop by that estate sale and perhaps take some pictures. Cool.

P.P.S. One of my spies tells me that Patrick is once again talking smack about me on Twitter -- he's getting it wrong but that's not the point. The point is that, when I eventually get around to having Patrick's idiotic defamation lawsuit dismissed as abandoned (given that he refuses to move it forward), and he once again whines (as he has before) that he was just too busy or depressed to find the energy, I will be presenting to the court all of Patrick's tweets related to me to prove that Patrick certainly had the time to tweet about me.

It's baffling that Patrick still hasn't figured out that every single thing he publishes about me will be placed in front of a judge at some point to establish malice.

BONUS TRACK: It's worth pointing out how Patrick, year after year, avoids dealing with his legal issues and, when he's finally dragged in front of a judge, he invariably whines about how he's depressed or suicidal or didn't have the energy to get stuff done.

Case in point: After filing a defective appeal of his 2014 bankruptcy judgment, Patrick refused to fix the defects, then walked off, leaving the defective appeal to gum up the works for the next three and a half years and used that as an excuse to not start making the court-ordered payments. When I finally filed to have his appeal dismissed as abandoned due to ridiculous delay, and this went before a judge, well, here's the part of the ruling where Patrick uses the same tired excuses:

 

 

As you can see, Patrick's attempt at a defense was to whine that he just didn't have the energy in three and half years to perfect his appeal. And the judge just wasn't buying it.

Which is why it's so important that Patrick keep talking smack about me on Twitter, so I can keep taking screenshots of all of it and, when it gets to court and Patrick tries all the same tired nonsense, I will have a binder full of evidence that he certainly had time to attack me on Twitter while, curiously, not finding the time to move his own lawsuit along.

It's weird that, in all this time, Patrick hasn't figured this out. 

Chronicles of Twatrick: The joy of parenthood?

Uh ...

 

Is this GF real and does she know that Patrick is a bankrupt deadbeat who owes me around $125,000? I'm guessing no.

Someone should tell her. 

Chronicles of Twatrick: Estate sale looming!

Remember, kids, if you're free this coming weekend and are in the vicinity of Lloydminster, SK, check out the hillbilly hot dog fest at Casa Ross.

 

 

Let me know how it goes.

Chronicles of Twatrick: "Casa Ross" estate sale! Bring cash.

Once again, my trusty confidential informants come through and let me know about the upcoming estate sale at "Casa Ross" in Lloydminster, so if any of you are in the area and want to drop by there, you're invited to let me know how it's going.

 

 

Be assured that it is perfectly legal to take pictures since, at an estate sale, there is obviously no expectation of privacy.

P.S. If you take the time to stop by there, you could perhaps diplomatically and innocently ask if that family of hillbillies has any plan to put the place on the market. That would be useful information for me.

P.P.S. If anyone is looking to serve Patrick with legal papers, well, there you go. 

Chronicles of Twatrick: Apparently somewhere near Fort Mac these days.

One of my confidential informants reports that undischarged bankrupt and soft core porn author Patrick "Super Duper Nexus Chick Magnet" Ross appears to be hanging out in the environs of Fort McMurray, doing whatever it is that "swampers" do to the best of their ability. And while I have nothing new to report beyond that, it's worth mocking Patrick for another one of his legal brainfarts.

You see, it was back in 2010 that Patrick was given several months to respond to my Statement of Claim, suing him for malicious defamation. As he was out of province, he was legally entitled to 40 days to file and serve a Statement of Defence. To no one's surprise, Patrick mouthed off and insulted my then-lawyer and refused to reply so that, after five months, I had finally run out of patience and instructed my lawyer to file to place Patrick in default, meaning that the court would simply remove Patrick from the proceedings and those proceedings would continue without him; in short, there would still be a hearing to determine a ruling and damages but the court would hear only my side.

That made winning considerably easier, and it was in November of 2010 that the Superior Court of Ontario issued a deliciously short endorsement (short since it was based on a default judgment and there was no opposing side's arguments to consider), and the endorsement was thus:

And here's where Patrick's brainfart comes in as, for the next several years whenever I dragged Patrick into court, he insisted that all of this harassment was terribly, terribly unfair since (according to Patrick) he had never been served with the ruling. And here's the brainfart.

You see, Patrick seemed to think that the result of that hearing in late 2010 would be some lengthy screed addressing various issues related to the case, and a probing analysis of my arguments, and so on and so on, and he was absolutely convinced that I was nefariously withholding this from him to his disadvantage. Amusingly, what Patrick failed to understand (and it appears still does not understand to this day) is there was no such lengthy ruling; the endorsement you read above is everything.

That's it. There is no more, and that's because we had filed to place Patrick in default, which means there was nothing from Patrick that the judge had to consider. Ergo, only my side was heard, and it was a short hearing and an even shorter ruling/endorsement.

And yet, to this very day, Patrick still insists that I somehow deprived him of his rights by refusing to provide him with what he is convinced is a lengthy ruling full of legal analysis when, in fact, there is no such thing. It does not exist. It never did. But Patrick never bothered to look into the matter to figure that out.

Patrick really does consider himself some sort of whiz kid boy lawyer, yet he never bothered to take the 30 seconds it would have cost him to figure this out. You can see why he keeps losing. And why he owes me a ton of money. 

Chronicles of Twatrick: Let's talk about "bounties."

As another example of the ridiculous exaggeration, embellishment and misrepresentation presented by Patrick Ross in his August 2022 defamation lawsuit against me, here's another snippet from his Affidavit of November of that year, in which Patrick takes me to task for alleged criminal activity for, as he describes it, advertising a "bounty" for him:

 

As I'm sure you can see, Patrick is deliberately conflating the idea of the legal concept of a bounty in the context of tracking down, say, people who have skipped bail with the idea of simply compensating someone for their time and effort in being helpful. You can see this pretty clearly by examining the first part of the referenced "Exhibit D":

 

where, hilariously, I say nothing more than that if someone can provide me with verifiable information regarding Patrick's employment, I will donate $100 to their favourite charity; this is what Patrick wants to present to the court as an example of my blatant lawbreaking and criminal activity.

Are you starting to get the idea of how badly this is going to go for Patrick in front of a judge?

P.S. One of the more entertaining aspects of Patrick's filings is how he so desperately tries to impress the Court with his tortured and convoluted verbiage in trying to sound professionally legalistic. Note the second half of his line 29 above, where he refers to issues "such as that which is the subject of this action". Patrick can never use a single phrase when an entire string of incomprehensible blather will do, and he seems to think this will impress a judge.

Patrick's obsession with using 25-cent words frequently makes him sound like an idiot, as in from line 29, the opening, "Mr Day's own actions explicitly made requests ...". Really? My actions made requests? What the fuck does that even mean?

Patrick's writing reminds me of Mark Twain's savage review of the works of over-hyped American author James Fenimore Cooper. The full critique can be found here, but my favourite part of that review (the part that applies so perfectly to Patrick) is this:

 

You can see that that describes Patrick's prose perfectly -- it's not enough for Patrick to write that I made requests ... no, no, Patrick has to gussy up his spewage and suggest that it was my actions that made requests, a statement that makes no logical sense. This has been Patrick's pattern for years, and it's probably why every judge that's had to listen to him rolls their eyes after only a few minutes.

Consider this snippet from a personal court appearance by Patrick way back in 2012, where Patrick opens his submission to the total confusion of the judge ... 

 

It only gets worse on the next page, as Patrick thinks he can salvage the situation by being even more obscure and incomprehensible:

 I think I'll leave it there for now, but there's more coming.

Chronicles of Twatrick: The December 2022 Affidavit.

I have mentioned numerous times the utterly meritless August 2022 defamation lawsuit that was filed against me by undischarged bankrupt and middle-aged oil patch swamper Patrick "Quintuple Threat Nexus Chick Magnet" Ross, but you've always had to take my word that it was a pile of utter rubbish. Well, by way of support, I will gift you the main body of Patrick's accompanying Affidavit of December 2022, which is supposed to bolster his filing of malicious defamation against me.

I will not attempt to sway your thinking on the matter; I will post this affidavit without comment and let my long-suffering readers opine on how well they think this locks down an accusation of defamation against me.

And away we go:

Your thoughts, if you would, as to how well Patrick locked down his defamation lawsuit against me with this Affidavit?

 

P.S. It's worth noting what Patrick is asking for from the August 2022 Statement of Claim:

 

That's right ... four million dollars.

Four.

Million.

Dollars.

Plus costs. Don't forget costs.

ONE MORE THING FOR NOW:  As many people will know, defamation requires someone making what is called a "statement of fact"; that is, uttering something as being unquestionably factual or true. It is not enough to make statements of opinion; statements of opinion do not rise to the level of defamation as long as it's clear that what is being uttered is clearly opinion.

Witness, then, this snippet from a November 2022 Affidavit of Patrick's, which he claims represents defamation on my part:

Do you see the problem? Well, of course you do since, in literally every single paragraph quoted by Patrick, I am clearly stating that what I am reporting is what I heard, with such qualifiers as:

•  "according to rumours"
• "I have been informed"
• "I have been told"
• "If any of the above is true"

Not only does none of this rise to the level of statement of fact, it does not even rise to the level of statement of opinion since all I do is present what I have been told by others, even going so far as to issue the clear disclaimer, "which I have not yet substantiated." By definition, none of this qualifies as defamation, but it is apparently what Patrick considers the smoking gun.

DEFAMATION CLARIFICATION: I worded the above unclearly so let's let Google AI explain the distinction between statements of fact versus statements of opinion:

 

So, yes, statements of opinion can rise to the level of defamation if they have no basis but, again, as you can see (and as Patrick himself quoted), I was not even publishing statements of opinion; that is, I was not saying, "This is what I believe." Rather (and as you can clearly read), all I was saying was, "This is what I have heard from others, and which has not even been substantiated."

There is no possible case for defamation with those qualifiers. It's baffling that Patrick does not understand that.

BONUS TRACK: I will throw in one last bit of Patrick-inspired stupid to make sure you truly grok the worthlessness of Patrick's action. Regular readers will already know that I have, on several occasions, asked willing people to do a drive-by of "Casa Ross" (the Lloydminster residence of the late and spectacularly unlamented Ken Ross) and let me know what they saw -- perhaps Patrick, perhaps his truck, perhaps evidence of someone living there, whatever. My instructions were clear -- no trespassing, just whatever you could glean from the sidewalk or street out front, remaining on public property the whole time.

You can guess what happened next, as Patrick immediately described this as "illegal surveillance" conducted by unlicensed investigators who were therefore involved in criminal activity. Here's the relevant snippet from Patrick's November 2022 Affidavit:

 

This suggestion is absolute hogwash as Canadian law (as summarized by Google) makes clear:

 

In short, anyone has the right to observe as much as they want the "public" areas of another's property as long as they refrain from trespassing.

As you can see, Patrick's lawsuit against me is such utter garbage.