00:00Wait till you hear this one.
00:01Parties have been sworn in.
00:02You may be seated.
00:07Neighbors.
00:08Somewhat.
00:11What does that mean?
00:13We're a few houses apart.
00:16I didn't say next door neighbors.
00:18I said your neighbors.
00:19OK.
00:20And you got a new truck.
00:23Yes.
00:24And you were a friend of his?
00:26Yes.
00:28So you wanted to show him your new truck, right?
00:31Well, yeah, I wanted to show him an accessory added to the truck.
00:35So why don't you tell me what you did?
00:37I called him up.
00:38I asked him to come down to my house.
00:39He said he was very busy.
00:40He had big, you know, a lot of things going on.
00:42And that he wouldn't be able to make it down to my house
00:43right away.
00:44I said, well, I'll come over and show you.
00:45So I drove up to his stoop across his grass
00:48and parked next to his stoop and got out and showed him my truck.
00:51Across my grass?
00:53Across your lawn.
00:54Well, he's done it to me in the past.
00:55Just a sec.
00:56I don't care whether he's done it to you or not.
00:57That's not the subject of this lawsuit, sir.
00:59The subject of this lawsuit is five minutes after you drove
01:03your truck off his property, what happened?
01:06My cesspool caved in.
01:07It was a little more than five minutes,
01:08but it caved in within the half an hour.
01:11The whole thing caved in.
01:12Well, cesspool's 50 years old anyway.
01:13Shh.
01:13Hey, don't talk to him.
01:14Talk to me.
01:17Can I please see the pictures of the damage to the driveway,
01:20to the lawn?
01:23You have estimates?
01:24Yes.
01:25Let me see them.
01:26I have the paid cesspool bill, which when I gave to him,
01:29he crumpled up, ripped up, and threw at me.
01:33And I have estimates, which the work isn't done on yet.
01:36What are you showing me here?
01:37I'm showing you the collapsed wall,
01:39the collapsed rail tie wall that fell in.
01:43When did you take these pictures?
01:44When it happened.
01:45When it happened?
01:46Yes.
01:50And what was the total estimate to fix this cesspool?
01:52Total estimate for the cesspool, I believe, was $1,200.
01:56And what are all these plantings here?
01:57You got five azaleas, boxwood trees.
02:01Those are the trees that I lost in the, uh, in the cave-in.
02:04You don't lose any trees in the cave-in.
02:05You didn't even take care of your stuff in the beginning.
02:07I, first of all, I lost all those trees.
02:09Those are the estimates I got on the trees that I lost.
02:11Show me. Show me.
02:12You never watered your shrubs.
02:13They're all dead.
02:14Hey, hey.
02:16Do I look like I need help from you?
02:18No.
02:19I mean, you were foolish enough to begin with, right?
02:22How old are you?
02:2328.
02:24Is this your house that you live in?
02:26Yeah.
02:27It's your house.
02:27You own this house?
02:28Yes.
02:29Who else lives there in the house with you?
02:31My wife and child.
02:32Oh, God.
02:38Did you fix the cesspool, I hope?
02:40I fixed the cesspool.
02:41It took me three days to get the money up.
02:43I had to pay cash for it.
02:45And when I asked him for the money,
02:46he told me I could, why don't you just use an outhouse?
02:58This bill that you got for concrete
03:01and all that other kind of stuff, $1,625?
03:04Right.
03:04What was that for?
03:05That was for the driveway I caved in.
03:07The driveway caved in around the cesspool?
03:09Part of the driveway caved in with the cesspool
03:11when the cesspool caved in.
03:12Just a piece of it?
03:13A piece of it.
03:14But you had to replace the...
03:15Well, I had, I had, you know,
03:17if it was going to be replaced at one part,
03:19why should I have to suffer and look at that
03:21when he drove on my lawn?
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