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there is a
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public entity um
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that i’m not going to name it’s a very
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large entity
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a utility company and
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the client is the mother of a boy who
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was
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driving a pickup truck and his pickup
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truck veered out
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in the rain and ran into a three
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telephone poles on which sat
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um transformers and
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when the vehicle hit the telephone poles
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the transformers
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fell down and landed on the hood of the
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or rather the the cab of the truck and
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crushed him to death
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and so the thoughts were and the
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statements that i heard were
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boy that person was at the wrong place
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at the wrong time
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he must have been speeding etc and my
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question is why did
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those telephone poles look like they
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exploded why did they crumble
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why did the transformers not stay up
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what happened it took a year
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but we dug and dug and dug and i saw
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documents that said
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these wooden uh telephone poles are
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treated
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every few years i think every 7 or 15
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years they’re treated and there are
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these uh borings that are placed into
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the poles and that stops
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um that stops termites from destroying
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the inside of the poles
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and i had the documents saying who
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treated them
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when it was done the exact date etc
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so it didn’t make sense that these poles
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fell down
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um and killed this boy or rather the
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transformers
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and he wasn’t speeding i mean that was a
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thought that he was speeding and ran
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into these pulse
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and so his mother was just you know
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devastated heartbroken
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and she came to us kind of in a fog
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traumatized and so
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we dug and dug and dug and doug and
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something didn’t make sense and that’s
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those are the cases i love something
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didn’t make sense and so we kept digging
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and i got an expert
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a wood expert from upstate new york and
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he came out and i went with him
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and we inspected the polls and the poles
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are 30 years old
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there were four borings as opposed to 16
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borings in the polls and the poles were
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completely
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hollow they were ready to fall
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it would have been someone else if it
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hadn’t been this boy
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there was no reason for this to happen
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there were lies
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this utility company all the paperwork
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were lies
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the borings never happened and so what
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it did
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was it justified in the mother’s mind i
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mean her son
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there’s no amount of money and there was
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a lot of money that was paid in that
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case but there’s no
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amount of money that can bring her son
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back but she was she felt vindicated
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that she
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she came to us we went after this
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company we figured out what happened it
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wasn’t her son’s fault it shouldn’t have
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happened
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and we were able to give her a little
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bit of peace
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that she actually took this to the end