What is the name of your state?Tx
I need to know what my rights are. About 2 months ago one of my former workers crashed in to someone's yard. The owner wants me to pay for damages which I am okay with. There was very little damage to her fence and some plants. I told her I would be more than happy to pay for the damages and that I would send someone out there to assess the damages. Well it turns out that she wants me to pay top dollar for the damages. She is charging me almot 300 for a 20 ft palm tree and like 100 dollars for some small plants and then about 200 dollars for part of the fence. She states that she was the original person who installed her fence 10 yrs ago. I informed her that it was not a reasonable amount and that I do not have that kind of money. She threatened to call the news stations and tell them. (its only news because she wants her 15 minutes of fame and because I have a business.) I told her to do what she wants. Well yesterday a local news station harrased me by phone, stated that if I do not give an interview it would hurt my business and that he would make he go bankrupt. I told him to leave me alone. Around lunch time he showed up and tried to make his way in to my office. My wife and I told him he needed to leave, that we were not giving interviews and had no comment. He continued to be aggressive and kept yelling at my wife. He scared her bad enough that she broke down and called 911. The reporter laughed about the entire situation. We told him that we knew our rights and if we told him not to record us and to leave us alone that he had to. He stated that this would all be on the 6 o'clock news. My daughter spoke to the news director and informed her of the situation and stated that if they did not take it off the news that we would file a law suite against them, the news director sstated that it would not be on the news that afternoon. Well today at 6 o'clock they decided to run the story. Sadly they didnt run the entire story as reporters never do. On the tape you never see the reporter being aggressive and taunting my wife.
How can they run this on television and state that i'm refusing to pay when the fact is the women wants money and is not willing to accept a reasonable amount. How can they run such lies when I told them they were not allowed on my property and that I did not want them recording any of this and that I had no comment.
Can they really do this and get away with it?
is there anything I can do against them and the women who started this all? Can I get them for harrassment and slander?
I need to know what my rights are. About 2 months ago one of my former workers crashed in to someone's yard. The owner wants me to pay for damages which I am okay with. There was very little damage to her fence and some plants. I told her I would be more than happy to pay for the damages and that I would send someone out there to assess the damages. Well it turns out that she wants me to pay top dollar for the damages. She is charging me almot 300 for a 20 ft palm tree and like 100 dollars for some small plants and then about 200 dollars for part of the fence. She states that she was the original person who installed her fence 10 yrs ago. I informed her that it was not a reasonable amount and that I do not have that kind of money. She threatened to call the news stations and tell them. (its only news because she wants her 15 minutes of fame and because I have a business.) I told her to do what she wants. Well yesterday a local news station harrased me by phone, stated that if I do not give an interview it would hurt my business and that he would make he go bankrupt. I told him to leave me alone. Around lunch time he showed up and tried to make his way in to my office. My wife and I told him he needed to leave, that we were not giving interviews and had no comment. He continued to be aggressive and kept yelling at my wife. He scared her bad enough that she broke down and called 911. The reporter laughed about the entire situation. We told him that we knew our rights and if we told him not to record us and to leave us alone that he had to. He stated that this would all be on the 6 o'clock news. My daughter spoke to the news director and informed her of the situation and stated that if they did not take it off the news that we would file a law suite against them, the news director sstated that it would not be on the news that afternoon. Well today at 6 o'clock they decided to run the story. Sadly they didnt run the entire story as reporters never do. On the tape you never see the reporter being aggressive and taunting my wife.
How can they run this on television and state that i'm refusing to pay when the fact is the women wants money and is not willing to accept a reasonable amount. How can they run such lies when I told them they were not allowed on my property and that I did not want them recording any of this and that I had no comment.
Can they really do this and get away with it?
is there anything I can do against them and the women who started this all? Can I get them for harrassment and slander?