:rolleyes: Monty, I’ve never worked for a credit card bureau and I don’t know anything about the finance industry. In college, I knew three people who got hauled off by the cops for charging up their credit card and then not paying - the charge was “Credit Card Fraud”. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve also had a cop show up at my front door looking for an ex girlfriend who wasn’t paying her credit card debts. He didn’t tell me exactly what charge she was wanted for, but based on the three previous incidents I had observed, I speculate it was again “Credit Card Fraud” or whatever equivalent term is used in this state. These incidents, as I’ve just described them, represent my only experience in this area. While I’m sure your experiences are vast and your knowledge deep, I will stick with what I have observed in my admittedly limited encounters with this area of the law.
I think you’re misdescribing events. The local law enforcement is sometimes tasked with serving summons to courts. Credit card fraud, IIRC, isn’t not paying your just debts but using someone else’s credit card. As mentioned above by another poster, unpaid debts isn’t a crime–it’s a civil matter.
FWIW, you may be describing those events from your perception; however, I still think you’re misdescribing them. Perception does not always equal reality.
I would also like to offer a suggestion.
I would guess - in general - people who get a dog when it’s a puppy tend to love and care for it more so than if they got that dog after it was - let’s say - a year old or older? I have this feeling that people who acquire a new dog when the dog is older than a puppy tend to develop mixed feelings towards the dog.
If I’m wrong about that, then my suggestion won’t really make much difference. However, if it happens to be true in your case, I would consider accompanying my offer with some kind of “incentive” that might sway these people to give up the dog. It may be too crass to offer them cash outright. But I think that I’d try to learn a little about these people so that I could make them an offer that includes something they would really value.
Most everyone can use some extra money. However, if you can learn a little about these folks and their current lifestyle, maybe you can find something they would really value but would have a hard time getting on their own.
So then, when you offer to take the dog back in return for some incentive, perhaps you can offer them something they would really value and would give you a better chance to recover the dog?
I’m quite serious in thinking that may have a better chance to get your dog back if you put a little time and effort into your offer.
You realize you just replied to a 15 year old thread?
The dog’s dead now.
I’m just sayin’.
Not necessarily. He could be a zombie-dog.
YIKES!
I had no idea. How did it get to be visible? I mean how did I ever find it in the first place? I might have been searching for something. But I really have no idea. DUH! Another dumb move on my part.
How the HELL did you dig up a thread this old without realizing the inappropriateness of unsolicited advice about a creature who’s long dead?
I have no dog in this fight… heh heh
I used to rent a house north of Houston. The cops came by looking for someone that used to live there over a title loan deal once. I think it was his job to serve whoever that was with papers.
The question isn’t how the hell did he dig it up, or why, but whether we’re the kinds of friends who’ll help him bury the damn thing.
In much of the US, it’s the local county Sheriff’s department that has the job of serving court papers. In my county, it could be them or a private process server, depending on the nature of the lawsuit.
It takes a special kind of stoopid.
Sometimes a spammer opens a thread. Innocent posters read the thread and respond.
Spammer gets ousted.
We’ve all done it. It’s not stupid. It’s an innocent mistake.
As long as we’re here anyway: I think you may well be wrong about that.
I’ve adopted a three-year-old dog about whom I had no mixed feelings whatsoever. She was a very good dog, and a very good dog for me, and I miss her.
I’ve adopted a puppy about whom I had decidedly mixed feelings. He was a nice dog. But it turned out, as he grew up, that he just wasn’t the right dog. (I kept him, though; it wasn’t his fault he wasn’t the right dog.)
I don’t know whether there are any statistics available on this subject.
This.
Don’t want to keep beating a dead zombie, but I agree with thorny. Our last three dogs have been adult rescues, and I was as attached to them as any puppies we had as kids. You make an attachment regardless…if you’re an “animal person.”
Furthermore, my dogs have almost ALL been someone else’s throw-aways. My first pug I found on the street. She had a name tag with an address and phone number. I called the number. The “lady” that answered actually told me it was her soon-to-be-ex’s dog and she had deliberately tossed her out. For spite.
My next pug was a give-away. The old man had been abusing him and the family wanted the dog gone for the dog’s sake.
My next foundling was a Chihuahua, a stray or cast-off from the street again.
Except I noticed Charlie’s bump about 13 minutes after he posted it, and there was no spam post. Otherwise I would have reported it. He definitely replied without noticing the age of the thread.
Yeah, the dog’s gone by now. dude. The ex might be too, for all I know.