Around 6 months after our wedding the police called to the door and asked us our names. They gave us a letter saying that the police had found evidence that we were a victim of a crime. I didn't know what they were bleating on about. Police at the door in Ireland is a scary moment. Its normally someone is being arrested or someone has died in an accident. It was to do with our wedding.
A fisherman had found half burned up cards near the river with our names on it. There were quite a number of these so he handed them into the guards. What unfolded there was that an employee at the local post office was stealing concert tickets and wedding cards. The fisherman had tipped off the guards who alerted the post office. There were many more cards found in the pile by the fisherman and it wasn't all on one postman's route so they set up camera in the posting centre. There was a employee there who was stealing these cards from the postman's rounds before they started work. He was caught and suspended.
It got me thinking. We didn't receive cards off a number of people who attended our wedding. We noticed after it but we didn't really care. Maybe some of them didn't have much money at the time etc. But I did care about one friend. My best friend. He regularly gives 20 quid to homeless on the street. Flashes the cash and is very very generous on holidays. The last wedding he was at he threw 500 quid into a card as if it was nothing. Now I wasn't expecting this but I wasn't expecting nothing either. It was strange. Very strange. So when the guards turned up at the door I clocked it straight away. My wife is fairly meticulous about certain things and she kept a record of all our gifts to provide thank you cards. There were 10 couples we didn't receive anything from. So taking my besties 500 quid out (at least) this guy stole in the region of 2k from me. This does not sit well with me.
So I began looking up who this guy was. He has a photo with Mike Tyson on his facebook page. I learnt Mike was posing for these photos in Las Vegas in his bankrupt years for 5k a pop. Hmmmm. Then I found out this guy had 2 BMW's. So a guy working in a post office is paying iron Mike 5k and he's going around in a winter beemer and a summer beemer. For fuck sake! Come on!!! And to mad matters worse there are a few of my friends who he is mutual friends with. There he is there, with Iron Mike!
Now this guy was cleaning up. The post man that does our route knocked at our door and apologised and told us that the person had made the locals not trust the postmen. He was seething that there was post robbed and he knows at least 20 other couples that the police visited on his route along. How much was this guy pulling in?
He will get his day in court!
So the day came and his lawyer pleaded the 8th! What does this mean? He was unfit for trial. He was depressed and mentally unstable. He walked free after robbing thousands upon thousands. I was so angry that this guy got away with it.
There are alot of things I have considered.
Finding him and kicking his head in. Probably not the best option as i myself would not get away with pleading the 8th but I would love to.
Taking him to civil court but a lawyer friend said it is as good as throwing your money away because I would get nothing.
Calling him out on facebook or social media. I see his posts and he's still having a great time.
Oh yeah his lawyer also put a ban on the local newspaper covering the outcome as he pleaded the 8th.
And now is the time to ask the question. What would you do in my situation? I look forward to your comments especially off the one and only Texan and the south African friends on here.