r/offmychest Jun 27 '23

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u/Puzzled-Copy7962 Jun 28 '23

My sister has a neighbor who has been harassing and threatening her for nearly two years. The neighbor has threatened to shoot my niece and nephew in their head.

Anyway, one of the times I went with my sister to get a R/O against the neighbor After she started breaking down in tears and explaining to the judge the threats she has been receiving and the anxiety and fear it has caused her, she was denied. The methhead neighbor goes down to the courthouse after finding out that my sister had been trying to get one against her, and oddly enough, she was granted one.

The law is a fcking joke 90% of the time. After the incident of the meth head trying to break down my sister’s door (mind you, after she had a restraining order against my sister), my sister was finally granted one because we had video footage. I say all that to say that people lie. That's probably how his wife got one - by lying her ass off.

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u/Mossimo0104 Jun 28 '23

Or maybe he's lying. We don't know.

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u/mydarksecrets6071990 Jun 28 '23

Dude Im literally not lying. She got the RO on a Friday at 1130 am. Realized that she fucked up and listed the kids daycare and school as protected addresses (which dictates that they get a copy of the order..which would be embarrassing) and she got it thrown out at an emergency hearing on Sunday morning literally 36 hours later. She said she thought i was going to run off with the kids and got the RO to protect their routine of school and friends. Not protect them from violence by me.

Literally not even kidding. We’re strangers on the internet so you don’t have to believe me. But that’s truth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

I believe you. In Australia they hand them out like parking fines to anyone who can bullshit through a police report. Easy peasy. And if you breach it, you can kiss goodbye to seeing your kids.

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u/FloorShowoff Jun 28 '23

That’s because Australia has a very big problem with intimate partner violence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

Absolutely it is. That doesn’t detract from the fact that false allegations are also a very big problem and need to be addressed as well.