If you go to celebrity trials just to watch the cars crash, former NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield will not disappoint you. Mayfield has been hit with a $1 million damage award in favor of postal worker Mary E. Bolton who was attacked by Mayfield’s five dog, pit bull/Labrador mixes. It is an interesting case and one more problem for Mayfield who is facing a major drug prosecution.
Judge William Z. Wood of Forsyth Superior Court awarded Bolton the money after Mayfield failed to fail an answer or appear in defense of the claim. The case derived from an attack in 2011. Bolton had a package that was too big to fit in the post box. While there were signs reading “No Trespassing” and “Beware of Dog,” Bolton entered the property and was attacked by the dogs. The dogs are allowed to roam freely on the large parcel of property.
It is not clear from accounts how much of the verdict was simply based on default and how much on true fault. Here the postal worker entered despite the signs. Is it negligence to allow dogs to roam on your property if the property is posted? A trial would have raised some interesting question of whether the worker violated regulations in entering posted property and whether there is an assumption or comparative negligence defense. There is also the question whether the dogs had already demonstrated a vicious propensity to trigger strict liability. Since Mayfield did not answer the complaint, there was presumably no discovery done in the case.
Mayfield has not helped himself by publicly stating that he decided not to hire a lawyer because he doesn’t have the money. He is quoted as saying “If I had a $1 million to give away, I wouldn’t be in this situation.” The house was auctioned off for his failure to pay $3 million owed on the property. His statements rule out a motion to vacate the judgment and for a trial under these circumstances.
Mayfield was previously arrested for methamphetamine. Stolen NASCAR property was found among the drugs and guns found on this property. He has also been suspended as a driver due to drug use.
At this point, he appears to have decided that he is already effectively bankrupted and thus this award will simply be thrown on the pile. Presumably, he paid his criminal defense counsel before melting down financially.
Source: Yahoo
Thanks to those who got that I was being funny (does Jeff not know of the Onion?). Perhaps he is just another sad-sack conservative searching for a reason to feel butthurt about some imagined slight.
I appreciate that you all get it was funny plus it prevented me from saying something mean to him like: The race is on TV at 2PM, will your next batch be cooked off in time for you to see the start?
But I wouldn’t say that because it would be mean.
Id707,
If you’re talking about alec meeting….. Just remember I read……and I also have friends or acquaintances in high places, politically…..
AU,
So much ALEC already scares me—-particularly the quickness of the legislature law passing. But wondered where you got this piece of info.
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Id707,
Read up on alec….. They are truly Scarry…… Corporate profits come first through the prophets of alec……
Maybe ALEC can take care of this in the policy making suggestion section being held in North Carolina…..
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Is that a national decision group or statewide? How’d you get the news? And don’t tell me their own site.
Well, we’ll…. Isn’t it amazing that this state does not recognize Workers Compensation as the postal workers exclusive remedy…… Maybe ALEC can take care of this in the policy making suggestion section being held in North Carolina…..
“one more problem for Mayfield who is facing a major drug prosecution.”
That “major drug prosecution” is for possession of about 1.5 grams of what should not be an illegal substance – imo.
I was told by a P.O. manager that Postal carriers are allowed to use their own discretion about pepper-spraying” my dog. This one apparently chose to take a risk. She probably knew the dogs were there – esp. if she was the regular delivery person or regular substitute.
True enough, OS. There is a song lyric that too many people don’t learn the lesson of until it is too late.
Choke, choke again
I find my demons were my friends
Getting me in the end
They’re out to get me
This is really sad. How many of us know people who have let drugs get into their lives, ruining a career? I had two good friends, both attorneys, who committed suicide when their practices went swirling down the drain. One had a drinking problem and the other got into coke. That stuff will take over one’s life and steal your soul.
Mayfield was an immensely talented driver. His self destruction in slow motion has been painful to watch.
jeff sez, “WAIT! Is this from the Onion? NASCAR and meth?!? Why that seems like a match made in hillbilly heaven.
wow, such bigotry and racism. At least we know what sort of “person” you are Frankly.”
Yeah. We do know what sort of person Frankly is around here. He’s well known in these parts by a word you may not be familiar with.
Funny.
Not
Actual
Sport
Centered
Around
Rednecks
Being a lover of upper class sports**: tennis, golf, etc. I really don’t know much about stock car racing. I did at 14 dish out hamburgers at a race. So NASCAR,
Í would presume the fans are doped, whether it’s chemical is another matter. So if the drivers need chem help, what’s the harm.
Can’t really understand this nation. You can get high on religion, music, whatever; but chemicals except that killer nicotine are forbidden.
**I caddied too. But play neither.
Where fascetiousness ends and seriousness begins is your guess.
Humor, jeff. Humor. Tongue-in-cheek. In other words it was a joke – or so I assume.
Frankly 1, May 11, 2012 at 11:09 am
WAIT! Is this from the Onion? NASCAR and meth?!? Why that seems like a match made in hillbilly heaven.
wow, such bigotry and racism. At least we know what sort of “person” you are Frankly.
The old observation “when it rains it pours” comes to mind.
WAIT! Is this from the Onion? NASCAR and meth?!? Why that seems like a match made in hillbilly heaven.