Dear Judge Langan-ccPaulBollsDecember 23, 2011 Hon. Justice Thomas Langan Peekskill City Court 2 Nelson Avenue Peekskill, NY 10566
It was in 2008 that the "parking fines" against me began immediately after I told the building superintendent that Paul's wife Robin Bolls, rammed the door and broke the lock on our front door (when she was frustrated that she couldn't get her key to turn.) Even though I only reported the incident to the super, she began looking for ways to try to hurt and discredit me. Comparing the facts chronologically reveals what's really going on with these fines. Just before the fines started she took Officer Andre Wright aside one night at a meeting in our community room to start to paint some kind of social menace picture of me in his mind. When this backfired on her, it was just a few weeks later that the parking fines against me started to arrive in the mail. The night after she broke door down I was doing laundry and overheard them talking. So I grabbed my camera and caught on tape Robin telling Paul that I saw her ram open front door. Paul replied "Hm. Well that's not good." The walls are that thin.
After many years of discussing this same visitor parking issue with all of my fellow neighbors in buildings 7, 8, and 9 I have learned that no one else who uses same parking lot has ever once received as much as a warning letter, or fine as I have and Ive been here 10 years. Although the subject seems petty as it does tedious, I can prove these fines started just days after I witnessed Paul's wife breaking down our building's door.
I asked the Bolls the same afternoon I got the latest fine letter this year, why they would keep doing this to me. I recorded them smugly replying (to me phone) "The rules are the rules!" after pointing out I only parked in a spot for an hour they added "It doesn't matter if it's only 2 minutes!"
So I make my argument for the court to consider, that if their true concern was policing visitor parking spot rules and a quality of living issue, one only need ask why then have no other rule breakers been fined or even warned with any letters at all? I have current and archived photos and video of all my other neighbors doing the same thing but never penalized. Again I don't need to see anyone penalized-Im simply proving that Ive been the Boll's target and that Paul should compensate us for this abuse of power.
This letter is to request three witnesses, from whom I already have their recorded statements, be summoned to take the stand to be questioned further if need be. One Aaron Huff 7 North James St Unit #H Peekskill, NY 10566 and Karen Wilson 7 North James St Unit #O Peekskill, NY 10566. I know Aaron is currenly unemployed so hope this will not inconvenience him too much. Karen Wilson I'm not sure. I also have others recorded statements but feel I can make my case with one of both of these witnesses as the court sees fit. The third would be Paul's wife Robin Bolls 7 N. James St Unit #N 10566.
Since 2009 Aaron Huff and I have off and on shared our assigned parking spaces. As he had an emergency break issue and I preferred the shade tree over his spot we often times switched spots. But then suddenly, at the same exact time I received my latest latest parking fine, Aaron told me (while recording) he was casually asked by management to please park in his own spot from now on and to longer use a Visitor spot (as he had been doing without incident for past 3 years prior). No letters, no fines for Aaron. I asked him to please simply help me by acknowledging this obvious unfairness on tape so I could play it for the court-but he said he was afraid he would get in trouble (this is all recorded on my phone and transferred to youtube for public record). Similarly Karen Wilson also agreed to allow me to record her saying that she has parked in visitor spot since she's lived here for almost 2 years because the sap from tree above her assigned spot gets on her car. She said that she has made numerous calls to management office asking them to cut trees back, inadvertently bringing to their attention that she's parking in a visitor's spot until trees are trimmed yet no one ever complained that she was taking up visitor's spots because there are always plenty of spots even when lots of people are doing this. Yet somehow I'm the only resident fined for parking in a V spot? No less only for my lunch break and simply to protect the car from brutal summer sun damage. Dates and times noted in the letter-that also clearly say my "rule breaking" was "witnessed" by a board member in my building. (Paul Bolls) Karen told me she had no idea she was not allowed to park in a visitor's spot, as she was ever told about the same reinterpreted rule they so readily want to fine me for. Again this conversation is all recorded.
My case is about being harassed by a neighbor who has used his position on the board of managers to target and hurt me for sport. As I mentioned previously, the bi-laws for Hillcrest Park Condominiums are written in such a way that if anyone dared challenge the power of board of managers in court, the unit owners would be held responsible for all legal fees even if they win. I wonder if the Peekskill Court has ever once seen a case brought against the Hillcrest Park Board of Managers for this reason.
Sincerely,
RF
ps If I may please ask the judge to ask Paul Bolls if it is true that he told our board treasurer last week that this case against him was dismissed because the judge ruled in his favor, as he explained the judge felt this was a matter for the entire board and not him as an individual. As it seems an example of the degree to which he's abusing his board position further and risking creating legal costs to grow based on lies. Im worried he's still trying to assault me financially by trying to involve the board in getting behind him and end up charging me financially more crippling legal expenses. I should have tried to sue him for pain and suffering and would like to if possible. Ironically the day after i filed the original court papers, the sun finally melted loose and broke my driver door handle and it even made me bleed. To this day I have to hunt around for a screw driver to open my door every time i exit the car.
For the record, I made the recordings public on youtube as a matter of convenience to as quickly as possible get to the heart of the matter and resolve the problem. I also have statements made from the Bolls IP address back in 2006 on a community message board I'd set up where they called me everything from "smelly" to "growing up as a special needs child". I even have 2 police detectives called by the Bolls, in my apt on video telling me to take message board down or risk arrest. See http://hillcrest-park.com/messageboard/ I know my rights so the message board is still there for the court to see. I also mentioned this unbelievable (yet oh so videotaped) story to one of my yoga students recently, City Council Woman Drew Claxton. Forgive me if I ever start to sound smug, I do not mean to. I'm simply burnt out from all of this nonsense and am begging the court to see this is more about justice than money.
December 23, 2011 Hon. Justice Thomas Langan Peekskill City Court 2 Nelson Avenue Peekskill, NY 10566
