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No, it wasn't a dog bite
It is a jungle. Living in America is a living in a place where people don't step into each other's personal affairs, and that is what attracts many people. But it is also a very dangerous place to live in. The crime rate is much higher than any other advanced nations in the world, and even in everyday life people acting like your friend would turn around to eat you up alive if you let them. I have been living in America for almost 20 years and I've got bitten by human predators twice. Just recently, again I got bitten by one of the most dangerous predator called a "sue-happy" American.
This man called me first thing in the morning on September 17, 1998, and said to me "I am going after NORCO for letting me ride a bike with a pedal not securely tightened, resulting in a severe accident" he said he was suffering from the injury. I thought this was a biggest scam, he is a bike shop mechanic and he should have known if the pedal was really loose. Any experienced bike shop mechanic or bike rider could tell loose pedals when
start out riding.
He continued saying he was not that kind of a guy who sued everybody, implying if I had taken what he was gonna say lightly, he would sue me. This is called "SHAKE DOWN", and it is a felony.
A long story short, he said a fair amount was $400.00 with a doctor's bill included for a micro size scratch he got from Bandit in my office in the middle of August. He is psychologically affected by what he called "dog bite" now that he is afraid of dogs, according to his explanation.
The scar he was describing over the phone grew larger than what I saw right after the incident. I have two witnesses who saw him crashing his motorcycle right in front of my office before he entered. The scar was
from the motorcycle crash. The dog scratch, which I saw, right after the incident was much smaller. But there was no point in arguing.
What really happened in my office was like this,,, This man walked into my office with a full-face motorcycle helmet on. Dogs need eye-contact and facial expression before he determined the man was hostile or friendly. The man walked by Bandit without telling the dog he was friendly. Bandit nipped at him (nipping is not biting), "warning" the man not to threaten him. Unfortunately, Bandit's mouth and his leg came in a wrong angle and this
resulted in the man getting a small scratch on his leg, breaking his skin a little. There was no puncture in his skin.
Bandit does not have teeth. His teeth were gone when he was at a race track. He grounded down his teeth on bars of dog crate. This is common amongst racing greyhound dogs. The man said Bandit punctured his skin. That
was a lie.
If he did sue me it would cost me more money, and it would be mentally irritating. I have better things to do in my life than exhausting myself in such arguments. So, I decided to pay the amount. He came to my office on the next day but I did not let him in. We talked outside. As I handed him my check, "happy birthday, low life!"I was just about to say and didn't. He signed a release letter for not suing me later. He thanked me for the check. "Have a good day, blood-sucking leech!"
No it wasn't a dog bite that got me. I feel like I got bitten by a human predator.
Shoji Onozawa
9-19-98
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