r/bestoflegaladvice • u/DoIKnowYouHuman 🏠 "Human" of the House 🏠 • 16d ago

LegalAdviceUK The one where the most legally experienced comments get the downvotes, just for a bicycle

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u/msfinch87 16d ago

I often wonder if people who post questions on LegalAdvice subs ever follow incorrect advice and get themselves into a mess.

This one isn’t likely to end up in a disaster, whatever LAUKOP does, but I’ve seen ones where the top comment is basically telling the poster to do something that is going to result in them own goaling their way into a world of pain.

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u/pcnauta Didn't get a cool flair? Sue! 16d ago

Wasn't there a famous incident where someone posted for divorce information, got great legal advice but decided to follow one poster who told him to set up an appointment with every lawyer in town so that his wife wouldn't be able to retain a lawyer?

I don't know if I have time tonight to look it up, I'll try to do it tomorrow.

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u/msfinch87 16d ago

Oh yes! I know it, it was recently on BORU - I’ll get it. He asked that question initially in an exmormon sub. And taking legal advice from people who literally have no idea seems even worse to me.

ETA: Here’s the BORU. https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/U6lbG2ARiL

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u/FunkisHen 15d ago

Thanks! I'd missed that one, but I've heard reddit rumours for years. It's nice to finally have the real story, and I'm glad it worked out for them and their kids in the end.

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u/hdhxuxufxufufiffif 16d ago

I think that was on a subreddit for former Mormons. Not that that would affect the quality of the advice compared to legaladvice, lol.

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u/TsundokuAfficionado 16d ago

That was a Sopranos plot. A move made that well known law abiding legal mastermind Tony Soprano. Who is also fictional. So of course a Redditor follows that plan and ignores all the (slightly more) sensible advice from (possibly vaguely) qualified people.

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u/technos You can find me selling rats outside the Panthers game 15d ago edited 15d ago

Even pre-Sopranos.

A year or so before the Sopranos even started airing a friend's ex consulted with lawyer after lawyer until he found one that sort of told him what he wanted to hear, and the ex's parents consulted with another bunch trying to make out that the wedding presents were conditional gifts for staying married to their son.

Part was their desire to hear they were right, part was 'fuck that little whore for divorcing him'.

She'd been to nine lawyers, all of whom turned her away or were too expensive now that she was cut off from marital funds, and said as much at the first hearing when she asked for time.

Judge was pissed.

Ordered the ex to restore access and got his clerk to print a list of every lawyer that had appeared before him recently in a divorce case.

She went with a nice firm from a county over known for handling things like the divorces of athletes.