Richard Meyer v. Mark Waid (2018)

[mindlessobserver]

Another thing that has not been brought up but bears mentioning is that if Waid does NOT have the cash to pay Meyer a judgement, Meyer can demand property instead. Waid owns some valuable copyrights. Be hilarious if ya boi zach got some of them.

 

[AnOminous]

An archived 911 tape from several years ago? Something obscure and routine that wasn't in any way flagged for follow up? That will take a few days at a minimum.

I wonder if it even exists, frankly. Is there some reason to think it does? Retention policies are incredibly inconsistent across jurisdictions.

 

[El Jagre]

An archived 911 tape from several years ago? Something obscure and routine that wasn't in any way flagged for follow up? That will take a few days at a minimum.

They have the date and the approximate time it occured. That narrows it down by a lot.

 

[Love Soze]

I wonder if it even exists, frankly. Is there some reason to think it does? Retention policies are incredibly inconsistent across jurisdictions.

I did some Googling and my hopes for a tape have gone down. The incident was 4 years ago and it seems a lot of tapes aren't kept that long. Hopefully Muncie PD is lazy and never got rid of the tape. Just a transcript would be so disappointing.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Feels before reals in a nut shell. Waid is reminding me of Alex Mauer. Both are overgrown man children who have abused the system up until they bit off more then they could chew and the system bit back. Like Mauer, waid was able to bully his targets into doing what he wanted and nobody could really do anything about it as lawsuits are expensive. In Mauers case it was the youtube community that rallied round the flag poll and funded a lawsuit. This time its comicsgate, and in both instances the bully has failed to grasp just how fucked they are. Because they had been getting away with it for so long now.

It eventually got through Mauers thick skull and he settled, but Mauer was a general issue troon. He could not afford to die on the hill.Waid on the other hand has cash to spare, especially thanks to the GoFundMe. That is a poisoned chalice because the expectation is he will fight the good fight with it. If he instead settles with Meyer and uses the money to pay him off I think all the people donating to him will have a collective aneurism. The idiot and his idiot lawyer have painted themselves into a corner.

The one difference between Mauer and Waid is that Mauer at least had some legitimate grievance. That being that the guy working on StarMazer wasn't paying people what they owed while enjoying exotic trips around the world. Kind of like Zoe Quinn in that sense. Waid simply didn't want to have Mayer beat him at his own game.

 

[AnOminous]

I did some Googling and my hopes for a tape have gone down. The incident was 4 years ago and it seems a lot of tapes aren't kept that long. Hopefully Muncie PD is lazy and never got rid of the tape. Just a transcript would be so disappointing.

Why would they spend a lot of money to transcribe some random call that wasn't even needed for court?

This is Muncie. They have a PD that has done nothing to an open child molester who boasts on tumblr about his acts of child rape.

 

[Least Concern]

Well, here's the Pierce-Outlaw post again (damn, I love that name).

"If you don't believe me there's a 911 tape out there…" My initial reading from this was that the recording had been circulating among people, on the internet or elsewhere, for a while.

But it sounds like what EVS is having to do is fax in some sort of FOIA-type request paperwork to a government agency of some sort to get the recording. After doing a few minutes of internet research and thus becoming an expert on the subject, I'm starting to agree that the jerkops would not have kept a recording of this call for several years, and a transcription, if any, is probably an automated one. The closest things that are still likely to exist are, one, a record (not a recording, but basically a textual database entry) of the call itself made by the dispatcher that took the call, and two, if the police ended up doing anything (it's unclear from her post whether that happened), a report created by the reporting officer as to what happened when they arrived.

Still, I hope beyond hope we get a recording tomorrow, because I want to hear it.

 

[instythot]

Nick R had an interesting observation about why he assumed Zaid was no longer Waid’s Lawyer when the Texas lawyer filed her response. Zaid isn’t named or requested as Pro Hac Vice in the filing. Which is very unusual. The Texas Lawyer May simply be operating on the assumption that this is a referral and not a co-council situation. If so I can’t imagine her being pleased or supportive of Zaid’s online antics. I will not be surprised if or when the Texas Lawyer files a motion to withdraw due to being unable to control the client or Zaid. You have to expect the actual Texas Lawyer is probably telling him to settle quickly and quietly. Whereas Zaid is egging on the Anti Comicgate Crusade to the Clients ultimate detriment. You have to assume Zaid and the Texas Lawyer will quickly come into conflict.

Here's a theory: Disney is or has promised to reimburse Waid for legal costs. Zaid, having taken a brief look at the evidence and having had a brief initial meeting with Waid, quickly realized that the easiest way to keep this mostly free money flowing is to simply act like an asshole on twitter

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

Another thing that has not been brought up but bears mentioning is that if Waid does NOT have the cash to pay Meyer a judgement, Meyer can demand property instead. Waid owns some valuable copyrights. Be hilarious if ya boi zach got some of them.

so crossover issue of irredeemable and jawbreakers after the trial?

 

[RodgerDodger]

I wonder if it even exists, frankly. Is there some reason to think it does? Retention policies are incredibly inconsistent across jurisdictions.

I think most keep them in some form for at least 7 years. That became a pretty common policy back in the 00’s. It will depend on how new the 911 console system was. If it’s less than 15 years it does it all automatically and stores and files things digitally. After X amount of time they archive recordings off to hard media, such as CD’s and send it to the file storage warehouse.

Older tape systems? Yeah good luck ever finding that.

 

[AnOminous]

Older tape systems? Yeah good luck ever finding that.

This is Muncie, not some real city. It's a dysfunctional shithole full of child molesters and the cops don't care. I am not expecting much.

 

[The Doktor]

Chris Loesch (husband of NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch) just signal boosted YaBoi’s GFM.

 

[Kirito]

Meyers gofundme just passed Waids. I wonder what this implies about the court of public opinion.

 

[AnOminous]

Meyers gofundme just passed Waids. I wonder what this implies about the court of public opinion.

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Apparently, not everyone is fucking dumb enough to believe someone throwing a tantrum and trying to suppress someone else's book because he's angry they said his comic book was silly is somehow "free speech." Nor is everyone evil enough to pretend to believe such nonsense.

 

[Adamska]

Meyers gofundme just passed Waids. I wonder what this implies about the court of public opinion.

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Something something Nazis. Insert Harry Potter/Star Wars reference here too I guess.

 

[You Promised]

Chris Loesch (husband of NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch) just signal boosted YaBoi’s GFM.

Archived:

https://twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/status/1057278143436861442
(http://archive.is/knhAg)

 

[mindlessobserver]

I think most keep them in some form for at least 7 years. That became a pretty common policy back in the 00’s. It will depend on how new the 911 console system was. If it’s less than 15 years it does it all automatically and stores and files things digitally. After X amount of time they archive recordings off to hard media, such as CD’s and send it to the file storage warehouse.

Older tape systems? Yeah good luck ever finding that.

I desperately want this to be true. EVS seemed pretty confident that the recording still exsisted. Waid has to be sweating off his chin fat in anticipation.

 

[RodgerDodger]

This is Muncie, not some real city. It's a dysfunctional shithole full of child molesters and the cops don't care. I am not expecting much.

Oddly, don’t go by that theory. All that Federal Grant money doesn’t just spend itself. Small dysfunctional shitholes often have tons of overpriced unneeded high end technology because their local Warlords, I mean City Council’s, know how to spew bullshit on Federal Grant paperwork.

 

[Buck Mullet]

Oddly, don’t go by that theory. All that Federal Grant money doesn’t just spend itself. Small dysfunctional shitholes often have tons of overpriced unneeded high end technology because their local Warlords, I mean City Council’s, know how to spew bullshit on Federal Grant paperwork.

100% useless information here, but in response to this particular post. I can confirm there has been many multi-million dollar road projects going on around Muncie at least from '17 to early '18, last I went through there. Seemed like very extensive and sprawling work, traffic was awful for miles along the main highway on two trips about a year apart.

 

[damian]

Just Some Guy’s Waid lawsuit video has been restored (I downloaded a copy just in case).

He made a new video, this time about SUPER LAWYER MARK S ZAID ESQUIRE:

EDIT: Re-Uploaded because of audio issue.