Fuuucked UP!

No, not like that. It's a Thursday, after all. Just had a friend tell me about a paternity case. It goes like this. About thirteen years ago, he slept with some girl. She had a kid (about 2-3 months after the fact) and listed him as the father. So far, nothing really bad, except for, you know, a total lack of understanding about the reproductive process, or a total lack of honesty. Problem starts a few years later when she files for Medicaid, and a process of extracting money from the father begins. The way this is supposed to work is that you are subpoenaed, and then you appear in court to defend yourself. However, the subpoena is delivered by a constable, and does not require your signature. So there are cases (like my friend's) where the papers were never received. So in not getting the papers, he didn't show up at court. By not showing up in court, he basically pled no contest to a civil charge. So they started garnishing his wages. Note that they garnished wages from a place of work they knew about, but the constable never showed up at his place of work to serve him. All those movies where people are fooled into getting served? Bullshit. So. A few years after all this happened, he lost his job, and was told that he was basically in contempt of court because he had no income to garnish. He goes to the asscrack of nowhere to have his day in court, and at his hearing he is barely heard. When he is heard, he is told that: a) He owes 35k in back support, b) if he can't afford a lawyer, he is not able to fight it, and c) it no longer matters if he is the biological father, because he is the father of record now. Moreover, the DA wants to put him in jail and start him on a work release program, despite the fact that he is currently employed. And all of this is true basically because a constable committed perjury.
Like I said, fuuuucked UP!