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Public statement source · YT940
Frankie's Free Range Meat WEBSITE HACKED!?
The earliest statement in the archive about obtaining legal advice. He states plainly that no lawyer has been consulted yet, says he intends to call one, and then costs the step out and doubts it is worth taking - "i don't know if it's worth at all what the likelihood of even collecting money from this guys." Recorded here because it is the same structure batch 40 found at 2021-01-14 (HghBG-HL2yY, small claims against Alibaba, declined on cost), 156 days later. Two caption garbles are annotated rather than corrected: warriors for lawyers (the previous cue says "lawyers" correctly) and the people's sports stuff for the People's Court, which the 2020-09-01 sibling video names in clear. Possible case/dispute link: none identified
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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with the contractor too so we started with the what was it the 27 000 contract what was the initial contract for 38. yeah so the guy came in really low said he could do the job for 38 000 and then you kind of held us hostage right
Gives the underlying commercial dispute its figures: an initial contract of $38,000 that the contractor allegedly came in low on and then used as leverage. ⚠⚠ This range alternates between the channel owner and his business partner, so it is recorded for context only and must not become an attributed statement. Numbers spoken on camera are the least reliable content this archive carries - the cues also read "27 000" and "38" within four seconds of each other, and neither figure has been checked against any document. Possible case/dispute link: none identified
Context pattern relevanceThreatened or prospective filing04:02
we didn't speak to any lawyers yet i'm going to try to give some warriors [= lawyers] a call next week i don't know about the people's sports stuff [= the People's Court] and even if we did speak to a lawyer i don't know if it's worth at all what the likelihood of even collecting money from this guys
The earliest statement in the archive about obtaining legal advice. He states plainly that no lawyer has been consulted yet, says he intends to call one, and then costs the step out and doubts it is worth taking - "i don't know if it's worth at all what the likelihood of even collecting money from this guys." Recorded here because it is the same structure batch 40 found at 2021-01-14 (HghBG-HL2yY, small claims against Alibaba, declined on cost), 156 days later. Two caption garbles are annotated rather than corrected: warriors for lawyers (the previous cue says "lawyers" correctly) and the people's sports stuff for the People's Court, which the 2020-09-01 sibling video names in clear. Possible case/dispute link: none identified