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Public statement source · YT692
IM STILL LOSING IT | FFRM Vlog
A stated intention to bring a lawsuit pro se after his retained counsel refused to file it, given twice in one sentence ("i'm gonna do it myself", "i have to start the lawsuit myself"). This is the announcement stage of the untracked utility grievance. It is 34 days before the dedicated video on the same grievance published 2022-03-14 (h2pOZt-rLh0), where he gives the retainer figure and says every lawyer he approached declined — interval computed as a date difference between 2022-02-08 and 2022-03-14. He also refers back ("i told you guys") to an earlier telling that is not in this file. Second element: an unnamed energy consultant is said to have told him he was billed at double the rate of comparable New York customers — that is the substantive allegation the intended suit would have pleaded, and it is sourced to a third party, not to a document. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. The utility's name greps to zero across all CSVs under src/data/ (aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv case_title and defendants, disputes.csv, research_notes.csv, litigation_timeline.csv). Record as unresolved. ⚠ Do not attach it to the tracked Pennsylvania electric-utility dispute — different supplier, different state, first docket 2025.
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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.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
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i told you guys last week i'm having issues getting the whey protein through customs because they're jerking me around
Recorded because it is a clean small instance of the dominant pattern in this window — an adversarial commercial grievance ("jerking me around"), with a named counterparty type, a real business consequence (a product line he cannot restock), and no filing, no demand and no threat of either. The announced remedy is "we'll see". Also notable that the affected input is whey protein, which is the first ingredient of the protein bar at the centre of a tracked dispute. Possible case/dispute link: none identified.
the hvac guy is going to come fix this floor uh which happened from the water damage so i'm at another thousand dollars because you know stops just leaking everywhere and my landlord never pays to fix anything
The landlord is named as an adversary, in those words, on 2022-02-08 — with a concrete grievance (water damage to the warehouse floor, an unrepaired leak, and roughly a thousand dollars he says he is paying himself). This is the business warehouse, not his residence. No proceeding, no demand, no threat to sue and no name is attached: a grievance that produces no filing. Twenty seconds later ([4:29]–[4:52]) he says he will be in Colombia by year end "if something doesn't work out" and wants "out of this warehouse", which is the same premises complaint from the other direction. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. No landlord, premises, tenancy or eviction matter appears anywhere in the data layer; record as unresolved, not untracked.
Moderate pattern relevanceThreatened or prospective filing06:10
still they sent me another power turn off notice last week because i didn't pay the bill for three months i told you guys my lawyer wouldn't file the complaint i'm gonna do it myself i have to start the lawsuit myself against con edison i had a power energy guy reach out to me basically told me that conned [= Con Ed] was charging me double what they should have been compared to the other customers in new york
A stated intention to bring a lawsuit pro se after his retained counsel refused to file it, given twice in one sentence ("i'm gonna do it myself", "i have to start the lawsuit myself"). This is the announcement stage of the untracked utility grievance. It is 34 days before the dedicated video on the same grievance published 2022-03-14 (h2pOZt-rLh0), where he gives the retainer figure and says every lawyer he approached declined — interval computed as a date difference between 2022-02-08 and 2022-03-14. He also refers back ("i told you guys") to an earlier telling that is not in this file. Second element: an unnamed energy consultant is said to have told him he was billed at double the rate of comparable New York customers — that is the substantive allegation the intended suit would have pleaded, and it is sourced to a third party, not to a document. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. The utility's name greps to zero across all CSVs under src/data/ (aliases.csv, lawsuits.csv case_title and defendants, disputes.csv, research_notes.csv, litigation_timeline.csv). Record as unresolved. ⚠ Do not attach it to the tracked Pennsylvania electric-utility dispute — different supplier, different state, first docket 2025.