Speaker 1: Time for law and disorder.
Speaker 2: I demand a lawyer with attorney Jeff Kaufman on one
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Speaker 3: Right, we welcome in Jeffkaufin, a partner at Kaufman and
Speaker 3: Lynd personal Injury firm here in Central Florida. If you
Speaker 3: or someone you know has been injured in any way,
Speaker 3: shape or form, and you think you might need to
Speaker 3: have an attorney get involved, you should at least find out, Hey,
Speaker 3: does my situation warrant legal representation? And Jeff is a
Speaker 3: straight up shooter, and it's gonna tell you yes or no.
Speaker 3: I can help you or know what you have here
Speaker 3: you could probably deal with on your own.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna save you money in that direction, because
Speaker 2: if you don't need to hire a lawyer, why would
Speaker 2: you put other lawyers?
Speaker 1: He'd said, Hello, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need me. Definitely waste to get a hold
Speaker 2: of him. Jeff at when you need us dot com.
Speaker 2: His direct email is Jeff at when youneed us dot Com.
Speaker 2: Pound five four six on your cell is another good way.
Speaker 1: Or just call them. This is the easiest to remember.
Speaker 2: For zero seven frought fry four fry cook four zero
Speaker 2: seven five hundred, Jeff.
Speaker 1: What's up, Jeff, I'm doing good. Man had Beer Festival
Speaker 1: this weekend down it with the Orlando Weekly put on
Speaker 1: a nice little event. We sponsored it. We had some
Speaker 1: listeners say they ran into you down there. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Man, it's such a great event.
Speaker 1: You know, you have like seven seventy brewers giving away
Speaker 1: free samples. Everyone's uber and in and out.
Speaker 2: It's America. It's great Aria. That is truly America. One
Speaker 2: of our listeners texted, and you know what his nickname is?
Speaker 2: Did he tell you now one of the guys ran
Speaker 2: into Turnpike tugger.
Speaker 1: No, I would have remembered that one. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: tell them to stay out of the rest stops. Keep
Speaker 1: keeps himself a team, keep the truck moving, dude, don't
Speaker 1: pull up entertained, keep the truck mod a handful. Anything
Speaker 1: to get the stress out of driving. Guys, you just
Speaker 1: realized how bad it is. We're not worried about alcohol anymore,
Speaker 1: worried about something else going into the truck.
Speaker 3: Distracted driving.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't mean to begin on a sour note,
Speaker 3: but you live in downtown Orlando. The latest tragedy to
Speaker 3: happen there Halloween night, the hysteria that ensued as this
Speaker 3: seventeen year old open fire, killing two, injuring multiple others.
Speaker 3: Refresh our memories again. Here when something like this happens
Speaker 3: on a public street and there's thousands of people gathered
Speaker 3: and people are killed or injured. On the legal side
Speaker 3: of things, how does that.
Speaker 1: Well, you're asking if people can sue that's.
Speaker 3: Is this a situation where somebody bears responsibility? I guess
Speaker 3: is the question?
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about who really bears responsibility. It's that
Speaker 1: piece who has been failed by our system and failed
Speaker 1: by his parents and failed by God. Maybe that he
Speaker 1: thinks it's a good idea to open Fire's seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: He will be tried as adult most likely, but that's
Speaker 1: not going to make the families feel better who lost chiltern,
Speaker 1: who were just there. I mean everyone says, you know, downtown,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting place. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: know there's no point to what happened. So you're asking,
Speaker 1: can the city or the police force be responsible for
Speaker 1: any damage to be done? Now, in issues like this,
Speaker 1: it has to be simple. Was there enough police presence
Speaker 1: to protect people? Could they have stopped this incident from happening. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the answer is there were a lot of There
Speaker 1: was a high amount of police. The fact is it's
Speaker 1: such a compact area that that I don't want to
Speaker 1: say only but if you fired more than seven shots
Speaker 1: and only hit two people, I mean he killed people,
Speaker 1: But I mean we're talking about the way that place
Speaker 1: is packed out, that that could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 1: And there were police officers walking and I'm there every
Speaker 1: you know, I go to I go to shows there,
Speaker 1: I go to Doctor Phillips Center and I live right there,
Speaker 1: were right there. They did their job. No, I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know, barring something crazy, you know, these the police
Speaker 1: force did their job. The city did their job. You
Speaker 1: can't possibly so you can't put metal detectors on every street.
Speaker 1: And so I think I think OPD did a fantastic
Speaker 1: job and we should be grateful they're down there and
Speaker 1: they're the ones who probably a lot more people would
Speaker 1: have been dead.
Speaker 3: Do you think do you think the state of emergency
Speaker 3: that came with the now seven day curfew and restrictions
Speaker 3: on alcohol sales after midnight for the next seven days
Speaker 3: is warranted? Or this is a subject kid who can't
Speaker 3: get alcohol. This has nothing to do about drinking. If
Speaker 3: this kid was drinking or smoking, he was doing this
Speaker 3: on his own, which is what we were talking about.
Speaker 3: He's like, you're now punishing businesses down there, and and
Speaker 3: everybody who wasn't shooting the place up, yeah, other patrons. Well,
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is this is that the problem with
Speaker 3: downtown is this.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big area, and they have a
Speaker 1: lot of clubs and a lot of stuff is happening.
Speaker 1: And I've walked by these clubs and there's no way
Speaker 1: for police. You'd have to triple or quadruple our budget
Speaker 1: to make sure the police would be out there at
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning. And that's going to cost
Speaker 1: you the taxpayer. Well that's got you every bokay taxes.
Speaker 3: Jeff kind of making the same points that we have
Speaker 3: sort of yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean the hard part about it is is that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's really hard to you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's an area, it's always been an area. You've been
Speaker 1: drinking down there. I mean think about you know the
Speaker 1: bars been opened downtown, Yeah, you know, since since there
Speaker 1: were since they was selling you know, CBS or Ekers
Speaker 1: or whatever drug store they had. I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: uh at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: It's right before we went on the air for this segment,
Speaker 2: we were talking about it. What a shame when you
Speaker 2: see the two kids that that died. I see kids.
Speaker 2: I know one of them's twenty five, ones nineteen, but
Speaker 2: two kids who lost their lives looked like normal children.
Speaker 1: I do a lot of I do, as you know,
Speaker 1: I do stand up and I donate all my checks
Speaker 1: at charity and all that other stuff. But I work
Speaker 1: at a club right downtown. Sometimes. I've worked that club
Speaker 1: like probably thirty forty times, and you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people down there, and a lot of kids
Speaker 1: are walking back and forth, and it's a place they
Speaker 1: hang out and do these things, and we do have shootings.
Speaker 1: And I think the problem is it's not this, but
Speaker 1: how does a seventeen year old get a gun? Well,
Speaker 1: and here's the thing, He's not going into a store
Speaker 1: for it. And there is a solution. There's a solution.
Speaker 1: When they talk about gun control and everything else like that,
Speaker 1: I'm a veteran and I believe in people's rights to
Speaker 1: bear arms and everything like that. But here's the deal.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 1: They have to know if you carry a gun at
Speaker 1: a certain age, you're gonna be done. We're not going
Speaker 1: to cut you liniency. We're not going to cut you
Speaker 1: a brake. Anybody who's caught selling a gun or selling
Speaker 1: their gun without making sure it goes to the right person.
Speaker 1: I don't mind registration. I don't mind registering bullets. Chris
Speaker 1: Rock said it the best. We should register the damn bullets.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have my own gun, but you know
Speaker 1: I'm a responsible gun owner. Two, So you have to be.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be able to just walk in. I like
Speaker 1: the way of periods and I support the idea. But
Speaker 1: somehow this kid and whoever got this kid, any gun
Speaker 1: that's you by somebody else in a crime should be
Speaker 1: a felony against you too because you didn't secure it.
Speaker 3: Yep, we have some listener questions coming in this morning.
Speaker 2: Yes, can a law firm just put you totally on
Speaker 2: the back burner and ignore your calls after your lawyer
Speaker 2: quits the quits their firm.
Speaker 3: We hear these non responsive questions all the time.
Speaker 1: This is an accident and injury case. Well, this does happen,
Speaker 1: and it is sad yes, there are some people who
Speaker 1: do not respond calls. For example, my firm, we don't
Speaker 1: only you don't only deal with the person who is
Speaker 1: on your case or the attorney on your case, the paralegal.
Speaker 1: We actually have a client services department where you get
Speaker 1: a call every three to four months no matter what,
Speaker 1: and somebody outside your case who reviews what's going on
Speaker 1: and gives you new updates on it. But in a
Speaker 1: situation like this, some places are too big and they
Speaker 1: know it. And I remember owning a firm that had
Speaker 1: five hundred people in it, and you have to hire
Speaker 1: thirty new pair of legals every month, twenty new attorneys
Speaker 1: every month to make up for the attorneys that are
Speaker 1: coming in and out. And you can only get so
Speaker 1: much quality when you have to hire twenty thirty attorneys
Speaker 1: when you're that big. Yeah, there's the fact is this
Speaker 1: when it comes to a business, the minute you get
Speaker 1: over one hundred people, it's really impossible to guarantee good
Speaker 1: service because you are constantly having to hire. You can't
Speaker 1: everyone can't be all an all star, so you have
Speaker 1: to hire people who are just seat warmers, and those
Speaker 1: seat warmers are the ones that will screw up your business.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I started over and I said
Speaker 1: we're locked in at twenty to thirty because once you
Speaker 1: hit fifty, you know that that's when you start getting
Speaker 1: attorneys not returning phone calls.
Speaker 2: That's a great point for that for that guy who
Speaker 2: texted in reach out to Jeff, Jeff at when you
Speaker 2: need us dot com because there was a personal injury
Speaker 2: case case. Again, Jeff at when you need us dot
Speaker 2: com for the lawyer for lawyers, Well it was one
Speaker 2: of us. No, it wasn't you good living in an
Speaker 2: apartment here? Cockroach is overrunning our place. Not exaggerating. We
Speaker 2: see fifty seventy five roaches every day. We're also getting sick.
Speaker 2: Can we break our lease without penalty because of this?
Speaker 3: Can I add something else to this because I have
Speaker 3: a similar question. This is an international story, but it
Speaker 3: deals with roaches. This woman, same situation over in England,
Speaker 3: lives in her place that she's running roach infested. She
Speaker 3: ended up having to be treated when a roach crawled
Speaker 3: in her ear while she was asleep. Wants to know
Speaker 3: isn't that a typical horror story? If the late egg,
Speaker 3: does she have eggs? Does she have grounds to be
Speaker 3: compensated by her landlord.
Speaker 1: While I have a degree in comparative law, I don't
Speaker 1: England has weird laws. I don't know what they're covered.
Speaker 1: But in this country, if he's on notice, he's responsible.
Speaker 1: Now as far as what a listener's which a listener's
Speaker 1: question is, and listener was asking about, can they get
Speaker 1: out of the lease and four them? They do nothing
Speaker 1: about it? Basically what they do is what it's called
Speaker 1: a constructive eviction. It means that you are not able
Speaker 1: to get quiet, enjoyment of your property and you can
Speaker 1: leave eventually. But give that. If they have noticed and
Speaker 1: they just refuse to do something about it, you know,
Speaker 1: you do have an argument. Now they're gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't that big a deal, but I
Speaker 1: think having your house overrun with roaches. But also, you
Speaker 1: got to look at your lease. And I keep telling
Speaker 1: everybody this, look at the lease and see who's responsible
Speaker 1: for things like pest control and things like that. If
Speaker 1: it's on you, then you're the one who's got to
Speaker 1: do it. Man, Listen, you got to read your lease.
Speaker 1: Don't let just sign stuff because you're lucky. All right,
Speaker 1: Do we have time for one real, real quick, Okay.
Speaker 2: For Jeff, I have an old man that keeps walking
Speaker 2: up into my driveway and carport and his neighbor's places.
Speaker 2: I've asked him several times not to, but he still does.
Speaker 2: What kind of do And I understand what they're coming
Speaker 2: from because injury reasons. First off, you can he's trespassing.
Speaker 2: If this is not public property, he's coming board you contact,
Speaker 2: call the police. If he's not all this way, if
Speaker 2: he's if he's if he's email, he's got dementia, he's
Speaker 2: got something else like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you need to protect people like that. And
Speaker 1: who's ever responsible for him, his guardian or something else
Speaker 1: is responsible because if he gets hit by a car,
Speaker 1: if he walks down the traffic he can kill somebody,
Speaker 1: or if he loses his faculties and fights. I mean
Speaker 1: I deal with this a lot because you know, I
Speaker 1: worry about my son's future. I worry about everyone else
Speaker 1: when it comes to this stuff. Who's ever responsible needs
Speaker 1: to be taking care of him if he if nobody's
Speaker 1: responsible and he's just coming into your property, contact the police,
Speaker 1: get him trespassed, because he shouldn't be doing that because
Speaker 1: sooner or later something bad is going to happen either
Speaker 1: to him or to somebody else, and we had notice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's take care of it. Well we can't.
Speaker 3: Jeff Coaufman from Coaufmin and Lynd. You can reach out
Speaker 3: to him anytime. Taco Bob the numbers again.
Speaker 2: Jeff at when you need US dot Com? Is that
Speaker 2: direct email? That's Jeff at When you need us, need
Speaker 2: US dot Com? Pound five four six on your cell
Speaker 2: or four zero seven five hundred jet.
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Speaker 1: Just feeling good. People, Take care of yourself and be
Speaker 1: aware of your situation, all right.
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