It hangs in my office now next to a photograph of Annalie at her high school graduation in 2003. Beck Marston gave notice at his offshore rig in September. He moved up from Houma, Louisiana to a small bungalow on State Road, 74 miles from our house. He is now a heavy equipment mechanic at a mosaic phosphate facility in Bradenton. He sees May every evening.
He is at the house for breakfast every Saturday. May is 15 now. She still plays tennis. She still reads more books than anyone in the house. On the morning of her birthday in October, she announced over pancakes that she would be going to law school.
Estelle and I looked at each other across the kitchen table. We did not argue with her. These days, my life is small in the way I always wanted it to be. I fish the back creek. I finish the wagon ear restoration in March.
I drive May to her tennis lessons. Estelle and I walk the property at sunrise and sunset. We sleep with the windows open. If you have ever been bullied by an HOA, by a developer, by anyone wearing a fake badge, drop your story in the comments. There are people who can help you.
There are people who keep the receipts. And if you want to see what happens when the next Karen sends fake cops to your front yard, subscribe and stick around. May Beck, Estelle, and I have a porch waiting for you. What speak with me about Hazer's story is an important audit the taser as an 81 years old retired pipe fielder named Ruben Hson two in Vietnam crying on his own driveway in the summer of 2023 after four man in fake police uniform put him in a fake handcuff over a car radio. That moment was the small beginning of a federal case that would eventually unravel a four years reasonable protection record and bring sick elderly Florida family an answer about how their parents and grandparent had died.
The lesson is simple. When somebody puts on a uniform that almost look like a real thing, that uniform is a weapon. Florida has a felony statue for it. So does every state.
The instant you see a private security firm push a residential neighborhood in patches and badges that look like police. Take picture and call the FBI's lurkerfield office. The barrel cares about color of law violation. They prosecute them.
If you have ever been pulled out of your car by somebody in a fake uniform, drop your story in the comments. We everyone subscribe and stick around. Next week we're telling a story of a retired high school principal who tried to seize her father verine flat display. She had 38 years of teaching uni in her car and a very patient niece.