Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter does not tolerate criticism and he will go after those who dare to step over that line.
The raid on the Houma police officer’s home has been well documented (CLICK HERE) as was the ruling (CLICK HERE) by the First Circuit Court of Appeal which said the raid was clearly unconstitutional.
Earlier this year, the officer and his wife filed a lawsuit in federal court against Larpenter and about half of Terrebonne Parish’s political power brokers. (SEE HERE).
But long before the fireworks between Larpenter and former deputy and Houma police officer Wayne Anderson, Larpenter went after his own brother and sister-in-law, proving that, in this case, at least, blood is not thicker than water. That dispute has been non-stop for at least 12 years now.
It was July 27, 1995, when Larpenter called upon his legal counsel, Houma attorney William F. Dodd (if that name seems familiar, it’s probably because his pappy, William J. Dodd, served as state auditor, lieutenant governor, and state superintendent of education and twice ran—and lost—for governor) to fire off a two-page threatening letter to brother Anthony Larpenter and his wife, Barbara.
There are those who are going to accuse LouisianaVoice of dredging up old news but the letter and the subpoenas that followed less than two months later represent a mindset in the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office, a pattern, if you will. Let’s face it, you have to have a pretty thin skin to call down the powers of your office on ordinary citizens whose most grievous offense was criticism of the manner in which you run that office.
The letter is the typical letter of legal intimidation, filled as it was with the usual attorney bluster, demands and threats but in the end, nothing but a loud, bullying, cheap tactic to stymie free speech.
“…I would by this letter advise Mrs. Larpenter that public officials are not second-class citizens, and if she continues to embark upon the path she has previously taken, that being to cast my client, Sheriff Jerry Larpenter, in a totally unfavorable light as a result of her reckless and defamatory remarks, Sheriff Larpenter shall have no choice but to institute legal proceedings to protect his reputation,” Dodd wrote.
“…The next time Mrs. Larpenter makes these unfounded remarks, appropriate action will be taken from the civil standpoint, and a request will be made to the district attorney’s office to review her actions to determine whether or not criminal proceedings should be instituted,” Dodd said.
There is an obscure state statute (R.S. 14:47)under which criminal charges may be brought against an individual for defamation. The maximum penalty under that statute is a fine of $500 or imprisonment of up to six months, or both.
Now I’m not an attorney, but I have to believe that criminal prosecution for defamation, libel or slander under this statute—unless, that is, you are making written or verbal physical threats against the well-being of someone—would be an extremely risky move for any politician. And Dodd’s letter makes no mention of any such threats, so it’s a little puzzling how he thinks he can morph disparaging remarks against an elected official into criminal action.
Once that precedent is set, television campaign ads will cease to exist since distorted attacks and outright lies are all they consist of and no one would ever be allowed to talk about an elected official again. That’s a slippery slope that can only lead to a totalitarian form of government.
Of course, Dodd’s letter also could have been nothing more than legal puffoonery, which is far more likely.
Less than two months later, on September 12, Larpenter, as a precursor to what the Andersons could expect 11 years later, had subpoenas served on his brother and sister-in-law. The subpoena demanded that they “produce the original taped conversation between deputy Gary Sanders and Deputy Jed Boquet on or about January 6, 1995.”
There was no indication as to what the conversation between the two deputies was about but it obviously was of considerable concern to Sheriff Larpenter.
Dodd ended his July letter on a really ugly and sinister note when he wrote, “I would point out that in the event a civil action is filed, and Sheriff Larpenter is successful, this being a community property state, and assuming that Mrs. Larpenter has no separate property agreement, any judgment that might be obtained in favor of Sheriff Larpenter, could be entered against this total community property owned by both of you.”
Translation: Mr. Larpenter, you’re the man of the house; you need to shut your wife up.
Well, Sheriff, those days are long gone. Forever. You’re still living back in the 1940s and ‘50s if you think this still plays. Women have a loud voice today and they do not have to ask permission to speak. Edith Bunker doesn’t exist anymore.
But you and Mr. Dodd would be wise to listen.
Louisiana Voice 
Could Attorney Dodd be sued for “Intimidation?”
I believe it is time for laws to be pass that hold attorneys liable for damages, regardless if they’re working for a client or not when they do things like what is mentioned in this post which is unconstitutional.
It’s against the professional rules of conduct for attorneys to suggest criminal action may be forthcoming to help settle a civil matter.
And the sheriff sounds like an asshat
Mr. Tom, you are certainly a person of your word and I thank you for that.
I am positive that Jerry Larpenter hears the beat now!
The reason they seized the tape was because Jerry had his special picked deputy Tommy Cope doing detail at the skating rink when Gary Sanders used my phone in my kitchen to call in to the s/o for instructions because he didn’t know what to do. I had never seen officer Sanders before. It is not like I didn’t have a brief case full of reports and cards with case numbers on them. When Sanders first called the s/o Boquet told Sanders to go issue a summons for loud music but when Sanders told Boquet that Tommy was in the place doing detail then the instructions changed to go tell Tommy to lower the music and resume patrol. Sanders did what he was told. I assume so anyway because the unit left my house and went across the street but just as soon as Sanders got back in the unit and his tail lights reached the railroad track going south, the music got jacked up twice as loud as before. So much for that good ole law enforcement under the direction of Jerry J. Larpenter. It happened just about every time we filed a complaint. There were other deputies that worked detail also. We had one on soul night which was on Sundays. His name was Calvin Jackson. He is the deputy I reported to the Sheriffs Association for speeding down our road when he left from his detail. He used to have a lady friend to come and visit him while he was on detail. She used to park her car to the back of the place where it was darker and Jackson would go sit with her for a while and when he exited the car he was tucking his shirt back into his pants.He was doing this all the while he was getting paid for detail work. I reported this same deputy for coming into his truck and loading something around his waist about every twenty minutes and going into the rink and do it all over again. I reported him to DA Greenburg and he sent Louis Hyatt to take my report along with another deputy from s/o. When I told Hyatt about Jackson being in his trunk and what I suspected, the s/o deputy said excuse me, Lt. Hyatt, Mrs. Larpenter is telling the truth about Jackson because I was dispatched to this location twice because Jackson had locked his keys in the trunk. Hyatt scratched through what he had written in his little note pad and left.
What we had to wind up doing to get justice was hire our own investigator to intervene in order to get charges to stick. I do have a copy of that report also. We were able to use the report to file charges but the DA combined two charges into one and made the owner plead guilty. Another neighbor had filed charges year before. They had asked for help and I offered to testify for them and the owner, the Tates were found guilty but later appealed the charge. This happened in city court with Judge Fanguy. For us to get an investigator into our house, we had to pick him up at the store up the road and hide him in our van and get him in the house through our fenced gates where he could not be seen. They always had someone on the front porch of the place watching our home while the detail deputy undercover car sat up front in the parking lot. The reason for them watching my house was that if someone drove up then the music would be lowered. I called it C.Y.A. aka covering your (well you can figure what the last word Is) The telephone tape was seized because it proved that Jerry Larpenter was allowing, with the help of one of his deputies, the owner to break the law and not face charges. That is why I stated that he wanted us to suffer. We had filed charges on the owner more than once and we went to court, but guess what deputy testified for the owner? They even got my next door neighbor to testify in the owners behalf and of course we lost in court. Like clock work, Mrs. Tate picked up the lady next door the next day and they went to lunch. The neighbor is now deceased so I won’t name her. I out foxed the fox, and although the loud music/bass across the street lowered they still weren’t finished with me yet. They were SO angry at me for out smarting them.
This skating rink was licensed by the Terrebonne Parish Government. The SAME neighbor that testified in behalf of the skating ring owner sued me for Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 for a nineteen inch rain. Guess TPCG was worried about being sued themselves for my misery from a place that they licensed. They claimed that I had a DAM. I received a certified letter which I have a copy of threatening me that if I didn’t remove the dam I would face legal action.
YOU BETCHA I HAD A DAM I SURE DID, BUT NOT IN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF TERREBONNE’S DRAINAGE DITCHES. THE ONLY DAM I HAD WAS, I KNEW TOO DAMN MUCH, SAW TOO DAMN MUCH AND WOULDN’T LEAVE MY DAMN MOUTH SHUT.
I WON’T GO INTO FURTHER DETAIL HERE BUT “IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT ANGELS SINGS.”
IN TERROR-BONNE IF YOU GO AGAINST ONE OF THEM YOU HAVE TO GO AGAINST ALL OF THEM.
Wow, everybody has run out of things to say.
I just as soon finish up what I started. For the 2003 Sheriffs election, I decided to put my name on the ballot and run against Jerry Larpenter. I put my $500 up at the clerks office and I was in.
I waited for the usual debates to face my opponent. Jerry never came to the regular campaign debates. He was a no show Jones. I guess he couldn’t bring his special deputies with him to help him and he knew he wasn’t going to blow hot air around me because I knew too damn much.
We did have one debate sponsored by his good friend Diane Edmonson at the Senior Center in Houma. Jerry was so nervous he knocked the microphone off the podium and I was sitting right next to the podium and he went off on me in front of all those seniors. He stated that’s all right Barbara, viciously, I forgave you years ago. I looked up at him like HUH? You are forgiving me because you knocked something down?
I learned a long time ago, silence is not golden when it comes to corruption.
I won’t run and hide, never did, never will!
I forgot to mention that when we got sued for Tropical Storm Allison we were assigned to Judge David Arceneaux’s court room. The day we showed up for court, the first thing out of his mouth was that he was holding court that day in a closed courtroom as a courtesy to us because of who we were.
He must have forgotten the Judicial rules of conduct because the court cannot be used a favortism to anyone. Who was he trying to fool? He was holding court with no one else present because he knew they were going to put the screws to us and didn’t want anyone else in the courtroom to hear what they were doing.
The person who sued me had the Judges cousin for their surveyor, go figure.
The parish engineers and the forensic engineer that we hired didn’t agree with them but the Judge didn’t believe anyone but his cousin. Go figure!
In the Judges ruling he even had the nerve to say that we didn’t NEED another driveway. Who the hell does he think he is to tell us after we paid for our land what the hell we need on our property?
Now you have the whole truth.
When you expose them they make you pay. Chuckie is alive and well!
I want to add new information discovered since this suit was completed.
We had another rain event in our neighborhood since this Judges ruling and even after removing what we had on top of the culvert in the right of way that they called a dam, the water situation was the same. The so called dam was removed and water still backed up.
The person who sued us closed off a servitude on the back of his property and I provided a photo to the court during the trial. I never saw a Judges face get so red. Guess he saw his supposed to be judgement fly out the window. I guess the saying a picture is worth a thousand words is true. Because the neighbor who sued us blocked the servitude and re-routed the drainage pattern the Parish catered to him even more. The Parish decided to bust the road at the end of my property and put the water flow to the OTHER SIDE of the street flowing north to south. That proved that I was not the problem and didn’t have a dam after all. The water was not coming out at the corner flowing east to west of the four way stop fast enough. They should have busted the road further back to help the other neighbors but they weren’t worried about them. They had to finish what they started. This was a Parish Drainage screw up and that put the blame on us only because we had some wood on top our culvert. We have the biggest size culvert on the block. We have sub-basins in our yard that lead to the main culvert in the ditch and when the water gets too high in the culvert then the water comes out of the sub-basins. We could not flood this man even if we wanted to the way our culverts are set up. This was all made up lies and the Judge believed a surveyor over a Forensic engineer because he was his cousin. Why you think they picked him for the job? The Parish engineers even said we couldn’t have flooded him unless we put a board over the opening of the culvert to stop the water from flowing. What insane person would do such a thing?Besides the culverts are buried in dirt and the openings are in the main basins. If the water flow didn’t go through the culverts then it would still top the land and that is what happened and why he flooded because he never put one teaspoon of dirt under his house and the Judge blamed us for his cheapness and stupidity. They NEEDED something on us because we knew too much.
When we had the last big rain event our Parish Council Rep. Mrs.Amedee who is now a State Representatve came out with the Drainage Assistant and looked at the situation.We were all standing in front of the house of the people who sued us. Another neighbor was present and we asked him why did he say that we had a dam at our property line and was stopping his water flow and caused the neighbor to flood. He stated that he never said that and he was very, very upset that his name was used in this lawsuit. The man that sued us testified under oath at depositions and named every neighbor on the block stating that they all agreed with him that what I had over my culvert stopped the water flow. I never asked any of the other neighbors but if he lied about one then he probably lied about all of them. Even with only one neighbor saying this to us that he didn’t say anything about us flooding anybody this constitutes PERJURY. PERJURY IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. We already knew he lied because he has lied for years. He just wanted someone else to be responsible for his stupidity and he found someone to believe his lies, the Judge. The question is WHY?
God is good! Whatever evil, hateful people do in darkness, God always brings it to light.
To coin my dearest friend who is now in heaven favorite saying, IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT ANGEL SINGS. i just know that my friend is singing with the rest of the angels in heaven because she had the kindest heart.
Now you have the truth. Why were we punished? We knew too damn much and we wouldn’t shut up and still have not shut up and never will until we breath our last breath. This nonsense cost us out of pocket $60,000 of political bull.
Thank God for elections. I just hope this will not be another selection year once again.
Sorry but I skipped the most important information. When this man was building his house we told him to put his house higher but he told us to mind our own business. When he flooded then he wanted to blame anyone but himself. The first time he flooded my husband went and help him until 3 a.m when he had to be at work for 5 a.m. The person who sued us house flooded before we ever put culverts in our ditch in front of our house. He got water in his house several times. He never told the parish this information because he didn’t have flood insurance at the time. When we put the culverts in the ditch the Parish Engineer Bob Jones came out and told us what size culvert to buy and what to do but the Parish laid the culverts down in the ditch and strapped them. We had to make the basins ourselves and the ditch was about 4′ lower than the road. Mr.Jones advised us to put the sub-basins and we did. This man was a genius. We never had another engineer working for the Parish that knew what this man knew. The Parish installed the culverts and all we did was pay for them. We have about 18 basins in all directions in our yard that drain to the main ditch. That is why our yard drains so fast. It is not our fault that these other people are too lazy or cheap to do the same. We took care of our self and that is all we should be responsible for. The Parish is supposed to take care of the drainage. My husband crawled through a culvert under the Horseshoe Rd when it was plugged solid with mud because when I called for a machine, the Parish said that the blow out machines were all broken. I still until today don’t believe that but that is o.k. because we took all the dirt out one bucket at a time and hauled it in our yard. No one would have ever done this but we did and to get blamed for blocking the water, well, I better stop here on the rest of my comment.
The piece of wood we did have on top of the culvert was to stop from going over with the lawnmower and when they re-paved the road the oil leaked into my flower bed so we put a topping of cement on top of the culvert. We did have a board on the inside of my property line that they took a picture of but that was there because the wind blew my wooden fence down and before we could replace the fence this evil man next door blew grass into my flower bed just to be hateful. The board was temporary until we replaced the fence. I did not want this man on my property.
Here’s why? Would you want someone on your property that claimed fishing rods, fishing tackle, a broken t.v. on his shop floor, toilet paper and feminine pads on Flood Insurance? Just think would he would have claimed if he fell on my property. Thanks but no thanks.
This man should be in jail for PERJURY and INSURANCE FRAUD. He put his house flat on the ground that used to be a cane field and wants to blame everyone for his problem but himself. When he purchased that flood insurance policy he knew his house had already flooded and probably lied about it. We seen him taking roofing off his roof with a shovel when a big wind came one day and only a few shingles were off because I found a few of them in my swimming pool. He decided to scrap a whole bunch more with the shovel to get a new roof and by golly they changed his roof for him. If we would have done that they would have put us under the jail. People like him are the ones who drive insurance cost up for everyone. Shameful!
This man sprayed our brand new PK with a temp tag in the window,my friends brand new car with a temp tag in the window, and my personal car with paint because he was spraying his boxing on his house. He did make sure his personal car was moved away from the spray about one house over on the road. He was on the ladder and he knew that spray was going on those vehicles. He also sprayed the neighbor on the other side of his house sail boat with paint. They have since moved away from here because they gave them hell also. I had the one and only carport sale that day and that is why we didn’t notice what he was doing. A lady told me when she drove up about the paint in the air. My carport in enclosed because we have a game room on the other side of the carport. Thank God this lady noticed it because both new vehicles would have had to be repainted.
The neighbor who sued me then made a claim on his homeowners insurance and said it was an accident. He committed fraud again. If his car would have had paint on it then it was an accident but when he moved his car to safety and sprayed ours that is not an accident. He did this on purpose.
Liar, Liar pants on fire.
INSURANCE FRAUD NOT ONCE , NOT TWICE BUT THREE TIMES WE HAVE SEEN WITH OUR OWN EYES BUT YET THE PARISH ATE THEIR LIES UP LIKE ICE CREAM.
WHY? BECAUSE THEY HELPED THE SHERIFF KEEP THE PLACE ACROSS THE STREET WIDE OPEN, AND BUSINESS AS USUAL. BECAUSE WE SEEN TOO MUCH WE HAD TO BE PUNISHED AND ALL THEY HAD WAS A PIECE OF WOOD ON TOP OF A WIDE OPEN 24″ CULVERT WITH A CEMENT TOPPING TO USE AGAINST US. WE DIDN’T SMOKE, DRINK ANY TYPE OF ALCOHOL AND DIDN’T DO DRUGS AND THEY NEEDED SOMETHING ON US TO TRY TO STOP US FROM TALKING AND TELLING THE TRUTH. HELL WILL FREEZE OVER BEFORE I QUIT TELLING THE TRUTH BECAUSE THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. THE PARISH ATTORNEY AT THE TIME OF THIS SUIT WAS MCNABB AND SHE GAVE CITIZENS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT A LOT OF TROUBLE WHEN WE ASKED FOR DOCUMENTS. JOE PINERO WAS IN CHARGE AND I WAS TOLD THAT SHE WAS FINED FOR DEFACING THOSE COPIES OF DOCUMENTS. I WAS A MEMBER AND MCNABB WANTED THE NAMES OF ALL MEMBERS BUT PINERO REFUSED. THEY USED TO HAVE SOMEONE STAKE US OUT WHEN WE HAD MEETINGS TO SEE JUST WHO OR HOW MANY WERE ATTENDING. WHY DIDN’T SHE CALL ME TO LET ME KNOW WHEN THE NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR WAS COMPLAINING ON US. WHY? I TELL YOU WHY BECAUSE SHE HAD ONE OF THOSE MEMBERS THAT SHE COULD USE HER CLOUT ON BUT SHE MADE A BIG MISTAKE TRYING THAT ONE. AFTER ALL I PAID THE SAME OR MORE TAXES THAN THESE PEOPLE SHE MET WITH THAT SUED ME BUT THEY GOT SPECIAL TREATMENT. THEY ONLY PHONED ME AFTER EVERYTHING WAS IN PLACE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS SUIT. SHE EVEN HAD THE NERVE TO TELL ME AT A COUNCIL MEETING ONE NIGHT WE SHOULD MOVE.
SHE SHOULD HAVE NEVER TOLD ME THAT IN TEN LIFE TIMES. SHE DIDN’T KNOW WHO SHE WAS FOOLING WITH. PAT GORDON EVEN TOLD ME TO MY FACE THAT THESE NEIGHBORS WERE JEALOUS AND HE FELT SORRY FOR US. WE NEVER GOT CONTACTED BY ANYONE FROM THE PARISH WHILE THEY WERE GOING UP THERE SPREADING THEIR LIES. WONDER WHY? THEY DIDN’T WANT THE TRUTH THEY WANTED TO PUNISH US AND THEY FINALLY HAD THEIR CHANCE.
Right directly across the street from my house going toward the RR track there is a house with a shop and that shop has a driveway with an 18″ culvert and please check out the topping on top of the culvert. We live on the same road and we had to put 24″culverts. It is the same concept that we had but theirs is cement and ours was wood. This neighbor didn’t want to go off the driveway because the ditch is deep. That is the same thing we had not to go over in the next door neighbors ditch and break our back on the lawn mover because my husband did fall but he fell backwards and didn’t get hurt. Betcha this man across the street from me never got a certified letter from the Parish about his cement stoppers. Political b.s. is all this was and a witch hunt on us for not listening to their commands.
We got contempt of court because we were ordered to remove a driveway that we put down and we checked with the Parish on driveway regulations and there were none and we didn’t need a permit because our culvert was already down. We did check with a surveyor before we put the driveway down and the parish never told us we needed an engineer report. We had all the driveway out except for the part next to the road where it curves going up and their surveyor, the Judges cousin said that we had to have it all out so when the Judge asked me if the driveway was out I said no because Leonard Chauvin, the surveyor said we had to have that part out also. That was all the way to the top of the road maybe 1’or 2′ the most so how could that matter to stop the drainage.
When we went to pay our contempt fine the lady said no one has ever had to pay such a fine as long as she had worked there for many years. The only driveway we were allowed to have was one that was lower than the mans house that sued us. He doesn’t scrape in his driveway but we do. His culvert is an 18″ and ours are 24″. We can’t get our corvettes out of the driveway without scrapping the bottom on our driveway that they allowed us to have but I don’t scrape on the man who sued us driveway with my corvettes. He put his house on the ground and the Judge made me pay for his stupidity because of who we were and what we knew. Like I said before it is not what you know but who you know. This was an unconstitutional ruling. We had to be punished for what we knew and saw and because we weren’t quiet about it. This case had nothing to do with water because this man flooded several times before because he didn’t put dirt under his house. Instead he put dirt around his house. When it rained hard the water came through the back patio door and out the front door of his residence. We tried to warn him but you just can’t fix stupid sometimes. We were punished while he committed insurance fraud and damaged what we worked for. I always heard that 15 minutes of kissing goes a lot further than 10 hours of hard work. Well in this case nothing could have been more than the truth.
WE WILL NEVER LIE TO COVER UP WHAT WAS GOING ON ACROSS THE STREET FOR NO ONE. WE ALL CAME INTO THIS WORLD FROM DUST AND WE WILL ALL RETURN TO DUST BUT WE WON’T SELL OUR SOULS FOR NO ONE!
UNCONSTITUTIONAL IS SOMETHING THEY ALL BETTER LOOK UP AND MEMORIZE.
THE JUDICIAL RULES OF CONDUCT IS SOMETHING THEY NEED TO REVIEW ALSO BECAUSE YOU CAN’T USE ANY COURTROOM AS A COURTESY TO NO ONE!!!!!
I AM JUST A LITTLE OLD NOTARY AND I EVEN KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!
IT AIN’T OVER UNTIL THE FAT ANGEL SINGS!!!!
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To everyone who buys insurance of any kind:
Please, be very, very careful and do some deep research on the company and agency that you give your hard earned money for any kind of insurance you are buying. Please do as thorough of a research as you can and try to find out everything you can before you agree to purchase any policy with the insurance company you pick and try to find out as much as you can about the agency also.
In our case we got royally screwed because we had Allstate Insurance and had been with this company over forty years. We had one claim for a fence that went down before this case in 40 years of making payments. The Agency that handled the Allstate policy for this case was Shafer Robichaux in Thibodaux. What we found out and way, way too late was that this Agency also handled the policy for the Wheels R Rolling Skating ring that we had been having so much trouble with.
When it came to us being properly represented they picked the HIGHING PAYING POLICY OVER THE LOWER ONE. The lawyer the insurance company provided to us was just as good as nothing at all. My husband has asbestosis and high blood pressure and the day of trial it was 200 stroke level. We told this to the Allstate attorney and he couldn’t have cared less because they kept my husband on the stand for five hours while the neighbor who sued us Attorney Bob Butler asked my husband over and over again the same question Did you flood Mr.Benoit over and over again and my husband kept saying no? Our lawyer never tried to stop it or try to object not one time. They kept hounding him over and over until my husband who was beet red and could have died of a stroke from high blood pressure finally broke and told Bulter I answered that question already and go sit down over there and leave me alone. Then the Judge intervened with a shitty grin on his face. They wanted my husband to get angry so he could be on record to make him look like he was a violent man. We paid insurance to this company and agency for years and besides getting screwed over by the Terrebonne Parish Sheriffs Office, the Terrebonne Parish Government, we got screwed over the most by our own damn insurance company, because when the dust settled at the end of the day the insurance company followed the Benjamins, It was all about the money in the end. They couldn’t care less about if we were right or wrong. I will never use an insurance lawyer on any case ever again, never. I dropped this insurance and changed agency and the slogan you are in good hands with Allstate is a lie. It’s good alright, it was really good for them as long as we paid the premium but when we needed the help the most we came in second under the bigger paying policy. We got screwed all the way around and they laughed themselves ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK WITH OUR FORTY YEARS OF MONEY WE PAID THEM.
MOTTO: BE CAREFUL WHO YOU DO BUSINESS WITH BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE IS HONEST! LOYALTY DOESN’T COUNT, MONEY IS ALL THEY CARED ABOUT AND IT WASN’T FOR THE INSURED POCKET, IT WAS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY COULD KEEP IN THE INSURANCE COMPANYS AND THE AGENCYS POCKETS AT THE END OF THE DAY.
IT REALLY MAKES A PERSON NOT WANT TO HAVE INSURANCE AT ALL. IN OUR SITUATION , HAVING INSURANCE ONLY HURT OUR CASE
SHAMEFUL, REALLY SHAMEFUL.
ONCE AGAIN, LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP AND DO A THOROUGH RESEARCH, AND I HOPE AND PRAY THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO YOU OR ANY ONE YOU KNOW!
WE WERE REALLY GLAD THAT THE TERREBONNE PARISH GOVERNMENT WAS RELEASED FROM THIS CASE BECAUSE THE PERSON WHO SUED BOTH OF US PUT HIS HOUSE FLAT ON THE GROUND BY HIS OWN CHOICE EVEN THOUGH HE WAS TOLD ABOUT THE WATER SITUATION BEFORE HE POURED HIS SLAB. I GUESS THE OLD SAYING IS TRUE THAT YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE HIM DRINK.
I would like to Thank Mr.Clay Naquin who is in charge of the Ashland Land Fill In Terrerbonne Parish down the bayou next to the Ashland Jail for allowing us to be able to dump our cement driveway pieces of cement that we were court ordered to remove in this case at the Schriever Dump site.
Thank you so very much Mr.Clay for helping us for not having to bring all that cement all the way to Ashland. I also want to Thank Mr.Clay for doing a great job of keeping Ashland running smoothly. Mr.Clay is the only person that showed us any kind of kindness and compassion and we will remember him every night in our prayers. I want to Thank Mr.Clay also for the young man named Vernon who is in charge of our dump site in Schriever. Vernon really does a great job of keeping that site clean and I know you are his boss, so Thank both of you for everything.
When we were told to take out the cement driveway,the Benoit’s told us that they did not one piece of cement on their property so we had to go and rent an electric one man jack hammer. It wasn’t that we didn’t have the money to hire someone to take it out but if we did that then we couldn’t control that person on that machine so my husband jack hammered it by hand in small pieces Then we picked the pieces up by hand and we both loaded every single piece of that cement onto our flat bed trailer. When we got to the Schriever Dump we unloaded it all off by hand again.We were so happy not to have to drive all the way down the bayou with that heavy load taking a chance that someone would maybe get hurt from a piece of that cement flying out of that trailer.
We did this all by hand with my husband’s blood pressure between 150-200 in 100 degree heat. The neighbors from hell stood in front of their car under their carport watching us and killed themselves laughing at us. The old saying that what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger is true because I am in better physical shape now at 70 then I was 30 years ago.
I know this much, if we ever have to go to jail and they put us on an assembly line busting rocks, then I am willing Lilly and my husband would be ready Freddy because we sure got a whole DAMN lot of field training.
I would like to let anyone know who may read this that the Schriever Dump does not take cement anymore but if you want to haul it yourself a place called Sea Level on Hwy.3185 going toward the new Lafourche Jail takes it because they grind it down to make new cement for roads. You have to check with Mr. James in the first trailer on the right for permission and then drive to the back and get as close as you can to the last pile and unload. Mr. James is the sweetest guy you could ever meet. Be respectful and go really slow and don’t leave any trash on his site, no wood, no cans, etc. just the cement and they do take bricks but in a separate pile.
THANK YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH MR. CLAY NAQUIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS. YOU ARE A GOOD MAN AND GOD WILL REWARD YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS. MAY GOD BLESS YOU EVERY DAY MR.CLAY NAQUIN AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!