Not Prepared For The Test
I did personal injury law on the plaintiff’s side. My best story involved someone else’s client who I was deposing. In that case, I was deposing this guy who caused a car crash. The guy worked for a car dealership and was driving a company car. He swerved over two lanes of traffic on a highway, into another car in an intersection, and sent that car flying into my client’s vehicle that was stopped at a red light.
My client was trapped in his car until the jaws of life pulled him out. I was quizzing this guy and asked him if he had taken any illicit substances that day. He said no. I said, “How about the day before”? Again, he said no. Then I asked, “How about in the last week?” He said, “Nope, no way”. But I knew something crucial, and I was about to reveal it.
I then slid over to him a copy of the substance test his employer had him take. It showed him testing positive for several substances. I asked him why he tested positive for those things if he had never taken them. His eyes got really wide and he said, “Well, I never would have taken the test if I had known I was going to test positive”!
The case was settled pretty quickly after that.
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