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Caleb will be born tonight!
Caleb, Brandon and Kara’s first child (and heir apparent to Same Day Process) will be born tonight whether or not he’s ready for DC’s humidity (the probable reason that he’s been delaying his appearance). Kara was due several weeks ago and on August 14th the doctors attempted to induce labor but Caleb was having nothing to do with it (citing the continuing drop in the stock market). With no hope (or change) in site, the doctors insisted that waiting until November 2012 was not an option and that he would either appear voluntarily tonight (Aug 22) or they would summon him via cesarean to loosen his grip on Kara’s fallopian tubes. The “papa”razzi will be present with his Nikon to record Caleb’s first glimpse of his parents and we will post those photos here for your approval.
My Best Sorrowful Meowing Serenade
An attorney contacted us after trying several process serving companies that were unable to serve his defendant and he explained that she lived by herself but would never answer her apartment door for anyone. He provided us with her photo, but a photo is of no use unless you can see and identify the person you are serving.
I went to the defendant’s apartment that was situated in the center of a long outdoor walkway with no front facing windows, but she did have a peephole in her door. The apartment several doors down at the end of the walkway had a bowl of cat food and water next to the door and it gave me an idea.
It was early evening and I just stood at the railing across from her door and stared at the light in her peephole looking for someone to pass. About 30 minutes went by before I saw movement, which told me she was home. I went to the doorknob side of the door and stood against the wall about 3 feet away so I couldn’t be seen through her peephole and gave my best sorrowful meowing serenade. (I do a good cat!) I meowed for about a minute before I heard her come to the door but she didn’t open it. I gave a couple of short friendly meows and then I heard the door open slightly. I gave one more plaintive meow and she peeked around the corner at the paper I was holding in her face and said, “Meow! Your served!” I should have gotten an Oscar for that performance.
Sex in a Cupcake
Always wanting to make things unique, Brandon & Kara Snesko (owners of Same Day Process Service) decided that they wanted to find out at the same time as their friends, what the sex of their child (due in August) would be. After the sonogram they asked that the report be given to them in a sealed envelope and then they delivered the envelope to Crumbs Bake Shop here in Washington DC and asked them to make 30 cupcakes and fill them with pink icing if it was a girl and blue icing if it was a boy. Two weeks ago they had a party at their home on Capitol Hill and invited 30 of their friends to share in the revelation of their child’s sex. Cupcakes were passed around and when given the signal, all bit into their cupcakes at the same time to discover the blue icing and in unison everyone shouted: “It’s a boy!” His name will be Samuel Anthony Snesko, the heir apparent some day for Same Day Process Service.
Serving Andrew Breitbart at CPAC
One of the best things about owning a process service is the variety of documents and stakeouts you get asked to do. This past weekend was no exception when Same Day received a request from an affiliate company located in New York, to serve conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart and Larry O’Connor, his Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart.tv., at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC. They were being sued regarding his infamous video of Shirley Sherrod, the ex-Agriculture Department employee.
I followed Mr. Breitbart all day, weaving in and out of the crowd of 11,000 conservative political enthusiasts. My client wanted me to use discretion in serving both Andrew Breitbart and Larry O’Connor. Finally, at the 10th hour of following him around, he left one camera crew and headed for another, and I managed to catch him in between with the cameras turned away and I discretely served him. I immediately hustled to the press blogging room to serve Larry O’Connor. There were about 25 bloggers in the room so I approached Mr. O’Connor and asked him to step outside, which he did, and I served him in the hallway. Another fun day at the office…have I mentioned that I love my job!
Since there were no photos of him being served, one of creative graphic artist posted a cartoon of what the scene might have looked like, trust me, there was no break dancing involved in real life.
Andrew Breitbart Cartoon
Brandon Snesko, P.I., Vice President, Same Day Process Service
FOR WANT OF CHICKEN
There is nothing worse than a 15 hour stakeout without food and very little water that also ranked in the top ten of my most boring but equally satisfying. The subject was a primary witness in a case and the client admitted that they had tried to serve him through another process serving company and he had successfully avoided service. The client gave me the subject’s photo and authorized a 3 hour stakeout. Because the subject lived on a country road where all of the neighbors knew each other, I had to park about 200 yards away from his house at a dead end. I arrived there at 6:00am and over the next three hours I watched his kids go to school and his wife go to work but there was no sign of the subject. I called the client and they asked me to stay on the stakeout for the entire day. Well, I had only one bottle of water and a small bag of peanuts to get me through the day and thankfully there was a large pine tree with low hanging branches to meet my other needs. At mid afternoon the kids came home from school and later his wife came home but there was still no sign of the subject. It got dark at around 6pm and at 8:30pm someone left the house, got in the car and drove away. I was parked too far away to see who it was, so I pulled up directly across from their house. There were no street lights so I was practically invisible in my black Land Cruiser with dark tinted windows. The car returned a half an hour later and thankfully the front porch lights were on and they illuminated the heavyset man as he got out of the car carrying a bucket of Colonel Sanders Chicken. When I opened the car door, the interior light went on and he spotted me and started running for the front door. (I was policeman in my younger years and was the 2nd fastest runner in my class of 75 police recruits) I sprinted across the yard and intercepted and served him before he reached his front door. He started swearing at me and I was hoping he’d throw the bucket of chicken at me (by then I was famished). You can’t imagine the adrenalin rush you get when your subject appears, especially after a long stakeout. The satisfaction of completing the service and the paycheck made the stakeout worthwhile but it was Colonel Sanders who made my day.
Tony Snesko, President, Same Day Process Service
