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The Destruction of a Disabled Man in Colorado

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Eventually, the ENT recommended a sinus surgery to clear up the persistent infection that hadn't responded to aggressive multi-drug therapy.

While recovering from the surgery, and running a fever, one of the neighbors used his ATV to plow the sidewalks and driveways of the houses on either side of mine. He plowed all of the snow onto my sidewalk, forcing me -- in order to comply with Fort Collins law -- to bundle up, perspiring, feverish, shivering, and -- literally -- with blood dripping out of my nose --and dig myself out of the mountains of snow the ATV-owning neighbor had left me.

I, again, called the Fort Collins Police Department, and begged them to intervene. I told them that the pattern of behavior of the neighbors -- against a medically-disabled man -- was escalating. I told the police officer that I was "medically disabled, in chronic pain, have an immune dysfunction, and have been battling serious health issues."

She -- literally -- laughed out loud at me, and said that this was "the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard."


I never recovered my health. Neither could I make it to my next scheduled trip to the eye specialists in Boston.

Those Boston trips cost me about $12,000, out of pocket, each time I have to go. We just didn't have it, anymore.

Since the time that the Motion for Summary Judgment was decided in favor of the HOA, I had to file multiple police reports against the HOA Vice President, who had begun to harass me on numerous occasions, while the next-door neighbor OF the HOA Vice President tried to run me off of the road, with his truck, and revved the engine of his motorcycle every single time he passes my house. This same man "played chicken" with me on numerous occasions, as I left the neighborhood.

I was physically unable to move out of the neighborhood, to get my health back, or to pursue the outdoor activities that were so critical to both my eyes and the stability of my health.

For months, I did nothing but be seen by medical specialists, all of whom were stumped about how to restore my health.

I later learned that the judge is married to the sister of a residential and commercial property builder, who runs Homeowners Associations, and that the judge's daughter worked for the judge's brother-in-law, as a property manager of these Homeowners' Associations.

For me, it begged the question of whether or not the judge should have recused himself, in this case, since it would raise the appearance of bias to many observers.

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