archead53

Techinally, those are YOUR parts and materials until paid in full. I've had customers in the past that tried to pull that s- - -t with me. So, I went to the rear of the building, pulled all in line fuses to the building Signage, removed the transformers from wherever possible (most were in the canta-level they were easy to get to), opened up transformer cans-cut & capped off the primary wires, removed faces & neon from ALL Pan-channel letters, pulled FACES from Pylon Signs. We did this all Saturaday night into Sunday morning. The Police stopped once. I showed them my (old) permit and lied to them; told them the colors were wrong & we need to removed them so we could install the correct ones on Tuesday. On Monday morning, my phone was ringing non-stop from the contractor who NOW claims he's got my money. Long story short. We got paid (in advance, with cash) to re-install, MY PARTS & MATERIALS, charged 25% late & hassle Fee and charged them to re-install required parts & materials. He tried taking me to court but under Colorado lawhe was found guilty of fraud, thieft and a whole host of other fines & jail time. Now most states have this law. Your attorney will not tell you, cause he wants to make money off you. It's for you to find out and it's real easy, look it up on the internet. If that story didn't impress you, then listen to this one. There was an old classic neon sign in Denver and the owner contacted me to re-vamp the entire sign; from new wiring, neon, painting, the whole works. When we got done I was damn proud of it. I received alot of "at a boys" from the other sign companies but the owner kept dodging me about paying the balance; which was a lot sum of money. This went on for 6 months. So, me and the guys went out there early one morning and cut (almost) loose the the "I" beams holding up this 60' sign. We rigged a sigle guy wire that kept the sign from falling over into his parking lot. We then put up cones, yellow tap and instructed people that rear parking lot was closed for tghe day. needless to say the owner came out (along with the police) and the owner refused to pay the balance. I was standing there listening to all this B.S. coming out of the owners mouth. Something happened inside of me. I sparked on my torch. Yelled out "You don't want to pay. . . then watch this!" I cut free the guy wires then turned off the tanks. I began yelling "Run. . .Run, Run, Ruuuunnn." This sign came down exactly where I wanted to. Right in the middle of his parking lot. Now, it was a very hot day in Denver. The middle of summer and the parking lot was made out of asphalt. The sign sunck in 5-6' in some areas. I stood there, my attorney showed that paperwork that I owned most of the sign and can do whatever I wish to my parts & materials. It goes without saying NO-ONE cheats me out of money. Besides, if they would have arrested me, bond is not that much. They let me go on my attorneys personal word that I would not skip town. When theres tens of thousands of dollars at stake (1970-80's thousands- equal to half to million dollars in todays money) I not going to play nice. Again, nothing happened to me. I can't say the say about the owner.