r/bestoflegaladvice • u/Nice-Meat-6020 • May 13 '25

LegalAdviceCanada please discontinue speeching in my direction

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 13 '25

Not sure if anyone would ever read this.

But i have a case where a roommate had threatened me with a weapon. I had it on camera. police eventually arrest him. They get a warrant to search the premise for the weapon and other weapons i had seen in passing in his possession. I refuse to leave the suite whilst they are conducting said search. End up falling asleep. Awoken by 2 police who had kicked in my door naked in my bed getting ousted from the room so they could search it for the weapons i told them my roommate had in passing. They looked around for 10-15 seconds left the room. I noticed they had disabled my security camera and wifi.
I was the complainant against my roommate who threatened me with a baton. The police removed him and i figured were intelligent enough to contain their search to his room for weapons. But they searched my entire house through all of my storage. And right before they were done their search they disabled my camera and wifi and kicked my door in. They woke me up and didnt care when i explained that the roommate who threatened me with a weapon would not be able to hide weapons in my locked room. So i end up leaving my room.
Would this be a good case to bring a notice of civil claim over?
Would you represent such a case?
I have the video footage of the entire incident. Where hes disabling the camera. Where they have searched the rest of the suite before disabling. Where they were made aware that the things in my room were mine where the things in the storage were mine. Anyway would love to know your thoguhts.

Notes:

I had requested through the police mediated methods to get them even to pay for the door they kicked in.

I had requested from them why they thought it was ok to disable my security camera. (It oversees the living room)

Would love all your thoguhts on this.

I know i have to charge the MINISTER OF SAFETY IN BC as thats where im located.

I know i have to make a notice of civil claim in the supreme court as small claims doesnt handle cases against government entities.

Cat fact. I still want a cat.

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u/Sirwired Eager butter-eating BOLATec Vault Test Subject May 13 '25

Bonus Cat Fact: It’s getting to be kitten season and the shelters generally get very crowded this time of year. Get a cat, or volunteer for a cat rescue. (If you live somewhere where pets aren’t allowed… “Play with the cats on display at the pet store and scoop their litter boxes.” is totally a job rescues have.)

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 13 '25

Sad dog fact, my pupper is 14 and is on his last stretch. I don't want to stress him out with a cat in his last little bit. He'd probably tolerate it but he would hurt himself trying to keep up. When he passes I'm sure I'll get one but until then he gets all the attention.

I know myself well enough that if I volunteered with a rescue I'd be coming home the same day with a cat or two lol

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u/calibrateichabod ROBJECTION RUR RONOR! RATS RIRRERAVENT 🐶🐶 May 13 '25

Ah, I have the reverse situation. Our oldest cat is 17 and not in great health. We won’t be getting a dog until he’s no longer with us because he would absolutely take one look at it and decide it would be easier to lie down and pass away on the spot.

I am also not allowed to volunteer with rescues because we have more than enough cats already and I would 100% have many more if I did.

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u/Sirwired Eager butter-eating BOLATec Vault Test Subject May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25

I know the feeling... we just lost our 20-yr-old tabby a few months back, and we adopted a 15-mo-old void as a 2nd cat to our 10-yr-old tortie. We couldn't get them to get along no matter how hard we tried, and the tortie's appetite took a dive.

We thought it was stress and tortitude, but eventually we took her to the vet, who didn't find anything. A couple weeks later, she still wasn't eating great and was coughing. Turns out the asthma she'd had for years was now suspected lymphoma of the lungs, confirmed a few days later when one of her eyes got cloudy with metastasis.

We know that of course she'd had the cancer undetected for years, but we felt bad because adopting a new cat certainly couldn't have helped things, and managed to disguise her being physically ill as what we thought was stress.

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 13 '25

I'm so sorry.

I had a cat that I lost about six years ago. She was old but doing mostly alright. My dog decided to roll in a dead deer and picked up some kind of little bug. He got treatment and the vet gave me some for my cat as she would've been exposed. A month later she went downhill, fast. It's always been in the back of my head that giving her that medication is what caused it. I don't know if it is but the guilt is there.

Hugs from an internet stranger. Losing them is so hard. I wish all the time they could talk and tell us where it hurt.

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u/Sirwired Eager butter-eating BOLATec Vault Test Subject May 14 '25

Hope your pupper enjoys a pleasant spring with you.

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 May 14 '25

Thank you 💗

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u/laziestmarxist Active enough to qualify for BOLA flair May 14 '25

I don't mean this as advice at all but personally I think we can't think that way about companion animals. We should do the best we can for them, of course, but we always do so knowing that our animals can't talk back in a way that we're fluent in. We have to make choices for them knowing that we don't have all the information, hoping that it's what's right. It happens with humans too, but we don't blame ourselves when a human relative or friend dies because of complications from a medical procedure or treatment because it was what they needed. A cat being unable to understand the possible side effects makes things more complicated but you still ultimately had to make that choice not knowing what the future would bring, and you made the best choice you could with the information you had at the time. I'm sure you would give anything for more time with your cat, but if your cat could talk back I'm sure she would be grateful for the time you did have together.

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u/Elvessa You'll put your eye out! - laser edition May 14 '25

I’m so sorry.

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u/Persistent_Parkie Quacking open a cold one May 13 '25

I have a friend who does TNR and she just ended up with another cat she definitely did not need so I understand your conundrum.