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Reading the judgment, judge has quite the sense of humor and basically dropped the mic on him.

[4]                Yet, to the complainant and his family, this is an unbearable nuisance. An affront on many levels. So much so, that according to the objective video evidence, they drive dangerously near the children as a way to protest their presence and express their discontent. That is the backdrop of this case. The complainants have a list of grievances against the accused, his family, his young children and the other neighbours’ young children. These grievances are nothing more than mundane, petty neighbourhood trivialities. The complainants have consistently videotaped their neighbours. Yet, they charge Mr. Epstein with criminal harassment. With an irony of unmatched proportions, they complain that he might have recorded them. He did not.

[5]                To the complainants, the presence of young families outside it is a source of scorn and vivid resentment that ultimately spilled over into a criminal complaint against their neighbour. A school teacher. A caring father of two young daughters who committed no crime whatsoever. A man who has somehow been subjected to criminal charges for almost two years.

[6]                This injustice ends today.

[7]                After Mr. Epstein testified in chief, in a tremendous display of professionalism and objectivity, Crown counsel declined to cross-examine him since, in her view, it was not in the public interest to do so. Instead, she humbly invited the Court to enter an acquittal. Having heard the evidence, I can unreservedly confirm that she made the right call. Counsel’s integrity was commendable.

[8]                For reasons explained below, the Court is resoundingly acquitting the accused. Since I’m hesitant to draft an entire decision in bold and caps-lock characters, I offer the following observations instead.

[9]                It is deplorable that the complainants have weaponized the criminal justice system in an attempt to exert revenge on an innocent man for some perceived slights that are, at best, trivial peeves.

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8 minutes ago, mthor said:

We used to get a lot of Quebecois in Daytona - the kind who couldn't speak English until they wanted to complain.

My folks lived across the street from a Quebecer - through her French accent she claimed that French Canadians created everything worthwhile and the US learned everything from them.  My Dad made some crack which resulted in her forbidding her husband from even talking to him.

(My Aunt & Uncle had something similar, but he was a Greek and the Greeks created everything.  I always wanted him to meet the Quebecer, and pull up a chair with popcorn.)

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