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To: John Pitera who wrote (9356)	5/8/2008 12:04:31 AM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 33421

Tom, I'm kind of coming to a bigger turning point in my life, and thus my little novella. I'm getting weary of my life. It's just not fun anymore. My parents can not stand me it's a good thing they are 1000 miles away. My brother Pete will absolutely not talk to me, and that old boss Bjorn who you and I had a couple of conference calls came to my current place of employment and accused me or extortion a week ago, He showed up at my apartment on Monday morning at 10:30 looking for me. He gave my apartment manager a hard time when she would not let him through the security and then he came to my office. I was concerned that he might do something extreme so I had my manager attend the meeting in the manager's office. He accused me or extortion for trying to get my parents the 20,000 he owes them for the hospital surgery they paid for in July of 2006. I was a 1099 contract employee of his doing retained executive research and he, his wife and his crony Karen had literally forced me to move a plant from the north side of Richmond at Greenway plaza to the South side of Greenway (the AIM tower) the plant was large enough that it required a coworker and an upright dolly to move. The only way between the two buildings is a 3rd story over the street glass and metal walkway with a 2 story escalator at the ground story of the AIM building. When Mark and I were hurrying to get the second plan. The dolly got stuck at the base of the escalator. I was on it and carried up 8 metal steps and then tumbled down the escalator severing my right bicep tendon, and also injuring my rotar cuff, and giving me a deep gash in the left leg and in my back. The building security came, they called for an EMS unit that came, and the EMS guy was all pissed off that the Greenway building security had phoned it in a a code blue. I had a 3 and a half hour opreration in which cadaver ankle tendon tissue was used to anchor my bicep tendon back onto my elbow joint. When the bandages came off 10 days later, I had a major infection where the large incisions were. I was gived several rounds of very strong oral antibiotics and then had to go back to st luke to be on intravenous antibiotic drip for 8 whole days. A very long cumbersome painful process, of which I still have thousands of dollars of unrecouped costs.. Bjorn is very intent on the tactic that he wants to be sued over this. It's been a very discouraging run around. very quite a bit of acrimony involved. It's worn me out. John

To: John Pitera who wrote (9356)	5/8/2008 12:06:09 AM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

John, since you were rather close to New Zealand at the time (being in Australia) I was wondering if you had heard of a company called "Rainbow" in New Zealand? I was on holiday in Bora Bora during the meltdown in Oct. 1987 and I met a bloke who was part of that company in 1987 when it was big stuff in New Zealand, but it imploded a little before the US crash in 1987. It was certainly surreal watching the US markets crash from half-way around the world in those days. From what I gathered from that guy, the Rainbow company followed the bubble patterns we later saw in 1999-2000 in the US to a "T".