The bruises on the cheek and a cut across the eyelid and nose on my Neighbour showed up the next day. She hadn't noticed, she was still so distraught. I pointed them out to her. After talking with her lawyer, she went to her doctor, who documented her injuries. Later, we took photographs of her cut and bruised cheek.
In these scrapes, there are no innocent parties. Turns out, the husband next door was stressed because they had a gas leak in the basement that was occupying the serviceman. In that case, could the husband not have moved his car so the service truck could parked in his spot instead of block the driveway?
Turns out too that Neighbour was more agitated than usual because exactly 53 weeks ago, her husband passed away. The last few weeks had been emotional for her and she was finding it difficult to have to present the award and talk about her husband's involvement in the theatre community. And now this man next door was refusing to ask the serviceman to move the truck that was preventing her from getting to the award ceremony.
Hindsight is of course more rational. Neighbour admits she shouldn't have hit the man on the head with the ice scraper. But she did so only after he hit her. What kind of a man is it that beats a woman up when she raises her voice at him? Why didn't he tell her he had a gas leak in his house instead of telling her she had enough room to back out of the driveway? I still fault him more. But unfortunately, the police don't see it that way. We'll see how this plays out in court.
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Horrible story. Lose-lose scenario. I had a patient once who got into a similar kind of mutual assault with her ex-sister-in-law. They both called the police and charged each other with assault. The police seem to initially believe whomever calls first. My patient hired Eddie Greenspan as her lawyer, suffered a year of anxiety and depression, and in the end "won" her case. I still don't think she's recovered from it.
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