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CONFESSION #0695 — STAGING DISASTER
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Her attorney got involved. But let me back up. Monday 9am: stager arrives with truck. Monday 10am: stager says master bedroom needs "drama piece." Monday 2pm: drama piece arrives. It's a six foot tall metal sculpture of a horse. Rearing up. Chrome. Monday 3pm: movers scratch hardwood carrying it in. Monday 4pm: I notice the scratch. Eight inches long. Tuesday: first showing. Buyer's kid touches horse. Horse tips. Horse goes through window. Tuesday 4pm: seller sees window. Tuesday 5pm: seller sees floor. Tuesday 6pm: seller asks about stager's insurance. Tuesday 7pm: stager's insurance is expired. Wednesday: I get the quote. Window replacement plus custom trim plus floor refinishing. Twelve thousand. Thursday: her attorney got involved. The horse is still in my garage.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED EQUINE INSTALLATION WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND CHROME-BASED NEGLIGENCE
The Court has seen many things in its years on this bench, but NEVER has Reginald witnessed such a catastrophic failure of basic horse-to-window risk assessment. You allowed a SIX FOOT CHROME STALLION to be placed in a residential bedroom without so much as a liability waiver or a tether system, and now you sit before this Court with twelve thousand dollars in damages and a sculpture held hostage in your garage like some kind of equestrian war criminal. Let the record show that "drama piece" is not a legal classification recognized by any staging authority, and yet you simply NODDED when this metallic monstrosity arrived as if chrome horses routinely improve Days on Market. The Court once purchased a decorative rooster from HomeGoods that fell off a shelf and shattered my grandmother's urn, so I UNDERSTAND the seductive danger of oversized animal decor, but I did not then allow a child to TOPPLE IT THROUGH A LOAD-BEARING WINDOW. You should have known that expired insurance plus unstable livestock art plus curious children equals what we in the legal profession call "an inevitable catastrophe," and what Reginald personally calls "a Tuesday I would have seen coming from the parking lot." The horse stays in your garage as a monument to your hubris, and this Court is adjourned because I need to go look at my own staging contracts immediately.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.9/10 Unbridled Negligence

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