Not elusive, but still a pain in the ass

[Donald Zeigler]

I was retained to serve a subpoena out of FL that I had to domesticate in the county the recipient now resided in. The customer sent me what was supposed to be a good address, explaining the property belonged to her new husband and they were both residing there. This was personal service only.

The property was a farmhouse out in the country. I visited three times and never encountered anything but cattle and ground hogs. The client authorized three more attempts. Two of these were exhausted by additional visits to the farmhouse, where once again I only encountered livestock and wildlife.

I finally hit pay dirt on Facebook, seeing a post from an area nightclub advertising a performance by a musician with the same name as the recipient's new husband. I found his personal page and a photo of him with a woman. He had tagged her and bingo! It was my recipient.

I snooped around her Facebook page and noticed she often went with him to his club dates. I decided to stake out the club he was playing at that night - the client approved the additional fee. Sure enough, about 6pm he rolled in driving a van. He was alone. I watched him unload and get back into the van.

I walked up to the van and introduced myself. He was quite surprised when I told him why I was there. He called the recipient and told her what was going on. He let me talk to her and I explained the situation. She agreed to drive to the club, and I served her.

As it turned out they did not even live at the farmhouse. It belonged to a family member and the husband just got mail there. While she would not tell me exactly where they did live, she did say it was a cabin on the river out on the boondocks and they lived completely off the grid.

Had I not spotted the nightclub's social post, this would have been a non-service. The client was happy, the recipient and her husband were pretty cool concerning the circumstances, and the job was completed. 

[plps2000]

Social Media is checked on almost all of my serves. I had an avoider who owned a home but spent all his spare time at his girlfriends. I found a Marketplace listing where he was selling a boat prop. (I don't own a boat)  Long story short I made contact and he met me outside of the secure gate of his employer. He didn't sell a prop that day but he did get some reading material for his lunch break.