Oklahoma City Process Servers Deserve Respect and Dignity

Oklahoma City Process Servers Deserve Respect and Dignity

For far too long, process servers have not received the respect and dignity they deserve.  Too many people try to harm, harass, and sometimes kill them.  Oklahoma process servers place their lives in grave danger each time they go out into the field to try to serve an individual, as some people react in very uncivil and violent ways.  For those in Oklahoma that wish to intimidate, maim, and kill process servers, Oklahoma Judicial Process Servers www.OklahomaJudicialProcessServers.com hopes that they remember a few things about the people working in this field.

These Oklahoma residents, who are officers of the court, work very hard to support both themselves and their families.  They are just trying to earn an honest living.  An Oklahoma process server does not want to hurt anyone or cause harm.  Instead, a process server merely wants to accomplish the job and go home.  How does it make sense to yell at them and/or try to shoot them?  Is that not illegal and immoral?    

Licensed by the courts, Oklahoma process servers are messengers of the court.  They are not the ones who filed the lawsuit or other court papers against anyone.  Instead, they are obligated to act as a disinterested party.  A process server does not care who prevails in the court hearing; rather, he or she just wants to deliver the papers.  People do not get angry with the mailman for delivering bills or other news, right?  Well, then why would someone hurt someone who is merely bringing the message?  Unscrupulous people need to remember not to kill the messenger!

Lastly, please remember that process servers are also fellow human beings.  Yes, that is right: they have thoughts, feelings, and dreams, too.  Like any other human being, they deserve the very same respect, dignity and kindness that everyone else does.  It would be wrong to hit one’s mum, dad, teacher, religious leader, etc.  Why, then, is it okay to insult and attack an Oklahoma process server?  While process servers may bring news that is often undesirable, he or she did not write what is on the papers.  Oklahoma process servers are not bad people and do not deserve unwarranted, unnecessarily, and sometimes deadly wrath of angry, mean, hateful recipients.

Oklahoma Process Servers Have the Right to Defend Themselves

Oklahoma Process Servers Have the Right to Defend Themselves

            A few months ago a process who works for Oklahoma Judicial Process Servers www.OklahomaJudicialProcessServers.com and other companies called to share a story of something that had happened on what was supposed to have been an otherwise routine serve.  When he first shared his story, everyone was concerned for his safety but not completely shocked at what had happened.  What should have proven to be an otherwise routine serve turned into something it did not have to be, and the result turned out poorly for the instigator.

            When this fabulous Oklahoma process server went out to serve some papers on a young lady, her father was the one at home.  The dad said that his daughter was not there, so the Oklahoma process server proceeded to give the papers to him instead.  After having given the man the papers, the process server began to walk back to his car.  Unfortunately, the dad kind of lost it.

            The father came out after the process server from Oklahoma and began to tug on the process server’s clothes, trying to intimidate him and rough him up a bit.  The process server warned him to kindly back off and just let the matter go.  Besides, the process server was in no way involved in the lawsuit, right?  Under Oklahoma’s laws, they are not allowed to be an interested party to either side of a legal case.  Unfortunately, tempers can flare and people can sometimes take their anger out on the wrong individuals.

            After the dad refused to back off and began to get more violent, the process server had to punch him in the face.  Once that happened, the dad began to charge, and the process server pulled out his pepper spray.  Undeterred, the father kept after him, so there was no choice for the process server from Oklahoma to do anything but use it.  This, of course, put a quick end to the melee.

            Once the lady’s father had been stopped with the pepper spray, the process server did the right thing and called the police.  The police came out and arrested the girl’s father, as he was assaulting an officer of the court in the process of his official duties.  That’s illegal for anyone to do, and the police handcuffed the man and took him off to jail.  Needless to say, the process server who did absolutely nothing wrong left and went on to his next case.

This story is something police officers and process servers alike sometimes face, and Oklahoma’s stand Your Ground Law protects people from having to just turn and run away.  Even if you are not licensed as an officer of the court and are not a police officer, you still have the right to protect yourself.  Indeed, that is a basic right of all living beings.

            The key to this is to make sure that one never uses excessive force.  A fairly clear example of this involves the case of the pharmacist in Oklahoma who went too far by going back to shoot the robber over and over after he was already incapacitated.  The key is to defend yourself if you need to.  Process servers – or anyone for that matter – should never try to do more harm than they absolutely have to.  This is an important principle that both process servers and non-process servers alike should strive to live by.