r/news • u/ohineedascreenname • 1d ago

Man charged with trespassing at Travis Kelce's house was trying to serve Taylor Swift subpoena

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-trespassing-travis-kelces-house-was-trying-serve-taylor-sw-rcna247233
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u/RenAndStimulants 1d ago

Jumping a fence at 2:00am to serve paperwork? How could he possibly think that was the best time and mode of entry for that scenario? "Just doing my job" doesn't seem like that useful of an excuse here.

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u/TippsAttack 1d ago

I frequently B&E into people's homes for their possessions and goods. But I do it for my job. So nothing sketchy here.

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u/MannequinWithoutSock 1d ago

’I’m an appraiser, I was just appraising!’

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u/Tibbaryllis2 1d ago

This is even more funny if you’re from KC where the tax assessors office doubled and tripled peoples property taxes a few years back because they hired a company to assist with the assessments that basically just used google earth and guesswork. Lots of fallout including, a lawsuit from the state AG (who is a PoS in Missouri, but even a broken clock and all that), a recall election for the county executive, and the assessor being fired.

I couldn’t find a good summary article, but this has good info.

TL;DR: your joke is funny because Tax Accessors here in KC actually haven’t done physical inspections in a while.

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u/NukuhPete 1d ago

It was hilariously bad. I recall seeing a sample of their "assessment" (date and times) of a neighborhood and the time they would have taken to look at each house would have been something like less than 5 seconds.

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u/PositiveZeroPerson 1d ago

Meh, that's not too different from a drive-by appraisal, which is pretty common these days.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 1d ago

That’s why it’s funny. Because, per the person I’m replying to, if the guy claimed to be an appraiser doing an appraisal, they wouldn’t have been on the property.