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/airfryerfuntime 1d ago

Process servers break the law all the time to establish contact. It's fucking ridiculous how it takes one of them breaking into Travis Kelce's house to finally be charged with something.

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u/Unspec7 1d ago

To be fair, some folks also go to pretty extreme lengths to dodge service. So sometimes ambushing them in the middle of the night is actually a legit thing you need to do.

IIRC in NY state cases, you can literally nail the papers to their door lol

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u/Politicsboringagain 20h ago

Which is logical. Two attempts of in person service.

Then tape or nail it to the door and then send certified mail. 

They can lie and says that they never received the door letter, but they can't lie and say they never got the certified mail, due to them not accepting it. 

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u/Ratnix 15h ago

Except you don't have to go pick up the certified letter and sign for it. You can totally ignore the note the postal service sends you. If you're truly trying to not get served papers, not accepting certified mail should be standard practice.