Post 9-11 everyone does background checks. Landlords, employers, potential dates ... they all can easily do background checks.

My last paycheck for a week's work was $2600 and some change AFTER taxes. I had $500,000 in real estate, a vintage Corvette, European vacations, a trophy wife ... life by the balls. I have $4 to my name and might get paid for building some wooden stairs for a landlord tomorrow ... maybe.

I came home late from work, tired, had nothing to drink, I was jumped, and was told my balls would be cut off if I didn't give up my wallet. I had already taken a beating from behind. The potential mugger left my property in an ambulance, I left in a police car.

I received a year in prison for resisting being mugged. My national honor society daughter has nothing to do with me since I went to prison, sentenced to a year. Welcome to my daily life, today: