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  • Originally posted by The Rube View Post
    Have the copper thefts died down? That was a huge deal for a while....
    A little bit. Copper doesn't net you as much as it once did.

    In the Chicagoland area, one suburb was hit by vandals who stole manhole lids. The city engineer showed just how little scrap value they were worth, and how it would cost taxpayers at least 100x the scrap value to replace the kids.

    Then again, this is the same area where people stole GPS tracked school buses and drove them to a neighboring scrap yard to scrap them.
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    • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

      Yikes.

      Back in 2010, Kristine and Michael Barnett thought they were coming to the rescue of a 6-year-old Ukrainian girl named Natalia Grace, adopting her under shadowy circumstances about which they were too polite to ask questions. Instead, they wound up with a full grown adult with dwarfism—and, it turns out, some extreme psychiatric problems. As Kristine Barnett told the Mail:

      ‘She would make statements and draw pictures saying she wanted to kill family members, roll them up in a blanket and put them in the backyard,’ she told DailyMailTV.

      ‘She was standing over people in the middle of the night. You couldn’t go to sleep. We had to hide all the sharp objects.

      ‘I saw her putting chemicals, bleach, Windex something like that, in my coffee and I asked her, what are you doing? She said, “I am trying to poison you.”
      OKAY! Later, the Barnetts were charged with neglect for allegedly abandoning Natalia, which they argue is obviously not possible considering she was an adult all along
      Fun!

      My experience with social workers and the state in situations like this is the parents here are lucky they weren't (a) murdered and/or (b) railroaded into prison by the foster/adoption system.
      Last edited by Kepler; 09-24-2019, 12:59 AM.
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      • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Yikes.



        Fun!

        My experience with social workers and the state in situations like this is the parents here are lucky they weren't (a) murdered and/or (b) railroaded into prison by the foster/adoption system.
        Double-u, tee, eff

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          That is the most disturbing thing I'll read this week...
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          • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

            There is something about that whole story that just doesn't ring true. Especially when you consider the timing of the release of the movie Orphan relative to this adoption.

            The girl obviously has some issues, but that's not surprising to me. Our neighbors adopted three kids out the old Soviet bloc twenty years ago and those kids were a mess. They had numerous and severe physical and emotional problems, and it eventually led to the divorce of the couple.

            This looks like a case of a couple who adopted a kid with extreme problems, most of which were probably not disclosed or obvious at the time of adoption. At first they had confidence they could handle it, but eventually it became too much. This "Orphan" plan was then hatched and they were able to get some doctor to say she was in her twenties, even though other medical tests revealed otherwise. They set the kid up in an apartment, then bail on the kid.
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            • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

              A woman has some whiskey and sleeps with her infant. Infant does.

              Of course it’s the vaccines fault.

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              • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

                Originally posted by aparch View Post
                how it would cost taxpayers at least 100x the scrap value to replace the kids.
                That was an option?!?!

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                • Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                  That was an option?!?!
                  Goddammed mobile phone keyboard.
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                  • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

                    Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                    That was an option?!?!
                    Insert Venture Brothers joke here.
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                      • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

                        I have no idea what happened here unless it was the Thumpers.
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                        • Re: What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          I have no idea what happened here unless it was the Thumpers.
                          Pretty sure the Thumpers are for Halloween, because Tradition. It's them darn ferriners (purposely spelled that way) that are ruining it. Or the libs. Or both.
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                            There's always that one fooking Jehovahs Witness whackadoodle who has to ruin it for everyone.

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                              I still say Thumpers. *Real* Thumpers know that Halloween is a celebration of the witchcraft, which is the work of the Devil, just like those sinful Harry Potter books.
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                              • Originally posted by LynahFan View Post
                                I still say Thumpers. *Real* Thumpers know that Halloween is a celebration of the witchcraft, which is the work of the Devil, just like those sinful Harry Potter books.
                                All Hallows Eve. The next day is All Saints Day and the day following is All Souls Day.

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