S/O What crazy things have happened on this board?

Wasn't it that she was having money problems and talked the peas into donating money for food for her kids? Then a pea finds that she was posting on the scrapbooking board about her new layouts, supplies, and the case. So that's when she came up with the story about her husband magically finding a brand new scrapbooking case chock full of scrapbooking supplies. So instead of selling the supplies to make sure she had enough money for food later on, etc. she kept everything and bragged about it where people who gave her money could see it. 

I think it was over pit bulls. There was a thread about how someone was killed by pit bulls, and Peppermint Fatty threw a fit about the peas being anti pitt bull. She brigaded 2peas with her friends, including the incredibly outspoken Moolissa. A wise pea figured out where they were hanging out at Weight Watchers, so some peas went over there and let people who how PF and Moolissa and her herd were acting. 

There's TWO table stories. The one you linked, and the 2peasfaithful one. 

She posted asking for advice about what to do, aka alleviate her conscience for wanting to keep the table. She found her dream table through the classifieds or a yard sale or something. I think the person who sold it to her helped deliver it to her house. The person who asked for it back had her contact info or showed up at her house. Somehow one of close relatives of the owner of the table contacted 2PF and begged for her to give the table back. Their relative, I think a parent or grandparent had died, and another relative sold the table out of spite. The person was heartbroken about losing the table.

So 2PF thinks we'll side with her or something. The vast majority of peas were telling her that she should give the table back. The relative was going to pay her back or give her even more money for it. But 2PF really, really, really loved the table. 

The next day she came back and told everyone that she'd prayed about it, and Jesus wanted her to keep it.   Ya know, because that's what Jesus would have done. She got upset that the peas called her out on it. She was very outspoken about her faith, and then she totally did a 180 about a table that meant the world to someone else.

I think her thread might have started a S/O about family heirlooms that were lost. That might be how we learned about some of the other furniture stories.

I think the reupholstered chair started off on the spin off, but then the pea posted later asking for advice when her MIL threw a fit and wanted the chair back. 

Somebody went to the owner's store and noticed all these cards displayed as examples of different techniques. The person recognized one of the examples was the cover of a card she'd sent to the girl. The girl said her husband was in Afghanistan or Iraq, and she was going through ovarian cancer. There was a lot of cards used as technique examples throughout the store.

The shop owner had been begging for the peas to send cards to this girl who didn't exist so the owner could tear the card fronts off and display them as inspiration and possibly her own work. I think the owner was even using them to get people to come to classes to learn the techniques.

There was a confrontation and everything came out. I think the pea who found her card in the shop contacted some other scrappers who'd mailed cards, and a few were local. So they went to investigate and saw even more cards that they knew had been mailed to the imaginary girl. The peas had posted photos of the cards, so it was easy to recognize them.

I think the store owner tried to deny it for a while, until someone did an image search and found the photos of the girl had been taken from a soft porn site. Then everything unravelled. I think the store closed a little while later.

Wasn't she also the one who said she hadn't been able to pay her garbage bill in months so she had been piling it in her garage?

I was also wrong and still feel terrible.

Therapea was odd, and I think she'd attacked the pea who was on the waiting list for a liver and was told she couldn't get a transplant. She'd questioned whether she was legitimate or not. I can't remember exactly what. There'd been a bit of drama with her and lots of oddness. Not that it makes it ok in any way. She wasn't a drama free pea who'd been attacked for no reason. There were things that caused a lot of peas to raise an eyebrow or two.

One of the first things she posted was about her mother thirsting to death and how she was going to sue the rest home for negligence. A lot of peas tried to explain that her mother had been actively dying, and giving her fluids would have extended her suffering. It was a mess, and Therapea was convinced the rest home had killed her mom and just had these long rants about it. 

Then her son comes on to announce her death, and we didn't believe him. He was in his early 20s and said he was a coroner. It was a true story that sounded really fake. I really regret my part of it. I now see that Therapea was just dealing with a lot without mental health care, and 2peas was an outlet for her to release some of her frustrations. There had been a lot of peas who'd really been scamming us and got called out, and we unfortunately called out someone who was telling the truth.

I can't remember the name of the pea who died because she didn't get the transplant. I still think of her, her husband, and daughter. I was on 2peas the night she got the letter notifying her that she wasn't a candidate for a transplant. She thought her doctor would tell her, and she was alone opening mail and found out. I do remember that she lived near the beach (San Diego?) and spent a lot of time hanging out on the beach with her family. Which isn't a bad way to spend your last days. Her daughter was still really young.







 

I don't remember that, but the whole story was one of the oddest ones. Maybe the husband was putting the garbage in that empty house and had been for a while, then miraculously discovered the rolling case of supplies in house he'd been going through all the time for months. As soon as someone called her out, she had to ridiculous story about how her husband found everything in an empty trash filled house.

I do remember that the girl who got two transplants and went to Disney also showed off photos of her husband's expensive new(er) car. I think it was a red Mini Cooper convertible. 

On the old board, I remember the emotion and confusion of 9/11 and how a pea posted that her military pilot husband had been ordered to shoot down civilian aircraft if circumstances dictated. It was very surreal.

Later in the day, I thought, did she say he had received the orders or did he actually have to carry them out? When I went back to check the thread, the post was gone. I was afraid to mention it ever again in case men in black showed up at my door.

Y'all are making me very happy that I totally missed out on some of these things...

My dad was still in the general aviation industry after 9/11, and I don't remember anyone having to be shot down. Everyone was grounded, some for a few days, but there were orders that if someone ignored the orders to land that they would be shot down. I think a few small planes were escorted to the nearest small airports.

If the private pilots flew out of a small field without a tower and within airspace that doesn't require you to talk to Air Traffic Control, the private pilots wouldn't have known about 9/11 immediately. We didn't all have cell phones that gave us immediate news and such back then.

So jets were scrambled and told to escort them home. I think there were cases where the jets had to do that, but nobody got shot down. That would have been a huge freaking deal in the aviation community. 

It would have been incredibly stressful to told that you had shoot a civilian though. Small planes have been flown into buildings before, so there was precedent that it was possible to use as small plane like a missile.

Yeah, I'm not trying to make excuses for my behavior either, but some peas made it sound like we all piled on a sweet pea for absolutely no reason. 

I was going to respond with, "my pleasure," but I refrain.  I'm glad if my "instructions" helped out the Peas!!  Those were the days!