georgiapea
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 21, 2014 19:04:31 GMT
During a snowstorm the Ruckersville, VA postmaster pulled up behind a woman with a car stuck in the snow. He was at the back of her car getting out tire chains when another car slammed into his shoving it forward. The impact cut off both his legs. I can't think of a worse 'good deed/punishment' story.
We have given 2 running vehicles away with good outcomes, and have given non viable ones to charity for the tax deductions.
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cycworker
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Jun 26, 2014 0:42:38 GMT
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Post by cycworker on Aug 21, 2014 19:27:27 GMT
These stories are awful. The worst one I'm having is that I'm still having some issues with my young man and the hockey game. Basically, we talked and worked things out so I was able to be part of the game crew in an official capacity (which meant when they broke the record I was included in the celebrations and such). As much as I love 5 or 6 of the players, it wasn't worth it in the end. Too many hassles now re: problems with clean up, stuff going missing and now money problems.
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eastcoastpea
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Jun 27, 2014 13:05:28 GMT
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 22, 2014 2:51:47 GMT
During a snowstorm the Ruckersville, VA postmaster pulled up behind a woman with a car stuck in the snow. He was at the back of her car getting out tire chains when another car slammed into his shoving it forward. The impact cut off both his legs. I can't think of a worse 'good deed/punishment' story. We have given 2 running vehicles away with good outcomes, and have given non viable ones to charity for the tax deductions. What happened to that postmaster was absolutely tragic. On a positive note, yea you for being good to others.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 22, 2014 3:27:03 GMT
Did she also change it on the line where you spell out the amount? What a horrible human being. She changed the spelled out words "one hundred dollars" to an "f" in front of the "o" and wrote "ur" over the "ne". It was such an obvious alteration but the bank still cashed it. My mom didn't find out about it until she was looking over her account before the cancelled check had come back with her monthly statement. Remember when the bank sent the check instead of just sending you a photo? Your mom should have contacted the bank and the police and told them the check was obviously kited. That kid deserved to have a police car pull up in her driveway. Shame on her.
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ComplicatedLady
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Jul 26, 2014 21:02:07 GMT
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Aug 22, 2014 4:11:06 GMT
Wow. Just wow.
These stories are unreal to me. I am amazed at the audacity of some people. I cannot even imagine...
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luvnlifelady
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Jun 26, 2014 2:34:35 GMT
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Post by luvnlifelady on Aug 22, 2014 7:12:51 GMT
I gave all my baby clothes to a relative's relative and never heard a word of thanks.
My good deed that seems to bite in the butt all the time is letting my sister move in with us. She really has no place else to go but she's a royal pain. Has called the cops on me twice and is just a nuisance. She's here nearly 24/7 (no job, money, car, friends, etc.) and just makes no effort to change things. Mom pays her rent to me just to avoid dealing with her.
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Post by cindosha on Aug 22, 2014 13:19:25 GMT
sues, i want to know what the asshat said when your husband said "forget it". did he act all entitled and pissed???
cindy
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Aug 22, 2014 13:56:24 GMT
Are you kidding?? That is just horrific! (As are a lot of these stories!) How do people live with themselves? How do they even think of these horrible actions? Olan, I'm sorry that happened to you. You did the right thing, they were just awful, hateful, ungrateful people. I think we need a thread of good deeds that you've had done for you or know about after this thread.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 22, 2014 13:59:02 GMT
Mine happened four years ago and is what caused the rift in my family.
My nephew (brother's adult son) has been an addict since middle school, but that Christmas he appeared to be really on the wagon and working to stay sober. DH, DS, and I were going out of town for a week after Christmas and simultaneously having some tile work done in our house. Trying to help out my nephew, I convinced our contractor to use nephew as a paid helper in our house. We also had nephew housesit and take care of our animals, for which we were paying him $300: more than it would have cost to board the dog.
When we returned, the tile work was done, but the house was a wreck. Nephew hadn't done the cleanup which contractor left for him. He had, however, helped himself to our PS3, gift cards and cash of about $150 (Christmas gifts to my son) and my white gold charm bracelet. Now, he told my mother that he'd broken the PS3 by spilling coffee on it, so she replaced it for him. It would have been impossible to spill coffee on the PS3 as he would have had to be lying on the floor and throw it into the cabinet holding the unit. When we realized the other thefts, he tried to blame those on his mother, another addict. And we'd already paid him for the housesitting. So, by trying to help hi out, we pissed off our contractor, lost valuables worth about $1,000, and ended up killing our family relationship because my family refuses to have anything to do with nephew, but my parents are adamant that he must be at every family gathering.
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MerryMom
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Post by MerryMom on Aug 22, 2014 14:18:28 GMT
I wanted to respond to so many of these stories. My most recent one was last year. I will try to make this short. I work with the local Boy Scout Troop as their Fundraising chair, I have been doing it with this group for 15 years, my son is long gone from the Troop but I still stay. Last year a new Cub Scout Pack started in the same church and I agreed to help them setting up their first sale to raise money for the pack. So one of the moms had money to turn into me. Her husband called and said we didnt' want to hold on to the cash over the weekend so we put it in a money order. Tuesday night rolls around and they didn't show. Called and they gave me this story about he accidently made the money order out in his wifes name and he took it and tried to fix it and they wouldn't do it. I said not a big deal, just have her sign it and the Troop can sign and it deposit it. Well of course they didn't show up again, then I got the sob story that they called their bank and the bank told them that I would not be able to deposit it because it had her name on it (bullshit) we do it all the time. So six weeks after the fact, we get a check from them for 650.00 and of course it bounced. By this time I have already been in touch with the Boy Scout Council and they got involved and said they would take it from there. The new Pack never did get any of the money. I know our Troop gave them money to help them get things going and the council helped to so at least the pack itself didn't loose. I am not sure how you can feel okay with yourself after stealing money from 7 year old boys. That is what she did. Your Pack can file a claim in small claims court. The BSA Council office cannot "make" that family do anything to reimburse. Your pack is chartered with an organization. Your Pack Committee Chair should file a claim against them.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Aug 22, 2014 14:32:07 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. Wow, that is horrible!!!
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Post by alibama on Aug 22, 2014 16:02:11 GMT
I wanted to respond to so many of these stories. My most recent one was last year. I will try to make this short. I work with the local Boy Scout Troop as their Fundraising chair, I have been doing it with this group for 15 years, my son is long gone from the Troop but I still stay. Last year a new Cub Scout Pack started in the same church and I agreed to help them setting up their first sale to raise money for the pack. So one of the moms had money to turn into me. Her husband called and said we didnt' want to hold on to the cash over the weekend so we put it in a money order. Tuesday night rolls around and they didn't show. Called and they gave me this story about he accidently made the money order out in his wifes name and he took it and tried to fix it and they wouldn't do it. I said not a big deal, just have her sign it and the Troop can sign and it deposit it. Well of course they didn't show up again, then I got the sob story that they called their bank and the bank told them that I would not be able to deposit it because it had her name on it (bullshit) we do it all the time. So six weeks after the fact, we get a check from them for 650.00 and of course it bounced. By this time I have already been in touch with the Boy Scout Council and they got involved and said they would take it from there. The new Pack never did get any of the money. I know our Troop gave them money to help them get things going and the council helped to so at least the pack itself didn't loose. I am not sure how you can feel okay with yourself after stealing money from 7 year old boys. That is what she did. Your Pack can file a claim in small claims court. The BSA Council office cannot "make" that family do anything to reimburse. Your pack is chartered with an organization. Your Pack Committee Chair should file a claim against them. It was all turned over to the BSA Council and it was handled by them. I am not sure what or if there was a resolution. I know that at least the pack didn't loose out because of it because our Troop helped them and so did the council.
I was very happy that they wanted to take over it because it was a nightmare. Always a chance you take though.
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Post by I-95 on Aug 22, 2014 18:24:22 GMT
A business associate of my DH was going through a tough time, divorce etc and didn't have a reliable vehicle so he asked if he could borrow one of ours. DH said sure, take my wife's mini van He promised to pay the insurance on it...never did. He drove it on toll roads without paying for the tolls, put 20,000 miles on it, then called one day and said he was out of State but I could pick up my vehicle at his ex-wife's house. I went to get the van...NO gas, not a drop. Front tire was flat, The dashboard was broken, he had removed the radio/cd player, leaving a big hole with loose wires. He had transported some kind of chemical that spilled and'burned' holes in the carpet. The passenger visor had been ripped off...and this asshole never said thanks, but had the balls to call my DH a few months later and tell him that his out of State job hadn't worked out and he wanted to come back to Florida, could DH loan him $1000....NFW!!!!!!!!
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Post by alibama on Aug 22, 2014 19:15:23 GMT
A business associate of my DH was going through a tough time, divorce etc and didn't have a reliable vehicle so he asked if he could borrow one of ours. DH said sure, take my wife's mini van He promised to pay the insurance on it...never did. He drove it on toll roads without paying for the tolls, put 20,000 miles on it, then called one day and said he was out of State but I could pick up my vehicle at his ex-wife's house. I went to get the van...NO gas, not a drop. Front tire was flat, The dashboard was broken, he had removed the radio/cd player, leaving a big hole with loose wires. He had transported some kind of chemical that spilled and'burned' holes in the carpet. The passenger visor had been ripped off...and this asshole never said thanks, but had the balls to call my DH a few months later and tell him that his out of State job hadn't worked out and he wanted to come back to Florida, could DH loan him $1000....NFW!!!!!!!! People are just unreal!! I am sorry that happened to you.
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Post by Freefallfast on Aug 23, 2014 3:22:29 GMT
Preteen boy walking down street. Car driving slow next to him With man clearly coaxing him to get in the car saw boy reluctantly get in car. Looked fishy so we stopped our car in front of that car. approached car and politely asked boy if all was well. Boy clearly stated he was fine and that was his dad. Kid was picking up donations left on porches for boy scouts. Dad was passed we even questioned the situation. Kinda feel like I would be nice to folks watching out for my kid in these times.
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Post by grate on Aug 23, 2014 11:47:14 GMT
So sad to read these!
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Post by DinCA on Aug 23, 2014 12:32:22 GMT
I used to work in Center City In Philadelphia and I passed a homeless man every day on my walk from the parking garage to my office, even on weekends. During the winter months, it is really cold and he never had a coat. We didn't have much money but it bothered me so much that dh offered his own coat to give to him, literally the coat off of his back. I was so excited to give it to him and the man was visibly thrilled when I did. The next day when I was walking past him, he wasn't wearing the coat so I asked him about it. I thought maybe it didn't fit or something. He looked at me like he had never seen me before. It crushed me. It's been about 30 years since it happened but it still stings.
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on Aug 23, 2014 12:52:55 GMT
I used to work in Center City In Philadelphia and I passed a homeless man every day on my walk from the parking garage to my office, even on weekends. During the winter months, it is really cold and he never had a coat. We didn't have much money but it bothered me so much that dh offered his own coat to give to him, literally the coat off of his back. I was so excited to give it to him and the man was visibly thrilled when I did. The next day when I was walking past him, he wasn't wearing the coat so I asked him about it. I thought maybe it didn't fit or something. He looked at me like he had never seen me before. It crushed me. It's been about 30 years since it happened but it still stings. You were very kind. Many homeless people are mentally ill. He may have left it wherever he slept at night to use as a blanket. His reaction does not diminish your generosity. His reaction shows he needed that coat all the more.
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tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Aug 23, 2014 13:19:42 GMT
I used to work in Center City In Philadelphia and I passed a homeless man every day on my walk from the parking garage to my office, even on weekends. During the winter months, it is really cold and he never had a coat. We didn't have much money but it bothered me so much that dh offered his own coat to give to him, literally the coat off of his back. I was so excited to give it to him and the man was visibly thrilled when I did. The next day when I was walking past him, he wasn't wearing the coat so I asked him about it. I thought maybe it didn't fit or something. He looked at me like he had never seen me before. It crushed me. It's been about 30 years since it happened but it still stings. You were very kind. Many homeless people are mentally ill. He may have left it wherever he slept at night to use as a blanket. His reaction does not diminish your generosity. His reaction shows he needed that coat all the more. That was also my thought. I bet he was mentally ill and really *didn't remember you our receiving the coat.
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on Aug 23, 2014 14:17:13 GMT
Someone my DH works with was going through hard times, and neeeded a second car because she worked 1st and her DH worked 2nd shift. We had an older Jimmy, nothing fancy, but it ran good. They came over to look at it, of course while DH was not home. The man looked over every inch of the paint and body of the car. Then he looked at the engine, and said he was worried about the seals drying out because the car had been sitting a while. I was silently screaming, "take the damn car or not! It's free!" He ending up taking the car, but then got fired from his security job for falling asleep on the job.
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