ponypimpmomma wrote:
Ok.. here's the weirdest thing I ever got caught up in.

YEARS ago back in ohhh about 2002 I chatted in a "Pets and Animals" chat room. I had known the people in there probably for three years. You really do think you know them after awhile.

So there was this woman in there who was in Idaho or someplace like that. She had an online "love" who was in Florida. He was a "treasure hunter" but had been in some kind of weird situation where he was now living in a group home situation to get back on his feet. She was supposedly in a horribly abusive marriage and planning to get out. She asked me if I needed help on the farm. This man could use a place temporarily until she could get out. We were building a barn and had a bunch of horses at the time. We said yes but we only had a shed with running water for him to stay in and we couldn't pay him much but we could feed him. Oh that was fine, he needed out of where he was and he was used to camping blah blah blah it would only be a few weeks.

So... I pick up this poor old man supposedly in his 50's but looked more like his late 60's from the Greyhound station. We put him up with in the shed which was really new and nice back then. He has a microwave, coffee maker, toaster, running water, a bed etc. We even got a phone line for internet in there and got him his own phone line.

I fed him three meals a day everyday and took him shopping for whatever he needed (ohh he didn't drive claimed not to have a license). He sorta does what he's asked though doesn't help hubby with the barn at all though he is very good at criticizing what hubby was doing. He bitches a lot and smokes a carton of cigarettes a week (sometimes in less than a week). We let him use our bathroom for showers etc. We really don't demand much I had very few stalls at the time and he only had to clean four stalls, feed and do other odd jobs.

I got him work with friends for money but he bitched about that too. He didn't like being told he had work without checking his schedule (WHAT schedule).

Ok.. this is where it gets weird, none of that is the weird part. He's here a couple of months and making us nuts. I mean he doesn't do much of anything. In fact the only time we went away and left him with real work he nearly killed my horses leaving them with no fresh water during the summer killing the fish who were rotting in the trough. I got home and the horses were literally dying for water. Mares with foals at their sides!!!

Meanwhile his girlfriend, the supposedly abused one calls all the time. She tells him she's run off to a shelter with the kids and wants to come to FL. I'm thinking it's fishy how is she making so many phone calls. Anyhow... we decide he has to go. He is stressing us out so much hubby and I are fighting. We NEVER fight.

So... I ask him where he'd like to go someday, not letting on I have NOW in mind. He tells me. I leave him here with hubby the next morning and I go buy bus tickets to that place. My hubby tells him to pack when I get back it's time to go. I have a friend of mine here to drive him to the bus station so he doesn't kill me LOL I should add I gave him a thousand bucks, some contacts for rooms for rent and a job listing for the area as well.

He cries and wails looks so hurt. He was frantically making calls to his "girlfriend" while I was buying the tickets. My friend drives him to the station and watches him get on a bus to an area of S. Florida.

Now the REALLY weird part. I hear nothing for a few weeks then I get a call from a policeman in Idaho. He tells me the woman was never abused. She claimed the police had been there several times but in reality they'd only been there once for a fire investigation and that was years prior. He did tell me when they were there it was a horrible social service situation kids living in squalor etc. Apparently this woman is "missing" and has the kids. They think she ran off to be with the man who lived here. They asked me where he'd gone and i told them what I knew. I told them I was very concerned as for many years this woman had told us in chat that she was terribly abused. He assured me he would look into it more.

THEN the husband calls. Tells me he's never abused anyone. She told him she was going to her sisters but when she never showed up there he got worried. This was coincidentally the same time frame her boyfriend left here on the bus. Near as I can figure he went up there and they drove off in her car, kids pets and all. I tell the hubby I've spoken to the police but was not intending to give him details.

So... the search goes on for awhile the nice police man keeping me posted (he really was lovely we kept in touch for some time LOL). One time he called very shaken because a car with a woman and two kids had been found in ravine. He had to ask the hubby for DNA from hairbrushes. He was distraught but it turned out to be someone else.

Well one day I get a call they've been found. They were living on a beach in S Florida "treasure hunting". The kids were eaten by mosquitoes and starving. She was under arrest for something akin to kidnapping. They had set the man who was living here free, but he had nothing. The kids told the officer it was the worst "vacation" they'd ever been on. Apparently they were oblivious to any spousal abuse or the fact that they'd been taken from home forever LOL

I don't know whatever happened to anyone but it began my policy of doubting every hard luck story I ever hear online!

Pumpkin cake for anyone who actually read this and got the picture of how insane it was. I think the weirdest part for me was being questioned by police intensively for the first and only time in my life.


I read it.



and....... since your so nice..... you can send me a 1000 dollar check, writen out to me, I assure you it will be put to better causes then the shed weirdo


:B

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