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Katrina Gulliver's avatar

I don't know. Internet allows people thousands of miles away to chuck some cash into your GoFundMe bucket. I think the internet has created this class of scammer.

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Some Guy's avatar

I just wish some of them were fun. “My country has been taken over by a tyrant. Please help me buy this meteor fragment so I can forge it into a sword to fight on the side of justice. Also when I was born thirteen bald eagles flew in a circle over the hospital and each one carried the state flower of one of the original thirteen colonies in its beak. I am the prophesied king of America and upset my favorite political party lost.”

I’d send some random exuberant crazy person ten dollars to make a meteor sword as long as they made a YouTube video and at least made a good faith effort to pretend a meteor was used.

Instead it’s all just “I’m mister burns from that Simpsons episode where he has every illness possible. Who will look after my cat after I pass on? I don’t understand household finances at all.”

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Midwest Molly's avatar

And all the illnesses cancel each other out so Mr Burns survives? My dad lived that way for years.

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Some Guy's avatar

That is very sad depending on how well they canceled out.

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Midwest Molly's avatar

You know what? It was really sad. But he rallied. He died a fews weeks ago, and I’m surprised at how hard it’s been. I’m 55 but I feel like a little kid.

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Some Guy's avatar

I’m so sorry. I have a really complicated relationship with my dad but can’t imagine that day. God be with you all.

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