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spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

DemoneeHo posted:

Arrested in school for being involved in a "bomb scare". Whats going to happen?

I've never understood why any person would do anything other than clam up.

The first thing I taught my kids was to never talk to the cops/administration if they think they're in trouble. I've had to field a couple of calls like: "Mr. Spacetoaster, we think your child was involved in something but they refuse to speak to us other than to tell us to call you." I'm totally fine dealing with that and I hope my kids also never talk to cops as adults.

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Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray

spacetoaster posted:

I've never understood why any person would do anything other than clam up.

The first thing I taught my kids was to never talk to the cops/administration if they think they're in trouble. I've had to field a couple of calls like: "Mr. Spacetoaster, we think your child was involved in something but they refuse to speak to us other than to tell us to call you." I'm totally fine dealing with that and I hope my kids also never talk to cops as adults.

I remember in high school when a bunch of kids and I got caught smoking weed, they took each of us separately into different rooms and said that our friends had already told them everything so I might as well come clean. I just kept saying "Nothing happened, if they told you we did something bad I don't know why they did" etc. etc. Because you realize that even if that's true it's not smart to just admit to something for no reason.

Sure enough, none of us caved and none of us ended up getting in trouble. I still laugh about a bunch of school administrator weenies trying to act like hardass detectives

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Sorry but you either support all abortions, no questions asked, or you play into conservatives line-in-the-sand mentality. there's no moral difference between the abortions you support and the ones you don't.

What about post-birth abortions phiz kalifa... or should I say HITLER!!???

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
My [25M] wife [26F] writes outlandish fanfiction and honestly it kinda bothers me

quote:

Prefacing this by saying I have absolutely nothing against people who write fanfiction, or fanfiction itself. I've read some that are really cool.

So I've been married to my wife for a good four years now and we're doing great. At first we got a bunch of people who told us we got married too young, it wasn't gonna last, and some other rude stuff but really, we're doing just fine. There's nothing in the relationship that makes me think Helen (diff name) might be unhappy with me, our marriage, her life, etc. Which is why this took me so much by surprise.

Helen reads a lot and plays a bunch of video games, something I could never get into because of bad screen sickness. A few days ago I was on our joint desktop (her gaming PC) looking things up when I noticed she left her fanfiction account logged in some fanfiction website. I knew these things are usually public and assumed she wouldn't mind me reading the stuff she wrote. I may be in the wrong because I didn't explicitly ask for permission to read her fanfiction, but she's an established writer and I really love her stuff so I just assumed it would be fine.

Basically Helen had this incredibly long, ongoing fanfiction she had been writing for a good year now with multiple chapters and hundreds of characters. It was pretty much like a "second life." The main character was basically a thinly veiled, more powerful, more "attractive" (I think she's perfect in real life but fictional Helen was skinnier, had amazing shiny gold hair, etc) version of herself, who went around making friends with all her favorite book and video game characters, doing heroic deeds, and just having a merry old time for a good 60 chapters. She had a whole fictional family made up of her favorite video game characters who rallied to her support whenever her main character needed a hug, and this main character basically went around romancing every single one of her video game crushes when she wasn't saving the world from the clutches of evil.

Two things struck me as odd about this. First of all, in all her writing I've never seen her this self-congratulatory and (dare I say it) narcissistic. Second of all, I just found it odd that she would need to escape to a fantasy world to this extent when I thought her life was fine. I got worried that maybe she had some stressors or hardships that she just wasn't telling me, so I sat her down and told her about the fanfiction I had read, and asked if she was doing okay. She laughed and brushed it off, saying it was just fanfiction and a lot of people lived crazy fantasy lives vicariously through weirdly talented fictional alter egos ("mary sues"). Maybe I'm overthinking things, but I'm just not convinced. That thing was loooooong, and I just can't see how someone with a good life would even want to put in so much effort to escape from reality.

tl;dr: Found wife's ridiculously self-congratulatory and wish fulfilling (and very, very, VERY long and extensive) fanfiction. wife says it's all good harmless fun, but I'm worried that she might not be happy with her life and is using it to escape.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Haifisch posted:

My [25M] wife [26F] writes outlandish fanfiction and honestly it kinda bothers me

Wife? Having fun? No.

No.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

It’s a lot better than the time the guy found his wife writing fanfic of her torturing his female friends

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

The cops took me out in cuffs and to the holding cell for 3 hours. I was scared shitless. I plead the fifth at the station when they wanted an interview (which I should have done at school but I was not aware it would come to this), and the cop who arrested me informed me I would be going to "Joliet" (a scare tactic, I honestly forgot that Joliet Jail closed in 2002). After 3 hours in the holding cell they took me out to get fingerprinted , my mugshot taken, and told me my charges. They only then informed me that my parents were waiting for me to take me out of there, and paid the $120 bond.

Lmao the Joliet jail. It was built in 1858 because if you dig a foot or two down anywhere in the area you'll hit limestone and the thinking was that it would stop inmates from digging out.

They were threatening to take him to a place that's been used as a film set for the past few decades.

Tetramin
Apr 1, 2006

I'ma buck you up.
Toilet jail

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Cant wait till this kid gets a lawyer and the school district wishes it had a bomb go off.

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...

Play posted:

I remember in high school when a bunch of kids and I got caught smoking weed, they took each of us separately into different rooms and said that our friends had already told them everything so I might as well come clean. I just kept saying "Nothing happened, if they told you we did something bad I don't know why they did" etc. etc. Because you realize that even if that's true it's not smart to just admit to something for no reason.

Sure enough, none of us caved and none of us ended up getting in trouble. I still laugh about a bunch of school administrator weenies trying to act like hardass detectives


What about post-birth abortions phiz kalifa... or should I say HITLER!!???

It sucks, but teachers are in an unfortunate position where if they don't try and nix this stuff, we lose our jobs and don't get to work in the field again.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Yeah, I gotta say, as fanfiction discoveries go, "fanfic with your wife's Mary Sue running around fighting evil with her favorite video-game characters" is pretty harmless, compared to "incest fanfiction about real-world celebrities" or, as previously mentioned, the "wife's Mary Sue is a god-queen torturing every other woman who ever looked at you or was nice to you in any way" woman. Let it ride.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
Not sure why he's complaining that he now has a cheat sheet. Now he knows "hug when sad".

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Blade Runner posted:

imo you can feel a thing is morally wrong while still believing that someone has an inalienable right to do such a thing

But enough about your posting

afroserty
Apr 22, 2010

Antivehicular posted:

Yeah, I gotta say, as fanfiction discoveries go, "fanfic with your wife's Mary Sue running around fighting evil with her favorite video-game characters" is pretty harmless, compared to "incest fanfiction about real-world celebrities" or, as previously mentioned, the "wife's Mary Sue is a god-queen torturing every other woman who ever looked at you or was nice to you in any way" woman. Let it ride.

To be fair, the second one is kind of hot.

coolskull
Nov 11, 2007

or the previously seen woman who wrote stories about her boyfriend loving his dog and shared them with kindred spirits

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

or the previously seen woman who wrote stories about her boyfriend loving his dog and shared them with kindred spirits

That was pretty hosed up

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

I hope one of her chapters is essentially gamemaster anthony's birthday party.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

therobit posted:

Personally I would want a girl and a boy and ask the doctor to randomly select which girl and boy get removed, but it's not like they're is any easy or correct choice here.

nah that's the correct choice bc raising two boys is apparently hell but identical twins are weirdos. just tell your kids they're fraternal twins (which they are) and never let on that there were two more.

CheesyDog posted:

Just can't get my penis inside
u/_Dark_Sun

the vagina is not where you think it is or at the angle you expect as a virgin. keep trying and pay attention!

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

"But. . . . We can see them just fine. They're right here. Watching you." spoken in unison as their eyes go black.

I’m glad somebody else landed on the same page here. Obviously my brain recoiled away from forming an opinion about the woman’s situation, as is healthy and correct, but it did manage to observe that you could spin a decent horror movie out of this.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



1stGear posted:

I have no idea how you would have gotten that out of my post, but I'm actually functionally at the bottom of the totem pole in my industry and don't treat people that I have seniority badly because that's a hosed up thing to do.

I am going to order you to eat my entire rear end in a top hat though.

you're either at the bottom of the totem pole or you have seniority over people, which one is it?

the correct answer is that you're a bootlicker

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

tactlessbastard posted:

That was pretty hosed up

Haha, she even posted a picture of him with the dog. That is beyond messed up, it's actively hostile.

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

spacetoaster posted:

I've never understood why any person would do anything other than clam up.

The first thing I taught my kids was to never talk to the cops/administration if they think they're in trouble. I've had to field a couple of calls like: "Mr. Spacetoaster, we think your child was involved in something but they refuse to speak to us other than to tell us to call you." I'm totally fine dealing with that and I hope my kids also never talk to cops as adults.

remember that guy who grew pot in a national park in japan got caught and got away with it because he wouldnt say poo poo and they expected him to confess. the secret is that works everywhere because most cops get confessions out of dumb dumbs.

good advice for your kids though if i ever have any ill do the same thing.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

AITA for accusing my FWB for sending me fake dick pics?


quote:

Sorry if this ends up being long and I'm on mobile so apologize for formatting.

I met Adrian through a mutual friend who he bugged to get her to introduce us after being tagged in a few pics of us on vacation on her FB page. He messaged me on messenger (after i agreed) and we hit it off then things got heated pretty quickly between us. We were sexting after 2 weeks then by week 3 we were sending each other nudes.

Fast foward to last week (a month later) we finally met up and spent the night together. It was amazing.

Now to the problem: when I went down on him I immediately noticed his dick looked really different to the multiple dick pics I had been receiving (color, girth and length) but continued and had a wonderful night.

While cuddling I jokingly asked if he dickfished me because his dick looked nothing like the pics he was sending me weeks prior.

P.s I'm in no way a girl who is obsessed by the look of a penis. As long as it works and the owner knows how to use it, that's good enough for me. There's nothing wrong with his dick at all I was just caught off guard because it was so different from the multiple pics he sent me.

Anyways, he was pissed off at my joke and ended up leaving after a discussion/argument saying things like "I'm sorry I don't have a PORNSTAR cock" (I mentioned the dick in the pics was pornstar-esq not that it mattered.)

Now I'm stumped wondering if I should have just shut my mouth and said nothing because I really didn't have a problem with his (real) dick but I kinda want to know why he would send fake dick pics in the first place

quote:

He still hasn't confirmed they were fake but I think it's pretty obvious at this point.

quote:

The thing is I don't actually have proof theyre fake it's basically my word against his. But it's pretty obvious in my eyes that they're fake there's too many differences. The thing is I don't even care I would have been fine if he had admitted it then had a laugh after but I agree, lying is definately not a good start.

quote:

He never confessed or confirmed pretty much just started up about not being good enough for me etc. which I told him was wrong.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Sometimes they just keep you in jail forever until you confess though
Try to avoid being black

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Vim Fuego posted:


AITA for accusing my FWB for sending me fake dick pics?


Lol catdicked?

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
Dickfished!

...euh, maybe not

Some of the Sheep
May 25, 2005
POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
Cockfished. :colbert:

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Leon Einstein posted:

That story sounds like bullshit. There's no way you're getting a foot inside of an rear end in a top hat without extreme effort. It's not really the sort of thing where you realize "oops, my foot is in an rear end!"

They probably mean it was wedged between some dude's rear end cheeks which wouldn't take much effort at all

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for vetoing my husband's name choice for our child?


My husband and I were having trouble agreeing on a name for our daughter, so we decided we'd each pick one and then decide which arrangement sounded better to determine which name would be a first name and which would be the middle. It wasn't an in depth conversation so we didn't discuss vetoes or anything. I genuinely didn't think there would be anything he chose that I would hate that much.

He picked the name Aryann (pronounced Ah-ree-ann). I don't know where he got that, but I'm Jewish and having a kid with a name so close to "aryan" is not okay with me. I suggested we change the spelling but he won't budge because he thinks it looks pretty. He thinks I'm reading too deep into it and that no one will think twice about the name "Aryann." Am I the rear end in a top hat for wanting to put my foot down about this and ask him to choose another name?

edit- never mind, I showed my husband this thread to get him to change his mind and he started laughing because apparently he was joking. I'd be annoyed, but I'm too relieved that he's just obnoxious and not a complete moron.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

AITA for publicizing the emails between my younger sister and the head swimming coach of her dream school?

My younger sister is a senior in high school who has been applying for college and also a competitive swimmer.

While my sister was applying for the first choice university, the head swimming coach of the school emailed her and said the following:

I hope this email finds you well and enjoying a Happy New Year! I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that we had received word from admissions of your acceptance to (the university)! Congrats...that's great news. I also wanted to make sure you knew we are very interested in you joining our team.

We had not received an actual acceptance letter yet, but since this was the heads of one of the athletic teams at the university, we didn't think anything was amiss. My sister replied, and the coach then mentioned her coming to visit with the team and that he would be "losing two breaststrokers to graduation this year and so it would be awesome to have someone of your caliber come in and join us."

My sister, me, and the rest of my family were ecstatic, and she was so happy when the official letter from the university was mailed in.

...except, she wasn't accepted.

My sister was in tears. My mother immediately emailed the coach back and told him about this. In response, he said:

Thank you for your email. After looking through my past communications and reviewing information, I believe I know what happened.

During the time I emailed (sister), I was emailing people who had both "recently applied" and other who had been "accepted" during the Early Action process. I inadvertently emailed (sister) the wrong email. I cannot begin to express my sincerest apologies for this error. In regards to the visit days (other coach) has been communicating, it is customary practice to try to plan ahead with recruits while they are awaiting decisions. I apologize if this was clear.

My entire family is furious. My sister is irreparably upset. My sister has spent the last several months living the stressful nightmare that is college admissions, especially since she wants to continue her athletic career. She was so elated beyond belief, and now she had been told that this is a "mistake."

I took screenshots of the email thread and put them on social media for the public to see. We need everyone to understand why we are so monumentally disappointed in the university for this because this should never happen to any other student-athlete. The college admissions process is all over the news, and my sister's story needs to be heard.

But then several people (two lucky ones in particular who are already students at the university and are on the swim team), are saying that while they are sorry for my sister that it's wrong for me to bring up these emails publicly. The swimmers in particular will never understand what my sister is going through and are clearly biased to the head swim coach. AITA?

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

QuarkJets posted:

They probably mean it was wedged between some dude's rear end cheeks which wouldn't take much effort at all

Eh, might be legit, did she check for the ring?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

I (23F) just discovered the real cost of my wedding ring. My issue is not the cost, but the elaborate lie my husband (29M) has been telling me, my friends, and family.

Me and my husband have been married for almost nine months, been together for a little over 2 years and have known each other since I was 18. We have had our fair share of issues but nothing truly detrimental to our relationship. We have the same values, both try to be as open as possible and are loyal to each other each and every day.

​So, a little back story to how I discovered the cost of my ring. When me and my husband first started dating I had used his email to forward him or myself something, I can't remember exactly since it was so long ago. I noticed he had a bunch of emails he had sent to himself with the subject line as his sons name. I shouldn't have opened his personal emails but curiosity got the best of me. I really wasn't trying to snoop or catch him doing anything wrong, I just noticed my step-son's name and was curious. It was a bunch of really precious old photos of him, it looked like he was trying to save them off an old phone by forwarding them to his email. In the midst of all the photos were several selfies of his ex in bras or in the car or just being cute. The emails were from before we started dating so I asked my husband if he could please delete any photos that he had of her. He said sure and deleted them and I 100% believed him. He also said he deleted any pictures of her from his photo gallery on his Mac. Well, a just few weeks ago he synced his iCloud up to his phone for the first time and a lot of pictures of her showed up in his photo album. He said he wasn't sure how that happened (and I believed him because the Cloud loving confuses me) and he immediately deleted them.

​Now, heres where I hosed up. I got onto his computer last night because its in our room and I didn't want to get up to go to the office computer and I noticed his email was left log in. This really small, awful, jealous part of me told me to look through the old images on his email to see if the pictures of her were really gone. When I realized they were deleted I was relieved but also felt guilty. But I just kept looking. I should've stopped. My husband has truly never done anything to make me doubt him but I was home alone and feeling insecure about the photo thing and started being nosy. The first thing I went to was his account and I noticed there was a tab for Payments and Subscriptions and, god damnit, I just clicked it. They were all little silly purchases like pizza and movies. But then I saw a purchase from about a month before we got married last year and my heart sank. It was a purchase from eBay with the title "14K White Gold Finish 2 Carat Enhanced Diamond..." Etc. Etc. for $89.00.

​My husband surprised me with this ring about a week before we got married. It's beautiful, its shiny, and its huge. He told me it was a Tiffany and "Tiffany and Co." is even etched right inside of it. He refused to tell me what it cost. The ring I wore through out our engagement was a very dainty, inexpensive ring from Etsy that I absolutely ADORED, so this new ring was jaw dropping to say the least. (Also, we still kept our money separate at this point. We agreed to combine our finances after we got married. We were living rent free with his Dad for about 6 months so we could save up for the wedding and a nicer place. He got a job for a weapons manufacturing company and was making about 3x an hour more than me. My husband was never stingy with his money and provided our family with whatever we wanted or need. I mainly used my income for my car payment and savings for the wedding.)

​He showed that ring off to my whole family, his whole family, really anyone that congratulated us. At our wedding it was the only thing anyone was talking about. He got drunk and bragged to my best friend about "how much it cost" and how he secretly had been saving up for it for months and even had to finance it for a while without me ever knowing. Everyone was impressed and I was actually really proud of him. I didn't care so much about the materialistic side of it but seeing my husband finally have a great job and being proud of the things he could give his family made me so happy.

​My best friend asked me if I wanted to know how much it cost. I told her I didn't want to know. She said she respected that but if she were me she "wouldn't even risk wearing it and would keep it tucked away except for special occasions" I told my husband about it and he was beaming. He said "Lets just say, your car loan isn't much more expensive than that ring." HOLY poo poo. My car loan is a THIRTEEN GRAND meaning this ring is the nicest thing Ive ever owned. I even caught MYSELF telling people who would comment on it how my ring was a Tiffany! and how my dear husband surprised me with it!

​And now, I am embarrassed. It's a $90 ring off eBay, which I confirmed by copy and pasting the purchase description directly into the search bar on eBay. There it was. Same exact ring. Im not at all embarrassed at the price of the ring or the way it looks, just embarrassed that my husband has been lying to people and so have I. I can't talk to anyone about this because I know they will judge him and he would be SO embarrassed. So, I just don't know what to do. I've thought about it and I think my only options are:

​A) Confront him with my evidence, tell him I know the truth and ask him to explain his reasoning. This is the most uncomfortable option.

​B) Casually ask him if he has the Tiffany papers that confirm its authentic or tell him that I want the Tiffany Blue Box to keep with our wedding stuff or something like that. Basically, corner him into admitting it.

​or C) Say nothing. Keep the ring put away because of it's "price" and never brag about it again. I would wear my engagement ring instead. Its darling anyways and I'm proud of it even if it is a $30 ring from Etsy! Its pretty and has a lot of sentimental value to me.

​UGH. I just don't know what to do and need advice. Also, why would he lie? How could he keep up such a lie??? Should I doubt his honesty about everything now? Sorry for this being so long, but it has really been eating me up inside.

​TL;DR: Discovered that the "designer" ring my husband has been gloating about for the entirety of out 9 month marriage is really a knock off he got off eBay for $89. My issue is not the price, but the fact that he has been lying straight to my face and our family and friends. Now, I don't know what to think or if i should trust him. I also don't know how I should handle the situation. The whole thing is extremely... cringey.

​Edit: Punctuation

Edit 2: yes the snooping was wrong. But to clarify I do not distrust my husband. I believe everything he tells me (obviously) and I was just being nosy. Also, the ex is not the baby mama. Just some girl he dated for a while before me. I was honest and just said I didn’t like seeing them and he deleted the photos without any hesitation. Their relationship was not one that was a huge part of his life.

Edit 3: I bought my husband a ring before we got married on an income that is 1/3 of his. I paid $600 and had to finance it so I could still pay my car and save for the wedding. I picked one made with some of the same materials they use to make aircrafts because he had just got his job at the weapons manufacturing (jets) company. Thinking about how much effort I put into his ring is currently making me really sad. I love my husband.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Smirking_Serpent posted:

I (23F) just discovered the real cost of my wedding ring. My issue is not the cost, but the elaborate lie my husband (29M) has been telling me, my friends, and family.

lot goin' on here and it all sucks

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

Smirking_Serpent posted:

He told me it was a Tiffany and "Tiffany and Co." is even etched right inside of it.

In the comments she says he got it engraved. I mean it wasn't even a knock off Tiffany ring it was just some random cheap ring he got engraved.

Like the literal physical symbol of your marriage is engraved with a lie. How insecure is this dude?

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
He’s cheating on her with an F-35

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

Everyone loved the ring and gushed about it so who cares, it clearly didn't matter that it wasn't real if no one could tell. It'll make a fun story after they're divorced "my ex was such a cheap bastard he conned everyone with my wedding ring." But for as long as you're otherwise happy to be married to your warmongering piece of poo poo husband it seems dumb to make an issue out of it.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Xik posted:

In the comments she says he got it engraved. I mean it wasn't even a knock off Tiffany ring it was just some random cheap ring he got engraved.

Like the literal physical symbol of your marriage is engraved with a lie. How insecure is this dude?

Holy poo poo, seriously? His engraving the ring pushes it from "shitbag liar" to "sitcom character pulling a scheme." The OP mentions buying him an expensive/meaningful ring, and now I'm assuming that freaked him out and made him have to try this elaborate-rear end bullshit to convince the OP/everyone in his vicinity that he dropped five figures to assert his relationship gifting dominance, because that's the most George-Costanza-oid interpretation and thus obviously correct.

Sloth Life
Nov 15, 2014

Built for comfort and speed!
Fallen Rib
Take his ring to the "polisher" buy a cheap ring and engrave "I know" onto it.
Keep/sell his ring as preferred and big up how the fake is made out of jet parts

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
In before the comedy update where she confronts him and demands a more expensive ring, he reveals *sitcom mixup where she has the real ring* but is appalled by her materialistic nature, leading to divorce. Top score is she also manages to deface/toss/pawn/otherwise lose the actual expensive ring first.

In short, guillotines.

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

A guy drove off with my couch while I was moving in because “If it’s on the street corner it’s public property”

I just moved (Nevada) and it was just me and a couple friends unloading, so we left some things on the street next to the moving truck while we did heavier items like desks, shelves, etc. as a team.

I came out after bringing in some more boxes (had been gone roughly 15 minutes) to find a guy had loaded my couch into the bed of his truck.

I ran up to him, and explained I own the couch. He said since it was on the street corner it’s public property and he’s within his rights to take it. He drove off before I could block his car. I did get his license plate and went to the police to make a report but they asked me if it was in fact on the curb and I said it was, but it was also pretty obviously next to a moving truck, it was wrapped up and surrounded by boxes. (And, I told him it was mine and I was moving.) But the police didn’t say anything that inspired hope.

The couch has been in the family three generations now and while it probably isn’t worth more than a few hundred bucks, it is sentimentally priceless.

Is there anything else I can do or further ways to escalate this to get my couch back?

Thanks all.

UPDATE: A guy drove off with my couch while I was moving in because “If it’s on the street corner it’s public property”

Thank you to the user who suggested I look in the Facebook marketplace. I found it in there and got the name of the man who took it.

I took that information to the police and the man had other complaints of petty theft against him.

Even better, one of the people who helped me move realized my neighbor has a video doorbell and I was able to get proof to the cops that the man stole my couch with me standing right there with a moving truck and boxes.

A friendly officer went to his house and got my couch back, as well as a few other stolen outdoor furniture pieces (one was a bench from a local restaurant, I don’t know the other situations.)

I deeply appreciate your legal advice, I now won’t have to tell my parents the beloved multi-generational couch is gone. Cheers

Smirking_Serpent fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 21, 2019

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tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

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Smirking_Serpent posted:

A guy drove off with my couch while I was moving in because “If it’s on the street corner it’s public property” ]/b]

I just moved (Nevada) and it was just me and a couple friends unloading, so we left some things on the street next to the moving truck while we did heavier items like desks, shelves, etc. as a team.

I came out after bringing in some more boxes (had been gone roughly 15 minutes) to find a guy had loaded my couch into the bed of his truck.

I ran up to him, and explained I own the couch. He said since it was on the street corner it’s public property and he’s within his rights to take it. He drove off before I could block his car. I did get his license plate and went to the police to make a report but they asked me if it was in fact on the curb and I said it was, but it was also pretty obviously next to a moving truck, it was wrapped up and surrounded by boxes. (And, I told him it was mine and I was moving.) But the police didn’t say anything that inspired hope.

The couch has been in the family three generations now and while it probably isn’t worth more than a few hundred bucks, it is sentimentally priceless.

Is there anything else I can do or further ways to escalate this to get my couch back?

Thanks all.

[b]UPDATE: A guy drove off with my couch while I was moving in because “If it’s on the street corner it’s public property”




What an utter shitbird

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