So you lent money to someone who was willing to pay excessive interest despite claiming to have access to the money himself?

Might've been a bank transfer, i'm not clear on the difference. It was over the phone though.

His story was that he was going through a divorce, and his accounts were locked up.

Like i said earlier i saw money being credited to my account, so i assumed it had cleared.

ok, what happened with the police and why were they unable to help? surely you had his name

Don't give people money wtf

I have his name and can PM it if anyone wants. I got my parents involved (i was 21) and we went to the police. After hours of driving to find an open STL police dept (i lived east of the river, so 2 hr drive from illinois) they said i had establish jurisdiction. Way i interpreted it was i had to find some evidence i was in the county with him at some point in time. Told us to go to local mart where we were at and see if we were on security footage.

Had no idea where the store was, or even if they had footage. Asking casino staff for camera footage for a fraud case seemed out of the question. After another day of looking around i went to my home town's police dept and filed a police report, but again said they needed jurisdiction.

Had been taking my dad around (great guy) for this stuff. But we were both clueless what to do at this point. We'd both been taking off work, had no idea how to get security camera footage (neither of us know law either btw which didnt help), and all i had was this guy's name, no clue where he was now, bounced checks that might not even be his account, and a check he forged in my name but can small courts and decide forgery?

So after thinking about it for like 15 minutes in the police parking lot, i gave up. Still wonder to this day if i should've pursued it further. Took out a 3.3k loan i paid for over 3 years (making total with interest closer to 4k), which in addition to going to school full time and no scholarships i got even further in debt. Pretty much no spending money for a long time and i had to work even more.

lol'd. it's grampa simpson

Bought a M shirt today (2 actually) also got new 36" jeans

6ft 209

come at me bros

looking for an ELITE t-shirt to wear to a party i'm having next week

current leader in the clubhouse is this



but i'm totally open to other suggestions

wtf is that wear this

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i do.

not necessarily by design, just sort of an effect of where i grew up.

his friends are back here with me. i'm sure he has friends down there, but seems like they're the type that kinda fade away when you have to go to prison for 18 months.

wife isn't doing drugs.

semi-longish story...

he's not what you would call a "bright person". kind of a life-grinder who found his calling doing...well, calls. he's legit awesome on the phone. he actually called my wife and had her waking me up to tell me that mastercard needed $2,000 or they were going to take me to court. yeaaah. she handed me the phone, he said 3 words and i screamed, 'WIFER WHAT THE **** THIS IS SHIMMY!'

anyway, he's the hardest worker i know. he's legit doing 18 months in prison b/c he wouldn't start the 'roll on people above you' ball going.

this is one of the few friends that i still have since hs that deserves this help.

correct. again, in minimum fed prison he has ridiculous access to the "outside"...he can call anyone once/day for 15 minutes for free. he has a federal prison email acct that he can use whenever once you're on "the list"...he'll be in touch with me soon.

correct.

he's desperately tried to stay in touch more than we have, but getting the "sup man? how is everything?" call twice a week when he's 1200 miles away got annoying/boring since i'm a man and would rather sew than gab on the phone.

he's a great friend who proved his great friend status many many times over the years. just as a short example, he was in a car with our other friend when the other friend got pulled over. other friend was a semester away from graduating as a teacher. other friend had 1/2oz of shrooms that as they were slowing down to get pulled over he passed to shimmy and said, 'dude i can't get caught with these, hide them'.

he did. in his pocket. got asked out of the car and patted down.

ate the charge. because, and i quote, "well he's going to be a teacher and i'm gonna mow lawns the rest of my life".

legitimately a friend that everyone should have, but no one does because people aren't loyal (obv that story doesn't prove loyalty, it proves stupidity, but he has both in bunches).

i sent the $50 i owed him via the wu-tang method tonight. i will be talking to her tomorrow and him whenever there's a day he can waste his daily call on me and not his kids, and between the two of us we'll figure out a way to make sure his kids eat.

there won't be any direct debit, but i will probably eventually set up some sort of system where i'll send the same day every month. i don't want her to have to "beg" or degrade herself in any way. how much? who knows, but that's now what i want. i'm not going to be keeping receipts and then want it back.

sorta the whole, 'don't ship money you can't afford to lose' typa thing.

wifey knows the stories behind the reason i'm going to stay loyal to him. she's talked to him maybe 10 minutes ever, but she knows me and the stories i've told about he and i to know enough to not question it.

if he was in ohio i would have already been on his visitor's list and most likely bought him some microwavable snacks and discussed it with him in person. he's in florida.

hahaha, guilty.

i like the non-digital old school bike b/c it's basically out of the flow of traffic so people leave me the **** alone. music doesn't do it for me when working out, so i surf my phone and watch tv.

again, south florida and northeast ohio are far apart.

obviously tons of backstory, but like i said, i don't "owe" him anything, but i'm not gonna let his wife/kids suffer if i can help it.

yep.

if he didn't move, we'd see each other a lot. we're still the same people and share the same memories.

yup.

he couldn't get back up, but if it means anything i didn't ask my one cousin to be in my wedding until i knew this cat couldn't come for sure.

lol nah...

he would box me when we were 19 or 20 knowing he was gonna get knocked down a lot. always got back up, always volunteered to box again. we've punched each other drunk and fighting multiple times. we've gotten our asses whooped 2 v 5 where he didn't even need to be there for many reasons, not the least of which was because i spit in a guy's girlfriend's face (not my proudest moment).

you're right. i'm not close with him now, but i would assume he'd do the same for me.

loyalty to people that deserve it is never a bad thing.

she got his $50. when i talk to him we'll iron out details for anything else he/she needs.

i mean, i realize that's a poke, but it's true.

i had 5 great, great friends as a kid. all stayed as thick as thieves through our young 20's.

of those 6 (myself included) now..

-one is doing 18 months in federal prison
-one just started doing 5 years in ohio prison
-one overdosed twice on heroin, and is now a certified pastor
-one overdosed on xanax, and is now living with his mother with no job
-one lives with his mom and dad
-one is a teacher with a master's degree (me)

makes me thankful whenever i think about it.

guess the biggest thing i'm worried about now is not being able to send enough.

i just don't want her to have to ask a lot. if she does, i'll do what i can. but i don't want her to have to feel like she's on her knees begging.

meh

multiple people more likely.

but this $50 was a bet i lost. whatever else i send isn't for him, it's for his wife and their kids.

that is an awful shirt, i'll let others elaborate

She should easily get welfare, food stamps etc. with 2 kids. She's doing that right? Still getting kids registered for school etc.?

Sickest proposal everrrrr.

http://imgur.com/a/Dk5hL

God I love reddit

yah these last 2 pages have been nuke-worthy, let's talk about something else.

Gangnam Style now at 1,712,902,285 views

Wiper, you gotta remember that you didn't just luck out. You had to put in a lot of hard work and probably make a few tough and unpopular decisions to get to where you are and stay out of trouble. In most cases the other guys problems aren't from bad luck either but a multitude of bad decisions that eventually catch up with them.

Just because they are loyal or would do it for you doesn't mean you owe it to them to help a bunch in spots like this because you're unlikely to put them in a spot where they need to help you (unless you start firing your cannon at people).

holy facebook

I got some new furniture delivered last night. Movers left all garbage infront of my garage door. Annoyed as hell. Spent 20 minutes with a box cutter organizing that **** at 7:30 this morning.

Wow I was not expecting the girl top look like that at the end. Very well played.

Big Boys Neighborhood GOAT moment. Bunch of cars almost went off the road when it happened.

First minute of the video.