Do you blame the kid or the parents for this? (vanity)

http://www.knowable.com/a/this-teenage-girl-just-made-the-biggest-financial-mistake-of-her-life-seriously?utm_content=inf_10_3136_2&tse_id=INF_b085bafdb809490885f9db0625976451 ^ | 1/22/2016

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Both.

[donna]

Take your dad to the police.

[donna]

With a lawyer.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

False

[kingu]

I absolutely blame the parents for letting their child believe that there was nothing they could do to earn the money to take the trip.

Does the neighborhood not have cars that need washing? Are there no kids to babysit? Is there no garden that needs to be weeded? Is there no elderly residents who could use a hand cleaning out the garage or clearing the gutters?

As for the rest, well, I’d imagine that, like most things on the internet, it is utterly fake and don’t assign blame either way.

[ClearCase_guy]

Paul Ryan is a whiny little girl.

[bigbob]

She’ll end thousands ahead once this goes on GoFundMe

[IC Ken]

I can’t be overdrawn....I have more checks left.

[Company Man]

Doesn’t pass the smell test with me. Anonymous source, posting to Reddit, a millennial heavy website. Probably a pity hound or scammer.

[Borges]

But with millennials being the way they are....I could totally see this being true.

[mrmeyer]

Both.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Any high school student who doesn’t understand what a real bank account is and what checks are is a complete, total idiot. In one sense, I’m sorry this happened to the kid but I’d put this story more in the category of “learning a painful lesson” than the kid somehow getting screwed. I’m not too inclined to blame the parents for this. It should be so blindingly obvious that if they didn’t warn the kid, the kid should have picked up the knowledge at school or even from TV.

[Calvin Locke]

Before he was a financial writer, Andrew Tobias, in one of his books, said that while at Harvard, he wrote out a "million dollar" check to a friend as a gag birthday gift.

His friend deposited it.

IIRC, the then-Cambridge Savings Bank closed out both their accounts.

[BenLurkin]

Can’t be genuine; has to be a fake.

No modern teen is capable of proper grammar and complete sentences.

[Cicero]

Yeah. I’ve seen this one before. It’s a fake. Although it says more than a little about our current teen culture.

[TexasCajun]

I can't be overdrawn....I have more checks left.

[ThomasThomas]

Bush’s fault.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think this is fake. The tone of it doesn’t sound quite right. Plus, how many kids these days, never mind a kid as dumb as this, could spell “souvenir” correctly?

[Kirkwood]

No teen in 2016 is that articulate.
Stupid, yes. Articulate, no.