[Trinity_Tx]

"Anyway, as xsmommy said, a grandmother dead, a brother conveniently available in Iraq via satellite phone, a hysterical thread about a daughter with a 104 degree fever, and, now, his wife and brother-in-law's girlfriend (the brother-in-law whose name is taken from a county and city in Poland), are killed in an accident?"

...and the typical Drama Queen habits of starting new threads, and having a third party post for him...

Also, if you read all the posts he and his "brother-in-law" made on this and the other thread, there were too many inconsistencies as well as a dose of, "not only that, but..." type statements that sounded like embellishment on-the-fly... "oh yeah, they were standing in front of the house... Oh yeah, *both arms* were cut off, too."

I feel so bad for the canteen freepers whom he had worked so hard on to develop their trust. He spent three months lowering their guard. Then even those who didn't "know" him, gave him the benefit of the doubt by virtue of his having the trust of those they knew.

This was a cruel, calculated victimization of the kind-hearted. I think it's downright evil.

[Revolting cat!]

Which one of these is bogdan?

[F.J. Mitchell]

"I think it's down right evil."

And down right evil it is but the guy still needs all the prayers he can get(as do we all)-just not for the reasons he indicated.

[Miss Marple]

The "both arms cut off" was when I seriously began to doubt him. Looking back, I can see that I was willing to believe him because he was feeding my desire for certain opinions.

Well, live and learn. I remain an optimist about people, and someone who does something like this is to be pitied. I do not regret my prayers, as I think God will use them for good.

[Lady Jag]

I think it's downright evil.

I think it's stupid and pathetic.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

For what it's worth I think it's far more pathetic than evil. When we were in grade school a popular but stupid gag for a while was to stare at the ceiling and then laugh when some other kid looked too. Then an older kid let us in on how lame the whole thing was because the perpetrator spent more time looking at the ceiling than the victim.

Lately there hasbeen a whole group of people who are so wrought with bitterness and hatred that they have nothing better to do with their free time than to post on FR and try to get us to waste our time in response. They’ve thrown up a lot of posts with questionable political views, trying to get takers on the arguments. That hardly ever worked (not surprisingly, people with such little purpose in life also show little creativity). Now they sunk to the level you see here, spending their time fostering friendships, then dropping their bomb. In the end they’ve chewed up a lot of their own time to what end? To get compassionate people to respond compassionately to a horrible (albeit fictional) situation.

The real evil here is one of the worst – that of purposefully wasting a life. But as it is not mine, nor the good peoples’ lives here, just these clown poser-posters, I find it hard to care.