I’ll pit this due to language, but I’ll also ask some advice after the conclusion of the story. And this is not a light or comedic rant but a story and request for advice regarding a thoroughly evily bastard. (I’ve changed just enough ID’ing details to disguise this guy’s identity, but nothing substantive is changed and in fact he’s worse than described.)
The father of my closest friend, a man of around 60, recently married his girlfriend of about three years, a 50-something upper-middle-class lady. They live in her very nice sub-suburban home outside of city limits with their dog, cats and her two grown sons. One son has special needs due to a severe mental illness and significant brain damage caused by a drug overdose in his teens (during which time he also tried to kill his mother with a knife); he’s the good one.
My friend had never met his other stepbrother until three months ago for a very good reason: the stepbrother lived in another state, the one where he was in prison. This son is an oxygen thieving piece of excrement, the only human being I know of whom I can honestly say that the world would be a better place if he were dead. He is first order scum and demands the term INCORRIGIBLE in letters the size of the Hollywood sign. He has been in and out of correctional facilities and psych wards since he was in elementary school. He abused animals as a child, causing a family dog to have to be put to sleep. (The current family dog is a docile but huge pit bull.) He has been an alcoholic and substance abuser since he was an adolescent and numerous trips to rehab have done absolutely nothing other than taking him out of circulation. When he was in his mid-twenties he was arrested following a high speed chase that ended when he crashed his car into a business, injuring two people (not seriously, but there were others including small children present who could have been killed had they been standing near where his car crashed) and he was both drunk and stoned at the time. It was his ninth conviction for DUI/DWI and he was sentenced to three years in prison. He served every day of it because even in prison he was incorrigible and spent more than a year in solitary confinement.
Upon his release he got court permission to come to Alabama where he moved in with an elderly relative. By this time his mother had officially washed her hands of him: she had no contact with him and she had even moved to another county without giving him her address, but through relatives he learned where she was, contacted her, and asked to come home with assurances his wicked wicked ways were behind him. Against her better judgment and the advice of her psychiatrist (for she suffers from clinical depression) but with the urging of her minister, her parents and her church members, she gave him another chance.
And he really did clean up his life and remain clean and sober, for almost an entire month after his relief. That’s when he began drinking again and within days was routinely staying out all night and coming in still drunk the next morning. His stepfather gave him a job that he performed for a while but then gradually stopped showing up for, though he did still expect to get paid. In the past three months since his release he has driven drunk many times, stolen his mother’s debit card and racked up hundreds of dollars in charges (but only enough to be considered petty larceny), been involved in several fights (no charges pressed), been accused of rape (the alleged victim dropped the charges, though he had already been released on bail), verbally abused his mother and his stepfather on numerous occasions, fallen in with some similar scum and has now begun selling pot. He also has managed to get several women, I can only guess all of them desperate gals in search of a Manson to watch over them, to give him money and let him live with them half the time, one of whom he has impregnated (he already has two children from before prison that he has no contact with) and is a complete psychopath, lying constantly and with absolutely no remorse for any of his actions or how they affect other people. He has even extorted money from his grandparents, though they refused to press charges even when practically begged by their daughter to do so.
His mother and his stepfather are in physical fear of him. They want him gone. He has made numerous threats against him but while malevolent and crazy and a user he’s also intelligent: all of them were carefully worded and implicit, none specific, stuff like “I’d be afraid of what might happen to you two if you kicked me out and I wasn’t here to protect you should some folks like the guys I know decide to break in one night… it would be days before anybody found your bodies”. He also swears he has “ins” with law enforcement and very rich friends “capable of almost anything”, and the craziest part is- he might. (He definitely has friends who drive very expensive vehicles and don’t work.) His own mother has said she sometimes secretly hopes he will one day drive drunk and get killed in a crash, and nobody can blame her.
They want him to leave, of course, but they’re afraid to make him. She could evict him of course and possibly- not definitely- even get a restraining order against him, but a restraining order against human vomit like this would be useless as they don’t have the resources to hire full time security and if they did, he’s good in a fight. She would love to see him arrested and returned to prison as she finally realizes that is where he needs to be, but he’s done nothing OVERT in her presence to warrant having him arrested, her calls reporting his drinking and driving essentially were dismissed with a “Ma’am, unless we catch him in the act there’s nothing we can do and we don’t have the manpower to set up a trap for him”, and while she considered pressing charges for the money he stole from her she was assured that this would result in a “turn yourself in” arrest and immediate release upon his own recognizance as “we just don’t have the court time and jail space for petty crimes like that”. She lives in terror of him. He’s a DATELINE lead story in formation; you can absolutely hear Stone Philips speaking his name and saying “county law enforcement agencies refused to return our calls, but one thing is certain, they did nothing. And that’s when it happened… more after this message from Metamucil when ‘They Did Nothing’ continues.”
FINALLY after three months of constant hell raising, implied threats, selling drugs, drunk driving and gods know what else, he was arrested last week for possession of marijuana and DUI. And this is where the story really gets rant worthy.