There’s no excuse for that, regardless of how they thought they were being treated.
I meant questions about the area they were living in, when’s the garbage pickup, where’s the nearest grocery store – stuff anybody needs to know in a new place. But you knew that. 
I read the entire article, thank you. When I receive something, whether it’s to my exact liking or not, exhibiting an attitude of gratitude is what most polite adults do. Apparently you feel that common courtesies may be overlooked under extenuating circumstances. As usual, you cannot confine your posts to disagreement with the topic or concept at hand, but have to take a shot at the poster. Feel free to fuck off.
Don’t worry - after the next few Katrinas, we won’t have to worry about people like this anymore. 
And you’re just busy as a bee with that shovel, aren’t you?
Actually, i made quite clear, in the first sentence of my post, that the behavior of the Browns was unacceptable under any circumstances. I also believe that common courtesies should be observed. But, apparently unlike you, i believe that in this case those courtesies should have been observed by the recipients and the donors alike, which would include not waltzing into the place in the mornings and dictating when the Brown family should get out of bed.
Furthermore, my remark was perfectly topical. It was about the way in which your OP, rather typically, misrepresented the story in a simplistic and cynical manner. If you’re going to pit something, you should at least have the integrity to point out possible mitigating factors or circumstances that might cast doubt on your perenially inane and one-dimensional observations.
Happy now, cuntfeatures? 
Dude, seriously, this is assisted suicide. Quit it.
VCO3 has been put on suspension for his inflammatory comments and trolling remarks here, after being warned this morning in this thread. This suspension is indefinite at this time.
Fine, let’s forget about the loaded word “rtailer trash”. I take that specific word back. Whether they felt the church members were being intrusive or not, leaving the donated house in the condition did is trashy, low class behavior. Choose your own descriptor.
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Nobody has ever heard of locking the door?
If the churchmembers had keys, changing the locks, or barring that installing slide bolts or chains or something relatively cheap so that they wouldn’t enter when the people were at home?
I do know the first time I ever walked in my door and someone was there without 24 hours notice, the cops wopuld be called and they would be charged with tresspass …
Tenants do have rights even if they are charity cases.
<I detest people coming over unannounced, and finding someone actually popping open my door and walking in absolutely horriffic, and akin to mental rape. How could I be comfortable in my home if I had no privacy and had to worry about someone wandering in at the drop of a hat. Even as a teenager my parents knocked at my bedroom door.>
That seems to be what the DiMaggios were doing. How exactly do they know that the screen was “flung” and not “laid gently?” Were they there when the curtain rod was “ripped” ansd not “pulled” from the wall? Did they see the Browns “strewing” potato chip bags?
Also, I read in the original atricle that there was already a hole in the bathroom wall, but it was bigger when the Browns left.
Do you get that this a very un-Christian thing these people are doing? They have every right to be disappointed in the way the Browns behaved, but there is no reason to start a public smear campaign. The quality of mercy is apparently strained to the fucking breaking point.
Un-Christian, but very very holy.
Clothing, potato chip bags, soda cans, socks and empty bags were strewn throughout the house.
Dried toothpaste was smeared on the vanity.
Coffee mug with an inch or two layer of coffee sludge in the bottom.
Dirty dishes were stacked in the sink or on the counters.
Sounds like my place after I finish cleaning up!
Fuckin’ neat freaks!
After that second article, I bet sharing heaven with those particular DiMaggios would be a real treat.
This is why I have always thought Muslims have the right idea when it comes to charity. They believe that it is something that everyone is expected to do. It’s one of the five pillars of the faith. And yet it is considered incredibly gauche to talk about it. Everywhere you go in a Muslim area there are little green boxes where you can drop anonymous donations when the mood strikes.
Compare that to here where charity is often a matter of public display and status, and hardly expected of all. We spend our time questioning which bums are worthy, emblazon it on our party invitations, constantly seek to assign a name to it (Oh, I donated ten dollars in you name to the Save the Dogs society, doesn’t that make me doubly charitable!) and otherwise bandy it about in various ways that disrespect everyone involved.
I was thinking the same thing, except change potato chip bags to candy wrappers and soda cans to beer bottles. I know the ‘homes’ around here that were ‘cleaned up’ for Katrina families were condemed apartments that were waiting for the wrecking ball. An empty house is usually empty for a reason, and usually in disrepair.
But I’m not defending the spraypaint.
You’re absolutely right about the house being empty for a reason; you know the congregation wasn’t holding onto a mortgage and property taxes on the off chance someone would be in such dire straits someday that they’d need it. It had a hole in the wall already, maybe it was a rental property donated to the church or a parsonage that had been outgrown. The church has been renting it out, I’d bet.
You’re right, and to be fair, *no one’s * defending the spraypainting, even the kid who did it stepped up and said they did and apologized for it, promising to clean it up.
It sort of amuses me that a Christian congregation has no capacity for forgiveness. The kid said he was sorry and would try to make it right, but the church members go whine to a newspaper?
The other thing that struck me when I reread the article was that the natives were mad that the family didn’t take donated clothes? Yeah…if I were moving from MD to LA, I’d wanna pack up a bunch of (probably) used, ill-fitting, out of fashion clothes into my (probably) nonexistant suitcases. It woulda been nice if they would have trucked them to Goodwill, but I’ve learned from experience that too many people giving you stuff you don’t really want is frustration beyond belief. And it sounds like they didn’t get much of a chance to clean up the place once they moved.
I misrepresented nothing, shmucko. I had my take on the article, and other posters are entitled to theirs. Some expressed their opposing thoughts in a manner which gave pause for consideration, which did not include yourself.
Rather than continually distressing your delicate sensitivities, why not avoid threads which I post? I’d much rather share thoughts with other dopers than the yob you’ve proven yourself to be.
When you have some thoughts, let me know, and i’ll be the first to offer my congratulations.
You must be joking. As I pointed out in the very first fucking post after your crappy OP, you stated the Brown family had expressed “no thanks for anything”, when in fact Mrs. was quoted as doing so in the article you linked to. You also left out any mention that the Browns had apparently owned up to their bad behavior and were making amends, I’m supposing because upon reading the article your realized it sort of undermined the point you wanted to make.