# We'll need a forum for crappy parents **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567 "2004-11-25T00:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/1 "2004-11-25T00:36:28Z")
[CNN story](http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/24/boy.trunk.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > Police said Powell told them she put the boy in the trunk for safekeeping when she was unable to find a babysitter. THEN YOU DON’T GET TO GO TO THE FUCKING PARTY, YOU STINKING SACK OF SHIT! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/2 "2004-11-25T00:47:11Z")
The story says she gave him a pillow and sleeping bag. Boy, kids these days. When I was young, we didn’t get any pillows, no sir. Fourteen of us, all in that trunk for days at a time. We got so hungry we ate the spare tire, and _we liked it!_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/3 "2004-11-25T01:04:42Z")
At least you got a spare tire. _We_ got a can of puncture sealant, and it was _empty_! And we liked it! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/4 "2004-11-25T01:10:26Z")
Oh, weren’t you mother’s little darling. A trunk with a spare tire. Namby-pamby softies, I call the lot of you. When my mum wanted to go out and get snockered, she used to leave the 27 of us in a paper sack in a field. In the snow. From All Souls Day until she sobered up (if we were lucky it would be by 23 February). With nothing to eat but the maggots we were able to pull out of each other’s festering sores. Kids today have it soft, I tell you… ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/5 "2004-11-25T01:18:01Z")
I swear, when I saw that story, my first thought was, “Hey, at least she didn’t cut the kid’s arms off…” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/6 "2004-11-25T01:34:56Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Oh, weren’t you mother’s little darling. A trunk with a spare tire. Namby-pamby softies, I call the lot of you. > > When my mum wanted to go out and get snockered, she used to leave the 27 of us in a paper sack in a field. In the snow. From All Souls Day until she sobered up (if we were lucky it would be by 23 February). With nothing to eat but the maggots we were able to pull out of each other’s festering sores. > > Kids today have it soft, I tell you… A SACK? You had a sack, you coddled little prince. Oh, what I would have given for a warm paper sack. We had a leaf. That’s right, one thin leaf for the thirty of us. And we didn’t get maggots to eat, no siree, not for us. We had to eat sticks and pebbles… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/7 "2004-11-25T01:52:38Z")
We used to _dream_ of having sticks and pebbles… ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/8 "2004-11-25T01:56:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > We used to _dream_ of having sticks and pebbles… You had _dreams_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/9 "2004-11-25T02:32:42Z")
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got to the trunk of the car, our mother and her boyfriend would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/10 "2004-11-25T02:43:03Z")
> [@Scruloose](#): > > Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got to the trunk of the car, our mother and her boyfriend would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. Couldn’t tell the kids that nowadays. They wouldn’t believe you… ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/11 "2004-11-25T03:10:37Z")
> [@evilbeth](#): > > You had _dreams_? You had _the ability to desire_!?!? Oh my lord, what I would have given to want anything, even dreams! But _NOOOOO_, instead I was shut away in a sensory deprivation chamber, incapable of comprehending anything due to a total lack of cognitive stimulation! What I would have given to _want_ something!! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/12 "2004-11-25T03:12:45Z")
They didn’t **have** sensory deprivation units when I was little! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/13 "2004-11-25T03:14:31Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > You had _the ability to desire_!?!? Oh my lord, what I would have given to want anything, even dreams! But _NOOOOO_, instead I was shut away in a sensory deprivation chamber, incapable of comprehending anything due to a total lack of cognitive stimulation! What I would have given to _want_ something!! Oh, boohoohoo Mr. Fancy-Schmancy Sensory deprivation chamber! I just had my eyes and ears duct taped shut with tacks on the inside of the duct tape! Then I was tossed into a river! In January! Then I was shot! ---
**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/14 "2004-11-25T03:22:13Z")
This is my favorite bit: "\*Powell’s lawyer, Mary Ellen Attridge, said Powell exercised bad judgment, but that she and Faria otherwise have taken good care of the boy. “She has been a very good mother,” Attridge said. The boy is living with a foster family, but Powell is attending parenting and substance-abuse programs and is working to regain custody, Attridge said.\*" What the heck? That she should ever be allowed to be near any child pisses me off. Bad Judgement? Bad Judgement!? BTW, you are all pansies. We had 376 of us buried _inder_ the field. Nothing to eat except the insides of our own mouths. Nothing to drink except out own bile. We had to work 49 hours a day for the privilege, and we _LOVED_ it. We would, all of us, died to have been shot. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/15 "2004-11-25T03:40:30Z")
You’re all too late. **Governor Quinn’s** post ended the joke 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/16 "2004-11-25T03:42:30Z")
> [@Driver8](#): > > You’re all too late. **Governor Quinn’s** post ended the joke 😉 They have jokes nowadays? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/17 "2004-11-25T03:44:38Z")
> [@Driver8](#): > > You’re all too late. **Governor Quinn’s** post ended the joke 😉 No it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/18 "2004-11-25T03:45:54Z")
Did too. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/19 "2004-11-25T03:46:55Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Did too. That’s not an argument, that’s contradiction. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567/20 "2004-11-25T03:47:31Z")
No it isn’t. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-need-a-forum-for-crappy-parents/276567.md?page=2)