She’s so determined to be independent that she won’t ask a friend for a ride, but she’ll ask a friend to be a party to something like this?
Anyway, crowdfunding existed long before Kickstarter and Gofundme, even if the term hadn’t been coined yet. I’ve known people who raised a lot more than 10K for friends in a short time using word of mouth and donation jars in local stores.
I’m not a lawyer either.
Money changed hands and there is no enjoyment involved by the victim. (Someone might choke on the words to call this a victim-less crime.) The victim would not have been there except for the money, so we may have an argument that this isn’t consensual.
So. We have money changing hands for assault and battery being committed. We have a business card to show that this probably happened before and may just be a business model. We might get a judge to let us use the lower threshold of RICO.
Green…! Briscoe! Research this guy… education, prior employers, vendors, professional associations, all known associates, websites he uses, etc. See if you can find anyone who will talk.
I’ll try to get judge Harper to issue a warrant for all business files, for the film company handling the productions, and for the ISP handling his website. We can only hold him for 48hrs; lets see if we can get an injunction on his business to get us more time…
doink-doink
You are going to outlive your pets (unless they are parrots). Learn to deal with that.
Offer to loan her the $10K. IF she declines, shoot the dog. Sic the police on this pornster - see if he can be shut down with some kind of health code violation, or prostitution charge, or something.
BDSM is morally wrong, even when it is consensual. No friend of mine is going to do anything morally wrong to save a dog.
Regards,
Shodan
Be with her when the dog is put down. Go with her to get a new dog.
LOL. What two consenting adults do is none of your business. You can think it’s “morally wrong” all you want, but that doesn’t make it so.
I didn’t say she was wise. But people in desperate straits will do things they wouldn’t do otherwise. That’s what “desperate” means.
And this helps Emma and Duke in that…?
I’m not persuaded that BDSM is morally wrong, though I do think it’s unhealthy. But what Emma is about to go through isn’t BDSM anyway, because she is not a masochist
But I wouldn’t shoot the dog, even when wearing the Evil!Skald helmet.
Someone who isn’t me should start a thread on whether immediaely replacing a bleoved pet after it’s death is a good idea.
You’re fighting the hypothetical, which states that the damage is considered treatable. It carries the presumption that such treatment will be effective.
Well, what she WISHES is for a way to save Duke.
I note that the hypothetical mentions that this takes place in 2004. In 2004, my finances were such that I was riding a bicycle twenty-two miles (round trip) every day to work in a call center, and relying on Section 8 to make rent, so, much as I’d like to make the problem go away using my own resources, it’s not plausible.
But WAIT! It’s a hypothetical me! And no constraints have been placed on what the hypothetical me’s financial profile looks like. I can do this.
I pay for Duke’s treatment, and dare Emily to pay me back.
Agreed. Which is why I would immediately tie up Emma with various leather straps, ball gags and handcuffs and whip her until she agrees not to do this.
Surprisingly, $10,000 for organ replacements is a lot more expensive than the traditional treatment of “full dog replacement”.
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Surprisingly, $10,000 for organ replacements is a lot more expensive than the traditional treatment of “full dog replacement”.
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But Ema loves DUKE. She might come to love another dog, but the one she loves can’t be replaced.
And while I despise dogs, I understand that. Dog lovers often think of their dogs as their children. I love my daughter ad sons as much as I loved the son who died im 1996, but they haven’t replaced him, only succeeded him.
I normally don’t put a price on love…and yet here we are.
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups:
The police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
Neither of these are named “Emma” or “Duke”…
Well, maybe part of it is whether she’s getting paid to be humiliated, or getting paid to be an actress. Heck, Jim Carrey acts like someone getting humiliated all the time, and smiles all the way to the bank.
As far as showing off what God gave you, my only concerns are a) that, sadly, it could affect current and future employment (but with a mask, no so likely), and b) easy money and licentious atmosphere can lead to poor long-term choices, but I’m not so worried in this case either.
So why not, if that’s what she wants?
Silence, elf-filth!
So, Skald, what degrading and desperate act are you contemplating that brings you to this dark place? Hopefully we’ve talked you out of it at as we have with all your other dastardly Rhymer schemes (except that one to make Trump the GOP candidate because of some spat between a superhero and a deity).
She’s getting paid to take a beating while naked. Two, actually, and that’s if she does it unmasked and says her real name on camera. Masked and anonymous will reducd the rate, but probably not the intensity of the beating.
I know you are trying to paint this as somehow worse than a “roll in the hay” but it is REALLY not. This does not compare at all to doing real porn. The anonymity specially makes it no worse than any other physically demanding job, most of which pay almost nothing compared to this. I would have no problem helping her with this and if they accepted dudes i would sign right the fuck on myself.
Do you not see how fucked up this situation is. Suppose you were in the same position, same fucked up life, same dog at death’s door, with the ability to observe that situation rationally wouldn’t you want someone to try to change your mind?
And for everyone else who thinks this is no different than doing porn to make money, what do you think is going to happen afterwards when Duke dies anyway? Is this girl in this state going to say “Oh well, gave it a shot, too bad it didn’t work?”.
Assuming Emma ever recovers from the help you provided, and one day she asks you why you didn’t stop her what are you going to say?
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Her situation is totally fucked up, the job itself is fucking great. Of course it is very different than doing porn, a plain vanilla sex scene would be so much worse.
To be clear: this is a perfectly normal “bondage modelling” job like any other, trying to paint it as somehow degrading is basically bullshit. A thousand per video with a mask, two thousand without one is something like 10-20 times the actual going rate. This job couldn’t exist because it’s TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, and now that i think more about it my first reaction would be “this is a scam, nobody would pay you that much”.