# Wow, you're so clever for noticing it was a zombie thread!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 21, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-youre-so-clever-for-noticing-it-was-a-zombie-thread/616391 "2012-03-21T11:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-youre-so-clever-for-noticing-it-was-a-zombie-thread/616391/7 "2012-03-21T13:52:47Z")

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I support this pitting. It’s not about Zombie threads in general, it’s about that case where a teen is clearly in a horrible situation and all he gets is a joke about it being an old thread. I mean, look at this:

> [@Teenager Busts Dad for Growing Pot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-busts-dad-for-growing-pot/109325/19):
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> Well im a 17 year old teenager aswell.
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> I’m so fedup with my father, hes growing 20 plants .  
> **Works 3 days out of the week. and is a lazy drunk.**
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> atleast a few times out of the week, he’ll find something that isnt even horriable and just goes balistic. I have to put with with watching my annoying grandmother and even when she pissed him off he finds something else and then proceeds on me.
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> He is so controlling and thinks **he can push me and my 74 year old grandmother around**. The only reason i wont fight him is because **hes been in prison and jail for whiles at a time. and a little bigger than me.**
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> He expects so much from me tho ive had noone to help me, him and my mother were seperated when i was 5 and ive lived with my mom while he was in and out of jail.\*\*My mom got tired of me so im living with him, he thinks since i live with him he can put his hands on me and try to hit me. \*\*None of you people know every ones life storys..
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> im going to be calling the cops on my dad soon.  
> \*\*  
> & most of all no teenager like myself needs to be living in a trap house. filled with bugs\*\*. Im so tired of this lifestyle , its gross and not my habitat.  
> Alot of my neighbors know about it and im not going to jail for something i didnt do or that isnt my choice.

This kid needs sympathy and advice, not smart-ass remarks.

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