All in the Family

As Crabby Pants and I were looking through the odd news sites to see what idiocy took place this week, we noticed a number of stories involving families.

Check the Box

Eric Cloutier was cleaning up the clutter around his house but ended up making a huge mistake.
While Eric’s wife was in the hospital having their 5th child, he decided to have a garage sale.

The problem was that before his wife, Racquel went to the hospital, she took off her $23,000 wedding ring and put it into an old watch box placing it under the liner. She thought it would be safe there.  Unfortunately, when she came home from the hospital on June 5th, she realized the box was missing.

It turns out the her well meaning husband had sold the box at his garage sale for $10.00.

For his part, Eric said he  thought the box was empty.Racquel and Eric are hoping that the buyer will do the right thing and return the ring.

Oh NO…Say it isn’t so…Who do we feel the most sorry for??? 

Marriage Made in Heaven

Days after celebrating
his camouflage-themed wedding, an ex-convict was arrested by federal agents for
allegedly failing to register as a convicted sex offender, court records show.

Jerry Wayne Dison was
recently hitched to Bethany Barlow in an outdoor ceremony in Hunlock Creek,
Pennsylvania. Which apparently came as a surprise to Dison’s “estranged wife,” according
to a U.S. District Court “statement of facts” prepared by a federal
marshal.

On June 5, Otika Dison told
Alabama investigators that her husband had moved to Pennsylvania weeks earlier
with Barlow, whom he planned to marry “despite not having a final decree of
divorce in their marriage.”

As it turned out, Dison wed
Barlow in mid-May and celebrated the nuptials with a June 1 shindig in
Pennsylvania. The happy couple is pictured above with Barlow’s parents in a photo posted to Facebook. The
bride’s father, Ronald Barlow, is seen holding a can of Bud Light in one hand
and a shotgun with camouflage dressing in the other hand. An earlier
photo shows Barlow carrying only the gun as he walked Bethany down the
aisle/lawn.

Dison, who was convicted in
January 2000 of the statutory rape of a  girl, was required to
report to authorities his change of residency (as well as his arrival in
Pennsylvania). As a result, he was arrested yesterday afternoon at his in-laws
home on a felony
charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

In post-release Facebook posts,
Dison apologized to his in-laws for yesterday’s collar. “this should never have
happened in ur house,” he noted. He also claimed that “Tika lied on me and had
me locked up” and “Man guess I cant do nothing rite bullsh** just follows me.”  (Dison has a real way with words and spelling, it would seem.)

Who could have anticipated a troubled marriage when the camo attired groom has his father-in-law carrying a gun throughout the ceremony?

Brotherly Love

Authorities in Florida said they arrested a man accused of stabbing his brother during a fight about mac & cheese and beer.  

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said a witness told deputies Randy Zipperer became upset Tuesday at his Deltona home when he was unable to locate his mac & cheese.  His brother 47 year old, younger brother was helping look for the pasta when he inadvertently tipped over Randy’s beer.

Well, that didn’t go well, and Randy stabbed his bro in the stomach with a kitchen knife.  Zipperer was arrested and charged with aggravated battery and obstructing an officer.

The real question here is “Where is the macaroni and cheese?” 

Eavesdropping Goes Viral

A young mom riding a train, Steph Strayer, claims she overheard a man bragging to his friends about his numerous affairs.  The more she heard the more it made her angry.
So she took it upon herself to get out her phone and snap a picture. 

Why?  Because, she posted it to her Facebook page hoping that it would find it’s way to the guy’s wife. 
 

So far the photo has had 272,717 shares.

I am a veteran of corporate moves. Having moved 21 times while my husband climbed the corporate ladder while dragging me up… rung by rung over the course of our 40+ year marriage. I used to delude myself into thinking
that I was middle-age but now realize that I would have to live to be 116 to justify that term. If wisdom comes with age, I am wiser than some, older than many, and more cynical than most. My blog is to jot down the nonsense I
see, hear and think about while I still have all my faculties working.