WTF Stories of the Week

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

If you already believe in an invisible man floating in the clouds, is it really that much more to believe in diabolic buses?

[Chernabog]

^^^^^^^^^ WANT.

[Alex]

Hey, I was just out there last month! Very different place without all the people (though even in early July we ran into a few art cars).

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars..........

Thanks for the earworm...

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

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I'm loving the fuschia poncho on the guy in the background.

[Morrigoon]

Kidnap victim found 18 years later... had kids with her captor.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Kidnap victim found 18 years later... had kids with her captor.

Amazing that she's alive and relatively "well" after all this time. I read this morning that she was kept in some contraption in the backyard consisting of several sheds and tents hidden by bushes and trees. Electrcity through an extension cord. Plumping was very rudimentry.

I can't imagine how she and her family must all be feeling at this moment. And what must her children be thinking?

[Alex]

At least they were raised in an environment with social and verbal interaction. I can't remember the title now, but a few years back read a very interesting story about a girl (can't remember if she was kidnapped or just abused) locked in a room for the first 8 years or so of her life with no verbal interaction and only the slightest human interaction.

It was an interesting scientific case in what it showed about language acquisition in humans past a certain age (what it showed was not good, essentially it doesn't happen).

What always amazes me about stories like this one is how two similarly depraved people find each other. I have difficulty imagining how I'd say to my wife "honey, I'd like to have a threesome." It must be supremely awkward to say "honey, I'm going to steal a little girl and keep her in the backyward. Cool?"

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I'm loving the fuschia poncho on the guy in the background.

And I'm loving the 2 all the way to the right ---------->

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Kidnap victim found 18 years later... had kids with her captor.

Yikes! I lived in Antioch a few years ago.

[Betty]

There are so many varieties of food at the fair. Stuff on a stick... stuff fried that you'd never think of frying up... like deep fried butter for example.