WTF Stories of the Week

[Kevy Baby]

Police: Man confined daughter, sired her 7 kids
3 of her children ‘never saw sunlight,’ official says; outrage in Austria

AMSTETTEN, Austria - A toy elephant sat atop the medicine cabinet. Stickers of a chubby butterfly and smiling octopus decorated a wall.

But the door to those rooms was sinister — a soundproof slab with a keyless, electronic lock requiring a secret code that hid what police called a windowless house of horrors.

In those cell-like rooms behind that door, investigators say retired electrician Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.

Three of the children "never saw sunlight" for years until they were freed this past weekend, they say.

The whole disgusting story.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I saw that. Dad locked her up when she was 11. Dang. She was "psychologically disturbed" and wouldn't talk until they reassured her she need have no contact with her father and that her kids would be cared for.

No kidding. Poor girl. Poor kids. Hopefully they can have lives after they get some therapy.

[katiesue]

She was 18 - her father made her write a note that she had run away. Then he and his wife, her mother, adoptoed or fostered three of the kids. The dad made her write notes that she was abandoning the kids. He told everyone she had joined a cult.

I don't get it. At what point does one think - hey my 18 year old is hot let me just build a prison in my basement and keep her there as my own pet??

[innerSpaceman]

perhaps at the same point this thread goes from What the Fu<K Stories to seriously disturbing stories.










Never.click.this.thread.again.

[CoasterMatt]

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

That was seriously disturbing.

[Prudence]

My WTF story of the week:

Someone moved one of my plants. As in it was planted in the ground, and now it's planted in the large planter with the rose from my mother-in-law. Someone came into my fenced-in back patio area, dug up one of my plants out of the ground and re-planted it in a pot that already had another plant in it.

WTF?!

[innerSpaceman]

Believe it or not, i've heard of people digging up other people's plants in a pot and re-planting them in the ground ... to steal the pots.


But the other way around? Gives new meaning to WTF alright.

[Mousey Girl]

Pru, keep your eye on it. They may have repotted it to make it easier to cart off at a later date.

[wendybeth]

Before we get Pru all unsettled, let us remember that she resides in the Seattle area. It's highly likely that some Master Gardener/Greenpeace officer/Starbucks barista just happened to notice that the plant might be happier in the pot and kindly adjusted it's environment accordingly.