Grifters gonna grift

[fatboy]

Holy smoke!  That's got to hurt.

KC

PPL is about half of our electric bill as they don't generate power anymore. We shop around every year and find the best deal on the actual electrons, this year the best I could find was another 10% for the power aspect.

We have a 1600 sq ft home there is 4 of us there. On average our electric bill about $105.00 per month. Once we turn in the AC (window units) I expect $200/month.

I'm one of those persons that goes around turning off what others leave on.

I thought I read in this thread where the mom is getting foreclosed? So the old man didn't have any kind of life insurance to protect the little lady and the homestead? Is it a bank foreclosure or tax sale?

[SVPete]

I think he's in PA, not TX.

KC

I sit corrected. PA probably has an equivalent of CA's Public Utility Commission - different state, same principle.

[Carl]

The original (as far as I know) begathon.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/v676x-my-mother-needs-help

Raised 3300.00 but didn't pay the electric bill.

[SVPete]

...
I don't know what made me think of this but our electric utility (PP&L) just announced a 35% rate hike.

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/ppl-set-to-increase-default-rates-many-customers-pay-for-electricity-supply/article_def65b26-cb1c-11ec-a8c0-23c296f951f8.html

Gee, why did I foresee what I highlighted in the article quote below?

"We do not own power plants so we don't generate electricity - we purchase energy, electricity, the same way you that you as a customer can purchase your electricity," said Jane George, Regional Affairs Director for PPL.

She says if you use about a 1000 kilowatt hours a month, it will be about a $34 increase.

"It has to do with general market conditions, overall inflation, the cost of energy sources is increasing, like natural gas," George said.

[67 Rover]

The original (as far as I know) begathon.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/v676x-my-mother-needs-help

Raised 3300.00 but didn't pay the electric bill.

Newest Playstation, weed, internet, Iphone, fleshlight . $3300 just doesn't go very far anymore.

[Rebel]

mvd (63,936 posts)

57. Based on how quickly the $1500 was reached, I raised the goal to $2,000

The ultimate goal would be $3,000 - which is still less than the amount that I now documented in the fundraiser. But whatever you can do is greatly, greatly appreciated!

Latest 

[Rebel]

This guy is a piece of shit. His mother 73. He's what, 50? Can't get a job?

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvX1R1Gg94

[Texacon]

The original (as far as I know) begathon.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/v676x-my-mother-needs-help

Raised 3300.00 but didn't pay the electric bill.

The first begathon claimed they hadn’t paid water for months. I get the feeling he’s figured out people have more sympathy if they think you’re doing without a utility rather than straight up asking for money for crack.

Maybe I’m wrong.

KC

[Carl]

One of his replies in the current thread.

Response to Bluesaph (Reply #59)

Thu May 5, 2022, 03:31 PM

Star Member mvd (63,942 posts)
60. Luckily they are considering the things I mentioned

Severe hearing loss and autism at least in PA can be mentioned. Hard to say if my arthritis is bad enough. I have never been employed, so maybe they will understand why.

I am so sorry about your nephew. Very tragic.

[BamaMoose]

Even the DUmmies are beginning to notice that he is just using his mother for sympathy.  He carefully avoids saying that he lives off of her and provides zero support to their living expenses.  In the pictures he's put up of her on GoFundMe she looks like a hostage providing "proof of life".  And she really is a hostage.  She probably could get by if she didn't have to put up with a deadbeat loser sponging off of her.  But she's trapped in a bad situation, because neither she, nor her husband, ever kicked his ass out into the real world.  And when she finally passes on he'll have no idea how to survive on his own.  I'm always amazed by how many of them proudly proclaim that they never worked a day in their lives, that they still live with their parents, that they pray for the day they can get SSI or SSDI and that they want to blame other people for their lot in life.  Sorry DUmmies, when you add no value to a society you shouldn't expect much in return.  And there comes a point in your life where your lifestyle choices guarantee that you'll never escape a life of poverty.  So DUer's quit complaining about billionaires and accept that fact that the net worth of people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk don't affect your net worth.  If you're worthless and rely on the charity of strangers you'll never have financial security.  You choose poorly, live with it.

[franksolich]

One of his replies in the current thread.

Wow.  Fifty years old and never been employed.

Probably not even as a newspaper boy or grocery carry-out boy.

It boogles my mind, trying to figure out what he did during that vast empty period in his life.

[67 Rover]

Wow.  Fifty years old and never been employed.

Probably not even as a newspaper boy or grocery carry-out boy.

It boogles my mind, trying to figure out what he did during that vast empty period in his life.

Next up will be demanding a raise to its SSDI check to help improve the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.

[SVPete]

Wow.  Fifty years old and never been employed.

Probably not even as a newspaper boy or grocery carry-out boy.

It boogles my mind, trying to figure out what he did during that vast empty period in his life.

Ignoring very occasionally helping my Dad with his farm work, I had my first job at age 16, $1.25/hour doing field work for a seed company in the summer, 8 hours a day (90F-105F every afternoon, not quite picking lettuce in Yuma, but close, and I and other high-schoolers did it)). I'm sure many/most here (possibly excepting DU-Onlurkers, ) started several years earlier (I lived 6 miles from the nearest town, so having a paper route was not practical). Hoeing weeds and bagging safflower flowers (so they would only self-pollinate) wasn't what I wanted to do as a career, but I never viewed that work as "beneath me". By age 20 I was attending college and working at my 4th job.

Next up will be demanding a raise to its SSDI check to help improve the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.

Yeppers, that was the foundation underlying the "Welfare Rights" movement of the 1970s, being entitled to leech off productive people rather than social programs being a safety net.

[Rebel]

You all see all of his kicks starting last night? Last 3 posts 

[Texacon]

He’s doing the same thing he’s done on his other fund raising. What an artist.

Makes you wonder how many other sites he posts on. He has a full time job just raising funds. LOL

KC

[Rebel]

He's like the Energizer Bunny with the grift 

mvd (63,946 posts)

65. I'll keep this visible until around our birthday (May 12)..

and then I will see where we are. Thankfully after this is handled, we would have no huge bills that have to be paid. And the help from before on DU has improved things with proper budgeting. I can’t guarantee I will never start another GoFundMe anywhere, but I see no reason for one after this.

Thanks all and the closer I get to the bill amount, the more relief my mom and I will have.

[Texacon]

He's like the Energizer Bunny with the grift 

 

He’s telling them he’s seeing his budget up based on the money from DU members!  That’s too funny!

He needs to just start being honest in his thread titles. Something like; ok DU, time to pony up! My budget relies on my quarterly gofundme.

KC

[fatboy]

IMPORTANT: If you do not qualify for Social Security payments, then you will need to ensure that you have sufficient income to support your lifestyle in retirement.

 https://www.investopedia.com/retirement/8-types-americans-who-wont-get-social-security/#:~:text=A%20minimum%20requirement%20to%20collect%20Social%20Security%20retirement,%22enough%20work%22%20as%20earning%2040%20Social%20Security%20credits.

[franksolich]

IMPORTANT: If you do not qualify for Social Security payments, then you will need to ensure that you have sufficient income to support your lifestyle in retirement.

 https://www.investopedia.com/retirement/8-types-americans-who-wont-get-social-security/#:~:text=A%20minimum%20requirement%20to%20collect%20Social%20Security%20retirement,%22enough%20work%22%20as%20earning%2040%20Social%20Security%20credits.

Wow.  I never thought about that, what happens when one doesn't ever pay into the system.

So this lazy layabout might reach the age of 65, and have nothing, not a thing, on which to fall back?

Actually, I think that's good news.

[dandi]

BlackSkimmer (45,658 posts)

5. Isn't this the third time you've done this?

I’m just curious because the last time you said that you just needed money this “one time” and all would be fine.

Try being that critical and questioning of anyone chronically on the public dole at DU and you'll get eaten alive if not outright banned.

Welfare leeches are not to be questioned on their life choices or how they spend their money, lest you be told it's none of your business or you be accused of being some brand of "-ist" for even raising the subject.

Only when they are asked to pony up out of their own pockets do DUmmies become fiscal conservatives.

[Texacon]

I wonder if money from gofundme is taxable income or just considered a gift.

Like mentioned above, this loser is going to lose his mom/income at some point and that’s it. That’s all she wrote. He’ll have nothing.

KC