Parents Move Teen's 36-Year-Boyfriend Into Home

What's a poor Mum and Dad to do?

A couple from Kent, England, Sheila and Paul Garcia, had a problem. Their daughter was unhappy, so Mum and Dad did what they could to cheer the 16-year-old Alison up.

Alison and her Mum, Sheila

Ailson was sad over the fact that her parents didn't quite approve of her newest boyfriend of 4 months, Craig.

"I hate the thought of her sleeping with any man, because I think she is too young to understand the implications of a sexual relationship," she says.

"But I know she is 16 and I can't stop her. If I don't take the softer approach I fear she will take off with Craig and cut ties with us.

"If I forbid it or attempt to ban her from seeing him, I risk losing my precious child.

"Paul has managed to accept the situation far better than I have, because he believes we should let her make her own mistakes."

Even though Alison's Mum believed her 16 year-old daughter "too young to understand the implications of a sexual relationship", when Alison asked her parents if her boyfriend could move in so the couple could save up for flat, Alison's Dad figured the best way to handle the problem was to move Alison's boyfriend, 36-year-old Craig Wright, lock, stock and barrel into their home and daughter's bedroom.

Wright, a divorced double glazing fitter with one child now resides in the Garcia home as Alison's live-in bedroom lover.

Alison believes she knows best.

"I'm not stupid," she says stubbornly. "I know to the outside world such a huge age difference must seem weird and unnatural.

"My mum keeps saying it's a ridiculous phase and I'll grow out of it, but I won't.

"My dad is much more laid-back. He takes the view that it's my life and I have to do what I want.

"After all, I'm 16 and can make up my own mind. He recognises that I'm not a child any more, but my mum doesn't."

Alison likes the fact that Criag isn't "immature" like the boys her age.

"He's the fourth guy I've been with, but the others were all inexperienced teenagers - boys I'd been going out with for a few months.

"It was very different with Craig. He knew exactly what he was doing. He told me how beautiful I was and made me feel really special and cared for."

They met in a pub even though Alison is/was underage and dated for a few weeks when Alison and Craig decided to get a flat but the 16-year-old had a better idea: why not move in with my Mum and Dad and save up.

Sheila said she was horrified, but her husband, Alison's Dad, was okay with the idea of his daughter's older boyfriend moving in because the couple wouldn't have been able to "afford a decent flat".

Sheila made an astute observation about Craig which we doubt she's spent much time mulling over:

"What I can't understand is what a man of Craig's age sees in a girl who is so young. She can't possibly fulfil his emotional needs."

It's as if Sheila has removed herself from the situation with her decision to blame it on "society and not on her own parenting skills:

"Girls no longer get a childhood past about the age of ten when they are asked to make choices on what lipstick to wear or what jeans to buy.

"It's a sad state of affairs, and one from which I fear there is no way back.

"It seems we have raised a generation of children who believe they can do whatever the hell they like, without worrying about the consequences."

As for Craig, he's been set up as a peripheral character in this vignette. The scene revolves around Alison and her parents, of whom is responsible for this situation, the "too-liberal" Mum and Dad or the spoiled teen-aged Alison. But what about a 36-year-old man who feels it's okay to bum off his teenager girlfriend's parents and sleep with their daughter under their roof?

Alison has decided Craig's "the one."

"That will inevitably happen, because I do want to marry Craig and have kids, and he isn't getting any younger."

We not sure whether we should laugh or cry, "not getting any younger." We imagine once the "bloom is off the rose" in this relationship, Craig will begin to look older and older to Alison while she will have aged prematurely, stuck with babies while she's still one herself.


By LBG
Image - Wimpy Parents
Source - The Mail

Pet Goth Girl Saga Continues

"She followed me home, Mom. Can I keep her?"

Out for a little stroll and to enjoy the
weather with his pet Goth girl

The story of another Brave Group--The Goths-- "Who Only Just Want to Be Different". And they are treated exactly that way, but decide to opt out for the easy living lifestyle of the "The Young and The Victimized".

We wrote last week about a lonely boy and his pet Goth chick, whom he led around on a leash.

She got thrown off a bus in England and was upset about being treated like, well, a pet.

"Pet Girl Gets Thrown Off Bus; Bus Company Apologizes for Treating Her Like a Pet"

The pet Goth in question, 19-year-old Tasha Maltby, pictured above, has become quite strident about those who dare treat her like a pet.

"It is definitely discrimination, almost like a hate crime," Maltby said recently about the bus episode.

So, she was treated like a pet. Pets aren't allowed on the bus--unless they're registered seeing eye dogs.

What does Maltby think about that?

"I am a pet, I generally act animal like and I lead a really easy life."

When Maltby was told she wasn't to be allowed on the bus on her leash, she acted in an almost animal-like way.

"I got a bit angry and called him a fascist pig."

Ms. Maltby and her "owner" are both on welfare.John East, of Poole, England, after reading the story in the Daily Mail, asked a question likely to be on many a mind.

"Why are these two perfectly healthy looking people on benefits, they should both be working as according to our wonderful PM there are plenty of Employment opportunity's available."

We don't want to get too far into the politics of the moment in England--that's a job for the European Union, not us.

It does seem that the Goth culture in England may be an embattled one, at least in the minds of its adherents.

The haunting plaints from a Goth under siege.

Fellow goth Susan Walker, of Marshall Street, Mirfield, said rude comments from people eventually made her give up her usual choice of dress in public.

But she said as a mark of solidarity with Mr Graves and Miss Maltby, she would start to dress like a goth again.

Mrs Walker, 54, said: "I moved here four years ago after getting wed to a local guy, and had quite a culture shock. I am originally from Whitby, the spiritual home of all goths worldwide. Nobody bats an eyelid when you are seen in the Co-op shopping, fully 'gothed-up', it is an everyday occurrence."

Mrs Walker said after moving to Mirfield, she was shocked to hear people calling her a devil-worshipper. She said she tried to set up a social club for goths in Mirfield but it was disbanded because members were getting hassled too much at meetings.

And she eventually got so sick of people's rude reactions to her appearance that she started to dress more conventionally.

She said: "After six months of living here, I too suffered black looks and nasty comments and so stopped wearing my goth clothes in order to fit in.

"This will happen no longer. From this day forth, I will be seen in my normal clothes – goth – in support of Dani and Tasha. I ask any other 'closet' goths to do the same."

She said a typical outfit she now wears to the shops includes purple Doc Marten boots decorated with cobwebs, a skirt which is long at the back and short at the front, and black or purple tights.

Then Walker uncorked a quote which makes one stop and ponder everything she previously said.

"No way are we freaks or dogs. We are ordinary people who just wish to be individuals and not follow the sheep."

Fair enough.

But when people comment on Susan Walker's method of showing she's an individual and not one of the sheep, isn't it a bit cheeky to take offense when they notice?

Susan wants all of the credit and adrenaline of being a trailblazer--with a safety net.

If she's going to swim against the tide, she shouldn't expect it to be easy.

If it's easy she wants, she should swim with the tide or float along. Which she decided to do.

Also, if she ever decides to swim against the tide again, here's a tip.

Keep your mouth shut.

Or she'll get a mouthful of water for her troubles, as well as not likely reach her goal.

Whatever that may be

by Mondoreb
hat tip on the pic: meMarc at LGF
image: daily mail
Source: Things Get Heavy for Goths



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Walls Won't Stop Them: Wife Breaks into Prison for Some Sizzling Cell Love

A DBKP Modern Tale

of

Tender Stupid Prison Love

A True Story


They were just two crazy kids from Kent, England.

And they were in love.

People in the town talked.

They said, "It'll never work".

They said, "It's not right".

But they didn't care. They were young and wild and free.

And in love.



So they did what two kids in love will do: they got married.

They didn't care what people said. They were gonna make it work if it killed them.

She was a smart, sassy risk-taker.

He had something of the gambler in him.

But he gambled and lost.

He ended up in prison.

There was no way walls or bars--or anything--was going to stop those two.

They were young and they were in love.



One night, the wild, animal lust they had became too much for her.

So she sneaked into Standford Hill open prison, Kent, England, in the early hours of the morning.

He was looking for a way out. She was looking for a way in.

He saw her and his heart nearly beat right out of his chest.

My God! It really was her!

He ran, she ran, and they both collapsed into each other's arms: kissing, laughing, hugging each other until they thought they become one under the warm prison yard night.

They forgot where they were.

Tearing himself away from her embrace, he quietly guided her back to his cell.



And, for just a few hours anyway, it was like the old times.

- - / - -

It was over too soon for the both of them.

But she knew she should be going.

Morning comes cold, quick and early when you're inside an English detention facility.

He didn't want her to go, but he knew she must.

So, one last, long, lingering kiss passed between them--and then, he was alone.

And as she slipped through the mostly-slumbering penitentiary, her mind was filled with questions.

"What was to become of them?"

She went deeper into thought the further she got from his cell.

That might have been why she didn't see the prison guard as she tried to leave.



The guard was no dummy; he knew something wasn't quite right here and he was bound to get to the bottom of it.

"She stood out because she was the only woman in an all-male jail!"

And so she was brought back, crashing to earth.

Down, down--like a tumble off the high prison towers she now gazed at in disbelief.

How could it have ended this way?

To be so high one moment; and so very low the next. It just didn't seem fair.

An inquiry into the security breach is under way.



The prison warden was not available for comment. A subordinate said he'd been working late on the design of new uniforms for the prison guards.

"She got in by climbing over a fence and her husband was waiting for her," a prison source said.

"He took her into to his cell for a romp and she left a short while later. A few people knew about it."

"A member of the public was found in the grounds of Standford Hill open prison. The intruder was challenged by a staff member," a UK Prison Service spokesman said.

"A prisoner has been returned to a closed establishment. Police are investigating."

Kent Police said a woman was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass and later released with no further action.

First he was in and she was out. Then, they were both in. And now:

She was out.

He was in.

- - / - -

Yes, they were just two crazy kids from Kent, England.

And they were in love.

They fought their fight against the forces of everything that is unknown in a person's daily life.

Call it fortune, call it kismet--call it whatever you want.

They were just two crazy kids from Kent, England, and they didn't believe in any of that stuff about fate.

They didn't believe in anything.

But Love.

Only now they were separated by walls of stone and bars of steel.

According to the Telegraph, "her husband has now been sent to a higher security prison."

And that may be the cruelest twist of Fate's cold knife of all.

by Mondoreb
[images:edenworldsaga;nightcharm;gossipevents;timoregan;]
Source: Wife's Prison Break-In



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Gibbons Home From Sudan; BAIR Still Angry

The English school teacher who was imprisoned for allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" is back home from Sudan.

Gillian Gibbons is relieved, but in a rather low-key English way.

Asked if she had been shocked by the punishment handed out to her, she said: "I am just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went there to have a bit of adventure and got a bit more than I bargained for."

One group who was not happy about Gibbons' escape from Sudan was B.A.I.R. (Bruins Against Islamic References).

As was reported yesterday, BAIR spokesbruin, T.D. Bear, was still angry over Gibbons escaping with what he called "light punishment". He had call for Gibbons to be eaten by members of his group.

No word yet on BAIR's reaction to Gibbons making it home to the U.K. safely.

by Mondoreb
[notes & graphic: RidesAPaleHorse]
[top photo: AP]
Sources:

CNN - "Toy Row Teacher Speaks of Ordeal"
DBKP - "Teacher Pardoned: Unbearable Punishment Averted"

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Terror Signs Likely to Prove Little Help In Case of British Terror Attacks

Good thing the British keep a stiff upper lip. Otherwise, they'd be laughing themselves silly at their schizophenic government's policies.

Talk about mixed signals.

The multiculturally-inclined are warning Brits not to offend anyone. Meanwhile, another division of the government puts "terror signs" on buildings and stadiums and pleads with citizens to "be vigilant".

More on the latest tool in the fight against terror from the Mirror's
Public Buildings Get Terror Signs:

Posters warning people what to do in a bomb attack are to be put in shopping centres and airports, it was revealed yesterday.

Senior security sources want the signs where they think terrorists might strike. The "target sites" also include sports stadiums.

They would be similar to the fire procedure notices seen in most public buildings telling people what to do in a blaze.

But instead they would advise people how best to act if there was a bomb - or chemical, biological or nuclear attacks.

How best to act in case of a nuclear attack? The Brown government could have saved a lot of pounds by just reprinting that old poster from the 60s and 70s: "In case of nuclear attack, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

But government bureaucrats are serious about protecting the country agsinst terror. How? By giving the potential bomb victims a list of instructions?

The emergency notices will have a list of instructions.

These include to stay inside if a blast goes off outside a building, in case there is a second bomb in the area, and to stay away from windows, lifts and outer doors to avoid more blasts.

The chemical, biological and radiological attack posters warn people about the dangers of contamination and how to avoid spreading it.

They will also remind people the best defence against terrorism is vigilance and urge everyone to report anything suspicious.

Be vigilant and report anything suspicious. Good advice it would appear.

But not too suspicious. The government is always on guard against potential backlash against Muslims. This occurs every time a British Muslim is caught with plans, bombs or both.

The signs the British people notice far more are those they see of increasing lawlessness and chaos They are warned against paying too close attention. Another name for the terror sign program may be familiar: CYA.

The government hopes the terror signs on buildings will make people feel safer.

Average Brits may disagree: last year nearly 400,000 fled England for safer, saner climes. The ones who left get their chance to start over in places where more common sense about terror prevails.

The ones left behind get terror signs.

by Mondoreb



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