Just when I am somewhat feeling sorry for myself and down and out I get a "wake up call" and realize I have it DAMN good. I almost feel bad about the post I wrote a few days ago about feeling inadequate.. but that is how I felt at the time, that day so be it...
If anyone has been reading my Blog for any length of time they would know what my friends and I put together for a very deserving girl (and family) back in November and December of 2004.
Here is the link if you weren't reading at the time...
Well this same girl instant messaged me at work and said I am coming over to see you I have something to show you. Confused, and wondering what the news was, although my intuition told me it wasn't good, she came into my office and handed me pictures to look at. They were something straight out of a movie scene. As I thumbed through them I begged "please, don't tell me this is your home"
Someone had ransacked their house like you could not even imagine.
Here she can hardly afford Christmas gifts for her 8 kids and scrapes to put food on the table (all with a happy face mind you) and someone or some monsters came into her house yesterday when they all left for work and school and DESTROYED EVERYTHING.
Not only was it destroyed but a HATE CRIME. Let me describe a little of what she told me and what I saw...
Swastikas, & crude obscenities spray painted ON THE WALLS, FRIDGE & BEDSPREADS & APPLIANCES,
Sinks and drains clogged with who knows what
EVERY window and mirror BROKEN-SHATTERED
Food spilled, syrup poured, ketchup, mustard, flour, sugar,, you name it,, whatever they had thrown ALL over
Washer filled with broken glass
Clothes thrown all over, RIPPED, and torn,
Every TV broken
Shelves knocked over
AX holes in the flooring and WALLS!
Fire place pipe cut w/AX
Urine ALL over
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THEY OWNED WAS DESTROYED
**granted this is just what I saw in PICTURES***
I asked her, if she had ANY idea if they knew who could have done something so horrific.. She said the only person she could think of was a "friend" of her 16 year old boy that she had confronted/and reported to police about some DVD's he stole.
Can you IMAGINE,,, someone being so pissed off about something THEY did wrong that they could literally destroy someones home/life like this????
I gave her what I could at the time, and after she left I called several community/government agencies I could find. It's ironic, we pay tons of tax dollars for these programs to help people IN NEED, well every single one I called.. "Sorry, we don't do that anymore,, or call so n' so" Everywhere I called I got a dead end.
They are currently housing 8 kids and themselves in a Motel room until they can figure things out.
If this story doesn't make you feel a little bit better about a bad day you've had,, (like me) then I don't know what will.
Keep them in your prayers tonight and cherish your nice warm, cozy home that HASN'T been violated. I know I am going to.
I feel horrible for those kids!
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