Posted on 07/14/2011 6:49:00 AM PDT by quesney
More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaking the law, many people are choosing to break the law... All over the country, there are areas where just about anything that is not bolted down is being stolen. A lot of people have resorted to making money however they can - selling drugs, selling their bodies, shoplifting, invading homes, taking bribes, running credit card scams and even stealing from their own family members. You will have a hard time believing some of the things that you are about to read below...
The following are 15 examples that show many Americans have become so desperate that they will do just about anything for money....
#1 In Utah, one unemployed 28 year old man is offering to be "human prey" for hunters for the bargain price of $10,000. For an additional $2,000, he will let people hunt him down while he is running around naked.
#2 The Huffington Post is reporting that there has been an epidemic of air conditioning thefts all over the United States....
(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...
How well (or how badly) the US handles the Depression that’s coming will tell us alot about much the country has devolved since the 1930’s Depression and the Greatest Generation.
"We may not be able to predict exactly when we reach the tipping point, but as Mr. Brzezinski suggests, once we cross it major US cities will erupt in riots and violence similar to that which we have seen in the middle east in recent months and what we’re seeing in Europe now."
“How well (or how badly) the US handles the Depression that’s coming ... “
I thought we were in a depression?
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I doubled the size of my garden.
Might want to put it under lock and key (so to speak)
I stole your watermelon.
I sold my body once to a woman for $5 and a half a Snickers bar. Best money I ever made.
if “someone was trying to steel them...”
then, he’s a talented fellow,
making steel from aluminum has
always eluded ph.d.’s for hundreds of years.
/s
We are in a DEPRESSION already!
Please see post number 12.
Sounds like the zombie apocalypse has already started.
That will most likely happen once Mr. Obama is VOTED OUT come late next year!
bttt
One of my gardens is right outside my bedroom window and the other is behind two fences in the middle of a mix of raspberries, poison ivy, and a skeeter ranch. I dread going out there myself.
I’m sorry, but aren’t most of these things just random kooky crimes?
Hair extensions? Some guy paying off gambling debts with his parent’s money?
I’m sure some people are doing some desperate things, but not every theft is because of it.
Don’t defend yourselves, and you’ll get robbed and murdered.
Defend yourselves, and you’ll get sued and thrown in jail.
Guns are the cure for crime and tyranny.
Bfl
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