Posted on 12/30/2018 6:25:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
One holiday season, Mary Pascucci, the village bag lady -- long white whiskers and all – took a long overdue soak in our bathtub. Crazy Mary spent Christmas Eve in my nightgown and slippers drinking spiced tea and eating Italian Pignoli cookies. Mary was loud and smelly, but harmless.
But then, a few months later, my good-hearted husband went to deposit a bag of old clothes into a St. Vincent DePaul dumpster and returned with a guest. As my politically-incorrect hubby ascended our front steps, he humorously announced, “Look who I found in the dumpster -- Jesus dressed like a Mexican.” Jerry believed that finding a disadvantaged person rolled up in the fetal position in a dumpster was God presenting our family a unique opportunity to extend charity to a person in need.
The gentleman in tow used the alias, José, but turned out to really be Norberto Torres.
Norberto was Latino and about 18-years-old. Gazing down at the floor whenever he spoke, the shy man responded softly to questions in broken English. Whether Jerry’s find was legally or illegally here was irrelevant to us because we were eager do-gooders wanting to serve God.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yeah, there are obviously safer and wiser ways to help the poor, the addicted and the mentally unstable than to take random examples of such people into one’s home.
no good deed goes unpunished
Anyone sleeping in a dumpster has a screw loose and they’re probably hiding out from the law. Maybe Molly Tibbets parents will suffer the same fate as their daughter and this nun.
One summer, before we has a battered woman’s shelter in our community, Mr. Mercat and I agreed to take battered women into our home. One woman simply left her two adorable little children with us and hung out with her drug dealer. We reported her to the agency and they removed her and her children from our son. Our three year old was sad since he had fallen for the older girl. Our next rescue was a deaf woman with five kids. None of the children were completely potty trained and all had hearing impairments. They stayed a week. After that we were done.
But when you start to deal with dumpster people, you are getting too close to those who qualify as "certifiable."
Caring for those is best left to the professionals who know all the tricks they play.
A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
So Jose was a victim in his life before they took him in. Lucky is an understatement, foolish is a better descriptor. Sadly, they think their experience will well serve others who think like they used to think, but that will not be the case at all. People who believe they are right will continue to do so.
Oops. Home not son. I was thinking of our younger son when I wrote this.
Liberal “altruists” always seem to have much more sympathy for the misfortunate of other countries (especially when they come here illegally) than they do for the unfortunate among their own countrymen.
I think that sentence needs to be rewritten for clarity as:
After recovering from a fractured skull and a brain bleed inflicted by the boyfriend of the victim’s mother (the victim was a little girl).Writing quality has really suffered after the invention of the internet. No one uses editors anymore.
They never identified Jose as the boyfriend of a woman or that he bashed the head of the girl that he molested while babysitting her. At least not in this account. Are you getting your information from a different source?
Heheh. Not at all.
I read it as saying that it was Norberto who suffered from the fractured skull because the mother's boyfriend paid Norberto a visit before the police took control.
The author of this article is usually a good writer. I guess we all have our bad days.
“...there are obviously safer and wiser ways to help the poor, the addicted and the mentally unstable...” [AnotherUnixGeek, post 2]
“Help” is a word that says more about the attitude of the speaker, than it does about the real-world result of any intervention like the one Jeannie DeAngelis has written about (Let me hasten to add that the notion did not originate with me, but I cannot locate the source at the moment).
As long as we insist on “doing good” without applying proper control and follow-up, bad outcomes will continue to happen. Ultimately, those in need will overwhelm those capable of “helping.” Then nothing good can happen.
Doesn’t matter how moral we think we are.
Neither does it matter how firmly we believe the notion that the moral must take precedence over the real, everywhere, in all circumstances, for all time.
So Jose was a victim in his life before they took him in.
No, this sentence is badly constructed. It is referring to a retaliation for the little girl he victimized after he got out of prison two decades after stabbing the nun in the shelter the authors took him to in the late 1970s. The sentence should have read:
After recovering from a fractured skull and brain bleed inflicted by the boyfriend of his little victim's mother, Norberto Torres will neither sleep in dumpsters nor on anyone’s living room floor, for the rest of his life.
Well it makes sense that your interpretation is correct, but how do you know for certain?
Call it 45 years of editing/publishing experience.
Well even with that, you would still have to know certain information that is obviously not available in this article to be certain. 8>)
Keep digging.
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