OT: Unbelievable story on news

[tgrimes]

I saw this on the news earlier, the website is a hoax, created to settle a bet, but unfortunately people have been replying to it a lot, the story was not so much about some creep looking to buy a bride, it was about PARENTS wanting to sell their daughter and e-mailing the webhoaxster owner to post their pictures, price, ad, etc.!

Check it out:
http://marryourdaughter.biz/index.php

[Isabelle]

as I said the world is going crazier by the second....:eek: :eek:

[milivica]

I don't understand what you just said.

Do you mean this:
Someone did this to settle a bet
Creeps replied
Real parents were actually contacting them to put their real daughter on this not realizing it was a hoax?

Also, on page two the bottom, Marissa J. totally looks like that kid in Waterworld (with Kevin Costner) all grown up.

Also, the girls in these photos, like were they aware of this bet and so on, like what if Carmen's picture wound up on there. Anyone know who these ladies are, how they feel about their pics being on a hoax - or maybe they were part of it.

Never mind, it's hurting my brain thinking about this. Some aspies just can't take a 'joke' :p

[tgrimes]

The photos are stock photos that he obtained from an internet stock photo site, yes there were parents wanting to 'list' their kids.
The idea was over a conversation he got in about legal married age in different sates, (some states as little as age 13), and wanting to expose it as ridiculous when legal age for drivers licenses, drinking, etc., not in accordance.

[milivica]

yes there were parents wanting to 'list' their kids.

:( That's pathetic, imagine those girls' lives with parents like that :mad:

[tgrimes]

OMG, here's some 'testimonials' from pleased customers:

“I was SO scared getting married so young, but my husband is an okay guy and I am SO proud that because of me my parents were able to get their first brand-new car and take the trip they always wanted to. I couldn’t have done it without your site!"
—Katrina K., married at 14

“Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"
—Mrs. James P.

[peglem]

OMG, here's some 'testimonials' from pleased customers:

“I was SO scared getting married so young, but my husband is an okay guy and I am SO proud that because of me my parents were able to get their first brand-new car and take the trip they always wanted to. I couldn’t have done it without your site!"
—Katrina K., married at 14

“Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We’ve told our youngest that when she turns 15 we’re going to marry her off too!"
—Mrs. James P.

I find those humorous, knowing its a joke. I was just thinking of what kind of ad I could place for Allie. NO, NOT REALLY!

[tgrimes]

Wouldn't you know it was a hoax just by reading those, though? Or did people just skim over this and go right to the sign-me-up part?

[tgrimes]

I find those humorous, knowing its a joke. I was just thinking of what kind of ad I could place for Allie. NO, NOT REALLY!

Well, you could always make up hoax ones. I was going to but erased it. don't have the grimey-guts today!

[milivica]

If ya want to run a hoax, just modify/edit my post from the cleansing thing...I changed it a little.

Candida issues big time and forever, no poop at all or 'silly string' making it through blockages and prolapsed dams of crap, fatigue, depression/rage without my meds, mitral valve prolapse, GAS, bad breath even after brushing flossing, eczema in my EARS of all places, bouts of terrible hair loss but no bald spots yet just real thin, unexplained rashes, green stuff leaking out of one nipple, thin nongrowable finger/toe nails except big toes, NICE PERSONALITY.

[tgrimes]

Well, Someone would still buy you if you were 14.

[frogmama]

"NICE PERSONALITY",
ROTFLMAO, excuse me, I must go change my pants now....

[Isabelle]

FYI young ladies, when i was young long time ago.... before tv, internet...:rolleyes: mothers of young girls as young as 12 were "mentioned" casually to others, to friends, to family, the "news" would be passed on to relatives who would passed it on to their own friends.
mothers would "parade" their young daughters well groomed in the streets, church, parks, movie theaters, the girls would be socially "primed" "educated" "trained" " to look good and to be "pleasant" to men, to be the perfect wife, perfect hostess, to be perfect mothers.....
in the 50s the girls has to be married by the age of 19 or face a life as spinster, men talking behind her back, insinuated something wrong with her or that she was "wasted" or "easy"...
those were "sweet" times... :eek: :(
i understand if mothers take it seriously this website they see as a "opportunity" to "sell" the girls at the higher bidder, the idea if a man pays a lot for a girl he might "keep" her, there is always divorce....;) :p they see in tv the girls "fighting" for a rich handsome single man or just handsome...:D these are desperate times...

[Kristen (ColeysMom)]

OMG! People are so f'd up!!!! But this was a good laugh! :D

[tgrimes]

FYI young ladies, when i was young long time ago.... before tv, internet...:rolleyes: mothers of young girls as young as 12 were "mentioned" casually to others, to friends, to family, the "news" would be passed on to relatives who would passed it on to their own friends.
mothers would "parade" their young daughters well groomed in the streets, church, parks, movie theaters, the girls would be socially "primed" "educated" "trained" " to look good and to be "pleasant" to men, to be the perfect wife, perfect hostess, to be perfect mothers.....
in the 50s the girls has to be married by the age of 19 or face a life as spinster, men talking behind her back, insinuated something wrong with her or that she was "wasted" or "easy"...
those were "sweet" times... :eek: :(
i understand if mothers take it seriously this website they see as a "opportunity" to "sell" the girls at the higher bidder, the idea if a man pays a lot for a girl he might "keep" her, there is always divorce....;) :p they see in tv the girls "fighting" for a rich handsome single man or just handsome...:D these are desperate times...

OMG - you are right - it wasn't so long ago after all that this was commonplace, less the dowry of course (right?)
I remember thinking as a kid that the 14 was when people got married, just because of watching Little house on the prarie... is that how old Laura Ingalls was when she got married?
Sheesh, the things you think when your're a kid, and then look back on strangely when you're an adult...