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MillCreek

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Stupidity should be painful
« on: January 05, 2012, 11:00:34 AM »
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/runaway-dallas-teen-mistakenly-deported-to-colombia/1

So, you are 14 years old, arrested for theft in Dallas, and give a false name that just happens to be the same name of someone wanted in Colombia.  You don't even tell your defense attorney your real name and you end up getting deported to Bogota, where you wind up pregnant and posting on Facebook about how lonely and homesick you are.  Your grandmother finds you from following the 'clues' you left on your Facebook page.  Colombia does not want to send her back.

Please, Colombia, keep her.  Sending her back would only lower the collective IQ of the Dallas area. 

So, she has access to Facebook but apparently does not email anyone back home to tell them where she is.  Far better to leave 'clues' on your Facebook page.

Let me be the first to say, I blame the schools.  Dallas or Colombia, I am not sure which.   ;/
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 11:09:45 AM »
In defense of the 14 year old girl, teenagers are generally a very stupid and unthinking bunch. (With outsize estimations of their own knowledge and prowess.)

Making such stupid moves at 14 is not necessarily indicative of irredeemable stupidity. If she were 21, I may agree.

14 year old? Yeah, let's get her back and hope she may have learned.
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2012, 11:14:29 AM »
Linked story said she was deported a year ago, and is now pregnant . . .

Quote from: makattak on January 05, 2012, 11:09:45 AM
. . . 14 year old? Yeah, let's get her back and hope she may have learned.

No, actually I'm with MillCreek:

Quote from: MillCreek on January 05, 2012, 11:00:34 AM
Please, Colombia, keep her. 
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 12:17:56 PM »
Quote from: makattak on January 05, 2012, 11:09:45 AM
In defense of the 14 year old girl, teenagers are generally a very stupid and unthinking bunch. (With outsize estimations of their own knowledge and prowess.)

Making such stupid moves at 14 is not necessarily indicative of irredeemable stupidity. If she were 21, I may agree.

14 year old? Yeah, let's get her back and hope she may have learned.

Not that stupid.
 =|

what the hell was she running away from?
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 12:40:20 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 05, 2012, 12:17:56 PM
Not that stupid.
 =|

what the hell was she running away from?

Yeah.

Actually, that might be a pretty smart way to get out of the USSA if you were desperate enough: no passport / no no-fly list / no airfare.   :facepalm:
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2012, 12:57:00 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on January 05, 2012, 12:40:20 PM
Yeah.

Actually, that might be a pretty smart way to get out of the USSA if you were desperate enough: no passport / no no-fly list / no airfare.   :facepalm:

not with that stolen idenity.
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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2012, 01:06:17 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 05, 2012, 12:57:00 PM
not with that stolen idenity.

Well, no - but if one were Hispanic didn't/wouldn't show any proof of citizenship  =|

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Re: Stupidity should be painful
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2012, 01:51:04 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 05, 2012, 12:17:56 PM
Not that stupid.
 =|

Yes, some can be. If you've run away (for a stupid or even a good reason) and you're scared and don't think you can go home because you messed up so bad, you can do some very stupid things. This is probably not the stupidest thing any such teenager has done. (Or could do.)
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