White Trash Mom

Lori Drew Indicted Yesterday for MY SPACE hoax

Yesterday a federal grand jury indicted Mother-of-the-Year Lori Drew, for her alleged role in a  MySpace online hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor girl who committed suicide.

She was  charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.

I've written about this case before and I even wrote Lori Drew a letter here on the blog.  The sweet letter to Lori is called "Letter to Lori: I Hope You Rot in Hell".

So you can guess where my opinion falls as far as this case, right?  What I can't believe is that some of the press is saying that THIS IS UNFAIR!  I am stunned that anyone would think the candy-ass conspiracy and computer charges are too harsh----I think it's not harsh enough!   

There are no laws to cover this kind of cruelty as the laws haven't caught up to the technology.  The laws need to catch up to people like Lori Drew.  Nothing is going to bring the Meier's their sweet daughter back, so there is no justice.   

Why would people even begin to say that ANYONE IS BEING MEAN TO LORI DREW?  What about Megan Meier?  Anyone?

If you really want to work yourself up, here is an interview with Lori Drew from February 2008.  As if I care that she's having a hard time but here you go.

Interview with Lori Drew from February/St. Louis Journalist Steve Pokin

WHAT Do You SAY to THIS?

Every school has one.  The crazy "koo koo for coco puffs" mom of a kid in your kid's class.**

The mom is annoying and insane because of the way she overprotects her child in every way.   This mom's child is nice and the kid can't help it her mom is like nails on a chalkboard.   When I say the mom is crazy, I don't mean the woman is truly crazed in a way she can't help.   This woman isn't mentally ill...she's just insufferable.  She makes sure that her offspring can't do ANYTHING without her and keeps the child from experiencing some of the things that will help the kid grow into an independent person.

Tonight there was a school fund raiser, parents were helping.  The mom strikes up a conversation with me.

KK for Coco Puffs Mom: So I hear your daughter is going to ______ high school?

WTM: Yes.  She is very excited and I know she's happy that your daughter is going there.

KK for Coco Puffs Mom: I've been meaning to tell you this...I'm a little worried that YOUR DAUGHTER might join a CULT when she gets to high school.  It's such a big school and all...

WTM:  Wow.  Thanks for your concern and I'll keep that in mind (backing away S-L-O-W-L-Y to get away).

What Do You SAY to something like that? 

Being the petty bee-och that I am, I go immediately to one of my WT mom pals to  laugh about it.  It's so insane and strange, I refuse to even dignify her comment by getting angry.   It takes too much energy and I've been warned by those that have gotten angry at her before----IT WILL CHANGE NOTHING.

What would you say?  I'd like to know.

**=Most of the time it's a mom.  Sometimes it's the dad but most of the time it's the mom because usually it's the Type A-A-A mom that leaves her career to do the "important job of raising her kids" and then spends the next 18 years making her kids crazy.

This Week's Candidate for "Mother of the Year"

Have you ever heard of a mom that is FED UP with being run over in her own home?  How about a mother that has no privacy?  PLEASE!  That is STANDARD, STATUS QUO stuff of motherhood!
But our candidate for "Mother of the Year",  Melissa Dean, thought it was so bad that she went on strike.  She left four teens on their own for a month while staying with friends.

Melissa Dean, a Central Florida mother of four boys was arrested on Tuesday after telling authorities that she went "on strike" more than a month ago, leaving the teens home alone for hours every day because they would constantly fight.

Melissa G. Dean, 33, was charged with child neglect after telling Ocala police and the Department of Children and Families that she leaves her children, ages 17, 16, 14 and 13, home alone.  According to a charging affidavit, Dean said the children needed to start cleaning up and stop fighting and that she had no control over them. Dean also said she was fed up with being run over in her own home and having no privacy, according to the affidavit.

*Sigh*  Do any of you have any choice words for Melissa?

Mom Buckles Up Beer, Not Baby

The other day I posted about the mom that gave her 11-year-old daughter beer and pot a birthday present.

Here is another candidate for "Mother of Year", this time from Jacksonville, Florida. 

Investigators say a woman accused of drunk driving had a case of beer buckled up safely, and a one year old girl sitting in the backseat without a seatbelt or car seat.

On Super Bowl Sunday, a deputy saw a car drive through a red light and swerve back and forth over the center lane on the highway.  He pulled over the car and discovered that not only was the woman driving drunk, she was driving drunk with no car seat, not even a seatbelt on her baby.  But she had her case of BEER buckled in.

You need a license to drive but anyone can have a child.  How many people spend thousands of dollars every year to try to have a baby?  But you can bet this woman will be fertile for years to come----and that her little baby will have a difficult road.  It pisses me off!

Mother Gives 11-Year-Old Beer and Pot for Birthday

There are times when I think I'm a bad mother.  I forget to put money in the children's lunch account.  Or I yell at them for a mess and then I find out it was my husband, not the girls that made it.    I feel like a bad mother sometimes but I know that I am not REALLY a bad mother.

THIS IS A BAD MOTHER.
A woman in Indianapolis has been charged with one felonious count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after cops alleged the woman offered beer and pot to her daughter and three of her friends during a birthday party.

It's really sad because this mom is only 26 years old and she has an 11-year-old.  She was a baby when she had a baby.  It's sad.

Dad Driving and Using "Crackberry" in School Drop Off Line

Dear Mr. Crackberry:
This morning I was in a particular hurry.  I had to drop off my younger daughter at school, take a few deranged pugs to the vet and then whip back around to take my older daughter to school.  I was on an especially tight schedule this morning as I had a conference call right after the deranged pug vet visit and the second school drop-off. 

Of course, I am only a White Trash Mom, not nearly as important as you, Mr. Crackberry.

You know who you are.  You are the idiot who was sitting in the drop off line at school this AM, in your car, driving AND TEXTING ON YOUR CRACKBERRY while you were driving through a SCHOOL PARKING LOT. 

The cherry on the cake of this story is this:

Kids were walking around in the parking lot.  Mr. Crackberry was also drinking a coffee.  I swear I am not making this up.  I swear it.

I did not realize until I was in another line that the reason the first line I was in was SO SLOW was due to the fact that you were driving/drinking/texting in the drop off line.   With the Crackberry on the steering wheel, no less.

To give you the benefit of the doubt, perhaps you do indeed have a very important job.  It could be that you were:
1)Texting the contents of the cure for cancer to the CDC in Atlanta

2)Sending final directions to a surgical team that is starting an emergency brain surgery without you

3)Neither one of these answers.  You were probably changing your latte order or changing your lunch appointment.

Karma is a funny thing, Mr. Crackberry.  In the event that you don't actually kill someone with your distracted driving, your smug self-importance will kill your soul.  What goes around comes around my friend.   Please note that NO ONE IS SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY NEED TO  drive/drink coffee and use  a crackberry.

Karma will Come and Get You.

Love,
White Trash Mom

Trashy Parents-European Style

We all know that America has the largest "trashy parent" population on the planet. After all, the term
"white trash" was invented here. HOWEVER, today's whitetrashmom blog goes INTERNATIONAL. Here are a few examples of trashy parents in other countries.
If these stories don't represent the trashy parents, then you can just egg my double-wide:

United Kingdom White Trash Example
Husband and father has affair with teen nanny. The really nice guy leaves wife and kids for "Bambie" the sex kitten teenage nanny. In a completely trashy move, the mother of cheating husband, who owns the home that the family lives in----KICKS OUT THE MOM & KIDS. NICE FAMILY.

Mom, Can You Take Me to Rob a Jewelry Store?
In Germany, mom drives her kid and friends to a jewelry store robbery. Waits for the robbers while they rob store and STAB employee of store. Reason she wanted to drive? She was worried about them, you know, robbing and wanted them to be safe. Are we sure this woman isn't from the USA?

Should You Invite Your Child's Molester to Your Party?

There is an blurb in SLATE magazine online that I simply had to tell you about.
Please please tell me it's not real or that the mother that wrote the letter to SLATE is mentally ill or missing serious brain cells.  Please tell me that she is leaving her husband...NOW.

The subject?

Should I Invite the Person Who Molested My Child to My Party?

You'll need to read the page at Slate for the full effect but here is the "WTM" sample:
Every year, we have a joint birthday party, since my husband and I were born only several days apart. My husband has now asked me how I would feel if he invited this friend of his back. How do I feel? I feel outraged, but I told him I would think about it.

Am I wrong to feel such outrage toward a man who has been my husband's best friend since longer than I have known him? Should I be more forgiving? If this friend says he's sought counseling and is truly apologetic, am I being unreasonable in my strong desire to have him not attend our party, let alone ever step foot in our home again?

Dear Prudence, the advice columnist at Slate gives a great answer.  But for you WT mom readers here is my comeback---please feel free to EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS as well:

Dear "Defensive Mother":
Run.  Run as fast as you can away from your husband.  Kick  him now, freeze his assets and get the hell out of dodge.  The fact that your husband is willing not invite this pig to your home is enough of a reason.
Don't think---just DO.  NOW.
Trust your instincts and don't be an idiot.  Your daughter deserves more than that and a father that "doesn't grasp" the severity of not being friends with the guy that molested your child is a jerk.  Sorry but that's the way it is.

Anyone?  Am I too harsh?  Let's see what you think!

Trashy Mom of the Week Award

I know it's only Monday but I've found my nominee for Trashy Mom of the Week already.
Mom in FLORIDA is called to school because her kid is throwing a tantrum.  What does mom do?

She goes to school, starts cussing at the principal and gets hauled off to jail.  NICE.
Go here to read more but I think you'll agree that she's at least a qualified candidate for Trashy Mom of the Week.  Anyone?  Bueller?

Stupid Parent of the Week Award

You need a license to drive but anybody can be a parent. 

I am amazed every day at some of the stupid and selfish things that parents do.  Here are my picks for this week's "Stupid Parent" award.

Woman was arrested in Wisconsin this week for leaving her baby and her 10 year old in the car while she went to the tanning bed.  This mother of the year left the kids in a freezing LOCKED car while she went to tan.  The arresting officer noted that the woman "was going on vacation and felt that tanning was a priority".  I've got  great idea for her new vacation spot...prison!  She could meet some nice new friends that would enjoy her smooth, silky tan.

In Florida,  a mom and dad drugged up their kids with Benadryl so that could party at a bar.
Jeremy Knight and Nicole Rodriquez thought the kids would be fine and sleep through the night so they could go to a bar that was over 5 miles away from their home.

These are such crazy examples and it's so sad they are true.  Anyone?