The Pigeon Drop strikes again! Caroline Stevens was so anxious to get a huge chunk of some "found money" (her take would’ve been a cool $15,000) that she handed over $2,700 – money she says her family would’ve used to pay bills. The Pigeon Drop is a fairly simple scam that we mentioned the other week and, even thought it’s a cliché, those who fall for it have only themselves to blame. Not that Caroline sees it that way. Even though she gave thousands to complete strangers who promised half of the $30,000 in exchange for her $2,700 “deposit,” she’s playing the victim here. She says she wasn’t thinking about the money. She just got confused. “They had me so cluttered,” she told a reporter, “I didn't know nothing about what I was doing.” This includes a drive to the bank to withdraw the cash.
Caroline claims she trusted the women because one said she went to the same church and had been “saved” too. But greed, and nothing else, is to blame. At the very least, shouldn’t she have tried to convince the ladies to give the found 30K to the church? Did she forget Luke 12:15, where Jesus warned, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed”? It’s a sin and it might be time for Carolin to hit the confessional.
And now she’s getting all preachy, saying "You better plead the blood of Jesus on the people because they're out there. They'll get ya." (Someone please translate.) Fine, but we’ll throw it right back at you, Caroline, straight from 1 Timothy 6:9-10 (via Google): "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction."
Idiot.
No comments:
Post a Comment