I've been contacted by Bootsie, the drummer for the band "Scam Girls"

Holly and Bea of the Scam Girls Band

and she asked me to publicize the band's Facebook on my blog.  So readers please go like the Scam Girls Band's Facebook page.  They're an up and coming band, traveling the world, even Australia and New Zealand.  Bootsie said that she may not be able to answer all messages, but she'll catcha on the flip.

SCAM GIRLS FACEBOOK PAGE

Raffle ticket scam? Why not work for a living?

This blog is a must-read.  It talks about scammers who sell raffle tickets for whatever cause.  When I originally saw Mary Beth's wish list on Walmart (linked from this page) I thought what the hell? Why would a mother of children who are barely housed and clothed need with raffle tickets?  Odd.

Who needs raffle tickets?  I doubt she's heading up the catholic school's spring festival.  So I searched for raffle ticket scams, and lo and behold:

Raffle ticket scam.  Is there anything that this person won't do for a buck or two?  Why not go to work like 90% of the American public does? It's really less stressful to have a job than it is to continuously plot and plan ridiculous scams.  I highly recommend working, especially if you're responsible for populating the earth with four children.  It not only puts food in their mouths, it also puts clothes on them and a roof over their head.  Imagine the esteem one feels when one works for a living rather than being a parasite on taxpayers.

I guess people who don't work and who depend on the government (i.e. taxpayers like you and me) try to find ways to make money that's not reportable to the IRS, thus welfare agencies.  You know, like selling on ebay, etsy, at festivals and markets (no shame in all of the preceding) and then there's the ones like Mary Beth who take it a little further. Begging on the internet. Shoplifting. Scamming. All things that hurt consumers as well as true charities that depend on good-hearted donors to survive.

Begging for money because "my little girl doesn't have a bed to sleep in," yet getting her hair processed every six weeks

How the hell can a mother let her children sleep on a cold, hard floor, yet afford to go get her hair done every six weeks?  Selfish is not the word for it. I don't even know if there is a word for this kind of "mothering."

On Wish Upon A Hero, Marybeth posted on March 6, 2011, that she needed a bed for her daughter, who was sleeping on the floor in public housing. Her wish was granted.

On a walmart.com, March 29, 2011, she reviews a set of bunk beds:

During this same period of time....on March 25 to be precise......Marybeth commented on her hair salon's FB that whatever new stylist they hired needed to be qualified to do her hair:

All while begging for necessities for her children.  I have no words. I'll just leave you with this: