I've rarely posted here, but this deserves a comment.
Shame on you Christina and Jeff. Jeff is an addict, clearly, and you are an enabler!
I have had 5 knee surgeries in the past year and NOT ONCE have I stooped so low as to volunteer to hold a benefit for someone in need and stolen money from them. Believe me times were TOUGH when I got FIRED for telling my boss I needed surgery. They were even TOUGHER when my insurance was dropped and I was denied unemployement. I fought it, I scraped and I scrimped and I came out OK. I have a TON of medical bills soon to be rolling in, but I never STOLE in order to pay my bills!!
If you can't accept responsibility and sell whatever you have to on the side of the freaking road to come up with the money you NOW OWE to that poor woman, you deserve to sit in jail. But hey, look at the bright side, no worrying about paying that light bill.
There is a special place in you-know where for people like you.
Blaming it on Jeff's knee, an aunt dying, a $700 light bill, and boas you bought on b-day money is CRAP. Complete and utter CRAP. Money was DEDICATED to go to Maggie, PERIOD. Not to a funeral, a car rental, a light bill...dope..etc.
We ALL have experienced things like that...For example, MAGGIE who lost her HUSBAND and FATHER to THEIR KIDS and had HER own bills to pay.. Or did you conveniently forget about WHO it was for when you got that money in your greedy little paws?
Jeff's aunt dying, well ya know what? This was Maggie's HUSBAND and FATHER TO THEIR KIDS. If HE hadn't passed and YOU hadn't had access to money intended for THEM, then what would you have done? Not gone to the funeral?? Why do I have the sinking feeling this "aunt's funeral" ended up being somewhere near a reptile show?
$700 light bill?? Sounds to me that you have had some financial problems for quite some time if you neglected to pay a light bill THAT long that it was due to be shut off. I'm familiar with shut offs, unfortunately. You don't get a notice the DAY before it's supposed to be shut off, and you KNOW you didn't pay the bill on time and it was due before you get that nice little warning.
The sad thing is, and I really hope you read this and I hope somewhere in that shrivelled up grape you call a HEART, it sinks in, if you'd have ASKED for help.. I bet people on this site and others would have helped YOU just like they TRIED to help Maggie & her family during a hard time.
The reptile community is a family, and we stick together. We HELP each other, not steal each other blind.
You stole from all these wonderful people, and a nice widow and HER KIDS.
You don't belong in this community. You belong in the general population of the county lock up.
SHAME ON YOU BOTH.