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<blockquote data-quote="200Meters" data-source="post: 749020" data-attributes="member: 23727"><p>Hey...</p><p></p><p>I need advice please & I need it quick (please).</p><p></p><p>I posted earlier:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ditto.</p><p></p><p>Um, Oldest & his ladyfriend have found a new apartment, in Ladyfriend's nearby hometown. Hopefully, Oldest will more easily find steady work there, it being a long-established town, close to other lomg-established towns, unlike the construction-work-in-progress where they live now. That bugbear appears to be dead.</p><p></p><p>Youngest is being a real pain in the donkey. The above-mentioned hostel doesn't want him. The director told me, after interviewing Youngest, that he has yet to internalize the gravity of what he has done and is too full of attitude to be at the hostel. So we were thrown back to square minus 27. The judge was pissed & let Youngest have it the last time we were in court (last week). Now Youngest's PD & the court are looking at a day center in Jerusalem, which would be pretty similar to the hostel except that Youngest wouldn't live there. He would live, presumably, back home with us in our Jerusalem suburb. We don't know yet whether he would still be under house arrest when he wasn't in the day center, whether he would still have to wear the ankle thinggie, or other details.</p><p></p><p>But, and this is why I need your comments, thoughts & advice ASAP is that Youngest told us this morning that he owes money to some goodfellas, i.e. he owes money to loan sharks affiliated with one or other of Israel's local organized crime families / rings. He owes about $1,250 and claims that can only pay him a "friend" owes him about $830 but can only pay him $330 in another two weeks. Youngest also says that another "friend" owes him $730 but can't pay him for another two months. Apparently, the goodfellas want their money by Sunday, house arrest-shmouse arrest. </p><p></p><p>Youngest hasn't asked us to pay his debt (how that would be done, I don't know) but it's clear to me that's what he wants. On the one hand, I do not want to see Youngest's face get rearranged. On the other, I don't know that we (Mrs. 200Meters & I) can believe a word Youngest says. I don't want to enter the world that Youngest has entered. I know that if you pay gangsters, you just whet their appetite for more; after all, extortion is their business. Also, we have no guarantee that Youngest won't do this again and if we've paid his debts once...</p><p></p><p>My gut tells me that we should tell Youngest that we do not have the money. We don't, certainly not by Sunday. We have about $2216 squirreled away that we could unlock but that would take at least a week and <em>I do not want to use that money, which I worked hard for, to pay Youngest's effing debt to a bunch of effing gangsters! </em>I would use it in a heartbeat to pay tuition at a trade or vocational school, say, for Youngest but not for this.</p><p></p><p>What say you (plural)?</p><p></p><p>...<em>treadtreadtread</em>...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="200Meters, post: 749020, member: 23727"] Hey... I need advice please & I need it quick (please). I posted earlier: Ditto. Um, Oldest & his ladyfriend have found a new apartment, in Ladyfriend's nearby hometown. Hopefully, Oldest will more easily find steady work there, it being a long-established town, close to other lomg-established towns, unlike the construction-work-in-progress where they live now. That bugbear appears to be dead. Youngest is being a real pain in the donkey. The above-mentioned hostel doesn't want him. The director told me, after interviewing Youngest, that he has yet to internalize the gravity of what he has done and is too full of attitude to be at the hostel. So we were thrown back to square minus 27. The judge was pissed & let Youngest have it the last time we were in court (last week). Now Youngest's PD & the court are looking at a day center in Jerusalem, which would be pretty similar to the hostel except that Youngest wouldn't live there. He would live, presumably, back home with us in our Jerusalem suburb. We don't know yet whether he would still be under house arrest when he wasn't in the day center, whether he would still have to wear the ankle thinggie, or other details. But, and this is why I need your comments, thoughts & advice ASAP is that Youngest told us this morning that he owes money to some goodfellas, i.e. he owes money to loan sharks affiliated with one or other of Israel's local organized crime families / rings. He owes about $1,250 and claims that can only pay him a "friend" owes him about $830 but can only pay him $330 in another two weeks. Youngest also says that another "friend" owes him $730 but can't pay him for another two months. Apparently, the goodfellas want their money by Sunday, house arrest-shmouse arrest. Youngest hasn't asked us to pay his debt (how that would be done, I don't know) but it's clear to me that's what he wants. On the one hand, I do not want to see Youngest's face get rearranged. On the other, I don't know that we (Mrs. 200Meters & I) can believe a word Youngest says. I don't want to enter the world that Youngest has entered. I know that if you pay gangsters, you just whet their appetite for more; after all, extortion is their business. Also, we have no guarantee that Youngest won't do this again and if we've paid his debts once... My gut tells me that we should tell Youngest that we do not have the money. We don't, certainly not by Sunday. We have about $2216 squirreled away that we could unlock but that would take at least a week and [I]I do not want to use that money, which I worked hard for, to pay Youngest's effing debt to a bunch of effing gangsters! [/I]I would use it in a heartbeat to pay tuition at a trade or vocational school, say, for Youngest but not for this. What say you (plural)? ...[I]treadtreadtread[/I]... [/QUOTE]
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