My brother's working on screwing himself over*Weak Update*

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Doboji
My brother is working on destroying himself as quickly as possible.

The baseline:

1) smokes cigarettes +

2) has sex unprotected with multiple partners

The additionals:

He has outstanding traffic fines in excess of $500 in Virginia and Pennsylvania for the last 3 years.

He is in his 7th year of undergrad, and his financial aid told him this semester that they will no longer fund him after this semester. He's going to be 1-2 classes shy of his degree.

He has collected over 100K school debt now.

He was working at Barnes and Nobles.... which he needed the money from in order to pay his rent. Earlier this week he calls me, and mom to ask for money to pay the rent. 2 days ago he quit his job.

Last night he calls me up at midnight all excited:

"Max I'm drivin around dc!"

"what did you borrow mom's car?"

"nope bought one"

"what?"

"yeap this girl sold it to me for $250"

"How are you going to pay for insurance, taxes and tags?"

"nahhh I'm not worried about that.... I got some paper tags from a friend"

So yeah now he's driving around DC in a car that he bought for $250 without legal tags, or insurance.

-Max

Darwin award,soon?

 

[liquidblue]

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: piroroadkill
Congratulations to your friend, this all sounds like a great, great plan.

After all, it's better to burnout than fade away

my brother.... I can't stand by and watch my little brother destroy himself... there's got to be something that can be done.

Something should've been done a long time ago. If anything can be done, it'll have to be extreme. Like jail time or finding out he has some STD.

And if you've bailed him out countless times, don't do it again.

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: dquan97
take out a life insurance policy on him with you as the sole beneficiary?

Seems like a good idea. I've actually thought about doing that for a few people I think are high-risk.
Has anyone had experience buying a policy on someone else? Particularly someone unrelated and not-too-close?
I'm curious.