Actually, this one's a bit sad...
We used to have friends that we'd met as fellow parents at the local infant school because we had kids in the same class. The bloke was a genial chap and a good laugh. His missus was a bit odd and prone to injecting conversations with liberal sprinklings of bullshit – nothing too outrageous, but often something to draw sympathy (horrible step-parents, nasty neighbours, ghastly jobs – that sort of thing). We tolerated the BS because they were a nice couple and the kids got on.

The 9yo daughter obviously inherited her mums loose grip on reality and our kid would often report her latest obvious story. Example; she was allergic to strawberries (which is possible) but when caught eating strawberries, the mum claimed that they were special genetically modified strawberries the hospital gave her that had the allergen removed (I guess technically possible, but why would the NHS bother?).

All funny and harmless stuff.

Then they had another child. A boy this time and tragically enough, the lad was pretty poorly from an early age. We were all very concerned. Far from getting better, he kept going down hill. He was given weeks to live. Maybe only a few days at most. He was in and out of hospital on a continual basis and would be seen at the school gates with feeding/breathing tubes up his nose. He was allergic to almost everything, including sunlight for a while. He would get worse, get better, then get worse again. It was all quite distressing. And it went on and on and on. And on.

You’ve probably already guessed, so it doesn’t need me to fill in the blanks. Her bullshitting had become pathological and she was making him ill on purpose, presumably to milk the huge sympathy her friends were providing. Not 100% sure how, but she is awaiting trial after the medics finally realized what was going on.

Fuck it. Lately I seem to post nothing but maudlin stories on QOTW. Can we get back to knob gags soon?
( Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 17:45, 3 replies)

munchausen's by proxy
sad for everyone involved
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 17:54, closed)

Shame really
cos I think I was one of the 5 people that really liked that film.
(Wagane, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 0:08, closed)

ah...
...sweet venus, before the charlie OD in pulp fiction
(evilneb nothing to see here, move along.., Fri 14 Jan 2011, 12:28, closed)