Fiendishly clever yet not so bright
For your daily dose of cognitive dissonance, a wrong turn at Albuquerque, cut and pasted without corrections:
The woman accused of bliking her ex-husband out of thousands of dollars in child support for a toddler who didn’t exist was back in court Friday.
Viola Trevino is accused of creating an elaborate plot including face DNA tests and a rented child to convince a judge that she deserved the payments.
Now prosecutors want her to strand trail for the fraud, but her attorney claims she’s not mentally capable because of a low IQ, brain damage and a delusional state of mind.
Which might also describe the person who wrote up this story for Channel 7: there are at least four places where I’d be tempted to insert “[sic]“ without even seeing the original outline. If I’d written something like that in junior high school, Mrs Muckenfuss would have had me stranded on a trail somewhere.
Still, I feel for Ms Trevino. She’s got a wonderfully complex and devious mind, capable of executing the most elaborate plots; simultaneously, she’s dismissed as dumb as a post. Now I know how George W. Bush feels after reading editorials.
David Fleck »
19 April 2008 · 1:10 pm
Heinous crime, bliking.
Francis W. Porretto »
19 April 2008 · 3:06 pm
“…a wonderfully complex and devious mind, capable of executing the most elaborate plots…”
Then she should apply for a job at MI5. But she still shouldn’t be collecting child support for a fantasy child. Even Tolkien couldn’t have justified that.
GradualDazzle »
19 April 2008 · 3:49 pm
Brilyunt.
mike »
20 April 2008 · 2:59 pm
Didn’t Hansel and Gretel strand trail?