The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

19 April 2008

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.

Posted at 11:03 AM to Wastes of Oxygen