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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 266903" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>HC, your friend is gonna need a lot of help and moral support right now. My brother faced the same financial devastation only under a different set of circumstances. It was a swindle, however. We wound up having to sell the family farm over it...all 272 acres. That was the roughest year we'd spent since losing our parents. That's how we wound up with this smaller farm...he and I and my sister used some of what we'd gotten from the sale of the property to buy this. I told my brother if he wanted to start over, we'd do it...and man has it been tough...but I'd do it again in a heart beat for him.</p><p></p><p>That's been about 5 years ago. It's still not the best set of circumstances, but it's finally coming around. I was, however, able to get a certain amount of satisfaction not too terribly long ago against the piece of garbage that swindled him...and no, it wasn't with a rope or a gun or a box of matches. I overheard him pitching the same deal to a newcomer at the auction...a man that had just started buying up baby calves to ship them out of state. The man sounded interested in what this jerk was pitching and I watched the exchange phone numbers. As the newcomer was driving thru the pickup line at the sale barn, I went up to him, knocked on his window, hopped in his pickup and told him the entire story, down to us losing the farm. That was the first time I'd told anyone other than my close friends. I laid out the whole scam. The man was stunned, and since he knew of my family, fortunately he believed me. The swindler is still around, pitching his scam, but from what I can tell, the newcomer must've put the word out. Maybe not as satisfying as a rope...but still somewhat effective.</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 266903, member: 3873"] HC, your friend is gonna need a lot of help and moral support right now. My brother faced the same financial devastation only under a different set of circumstances. It was a swindle, however. We wound up having to sell the family farm over it...all 272 acres. That was the roughest year we'd spent since losing our parents. That's how we wound up with this smaller farm...he and I and my sister used some of what we'd gotten from the sale of the property to buy this. I told my brother if he wanted to start over, we'd do it...and man has it been tough...but I'd do it again in a heart beat for him. That's been about 5 years ago. It's still not the best set of circumstances, but it's finally coming around. I was, however, able to get a certain amount of satisfaction not too terribly long ago against the piece of garbage that swindled him...and no, it wasn't with a rope or a gun or a box of matches. I overheard him pitching the same deal to a newcomer at the auction...a man that had just started buying up baby calves to ship them out of state. The man sounded interested in what this jerk was pitching and I watched the exchange phone numbers. As the newcomer was driving thru the pickup line at the sale barn, I went up to him, knocked on his window, hopped in his pickup and told him the entire story, down to us losing the farm. That was the first time I'd told anyone other than my close friends. I laid out the whole scam. The man was stunned, and since he knew of my family, fortunately he believed me. The swindler is still around, pitching his scam, but from what I can tell, the newcomer must've put the word out. Maybe not as satisfying as a rope...but still somewhat effective. Alice [/QUOTE]
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