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I’m Using This As a Teaching Moment For Goats. Lesson? Never Take in Strays

submitted by TheBigGuyFromQueens to whatever 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 05:43:24 ago (+9/-0)     (nypost.com)

https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/nyc-man-chopped-up-and-dumped-in-river-was-killed-while-on-phone-and-caller-heard-the-whole-thing-nephew/

If they’re not family, let Social Services deal with them. Stuff like this happens all of the time, let alone theft and disputes involving police.

I was even someone who should not have been taken in:

When I was about 19 or 20, I was between apartments and I told a co-worker Sal that my month-to-month lease was up with some jerkoff roommates I was living with.

Sal put me up. Good guy. He was only a year or so older than me. His Uncle also had a bedroom in the apartment, but he would use it only a few days a week. I think he was also staying with a girlfriend. Anyway, the Uncle was in his mid-30’s at the time and wiser than Sal. He could see that after 2 weeks of staying there that I wasn’t making any progress in finding my own place. He laid down the law. I think it was on a Monday. He told me that my last day was on Sunday. I always respected him for that. To be fair, I was overstaying my welcome. I was concentrating too much on work and not at all on finding a place. I was taking advantage—even if without malicious intent. I was turning into a cancer and the Uncle moved to excise me before I got out of hand.

Never, ever, EVER take in strays into your home. I went peaceably with a sense of appreciation for what was done for me. Probably 4 out of 5 do not. Your safety and the safety of your family is more important than some Christian value or seeking some karmic reward.


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[ - ] dulcima 3 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 06:27:48 ago (+3/-0)

Got to be pretty cold blooded to chop someone up like that.

I gather reading that convoluted story that the killer isn't a relative at all, let alone a grandson, but a by-blow of a nephew's girlfriend.

Poor guy shouldn't have been so trusting.

[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 05:52:28 ago (+2/-0)

Half black half spic killer.

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 1 point 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 18:07:22 ago (+1/-0)

if youre getting told to fuck off in two weeks its got absolutely nothing to do with 'focusing too much on work'

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens [op] 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 23:05:03 ago (+0/-0)

No, I was not a bother at all. I bought all of my own food, etc.. I just wasn’t looking for a place of my own and was working all of the time instead.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 23:05:24 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] TheodoreKent 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 10:41:43 ago (+0/-0)

I told a co-worker Sal

I have always wondered, wtf is 'Sal' short for?

Is Sal just a NYC name? Is it a nickname?

I live in a very Italian part of South Philly, I don't think I have ever met a 'Sal' down here though...

Why is every other wop in NYC or North Jersey named 'Sal'?

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens [op] 2 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 11:11:05 ago (+2/-0)*

Italian: Salvatore
Spanish: Salvador

[ - ] Love240 0 points 2 monthsFeb 14, 2025 18:12:56 ago (+0/-0)

Both mean Savior.