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What’s the Matter With These “Persons of Restricted Growth” These Days?

(posted by Mona)

Texan lad shows political promise with dad’s credit card (h/t D.A. Ridgely, who via email declared that when Ralph grows up, he is going to President of these United States.) Fave part:

The prostitutes told police they grew suspicious when the kids said they’d rather play Xbox than play with them.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 at 7:14 am

Categories: bachelors, humor.

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7 Responses to “What’s the Matter With These “Persons of Restricted Growth” These Days?”

  1. Anonymo Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Note that all the Google News hits on this cite the same money.co.uk report, which doesn’t smell right. Why are the police or the courts, who are never quoted, releasing the name of this juvenile suspect for a relatively non-serious case? 13-year-olds can kill people and their name might never hit the news.

    “Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a “World of Warcraft” tournament.” Too good to be true.

    I’m calling BS unless someone’s got further corroboration.

  2. Mona Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Amonymo: You may well be right, bit it still cracked me up.

  3. Anonymo Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Yeah, no objection to a chuckle. Just seeing this everywhere last few days and no one seems to question why a website in the UK is the first to report on a minor oddity from a small(?) town in Texas.

    Are European media actually more susceptible to this kind of thing for some reason or does it just seem that way to me (American) since if I see a shaky story about America coming from Europe it’s more likely to be an urban legend, and a European would see the same effect in the opposite direction?

  4. D.A. Ridgely Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    I took the liberty of reposting Anonymo’s first comment at my sight because I think he raises a valid concern. I agree the story could well be false. But for the fact that I, too, am the now somewhat nervous father of a 13 year old boy living in Texas (who almost certainly doesn’t read his father’s blogging), I nonetheless hope the story is true. What the hell? If it isn’t true, at least we’re getting a more amusing batch of urban legends lately.

  5. Mona Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    But for the fact that I, too, am the now somewhat nervous father of a 13 year old boy living in Texas (who almost certainly doesn’t read his father’s blogging), I nonetheless hope the story is true.

    And as a woman who raised three boys — two of whom were so precocious as to make me prematurely gray — it seems plausible.

    Have I ever mentioned the time these two young geniuses found a shot gun and ammo in the attic of a friend’s house, and went down to the river and shot in the water — right behind the local police station, where the shooting was, uh, noticed? I had just begun practicing law in the city. Embarrassed much? Oh, not at all.

  6. P.M.Lawrence Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Here in Melbourne, not so very long ago, there were repeated incidents of shots being fired into walls right next to an inner suburban police station. Naturally, this was noticed and investigated immediately - right up to the point where it was found that the shots could only have come from the police station. Curiously, the investigation stalled at that point.

  7. steve Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Yeah, no objection to a chuckle. Just seeing this everywhere last few days and no one seems to question why a website in the UK is the first to report on a minor oddity from a small(?) town in Texas.

    Because it’s a hoax designed to generate link traffic and improve their Google ranking. (via)

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