scapa
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Based on the anvil plot I think it is safe to say that the time they should have used checking out Dateline, 48 Hours or Forensic Files was spent watching Looney Tunes instead.
Yep.
This thread contains more Roadrunner references than any I've seen here on WS, ever. A dubious honour for The Commonsense Crew.
So the Misfits are sitting round the logfire at the Twombly house one winter's eve, discussing Bad Government and Granny Tif's ongoing custody issues, and working out Commonsense solutions to this vexing problem, and a lightbulb goes off, and someone says:
"Hey, folks -- what about we throw an anvil through her windshield?"
And someone else says "Or plant a Free Fud Here sign at the end of a tunnel, with sticks of dynamite ready to go --"
"Or, what about a big bouquet of flowers From a Secret Admirer with maybe I dunno a primed Civil War cannon hidden inside it..."
And the group falls to considering, and maybe has a vote, and the anvil idea's so highly though of that it merits a web search.
And then when VB fails to leave her house and muddle her way into The Anvil Zone (possibly they have left helpful signs, perhaps a painted footprint trail to make it even more enticing), the Misfits get back round that fire and decide on yet another can't fail plan -- and this is it.
I've been thinking more and more that real, cruel, considered evil inevitably is fuelled by hubris.
This case seems like hubris writ large, and all the way down.
There were so many ways to let this go, to share custody, to do what was and is best for the children and families involved. But TA, and her fellow Misfits, knew better.
I have no doubt they'll spend the rest of their lives in jail. And I have no doubt they'll find plenty of fellow Misfits there.