Welp, my very first thread, but not a message board newbie. I usually do sports and politics message boards, Facebook, and browse the Reddit subs, but this case was especially weird, and I'd been lead here and found the discussion a lot more advanced. I'd used a lot of my free time the past few days just wondering about all this since I live in Southern California, and was/am extremely curious about this situation.
Anyhoo, I was just wondering how on the surface this family could interface so much with elements of wider, popular culture (Disney on the license plates, Dr. Seuss, Las Vegas, Elvis), yet apparently live in such a sordid way that would barely implicate any of these cultural markers? Makes me wonder just what elements of the wider American culture any of the kids have learned.
My very Catholic wife said that they seemed like a cult, and on the surface they kinda look alike, but that's probably where the comparison ends. I wouldn't know anything else about their lives.
Anyhow, to me the Turpins seemed to be religious, but perhaps not as publicly pronounced. Maybe the father and mother did not want to give off a religious nut vibe to any of the neighbors? The only things that they seemed to publicly pronounce were these items of the popular culture.
I wonder about how the 17-year old and the siblings had enough cultural knowledge to pull off this escape. How did she learn about 911? How did she know how to use a cell phone?
What the eff is up with the night-time marching?
If the eyewitness reports of some of the kids driving are true, why didn't or could they not escape?
In response to posts where they think that the elder Turpins were good people and just fell into a lifestyle that they could not sustain, I wonder, then at what point, they decided to shackle up their kids, how they justified it, and how the kids took it?
