But would it be worth it? The phrase "throwing good money after bad" springs to mind.
I feel that could be the only way to stop Shit-Lips from suing Null over and over.
Clean out his hooker funds.
Speaking of throwing good money after bad: This is where Ma and Pa Greer come in.
My hot take: I am convinced that they paid off his Skordas debt. Once the bill collectors showed up at Russ's door, he had a fit (that he's still mad about) and called them.
I have no real evidence to support this theory of mine, admittedly, except knowledge of how dysfunctional families with leech-like children operate. Whether it's a drug addict or your garden-variety narcissist, parents do stupid things for their kids. Especially the weak, stupid, useless, or helpless ones.
Whatever else happens in the Greer household, Russ has always run to mommy and daddy to make things better. I'm sure they've told him, "This is the last time, Russ," over and over, but it never is.
They paid for his kill list incident. They paid for his mission trip. They paid for his schooling. They paid for his Erika thing. I suspect they did more than simply drive the U-Haul to Las Vegas for him. I see no reason whatsoever to think that they didn't pay for his Ariana Grande thing and that they won't pay for his Kiwi Farms thing. Yes, it's a different set of circumstances -- we can see how it's different and we can see how a religious, conservative family might bail a wayward son out of criminal problems but expect him to pay his own civil judgments. And
we can see the pattern and how he'll never change and they're just enabling him. And we see how they
should be sick of it already and cut him off. But I just don't get the sense that they feel that way. The Greers may not have been perfect parents, but they moved heaven and earth for this fuckhead and he's always just come back for more. Any one of Russ's past fuckups
should have been enough to penetrate his lumpy skull -- not to convince him he was wrong, but to smack him down enough to realize he can't afford to keep losing. But he persists. Someone has always been there to take the sting out of his punishments.
The hardest thing for parents of drug addicts is letting their baby hit rock bottom. We can sit in judgment over how someone can so obviously enable a person to self-destruct, but this is how it goes. Russ is no different from a junkie. He's obsessed, he's entitled, he can't be told he needs to change, and he'll suck everyone around him dry -- emotionally and financially. His family needs to let him lose
everything and see the writing on the wall, but I'm betting they won't ever be able to let that happen. He'll never be on the street, so to speak. And as long as he makes the gesture of talking to a counsellor, his parents can pretend he's working on straightening his life out and keep writing him checks.
Things are probably changing as Ma and Pa age, grandkids come along to take the spotlight, and Russ
still doesn't learn. But I can't see them just abandoning him to the consequences of his actions. And the worse it is, the more likely they'll pony up. A fine of a few hundred bucks, they might leave him to pay on his own. A five-figure judgment, though? There's no way Russ could pay that. He'd be financially crippled for life, and the Greers know it. They wouldn't let that happen to their dear little tard.
So, it's good news insofar as Null might actually see some money from a judgment, but bad news insofar as Russ still won't fucking learn.