Trashfire 07/08/2021: Gunt VS Matthew Vickers, Battle of Custody Begins

God it just doesn’t stop. Anyone else still feel some measure of sympathy for Vickers? I know he’s handled pretty much all of this terribly, but goddamn cleaning up after his crazy daughter while dealing with Ralph of all people would probably break my brain too.
 
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Does anyone know what the restraining order encompasses? Is it just Mr. and Mrs. Vickers or is it the entire family unit which includes Xander and Faith?
It would likely apply to the entire family; however, if the family contacts him first then he can respond. That only applies if, say, Faith did it, then Ralph could reply to Faith but couldn't contact anyone else.

Also, this restraining order will have no real power to it because they live in different states. Ralph WILL ignore it if it's signed off on by the judge.
 
Hallmark Movie Version
Degenerate man falls in love with girl, gets her pregnant then abandons her. Man's mother dies, but before dying implores son to turn his life around and become an upstanding citizen and worlds best dad. Man, now all alone in the world, with no family, has a complete turn around, becomes sober, church-going, walking Ward Cleaver. Mother of child and her family is won over and the plucky little family lives happily ever after.

Yeah, sue me. I like to see happy endings. (Not those kind, you perverts.)
Chances of this happening?
Zero. Zip. Zilch. Zed.
 
I just hope that the baby gets the best possible outcome for him. Everyone else in this circus has some level of complicity in the current situation, but the baby has no agency whatsoever and is completely helpless. I just hope he gets the best break he can for his little future.
 
God it just doesn’t stop. Anyone else still feel some measure of sympathy for Vickers? I know he’s handled pretty much all of this terribly, but goddamn if having to clean up his crazy daughter while dealing with Ralph of all people would probably break my brain too.
Nah, he is an idiot too, but he isn't a bum like Ethan.

Edit: Plus the way vickers is like "I've grown quite fond of xander" in that chat. Like did vickers hate Xander at first, a baby through no faults of its own, gunt spawn. Plus it's the way you talk about getting a dog. I've grown quite fond of my new thing.
 
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The thing that makes this more interesting is that Ralph will feel compelled to ignore the order and will go out of his way to start drama. Especially if it gets him a viewership bump. It's highly likely this false sense of machismo will land him in big trouble and violate probation.

Aka: This could be the beginning of a bountiful harvest.
 
I'm pretty excited to see where this goes too. I imagine that May has been nothing but supportive and offering nothing but constructive feedback. I also imagine that his lawyer is going to be a lot shittier than someone who deals in part with precious metals' lawyer.

Am I gunna have to update my title? Corn Ops II Survivor?
We’re on Corn Ops IV at this point. It’s barely been a year Ralph. Stop, for the sake of the son you claim to care about.
 
Is there any evidence the restraining order has actually been filled?

I'm not sure that Vickers will ultimately succeed in getting a judgment because he engages back with the gunt in white trash dick measuring pretty consistently, and a lot of times you can use that as evidence that the contact was mutual or invited. But it will cost Ralph a bunch of time and money to deal with. Also, we have the same problem that we had with the revenge porn case, which is that Faith is a horrible witness and incredibly impeachable.

All this shit is probably just a gambit by Big Chief Vickers to depleat the meagre white trash warchest of the Ralphamale tribe by hiring many braves to press Ralph on every front. Then, Ralph, sign these adoption papers and we can forget about the nineteen lawsuits between us and that child support.

Big volume in precious metals right now, not a bad time to be a coin merchant...
 
The thing that makes this more interesting is that Ralph will feel compelled to ignore the order and will go out of his way to start drama. Especially if it gets him a viewership bump. It's highly likely this false sense of machismo will land him in big trouble and violate probation.

Aka: This could be the beginning of a bountiful harvest.
The thing that is really going to drive this is the fact that Vickers is committed to fucking with him. If Vickers was just interested in letting everything go we would get absolutely nothing out of this. Instead the two of them are feeding off the others anger and it's only going to continue to wind the two of them up.
 
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