Containment What If?

[Lady Houligan]

If by "crime spree" you mean "return once more to the Game Place and whine at Michael Snyder about how he's obviously the reason Chris's life has sucked for the last x years"... otherwise I echo everyone else who's said they're both too lazy to be bothered to go anywhere, let alone seeking retribution for whatever imagined fault the world's handed them.

 

[Some JERK]

borb

+1

Chris might have had a shot if Borb had recognized that he needed all the help he could get, and that didn't mean "mainstreaming" him, ignoring his limitations and lying to him to protect his feelings. Instead they told him that he was perfect and special and handsome and that anyone who said otherwise was just a bad person. Nearly every trait listed in this thread spawns from that.

Chris's resume

*cough*

 

[derpi]

He'd apply somewhere "fun" (Gamestop, Toys R Us, some other toy store)
Then he'd wait a week, stress sighing and
when he didn't hear back
and the go onto facebook to complain about how he's totally employable and 'da twolls' are obviously working wherever he applied and won't give him a job

 

[fridgesrants]

He'd apply somewhere "fun" (Gamestop, Toys R Us, some other toy store)
Then he'd wait a week, stress sighing and
when he didn't hear back
and the go onto facebook to complain about how he's totally employable and 'da twolls' are obviously working wherever he applied and won't give him a job

Chris working at Game Stop would be hilarious. He would be fired though quickly after he tries to hide the xbox display and pisses off customers by talking about Sonichu.

 

[Himawari]

He'd scrawl on his job applications "IGNORE ALL GOOGLE RESULTS."

 

[TimBabinski]

I doubt abortion would have crossed Barb's mind considering the family's VERY Baptist leanings. Considering that she was acting like a drunk idiot when she met Bob, though, I'm willing to bet that she would have turned to the bottle to ease the pain of Bob's departure. Thus CWC is born with both autism and fetal alcohol syndrome. She tries for a few years, but by the time that Chris enters school it's obvious that something's terribly wrong at home. Child Protective Services intervenes, and thus Our Hero bounces around the foster care system.

tl;dr I think Chris would be in an infinitely worse place that he currently is had Bob not been there.

Really? i think he would be better off, anything is better then where he is at now. hes basically just a living part of Barbs hoard with most details about his life on the internet.

there both to lazy.

 

[Javert]

Unless they could commit this crime spree from the comfort of their house I doubt it would last very long.

 

[Lady Houligan]

I doubt abortion would have crossed Barb's mind considering the family's VERY Baptist leanings. Considering that she was acting like a drunk idiot when she met Bob, though, I'm willing to bet that she would have turned to the bottle to ease the pain of Bob's departure. Thus CWC is born with both autism and fetal alcohol syndrome. She tries for a few years, but by the time that Chris enters school it's obvious that something's terribly wrong at home. Child Protective Services intervenes, and thus Our Hero bounces around the foster care system.

tl;dr I think Chris would be in an infinitely worse place that he currently is had Bob not been there.

Really? i think he would be better off, anything is better then where he is at now. hes basically just a living part of Barbs hoard with most details about his life on the internet.

I don't know, once Barb kicks it and he spends himself into homelessness or into an adult mental health home scenario, he won't be so pissy about the state he's in now. But I feel my point above still stands, I think that Bob was the only thing that kept the family from being an even bigger mess that much sooner. It's just unfortunate that Barb coddled him and built up his ego so much because it's resulted in him thinking that he should be able to get away with anything. Just because he's where he is now doesn't mean that it was out of his control. He's autistic, but after a while even the dumbest animal learns to not chew on the electric fence, you know?

Unless they could commit this crime spree from the comfort of their house I doubt it would last very long.

What, the great Inspector Javert isn't planning on going after them? :mrgreen:

 

[Stratochu]

Overstimulation. Also, Barb would not take kindly to the Dodge Caravan being fingerpainted with Sonichu crap and being transported cross-country from Gerlach, Nevada to Ruckersville with the expected broken transmission that plagues Chrysler minivans.

 

[TimBabinski]

I doubt abortion would have crossed Barb's mind considering the family's VERY Baptist leanings. Considering that she was acting like a drunk idiot when she met Bob, though, I'm willing to bet that she would have turned to the bottle to ease the pain of Bob's departure. Thus CWC is born with both autism and fetal alcohol syndrome. She tries for a few years, but by the time that Chris enters school it's obvious that something's terribly wrong at home. Child Protective Services intervenes, and thus Our Hero bounces around the foster care system.

tl;dr I think Chris would be in an infinitely worse place that he currently is had Bob not been there.

Really? i think he would be better off, anything is better then where he is at now. hes basically just a living part of Barbs hoard with most details about his life on the internet.

I don't know, once Barb kicks it and he spends himself into homelessness or into an adult mental health home scenario, he won't be so pissy about the state he's in now. But I feel my point above still stands, I think that Bob was the only thing that kept the family from being an even bigger mess that much sooner. It's just unfortunate that Barb coddled him and built up his ego so much because it's resulted in him thinking that he should be able to get away with anything. Just because he's where he is now doesn't mean that it was out of his control. He's autistic, but after a while even the dumbest animal learns to not chew on the electric fence, you know?

I dont even think autism is his biggest problem its just his view on the world in general. even if he wasnt autistic he wouldnt be that much better of a person than he is now.

 

[Saney]

It'd somehow manage to be even tripper than Natural Born Killers. And it might possibly have more incest.

 

[QI 541]

Someone should totally make a television series out of this concept.

 

[cypocryphy]

It would end like "Thelma And Louise".

 

[Javert]

Unless they could commit this crime spree from the comfort of their house I doubt it would last very long.

What, the great Inspector Javert isn't planning on going after them? :mrgreen:

Too stressful

 

[CatParty]

Can't it be argued that their whole existence is just one big crime spree?

 

[cypocryphy]

He might actually get laid for free.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

"Dude, your performance was absolutely deep, man, you satirized the political right by shouting homophobic phrases while in drag, dude, that's an awesome deconstruction of the conservative worldview..."

"um.... yeah.... no... Optimus Prime is an Autobot not a Constructicon... *stress sigh*"

 

[Kosher Dill]

Serious answer: he'd get dehydration and heatstroke pretty quick and be sidelined or hospitalized. Even normal people at Burning Man have to be careful about that and take active precautions.

 

[Chinamon]

I'd don't think much would change as he already is pretty flamboyant.

The only thing that would change is that he'd complain about those Dang Dirty bitches stealing all his pickles and about the Infinitely High Girlfriend factor.

I know most people including myself would subtract his ego You'll still have a trainwreck, this time with no confidence but more people would want to help him and adventually he'd get help.

 

[YouDorks]

What if Chris lived in a time when Soviet Russia was an ominous, overpowering threat churning out nukes by the boatload? What if Chris was regularly subjected to air raid drills? Would the mass conformity and paranoia at the height of the Cold War work for or against Chris? (Think the Crucible, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?", McCarthyism, etc.)

Personally, I think that if Chris weren't involunarily sentenced to an insane asylum, his behavior would get him tried for subversion and blacklisted from whatever tugboat existed back then. I'm pretty sure autism wasn't a mainstream diagnosis... we're talking back when Freud was taken seriously. If he managed to avoid that, however, I'd be more than a bit afraid of an adult autistic child whose claims of a "Greene County Jewish Communist School Board Conspiracy" could actually be taken very fucking seriously resulting in ruination of innocents. Chris would basically be Bob Ewell or Abagail Williams in court.