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Old 03-31-2015, 10:30 AM  
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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn View Post
all this started with a gofundme campaign. when I visit gofundme I see a bunch of campaigns on the home page, all of which include names, dates and photos.

looking at one campaign at random, I see pics of a young family and grandmom who lost everything in an apartment fire. Their fund includes family photos, full names of the peeps involved, the address of the building that burned down, they even have pics of firefighters putting out the blaze.

To me that's what a campaign should look like, I don't understand the indignation you're demonstrating when faced with requests for some kind of evidence that this situation is real. That's a reasonable request when you're asking people to send you money.

Taking a pic of a medicine bottle showing a prescription for a grade 4 (with chondrosarcoma it's grade 4, not stage 4) cancer drug with her name blanked out isn't a violation of privacy, taking a pic of you two in front of a comp screen depicting this thread and then sending it to sonofsam isn't a violation of privacy, according to both of you he's already seen her pic on fb.

I hope you're telling the truth about this, I'd hate to think that someone could visit gofundme, see examples of real tragedy and human suffering and take advantage of that for their own selfish purposes.

you have a bunch of people here offering a significant sum of $$$$, asking only in return that you provide some sort of assurance that this situation is real. that's a reasonable request, and your resistance to it only serves to cast more suspicion on your claims.

I have no motive or agenda in believing or disbelieving your claims, I'm simply looking at this situation in a way any reasonable person would. Peeps in this thread have suggested dozens of ways to provide evidence, all methods which would maintain your gf's privacy. Your resistance serves only to cast further suspicion.

If this is real I wish you and your gf the best of luck.

I've already sent a donation to the New York fire family, if proof is not forthcoming I hope some of y'all who offered pledges to the OP would consider sending the money to any of the peeps on gofundme who really need it
Great job of summing it all up nicely. People want to help, provide some proof. Dance around it like he has, and it's immediately something people see as suspect. He doesn't get that and will just continue to dig his hole even deeper.
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