He's going to jail. It's just a question of when. -

[cypocraphy]

He'd risk going to jail and losing his social security just so he could deface an X-Box display huh?

He'll never cease to amaze us all.

 

[random_pickle]

I wonder what's going to be Chris' crime that will make him end up in jail. My best bet is that either he's going to severly vandalize a store or end up hitting someone with his car. Again.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

But he needs something to live on once he gets out.

No he doesn't.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

^So it's effectively permanent? Meaning if he went to jail his old setup would be gone, and if he wanted back on the tugboat he'd have to re-apply from the ground up?

From past discussions, that is how I understand the situation as well.

Which means he would likely need to hire a disability attorney to get the tugboat back, and he might be denied.

 

[Pikonic]

^So it's effectively permanent? Meaning if he went to jail his old setup would be gone, and if he wanted back on the tugboat he'd have to re-apply from the ground up?

From past discussions, that is how I understand the situation as well.

Which means he would likely need to hire a disability attorney to get the tugboat back, and he might be denied.

I think he just needs to show he's outta jail for the to come back

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I hope you're right, otherwise Chris would be screwed.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

"To restart your payments, visit your local Social Security office with proof of your release."[/i]

(tell me that's not a government operation. "Please visit your local SS office with proof of your release from prison....")

"Okay, Mr. Chandler, we're all ready to reinstate your benefits, if you'll just sign right he---
Uh, hey, wait a sec, you're out legally, right? You didn't escape from prison, did you? No? You sure ... ? Because, well, the last three guys ... Aw heck, you look like you have a history of telling the truth. Here's your first check!"

 

[snowkitten91]

I stopped pitying OPL (for the most part) a long time ago, so I won't mind where he ends up at as long as the consequences of his actions finally catch up to him and the autism card fails him at last.

 

[Surtur]

Whenever it is, it will be entertaining.

 

[Some JERK]

"To restart your payments, visit your local Social Security office with proof of your release."[/i]

(tell me that's not a government operation. "Please visit your local SS office with proof of your release from prison....")

"Okay, Mr. Chandler, we're all ready to reinstate your benefits, if you'll just sign right he---
Uh, hey, wait a sec, you're out legally, right? You didn't escape from prison, did you? No? You sure ... ? Because, well, the last three guys ... Aw heck, you look like you have a history of telling the truth. Here's your first check!"

Chris absolutely WOULD be dumb enough to make walking into a federal government building and identifying himself his first stop after escaping from prison.

 

[wheat pasta]

As I posted in the other thread, I hope he doesn't land in jail (though you may be right that this is where he's headed), but rather a secure mental hospital. Because he really is insane, or borderline so at least.

A mental hospital could be helpful to him, if only for the therapists there.. but I guess he could always just choose not to talk to them.
I don't know, I just feel like if a professional could figure out the right thing(s) to say to Chris, he might open up and talk about some of his feelings. He abhors change and this scenario's about as likely as a meteor crashing into earth and wiping us all out tomorrow, but damn it I want to have hope.
I feel like maybe he doesn't realize that it could get better if he were willing to try.
He thinks it's only going to get worse (and that attitude in itself makes him right in assuming), so he may as well milk his sad existence for what it's worth.

 

[Glitter]

I do think he will get in trouble with more businesses and the law, but only if he starts to look like a real physical danger to other people.

Just judging from his Facebook pics lately, he looks and dresses like he's not right in the head, like he has an IQ of about 80. Like someone who should have a handler or parent around but they are mysteriously absent. If I were a manager at a store and I saw him come in I would keep an eye on him, but if he vandalized store property I would be hesitant to call the real police. It just feels like you shouldn't call the same guys on a stray autistic that you'd call if you saw a kid get snatched by the driver of a pedovan. And if I were a judge I think I'd try to give someone like that a lighter sentence, because someone as visibly not-quite-right as Chris has got to have a slightly different understanding of right and wrong than I do. I think a lot of people in authority let him play the autism card because they know that and they don't want to be the guy who yells at a tard who might not know any better.

That's why I don't think he'll go to prison. I can easily see him getting kicked out of more restaurants and stores, and he may even get arrested a couple more times, but if he ever gets locked up it'll be in a hospital.

Unless he gets a lot more violent in the coming months, but he seems like kind of a pussy when he's not trying to hit people with his car :3

 

[A-№1]

Wouldn't be surprised if he gets his ass kicked.

That's one of the other options, and believe me, it can be much worse than a short sleep in the hoosegow.

Thing is, Chris' uncanny string of charmed autistic luck is gonna run out sooner or later, and whether its incarceration or grievous bodily harm, life has some pretty harsh lesson in store for him. Lessons which Chris will make so much worse for himself because he's, well, he's Chris. It's only a matter of time.

After Barb dies, Chris will have to go somewhere. Prison, a group home, I don't know.

I can't see Chris fitting in in any group home for long before being kicked out, and he wouldn't last five minutes riding the rails. Once Barb finally melts into the hoard and expires, he'll probably alternate between prison (of some form) and the streets for the remainder of his sad life.

But he needs something to live on once he gets out.

Squirrel. Mushrooms collected from the damper parts of the hoard. He just has to use an old hobo trick and follow the dogs and see what they're feeding on to survive. He can boil it up in his tomato can if he's feeling finicky.


But seriously, depending on where he's institutionalized / incarcerated they'll probably have an advocates office to fill out the necessary paperwork for him. State institutions don't like paying to hold people like Chris any longer than they have to and prefer to put him back on federal support as soon as possible to minimize the chances he becomes their expensive unwanted guest again.

Then again, if Barb's still around they may well assume she'll take care of things when they release him. Which she won't. That's the most likely scenario for Chris losing his tugboat.

 

[cypocraphy]

Well, with the news of fatso backing into some lady's car. (or God making him do it, whatever...) It seems that HSMOF's prophecy will very likely come true.

 

[Jackie Chin]

Unbelievable haha man so weird how things transpire quickly.

 

[The Dude]

My Dad was a Corrections officer, in half-way houses mostly. He had several return inmates that were autistic or had other mental disorders. They didn't have anyone in their lives to keep them out of trouble and so were in and out of correctional institutes most of their adult lives. When they were out they were usually homeless. When Babs finally joins the Lumberjack in that Great Hoard in the Sky Chris will be on his own and this will likely be the outcome for him.

 

[PhilPickleman]

My Dad was a Corrections officer, in half-way houses mostly. He had several return inmates that were autistic or had other mental disorders. They didn't have anyone in their lives to keep them out of trouble and so were in and out of correctional institutes most of their adult lives. When they were out they were usually homeless. When Babs finally joins the Lumberjack in that Great Hoard in the Sky Chris will be on his own and this will likely be the outcome for him.

I can't even picture Chris being homeless. Doesn't he have some family left somewhere? I recall him and Barb staying somewhere following Bob's death because the house was being bug bombed or something?

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

^None of their extended family will even talk to either of them because they're such horrible people.

 

[Springblossom]

My Dad was a Corrections officer, in half-way houses mostly. He had several return inmates that were autistic or had other mental disorders. They didn't have anyone in their lives to keep them out of trouble and so were in and out of correctional institutes most of their adult lives. When they were out they were usually homeless. When Babs finally joins the Lumberjack in that Great Hoard in the Sky Chris will be on his own and this will likely be the outcome for him.

I can't even picture Chris being homeless. Doesn't he have some family left somewhere? I recall him and Barb staying somewhere following Bob's death because the house was being bug bombed or something?

Because his extended family is going to be overjoyed to take in a smelly, obese, unemployed, antisocial, entitled, unhygenic manchild with disgusting standards of living.

 

[The Dude]

^None of their extended family will even talk to either of them because they're such horrible people.

Yeah, this.