WANTED POSTERS...

rbg

Has anyone else seen the "Wanted: Deadbeat Dad" posters posted around the neighborhood? There are a few of them on St. Johns Place and I saw one on Washington ave. last night. Evidently, the guy wasn't paying child support and his child's mother put signs up all over the 'hood with his picture on them. That's my assumption. Its vigilante justice at its finest moment. If we could only do the same with the folks who let their dogs shit all over the neighborhood.....

alafairnadia

I kinda assumed it was a joke, like for april fools, but ...

brooklynleather

ahaha yeah i saw that at a bodega on st john's and washington.

i hope he is shamed into paying child support, i mean, if it's true and all, that is.

em26

Lol , yeah I saw one last week on a street light pole infront of the Brooklyn Museum of Art on Eastern Prkwy.

Funny !!!! I was cracking up

Man , that guy must be pissed!!

emily

That's awesome, but for the sake of the desperate mother, I'm still hoping it's a joke...

robdesign13

Been laughing about it since I saw one in front of the bank on Washington on Saturday... LOL. what a loser!

rbg

I don't think this is a joke. I think she's trying to humiliate the guy---the strange thing is, I've never seen him in the 'hood. Have you?

carnivore

I saw a bunch of those posters in the Eastern Pkway subway, and I didn't think it was a joke either. I don't think I've seen that guy around either though.

sprite

Would you all recognize everyone in the nabe? I lived in PS for years, and can't say I know many of the people on the street even by sight. I recognize store owners, some neighbors, and a few people who take the subway around the time I usually do, but that's it.

abs276

sprite wrote: Would you all recognize everyone in the nabe? I lived in PS for years, and can't say I know many of the people on the street even by sight. I recognize store owners, some neighbors, and a few people who take the subway around the time I usually do, but that's it.

i don't live in park slope anymore, but when i did, and worked at Ozzie's, i definitely felt like i knew most of the neighborhood at least by face. but the working at a coffee shop probably had a lot to do with that.

robdesign13

Look, it definitely is NOT funny that someone is not paying thier child support... but it IS FUNNY when someone posts pictures all over the neighborhood trying to humiliate someone who deserves it. Im sure we can all find humor in this and not be too PC about wheather this is correctly labeled a "joke" or not. IMHO: POSTERS = JOKE = FUNNY = RESULTS IN HUMILIATION = RESULTS IN PAYMENT OF CHILDSUPPORT = HAPPY CHILDREN = MORE LAUGHTER

em26

I noticed the wanted poster that I saw on Eastern Parkway infront of the Museum was taken down.

I don't think that guy is going to start paying child support just because of the dead beat dad posters......she must have tried for a while to get him to help pay for his kids , and the posters were probably a "if you don't I'm gonna" threat to make him pay...he probably told her he doesn't give a shit and called her bluff.

More than likely his defense is........ " they ain't my kids"! :^o

robdesign13

I think it's more complex than that...

He was a simple man, caring loving father who was paying his support payments a month ahead of time each month... then when visiting the children at the mothers house he happened upon a letter from another dad, the true biological father, who was actually making payments too. It was all a scam!!! ...He stopped paying... After she went to the courts and they deemed him not responsible to continue payment and ordered her to repay the money he had already paid, she got very angry. And decided the only way to get him back for foiling her diobolical plan was to post these posters around his neighborhood.. After seeing the posters he went on a tirade around PH... trying to clear his name... no one believed him... He hired a top Ad Firm to create a smear campaign about the mother... Calling all of his other baby's mammas to star in ads to provide testimony on how he was not a dead beat dad at all... they are scheduled to start running in early May... or it didn't happen like that at all... what do I know???

pissedoffmom

Subject: Deadbeat Dad posters

I am a single parent who has been trying for years to collect child support from a DEADBEAT DAD. I can relate to the frustration that woman must feel. If you've never been in that situation it's easy to judge especially when the facts aren't out there. Dealing with child support is a nightmare!!! Even if you give them all the information to contact the DEADBEAT DAD, (Name, address, SS#, employer, etc.) it still takes them several months to over a year to collect a penny or even get a court date. This was my experience. After 2 years of receiving my child support on time, it suddenly stopped 13 months ago. I tried contacting him directly to see what was going on and when after 6 months of trying and getting no response I requested enforcement from the child support agency. When a DEADBEAT DAD isn't current after 60 days his drivers liscense is suspended. If he still doesn't respond or pay child support a warrant is issued. Like I said it has been 13 months and no response or payment. What am I to do. Let me make it clear I am not destitute. I have a full time job that provides my son with the basics. But when I can't afford to pay my sons medical bills or have to miss work for 6 weeks after I have surgery what then? In the meantime my credit is in the toilet while his father buys a brand new car every 2 years, lives in a house that is paid for and works for the federal government on top of that. Now imagine that I had no job at all.....what should be my response to this DEADBEAT DAD? Now tell me if that woman is wrong for putting those flyers up.

armchair_warrior

my advice to women, don't pick losers!!

daver

Subject: Re: Deadbeat Dad posters

PissedOffMom wrote: Now tell me if that woman is wrong for putting those flyers up.

Not every situation is like yours. I have no idea if the posters in question are wrong or not. I would support you in putting up your own posters, providing the information you have furnished is accurate.

MOD

armchair_warrior wrote: my advice to women, don't pick losers!!

heehee!
And use 2 forms of birth control!

alafairnadia

when I practiced in texas there was this awesome law on the books that was specifically for the child support enforcement unit of the AGs office but I used it all the time (we were allowed to) to garnish pay. so, if you knew where deadbeat dad worked all you had to do was send his work a notice saying that they had 10 days to start garnishing his back child support and current child support up to 50% of his income. I made a fortune on this - I was in private practice and many of the women I helped didn't have a dime. this was the only area of family law where I could charge a contingency fee so I worked for 20% of the collection of the back owed child support (0% of currently owed - I wasn't trying to be an asshole, just trying to make a living). A notice also went to the dad, but you didn't need to prove that they'd received the notice - you just had to prove you sent it certified mail. if dad wanted to ignore, that was his problem. it was also quasi-criminal in that the dad's employers were obligated to make the payments and the dad could only contest the docking of his pay by proving he'd actually already made the payments. if, for instance, his job fired him and he couldn't prove he'd made the payments, he'd have to hop into an orange jumpsuit.

anyway, no clue if ny has a law like this on the books but it'd be worth checking out. it's a well intentioned piece of legislation aimed at helping women and children collect what is legally theirs.