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Parents Send Kids on Fake Fundraising Expeditions

In these financially trying times, you may be wondering how you’re going to keep paying for your kids’ piano lessons and soccer uniforms. But did you ever consider that your kids should be making money for you?

If not, you’re one step behind an Oregon couple who is accused of sending their kids on fake fundraising expeditions. For more than a year, Carly and Laramie Torres allegedly made their kids go door to door, soliciting funds to send the oldest daughter to volleyball camp. They collected about $2,000 in all, none of which was used for camp.

Instead, the dough went to monster truck rallies and weekend movies—documentaries and family-friendly flicks, I’m sure.

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Comments

 

Love Slave said:

This is brilliant. I love monster truck rallies.

October 22, 2008 6:42 PM
 

F MacDougal said:

I work at the ZLB donation center where they donated.  These two people were the rudest, snottiest people I'd ever had the displeasure of dealing with.  I'm not at all surprised that they did something this evil.

October 24, 2008 2:24 AM

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Hannah Tennant-Moore is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Buddhist Writing (2008); The Sun; Guantanamo: Inside the Prison, Outside the Law; Tricycle; Turning Wheel (as the winner of the Young Writers Award); and elsewhere.

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