What the...?!: Three arrested in cockatoo-for-children swap

Brandy Lynn Romero, 27, and Paul J. Romero, 46, are accused of swapping a $1,500 cockatoo for two children -- making the deal with a 51-year-old female trucker. "We are only going with what the kids have told us. It's a mess," says a police chief. (The Daily World)

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[troschne]

FTA: "Fontenot said police are also seeking a 17-month-old half-sibling of the children who is believed to be living with yet another family in Allen Parish."

This child was believed to have been traded for a bag of magic beans. Authorities say that the boy, named Jack, and the Evil Giant, were not available for comment.

[IronOre]

So Chinese people are allowed to sell their children but Americans aren't? Who lives in the Communist country now, I ask!

[G-Man]

We have it all here at Crazy Eddie's Child Emporium! Young kids, old kids, short kids, tall kids, fat kids, skinny kids. You name it we got it! We're so crazy we'll take any deal. No money and no credit? No problem! We'll take toasters, TV's, parrots, used underwear, silly string. Whatever you have we'll guarantee we've got a kid for you or we'll give you $100! So come on down to Crazy Eddie's Child Emporium, our prices are insaaaaaaaaane!

[cherie]

This is a poorly written sentence: Brandy Lynn Romero, 27, and Paul J. Romero, 46, are accused of swapping a 51-year-old female trucker a $1,500 cockatoo for two children

It appears that the trucker driver was swapped.
Lets hope these kids find a home where they're loved.

[MONKEY JERK]

DEFINITELY A RIP-OFF THE BIRD IS WORTH MORE

[buddy]

troschne - lame
ironore - funny, clever
gman - not original enough

[cherie]

Troschne...TOTALLY FUNNY...screw buddy...

Another horrible sentence: According to police, the coupled admitted swapping Greenwell the cockatoo for the children.

So Greenwell was the name of the cockatoo??? NOOOOO
Greenwell was the name of the truck driver. Sheesh

[G-Man]

buddy - You're like Simon Cowell except you have no money and nobody cares what you have to say.

[sometimesilie]

First of all, don't go whining about "Obamunism" and then get your panties in a bunch over this. This is free market capitalism. An exchange of commodities that both parties thought fair.

The article I read yesterday made it sound like the Romero's are a childless couple desperate but unable to have kids. Authorities said the kids appeared to have been treated very well by them. In this article they are being likened to the pedophile "mom".

[RockyMtnMac]

Troschne was funny
Iron was funny
G-Man was funny
I actually feel pity for buddy (well, that and nausea)

[pms]

Well, there are many days I would consider swapping my kids for a good back massage and a bag of Doritoes....but it's hard to believe someone would really try this.

So nice to see a convicted pedophile trucker can still make a good living hauling cattle....thanks for not including pictures! Kill them all....take the canollis....er, um..the kids.

[troschne]

Thanks, cherie and RMM! Actually, thanks to you, too, buddy--the fact that you thought my post was lame shows that you lack any kind of snark, and you're too obtuse to "get" it--and--BTW--what was it last week that you had to stay about staying on topic?

[troschne]

Oh--and G-Man--your post was hilarious!!

[IronOre]

Sweet! Vindication from people... who are completely anonymous...

[kevy]

ironore Greenwell is not the mother of these children. Are the Chinese allowed to sell someone else's children?

buddy, go home.

[Reno]

You all are in good form today!

The once rare female pedophile rears her ugly head again... what is this world coming to?

[buddy]

yes tro, i am too obtuse to understand a jack and the beanstalk reference.

nobody else stays on topic so why should i?

[IronOre]

Kevy,

Actually yes, the Chinese do sell other people's children. The way it works, as I understand it, is that parents abandon their children at "orphanages." The orphanages then work through companies in the US that look for buyers here. Quite a bit of money changes hands, the adopters go to China and pick up their merchandise. So, the biological parents aren't the ones making the money on the deal.

[troschne]

Reno, I was thinking the same thing, but then it occurred to me that with the recent spate of female-teacher-hooks-up-with-student stories, I guess it's becoming a trend. Even though the students are teenagers, in most states, teach is considered a pedophile.

buddy--no one ever said you have to stay on topic, but next time you decide to take me to task for not doing so, just STFU. Come to think of it, just STFU, period.

[RockyMtnMac]

LMAO @ PMS!
Trade your kids for a good back massage and a bag of Doritoes.
OMG THAT is funny!!
I am so gonna use that!

[G-Man]

Thanks RMM and trosch. People always tell me if I didn't have the job the only possibilities for me were to become a comedian or committed in a mental institution. So it would be kind of scary to have the comedian option taken away :-)

[USMerc]

troschne....You might need this.... ----------->

[cherie]

troschne is on a roll today.

thats just like you Buddy...doing what everyone else does....way to conform...

[Caffeinated Katie]

Troschne, don't feed the trolls. It gives them indigestion and then they get all cranky.

[troschne]

Need what, Merc?

[KC]

Could anything be as absurd
As this story I recently heard?
A pedophile trucker
(A real out-of-lucker)
Has traded two kids for a bird!

[someguy]

sometimesilie is right:

This is free market capitalism at its best. Lady wanted a bird, a rather pricey and long living one at that, and the couple wanted kids. There you go!

Honestly though, the sad irony in all this is that the kids may finally have made it to a worthwhile home, but are now in state custody and will probably bounce from foster home to foster home for the next 13 years.

[jdotglenn]

This isn't the first time someone tried to sell children...

[USMerc]

The new and improved TROLL STICKER! Just the sight of it will make under-bridge dwellers tremble in prepubescent horror!

[USMerc]

(Lynn gave me a whole quiver of them, so I figured it was only right to share with the worthy...I'm sure she won't mind!)

[USMerc]

After all, pokin' trolls is fun for everyone! :)

[lynn]

troschne merc is giving you a pointy stick to poke at the trollies with. --------->

soooo, all these years i wanted a kid of my own, i just have bought a bird and then traded bird for child....

typical of me, now this is known and the plan is ruined for me.

i wonder if i could buy a snake and trade it for a sweet little boy: 12-16 months, blonde hair and brown eyes. likes dogs and firetrucks.
serious entries only.....(just joking all you folks without a sense of humor)

[sometimesilie]

lynn, I have a two year old I'd sometimes like to trade for- brown eyes, black and tan hair, 115 lbs, full of soup, likes most people and animals. Afraid of the neighbors Spawn of Hell cat. Next time he acts up, make me an offer.

[buddy]

you all are big talkers but face to face you wouldnt dare piss me off.

[twerp]

Did she start out with a red paperclip?

[lynn]

he sounds perfect. i will make you an offer or we can barter.

does he hog the bed? is he trained or will i need a fence for him to roam around the yard?

[Reno]

buddy, I'd love to piss you off in person just so I could see that vein in your forehead throbbing with frustration when you realize you've been bested by a girl. Again. Come to Reno - we love to play with children here!

[LimeGreenLizard]

Okay, buddy. So you're a fat boy who's studied Tai Kwondo, (or however you nerds spell it) all your life, but will always get your ass kicked on the streets.

You need an enema. In your brain. Silly infant, wits are for adults.

[USMerc]

I have vacation time coming up buddy...Where should I go to take you up on your challenge? :) I'm getting all warm and fuzzy just thinkin' about it!!!!!

[USMerc]

:) You already know you are bigger than me...You can take me....Come on.....Let's see if I dare to "piss you off" in person...

[sometimesilie]

on the few occasions he is allowed on my be (when I'm drunk- ok, so, alot) well, the last time he went up all quick and spread eagle right in the middle of the bed and started getting all growly. I was laughing so hard but trying to act all scary and alpha-y that I could hardly breathe which I think freaked him out even more and he took off like a rabbit and hasn't tried since.

[sometimesilie]

lynn, he'll shadow you, always underfoot. I hide from him on hikes sometime and that freaks him out when he looks up and realizes I'm not in sight. You would think that snuffler of his would direct him to the tree I'm hiding behind but he usually ends up hightailing it in the opposite direction.

[dobie]

In another article, it said that Greenwell originally wanted $2K for the kids. Apparently there was some haggling over the price of the children.

[LimeGreenLizard]

You know who buddy reminds me of? (Other than my penis.) A kid I went to school with. Back when it was called junior high, instead of middle school.

Another one for Reno and RMM.

There was this kid named Davy. He was a year younger than me, but rode the same bus I did. (Long bus, I might add. Just to short-circuit buddy’s lame attempt at humor. Davy should have been on the short bus) Every day, little Davy would get into a fight. Belligerent and obtuse little shit. And every day he went to the principle’s office. And every day he lost the fight he started. He was, at his very core nothing more than a very stupid and arrogant weakling.

This kid would confront a linebacker! Then, upon his well deserved ass kicking, would be delivered unto yon principle’s office, where he would wail like a little girl about how he’d been beaten up. And every day, the principal would paddle his ass and let the other guy go. Every frikkin day! He was a legendary fool.

I was in the ninth grade. I’d broken my wrist skate boarding at the time, and sported a nice, hefty cast that stopped short just below my elbow on my right arm. I loved it. Girls love to sign casts. Ah, childhood. Now you just love to gang up on us in a jello-whipped cream foursome. Oh well. I can live with that.

Anyway! So one Friday they have a pep rally in the gym, right before school’s over. And they’d always pit each “grade” against the other and hve some kangaroo court of teachers decide who had “the most spirit” (Remember that shit?) So, we ninth graders won. Big F Deal, right? Well, we all pile out and board the busses. I sit down, and Davy sits down in the seat in front of me. As some of my esteemed ninth grade brethren begin to board the bus, Davy starts shouting, with a vacuous look in his eyes, “Eighth graders are the best”! (That was before the “we rule” phrase was introduced into the American lexicon.)

I did nothing more than retort “Eighth graders are pansies”. Without a word, much less any grace of movement, Davy jumps up, turns around, and whacks me on the head with a text book. You know the kind? The binders were softer back in those days. Anyway, he spins back around and sits. Well, the little shit hadn’t begun to re-warm his seat before he felt the wrath of my plaster cast being rained down upon his head with many blows. My friends, (Troschne, Merc, was that y’all?) cheered me on as I pulverized my cast against his solid skull. (True! They did an MRI later, and there was no brain!)

The bus driver escorted us to the Principle’s office. Upon entering and sitting down, he turned and looked at us, rolled his eyes and demanded, “Davy, what did you do know?” Upon his cue, Davy burst into tears, blabbing some incoherent story of how I had attacked him. The Princ’ shouted us out, not willing to deal with the little shit. He called his mommy in tears, and I walked home in triumph, being hailed as a hero by my neighborhood friends.

Come on, now buddy. Your real name is Davy, isn’t it?

"Feed the trolls, toppins a bag,
Toppins, toppins, toppins a bag"

[RockyMtnMac]

Oh buddy, are we pissing you off?
Yeah, I would piss you off in person.
Be sad, too getting yer a$$ kicked by a girl. I bet you hit like a biotch since you post like one.

[USMerc]

Alas, Lizard, it wasn't I in body, however, I do believe that troschne and I were there with you in spirit!

[USMerc]

hehehehehe When I go on vacation, if buddy is kind enough to let us know where we should go, I'd be honored of you'd take the trip with me, RMM, and I'll even hold of on "pissing buddy off". Just for the honor of watching YOU put him in his place!!!! I'll bring the video camera!@!!

[David]

I read a different papers report on this story; They are saying they have now found the children's father who is "interested" in custody.

They think this might not be the first time the truckdriver has sold children. She sounds like a real piece of work.

[troschne]

Great story, LGL! I would have cheered you on, to be sure!

LMAO @ RMM.

Thanks for the stick, Merc!

[sometimesilie]

you guys are in fine form today- I'm almost glad I'm stuck inside with nothing to do instead of outside enjoying the beautiful weather free and withou