My brother in law is NUCKIN' FUTS!

[SPKrazy]

he needs hypnotoad's straightjacket

he is following the people he thinks burglarized his house around, calls and says "get a pen and paper" and wants me to write down the license number for him.

he is obsessed with this situation and says that the police are all in against him.

same shit different day :eyes:

anyone else have crazy in-laws?

:crazy:


i guess it is kinda funny, but it is also sad and annoying too! :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

1. my bil is mental as well, he was in the army for 30 years, retired as a full

bird colonel and his solution is usually the final solution.

on a funny note my husbands uncle Bud was totally paranoid, he was 96 when he died last year but up until that time he used to save all receipts that had a date and time stamp on them just in case a crime was committed he could prove he wasn't there.

[SPKrazy]

4. OMG

saving the receipts thing...:rofl: that is a hoot!

my bil is probably an untreated bipolar who is a good guy, but he gets out there at times and one just has to shrug it off i guess.

:eyes:

[thefool_wa]

29. WHOA!

And I thought I was paranoid!!!!

:wow: :tinfoilhat:

[AlCzervik]

56. oh yeah Bud was a real piece of work, he used to keep the receipts in a metal box

"Ya know in case of a fire they won't burn up" Oh the Bud stories, so many of them but in a nutshell Bud's motto through his 96 years was "Ya, thats how they getcha"

[thefool_wa]

67. I suspect

Should I reach a ripe old age I might find myself victim to the same type of things.

I feel my pranoia growing every year. But, I'm only paranoid because I know the truth :)

:tinfoilhat:

[fizzgig]

2. like random people he sees on the street?

i have no in-laws, my family is crazy enough without adding further lunacy into the mix...

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

3. no, these are people he believes burglarized him

and that the cops aren't doing anything about it. that may be true. he lives in tulsa and is calling here to ft. smith to ask me to write down the tag number and then stays on the phone 20 min telling me how bad it is and that the cops won't do anything.

if it weren't him, i'd be more concerned. he's the type that always has a crisis he's in the middle of, it doesn't matter what it is, he will find the worst place to be.

:shrug:

craziness is just the tip of the iceberg i'm afraid for my in-laws

[fizzgig]

5. i'm not even going to try to understand

i just woke up and it hurts a bit :P

[SPKrazy]

6. i don't understand either

the first words out of his mouth when i met him 20 years ago were "the moon is a quark" and i just nodded my head and said 'kay?

so whatevah, it's just always something with him.

somebody's ripped him off

some business he started is failing and it's someone else's fault

his dad is screwing him over

his brother is screwing him over

etc. etc. etc.

always someone else has done something to him

[AlCzervik]

9. my sil has a victim complex, thats what we call it.

every time i hear my husband talking to her on the phone i always hear him say "Virginia, stop being a fake victim" You could have had your leg amputated while she was watching but she will always one up you in the misery dept.

[SPKrazy]

10. yeah, he's a victim

but i think he does it to himself over and over and blames others for it

either that or he has the worst picker of people to trust that i've ever seen.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

12. same thing with Virginia, she blames her parents for dying and leaving her

she blames us for moving 3,000 miles away--little wonder why moving wasn't that hard for us "Well since YOU PEOPLE left MY KIDS! and i don't have anyone" and the only brother she's really on speaking terms with is my husband, she's managed to alienate just about everyone including her own daughter who is going to grad school in London.

[SPKrazy]

14. well she sounds difficult

maybe we can fix her up with my bil

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

15. she's kind of seperated, i won't even get into it so yes she's pretty much available.

:thumbsup:

[SPKrazy]

16. we just set them up

send them to someplace where they are too far away to bother with, and let them console each other :P

[QMPMom]

64. Is your sister-in-law my mother-in-law????

According to her (note sarcasm) she is the *only* woman to ever give birth and it was the worst possible experience that anyone could ever have had.

[thefool_wa]

30. are there drugs involved here?

Those I know who do this type of thing are usually tweakers...

[SPKrazy]

33. i am pretty sure that he isn't a tweaker

he smokes a little dope

and he drinks

but no, i'm sure no meth

[NightWatcher]

7. my former fil was a retired navy captain

he was/is a huge alcoholic. We went to Amsterdam on holiday and while we were there he gave us shit for wanting to "sample" some items from a local coffee shop. He was drunk off his ass chastizing us for "doing drugs". What a hypocrite, but aside from that a cool, crazy old dude.

[SPKrazy]

8. ya know...

i'd trust my bil before i'd trust a lot of people, he's honest, he just is always got some crisis that he is in the middle of and they can't all be real

[SKKY]

27. Sounds like your standard Naval Officer if you ask me...

...and I've worked for a few in my day.

[Zookeeper]

11. Hmm...sounds a little OCD.

At least he isn't accusing YOU of burglarizing his house. :)

Except for two of my BILs having married women with major "issues" (i.e. kinda crazy), most of my in-laws' quirks are thankfully minor. Then again we've never lived near any of our family, so who really knows?

But, I'll give you a story about my SIL's first husband, a crazy jerk, rather than being just crazy. We had just arrived in town to attend their wedding. Neither of us had met the groom. Everyone was out in the front yard and I was standing in the driveway with my suitcase. Groom arrives to meet us. His idea of making a good impression (or not) was to speed up the driveway, aiming at me with his car. :wow:

He thought it was a pretty cute joke. It's a good thing I have quick reflexes.

:hi:

(Oh yeah, I corrected the link to the second TVOTR video.)

[SPKrazy]

13. Hi Zookeeper!

i've got other in laws that have issues:

MIL= B*sh lover
FIL= i don't even know what to say
SMIL= i'd say but i won't be rude

bil-sister's hubby= jackass- thank gawdess they are divorcing


other bil- stoned all the time and a sociopathic narcissist

background check next time on all potential inlaws! :rofl:

[sasquatch]

17. MY SIL is a religious fundamentalist, what do you think

[SPKrazy]

20. Oh dear...

so sorry

:shrug:

thank goodness none of them are

[sasquatch]

31. Well at least they're treatable

Nobody has had the balls yet to treat fundamentalism as a mental illness yet.

[thefool_wa]

32. I would donate money to studies

To prove it is and come up with a cure.

So far the only cure seems to be lead delivered at high velocity - I think I am tired of that solution.

[sasquatch]

39. "So far the only cure seems to be lead delivered at high velocity"

But that's the easiest, simplist and sometimes the funnest cure. Maybe we can have some type of innoculation for it because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[thefool_wa]

40. HAHAHAHA!

Aint that the truth!

[SPKrazy]

34. it is though

the closest i've seen is that a few people kind of famous in the addiction field talking about "religious abuse" and how it can be one type of abuse.

i agree that it is abuse, but i also agree that the abuser is often afflicted with some as yet unnamed mental illness, a compulsive thing, and very skewed thinking.

:thumbsup:

[QMPMom]

65. Religious Abuse: I expect that my SILs kids will claim that one day.

What a bunch of mal-adapted, introverted, awkward, self-centered kids. Religion is force-fed and she homeschools as they will be corrupted in public AND CATHOLIC schools. If someone said there was a sniper on the top of Manulife Place here in our city, taking shots at people, I'd think of Nephew #2 first.

[SPKrazy]

70. That's scary

really is damaging to people too in many ways

:pals:

[Courtesy Flush]

18. My in-laws are uber sane

It's MY relatives who are nuts.

[SPKrazy]

21. Well...

shit...

it isn't looking good for me on that side either ...

:shrug:


:rofl:

[Roon]

19. If my BIL was a member of this board

He would be posting about ME! :blush:

[SPKrazy]

22. For all you know I'm him...

:rofl:


:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

23. Check your PM

[SPKrazy]

26. --

check yours!

:rofl:

[crim son]

24. My inlaws are freaks.

When my FIL died, one of his sisters and a niece accused my MIL of poisoning him to death with shark cartilage & fish oil. The nurses at the hospice went nuts trying to keep all the various family members from running into each other on visits because the result would be a vicious argument. At his funeral nobody was speaking to anybody else except me (that was then, this is now) and though it's been over a decade since he died there is still a competition at the gravesite for the most estravagant display. Like Herbert would have given a shit :eyes: He was as awful as the rest of 'em & if he hadn't died I would have been divorced years & years ago.

My MIL occasionally babysits when we travel and last time we were gone she took my son to the bus stop and asked every parent there if they were Catholic. Those who were became her confidantes who learned her views on the Iraq war ("the Iraqis don't know what suffering IS!" "The arabs must be brought to Christianity!") and naturally she is the butt of many a neighborhood joke forever and ever. She convinced my husband to store food and water before the millennium rolled around and last year was terribly distraught because a woman who knows a woman who knows a woman's sister whom she knows, gets stigmata and can see the future: GWB was supposed to have been assassinated in 2006 and she believes GWB will bring Catholicism to the world :wtf: ? Sigh. The one good thing about the divorce will be losing this woman as my "mother".

[SPKrazy]

25. Oh my....

okay, you got nuts don't you to deal with! :rofl:


poisoning with shark cartilage and fish oil? :spray:

well, it sounds like quite a lot of people who have too much time to think about things to me eh?

:hi:

[thefool_wa]

35. Wow

I don't want to be offensive here - but maybe she needs institutional help.

People like that almost make me feel ashamed to be Catholic.

aside: Does she not realize that GWB (if he holds to the baptist fundametalist points of view he espouses) does not consider Catholics christians? And in fact probably thinks we are an evil that needs to run off the earth once he's done in the middle east.

:wow:

[SPKrazy]

36. Therein lies one of the stranger marriages

Catholic fundamentalists and Baptist fundies during the 04 election, you are right, they don't consider them to be Christians.

:shrug:

[Zookeeper]

58. You are a woman of great strength...

you have my sympathy. :hug:

[thefool_wa]

28. OMG YES!

My brother in law is the most psychotic liberal in the world. Now, understand, I am a very liberal minded guy and can be a little on the psycho left myself but this guy is WHACK!

Every time he gets a new political video (be it about wal mart, cattle ranch conditions, 9/11, corporate waste and fraud, global warming, et al) he will bring it over, ON A HOLIDAY (christmas, easter, birthdays, what have you) and FORCE everyone to not only watch it (like pull whatever we want to put on for us or the kids out of the DVD player and start HIS video) but also do everything in his power to start up the absolute most emotionally charge political discussions he can.

It drives my wife's family (and me) absolutely fucking nuts. This guy has no appreciation for the feelings of others and carries the weight of the world around on his shoulders so he can drop it on everyone around him. It is to the point where I don't want him invited to my children's birthday parties anymore.

He even went to the WTO riots in Seattle TO GET TEARGASSED! Not to protest labor conditions or be part of the event as a whole, he wanted to get gassed. WHOA!

I can appreciate wanting to share your point of view with your family, but what he does is rude, inconsiderate, and inappropriate for the family events that he decides are the venue for his latest pulpit tirade.

Didn't mean to rant, and I should probably stop there in case he reads here, but if he does: DUDE! LIGHTEN UP!!!!

[SPKrazy]

37. d00d lighten up!

yes i agree

:hi:

[Zookeeper]

59. 'Sounds like an extreme version of Rachel Dratch's....

"Debbie Downer" character.

Have you told him that his behavior is rude? (And probably frightening to the children involved!)

[thefool_wa]

68. again, OMG YES!

My SIL is pretty good about telling him that he is aout of line - so is my MIL at times. It just doesn't stop him.

He has some potentially real mental health issues that have gone thus far undiagnosed (I think because all of us are afraid to broach the subject with him). My wife's family comes with a history of pretty serious problems (her grandmother is possibly paranoid schizofrenic and has pretty sever borderline personality disorder) and some of his behaviors (including many that I have not mentioned here) are strikingly similar to hers.

He can be an alright guy when separated from the pack, but get him around the whole (and quite large)family and he is intolerable.

[SPKrazy]

38. Jeebus On A Fucking Cracker!

he's called back going on about this license plate number

:crazy:

:wtf: does he think he's going to do with it? i'm sure he's driving the law enforcement community crazy now.

:crazy:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

41. Can u say mental case?

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

42. That's It!

my gawd that's it!

too bad they don't make a place like that for him!

:rofl:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

43. I don't know...

http://thenewcity.info/images/straight_jacket.bmp


:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

44. even better

:rofl:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

45. Don't forget this:

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

46. Now That's Just Scary

but he might need that too if he's confined

:rofl:

I shouldn't be laughing at him, but dammit, I'm tired of him! Better laugh :mad: than be mad!

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

47. Just put him in this:

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

48. Perfect...

if it were round then we could tell him to "sit in the corner" and really drive him nuts! :crazy:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

49. Like this:

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

50. OMG!

no he's not that bad...

he doesn't like B*sh thank goodness, his mother does...:mad:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

51. How 'bout this then:

[SPKrazy]

52. Well he's pretty smart too

he's just whacko, paranoid, manic, and driving me nuts

the straight jacket ideas were closer on target to what would be the treatment for him.

:rofl:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

53. Just close your eyes and imagine him singing, "I feel pretty,"

Now open:


















:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

54. You stop that!

:spank:

:spank:

I've really grown to not like that picture, it gives me the CREEPs

:scared:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

55. I'm sorry:

Here you go:





and


:hug:

[SPKrazy]

57. Ahhhh....

very sweet!

:hug:

[poiuytsister]

60. I am guessing that he has such a history of calling the cops

for made up issues that they just don't take his calls any more. They must recognize his voice and just hang up because they know he is, as they say in copspeak, a 10-95.

[SPKrazy]

71. If he didn't before

i'm sure he is getting that now

[Heidi]

61. I am not at liberty to say,

while CMW is here. :evilgrin:

[SPKrazy]

75. LOL

:rofl:


:pals:

[Random_Australian]

62. INLAWS? Who needs inlaws? I won't say what percentage of my generation in my family

has head troubles, but it's not pretty.

My brother is so incredibly lucky, he has perfect sight and sound mind and everything. And is athletic and stuff.

Although, if anyone is morbidly curious enough to want to know, they can ask for (or send me) a PM.

[QMPMom]

63. Oh yes, I have a sister-in-law that claims to:

Never have heard of elopement outside of a romance novel.

Never heard of the magician David Copperfield.

Claims to not remember most things that my husband asks her if she remembers from their childhood and "remembers" things he swears didn't happen.

Claims that my husband was a part of the "outing" of one of their high school teachers (Catholic HS in the 1960's) who was getting married because he had gotten his girlfriend pregnant. (If you knew my H, you'd know this wasn't true. It's not in his nature *at all* to do something like this, even as a teen, and he doesn't remember the incident at all. When this supposedly happened he had just come back from 5 years at a priest-run boarding school in Germany. He *would not* do something like she claims.)

There's other bizarre shit that I don't have time to list, but my H says, "I'd like to know when my sister went nuts because I'd have liked to been there to watch." The two of them cannot stand each other. At all. I'm less than fond of her, too. :7

[SPKrazy]

74. Makes for great "GET TOGETHERS" n/t

[QMPMom]

80. LOL! If you're masochistic! I usually come away from "get-togethers"

wanting to shoot myself or check myself into a padded room for a nice rest.

[Bassic]

66. Not just sad and annoying,

he might very well end up getting hurt.

[SPKrazy]

73. Yes, that is true as well

of course he'd tell you he's doing all of this because he's convinced that this person is going to hire an illegal alien to "off" him for $200, (yes he did say that)

:shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

69. I feel your pain, SPK. My in-laws are totally off their rockers.

:hug: :yoiks: I suffered through the second bridal shower yesterday with my MIL. I was with her from 9 AM until 10 PM when we got home from the trip. The only reason I put up with this is that I really like the bride and she begged me to be there. My MIL is bipolar and will NOT take meds for it. She has also been diagnosed with narcissistic complex (I think that's what it's called), and unofficially she's been given the diagnosis of martyr syndrome by me. :yoiks: She would drive even a dead person crazy because she WON'T SHUT UP. She has singlehandedly taken credit for curing cancer (which, of course, has not yet happened), solving women's health issues of every description, and telling everyone "I told you so" about the current economic conditions in this country (no, MIL, you just heard guys on TV say that stuff, and you repeated it). Also, she knows everything about everything else too, and according to her, I'm going to end up dead tomorrow for taking birth control pills. :yoiks: She is married to a retired pharmacist, and she's the most medication-paranoid person I've ever known in my life. She's paranoid about everything else too, but especially about medicines.

Her daughter, my SIL, is starting to get just about as insane. :yoiks: She called my husband (her brother) six times during the course of the day yesterday to see if we were home yet. :wtf: The bridal shower was at 11:30 AM an hour and a half away from where we live and involved lunch and then a drive to the mother of the bride's house. Then she called me on my cell phone at 6 PM to see where we were. She's a total control freak, and she was trying to orchestrate the shower by remote control. :yoiks: I just have one thing to say to her: LAY THE FUCK OFF, BITCH!!! :grr: Mind you, she's the bride's cousin, and she hasn't seen the bride in a few months. She had nothing to do with the planning, but yet she was trying to control everything about it. What a nutcase... :yoiks:

And what's worse, my SIL's daughter (MIL's granddaughter) is showing signs of this nutty behavior, and she's 27. She was the Bridezilla I posted about back in October. :(

[SPKrazy]

72. OMG...

you just reminded me about more of my in laws family...

an aunt who is totally a control freak, and her kids are spoiled and mean and narcissistic as well.

Of course aunt has made a fortune and the kids are all after her money as well.

:eyes:

[NewWaveChick1981]

76. Geez, MORE insanity? I don't see how you can stand it...

:hug: :pals: That on top of your bizarre BIL.... That's just too weird.

Mine are bad enough, but yours take the cake. :(

[SPKrazy]

77. Yours sound pretty intense NWC

I stand it by staying away from them as much as possible and when I'm around them I am good at "not being there" I guess.

:shrug:

:hug:

I think yours sound pretty unbelievably insane too!

:loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. They are, SPK.

:hi: I use the same strategy as you do---I stay away as much as humanly possible. I've had an overdose of them the past two Saturdays, and it won't get better until after April 14 (the wedding).

:loveya: :D

[SPKrazy]

79. Well Here's Good Vibes For 2 Weeks Then!

:hug:

vibevibevibevibevibevibevibe



:loveya:

[Ilsa]

81. ding ding ding. Crazy sister.

I think her husband simply endures it to avoid a fight.

She's mildly paranoid, and ghosts are haunting them, and they cause electrical problems, etc. Seems like it is ALL the fucking time, though. If it were only occasionally, I might actually believe her.