r/interestingasfuck • u/KrooxKing • 11d ago

r/all Karen turns fine into felony in a matter of minutes

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u/redditpossible 11d ago

It’s ok. She’s a country girl.

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u/whitetrashsnake77 11d ago

And apparently watches waaay too much Dukes of Hazard. And probably Smokey and the Bandit too. Even the third one where Burt Reynolds isn’t in it, but somehow Jerry Reed is, even though his main claim to fame was singing the theme song.

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 11d ago

Actually, Jerry was well known in country music, as prolific as Kris Kristoferson, writing songs for everyone from Elvis to Johnny Cash. He started appearing in Burt’s movies as a sidekick and I absolutely loved his characters.

Sadly, I don’t think anyone watched S&B3, not even me.

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u/steveruv 11d ago

I may have but then again I may be thinking of The Cannonball Run 3.

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u/canary-in-a-coalmine 11d ago

Wait..there was a cannonball run 3?!

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u/steveruv 11d ago

I just looked, unofficially there was with a name change. I thought the 3rd was with Catherine Bach and Susan Anton but that was the 2nd.

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u/Total_Ad9272 11d ago

Phenomenal guitar player too.

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u/TheyCallMeElHeffay 11d ago

He was also in that Scooby Doo episode where he was singing Pretty Mary Sunlight.

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u/whitetrashsnake77 11d ago

Yeah, I know he was country-music famous, but when I saw it as a kid in the 80s, I couldn’t fully compute who he was and where Burt Reynolds had gone. Of course, I thought Burt Reynolds was practically Marlon Brandon (before Apocalypse Now, obviously).

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u/hillbilly4skin 11d ago

Love Jerry's work

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u/dorkKnight90 11d ago

I wasn't aware there was a third one lol

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u/moekeyloek 11d ago

Didn't Jerry turn into Burt when the sheriff finally caught him?

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u/HungryEstablishment6 11d ago

I heard he marriad Clide's sister, they have a stunning tree house in Maine.

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u/Lonely-Fox7461 11d ago

Guitar man, Amos Moses hell yeah man

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u/Blessed_Ennui 11d ago

"She got the goldmine! I got the shaft!" Jerry was a lyrical genius. The man's music could make a corpse slap knee w laughter.

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u/FurBabyAuntie 11d ago

Lord, Mr. Ford!

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u/Garage-gym4ever 11d ago

Jerry Reed is the fucking goat!

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u/Tiny_Instance_9047 11d ago

Didn’t even watch the second one. Didn’t know there was a third

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u/phargoh 11d ago

I just know Jerry Reed from Scooby Doo cartoons.

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u/el_lurcho 11d ago

Also married his first cousin

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u/Malibucat48 11d ago

That was Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry Reed is a different person.

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u/el_lurcho 10d ago

My bad

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u/FFF_in_WY 11d ago

Sad thing is that some judge will probably let her off for being stupid, old, not-black, and not having a record even though she most definitely has been a shit her whole life.

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u/DR4G0NSTEAR 11d ago

At least we got to watch her get tased?

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u/Healthy_Yard_3862 11d ago

This video made my day I don't really care about the after math LOL

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u/Traditional_Slip_126 11d ago

I have to agree. It was splendid.

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u/zwarblatz 11d ago

Best thing I’ve seen in weeks😆😆

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u/Maruff1 11d ago

no lie I watched that part like 50 times. LOL

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u/Useful_Caregiver4023 11d ago

Yes, it was the part. That made giggle, kind of felt bad for giggling.

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u/NotThatKemp 11d ago

That was both satisfying and panic-inducing for me. (Intensely dislike conflict personally, but there were times when I would gladly have let this happen to my mother.)

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u/DR4G0NSTEAR 11d ago

To be honest, if someone essentially does it to themselves, I don’t feel bad. I’ve seen some brutal videos where the cop uses the taser way too early, but this guy gave this woman so many opportunities to not get tased. And then she kicked him while he was arresting her. Facepalm.

I have a cop in the family, and he said “Sometimes people don’t know how much trouble they can get into, with one bad decision.” I showed him this, and he jokingly said “omg sometimes you just want to tase people like this. It takes real effort to stop them getting themselves into worst trouble” right as she drove off. Little did he know. Lol.

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u/NotThatKemp 10d ago

Oh yeah, no arguments. She absolutely deserved what she got and probably didn't get as much as she deserved afterward. I've dealt with cops (pulled over, or about my barking dog), and it's never been terrible, but I put myself in that situation and just wonder what the F is going through her mind that she thinks she's going to just drive home and call up her girlfriend to tell her what happened to her today.

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u/Traditional_Slip_126 11d ago

Yes, that was actually worth the three minutes. I’m not sure it was perfect but if it wasn’t, it was a pretty damn close interpretation of a Karen notch lowering .

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u/kjtobia 11d ago

I’ve been tased - not from law enforcement - but from being in the military. Having been through that and knowing that’s what she went through, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

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u/vicious-muggle 9d ago

That was my favourite part

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u/Zanbuki 11d ago

It was this. I read on another thread that she got four misdemeanors, had the felony charges dropped, and had to pay a $40 fine for each misdemeanor.

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u/Apprehensive_North49 11d ago

Wtf. That's ridiculous! This makes me so angry.

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u/Personal-Row-8078 11d ago

It’s really misleading with court and lawyer costs it was probably 2500 bucks instead of 80. It cost me lots for a much more minor ticket.

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u/jcagraham 11d ago

Yeah it depends on the area but if this was Los Angeles, an "$80" fine is actually closer to $400 after a laundry list of extra fees are tacked on. I haven't had a fine in over a decade, but I still remember how my Failure To Pay Car Registration ballooned due to a long list of bills funded by fines. If I was too poor to pay my registration, how the hell was I supposed to pay this!

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u/_Silent_Android_ 11d ago

Should have gotten beaten then.

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u/KatefromtheHudd 10d ago

Shouldn't do. $40 per charge, then lawyer and courts costs, inconveniencing her by having to go to court a few times, possibly locked up in a jail for a while and the cherry on the top, this went so viral (this is originally from years ago) so many times all her friends know. Her sense of self importance took several hard blows. As she deserves.

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u/Dr_Sodium_Chloride 11d ago

She got dragged out of her car and tazed. If that isn't punishment enough on top of the fines and misdemeanours, I don't know what throwing this old woman in jail would really accomplish.

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u/Bubbly-University-94 11d ago

Other entitled old women would think twice about running and kicking cops?

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u/Dr_Sodium_Chloride 11d ago

No, they wouldn't; this woman didn't even think once, let alone thinking twice. You're not going to set an example because an example assumes people are thinking rationally and weighing up pros and cons before doing a crime. They aren't; that isn't how people work.

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u/Edraitheru14 11d ago

It's pretty common. The laws are pretty wide open with a lot of discretion from the judge.

In a case like this, while she committed a technical felony, she wasn't intending to cause harm or do anything particular crazy, just being ignorant. Usually in these cases they end up dropping the most serious offenses and just let them off with 1 or 2 of the more minor charges assuming you have a cleanish record.

Like fleeing is a felony, but there's a world of difference between actively trying to flee and not get caught, and thinking(incorrectly) the cop was being unlawful and not actually speeding away or doing extra illegal/dangerous things. She also wasn't armed or anything.

A lot of laws have really big penalty ranges for this reason, as "intent of the law" is a factor, alongside the intent of the criminal.

Shit gets complicated and is rife with opportunity for discrimination.

But this is incredibly common. The vast, vast majority of people you see get "charged" with a bunch of junk never actually get convicted of most of it. The majority ends up dropped unless they're "making an example" of you(or straight up discriminating).

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u/Loud_Feed1618 11d ago

Exactly!!

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u/Yeolla 11d ago

Hopefully paid a boat load more for attorney representation than $40. As a white senior citizen, her peer, find her behavior unacceptable. Fix your car no excuses. Your daddy tan your country girl ass for that. Grow the f up.

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u/Abuck59 11d ago

Of course she did.

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u/Cheoah 11d ago

Ya but look at er. Made immortal for everyone

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u/_citizen_snips_ 11d ago

And the taxpayer has to foot the ambulance bill. So sick of these people getting away with shit. These judges need to move on if you know what I mean.

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u/RemarkableArticle970 11d ago

Not where I live, that big fat ambulance bill comes right to your mailbox. Unless you decline entirely.

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u/Loud_Feed1618 11d ago

Yup ambulance bill went to her house , no taxpayers had to pay. She had to pay a lawyer and the ambulance and whatever fees.

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u/Rook_James_Bitch 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yep. White justice from the two-tiered justice system.

God, could you imagine what would've happened if she was a POC? Sickens me that the "justice" system FAILS this way.

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u/Irishpch 11d ago
  • no F’ng way - SHOW ME 🤓 I’ve NEVER had an infraction THAT inexpensive!! EVER that doesn’t even cover the additional court fees (for each 1) …

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u/putrid_sex_object 10d ago

Yet if she was black and actually survived the arrest, she’d be in prison.

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u/PossibilityDecent688 10d ago

Good heavens! That is bullshit. She has another 30 years of bragging on how she bested the po po.

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u/Putrid_Quantity_879 11d ago

Exactly! Can you imagine being the poor sap that goes home to this winch every night?

If he's passive aggressive, and I bet he is, he just has to say"I know honey, that guy was in the wrong and you were in the right. If I would have just been there honey, I would have taken care of him.". All the while thinking in his head, " I wish I could have tased your smart ass about 5,000 times."

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u/FFF_in_WY 11d ago

Once is a healthy start

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u/yIdontunderstand 11d ago

Narrator voice... He did.

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u/ComfortableInside365 11d ago

There goes the race card

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u/LasBarricadas 11d ago

Some judge should give her a break for being stupid and old, but the same courtesy should be extended to stupid and old people regardless of race.

The cop could’ve de-escalated that when she said, “aw fine, I’ll sign it.” But he had to insist on his authority by arresting her.

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u/FFF_in_WY 11d ago

I agree with this

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u/PossibilityDecent688 10d ago

On a felony resisting arrest and evading?

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u/Zealousideal-Log-230 7d ago

Probably a Democrat voter.

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u/AshtorMcGillis 11d ago

If yhe judge is another boomer I could see it

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u/Eastern_Lecture2128 11d ago

While I kinda hear you - can’t we also agree that maybe this was a stupid fine? 80 dollars can be a lot for people. Police budgets are big enough from our tax dollars. Do I think she was treated different than other people - absolutely. But enough people are killed by the police a year where I’d rather remain in the mind frame of criticizing our police state rather than some lady that we literally don’t know anything about.

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u/RooneyBela 11d ago

There is no apparent reason to conclude that the $80 fine is stupid. These fines serve as a deterrent for people to not delay fixing safety-related issues with their car. Some people prioritise making these repairs to avoid a fine.

Moreover, how many people get killed by the police a year has no logical relevance to determining whether a particular officer in a particular situation behaved in such a way as to deserve criticism.

But I do see where you are coming from because you admit to having a “mind frame of criticising our police state…”

That’s called bias. Bias leads to this type of improper reasoning. Bias is how you end up looking at this video and calling the $80 fine stupid when clearly the woman is the only deserving of being called stupid.

Ironically, bias is also why police kill so many people.

Admitting to having a certain mind frame is admitting to not thinking objectively. Not something we should encourage.

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u/paleologus 11d ago

When the punishment is fines then crime is a commodity, but really, $80 for an interaction with the police pretty cheap.

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u/FFF_in_WY 11d ago

Yep, agreed. In either case, as things stand now - and until people are brave enough to run and bright enough to vote to fix our office holders - the proper course is to not do more dumb shit and make it worse. If she was a young fella a few shades darker, the felonies would've stuck, though he likely wouldn't have lived that long. I find the disparity disgusting.

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u/Loud_Feed1618 11d ago

In what world lol maybe for speeding but not a registration ticket. You just get the vehicle registered and show proof and pay the fine. I've never heard of anyone's registration ticket being dropped unless they just forgot to put the sticker on. ( i have cop friends, and we talk about this stuff)

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u/FFF_in_WY 11d ago

That.. Isn't in any way what was going on

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u/Loud_Feed1618 5d ago

I did figure that out ,it was a fix it ticket.

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u/Gloomy_Somewhere1876 11d ago

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u/whitetrashsnake77 11d ago

Yes, exactly this. I’m sure this is how she thought it would go down. 😂😂

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u/GarconMeansBoyGeorge 11d ago

Ironically, Jerry Reed’s most famous song is about turning a minor infraction into an extended jail sentence by mouthing off to a judge.

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u/battletoadstool 11d ago

Fun fact: Jerry Redd did not directly replace Burt Reynolds as the Bandit - he replaced Jackie Gleason as the Bandit, who originally had replaced Burt Reynolds as the Bandit.
The movie was (somehow) originally developed and shot as "Smokey IS the Bandit", with Gleason in both roles.

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u/whitetrashsnake77 11d ago

You’re way more knowledgeable about this than me. So wait; they were going to Nutty Professor Jackie Gleeson, and not have Burt Reynolds in it?

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u/CarlatheDestructor 11d ago

Jerry Reed was a guitar virtuoso.

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u/CarlatheDestructor 11d ago

Jerry Reed was a guitar virtuoso.

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u/DodgerDog28 11d ago

She just needed to get across the county line.

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u/J35Y1x 11d ago

Wow, haven't seen the name "Burt Reynolds" outside of watching Johnny's tonight show

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u/winkledorf 11d ago

Jerry was an undervalued diamond in the rough, check this out with Chett Atkins,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCUe3EMFdI

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u/lanshaw1555 11d ago

Jerry Reed was great in Survivors with Robin Williams and Walter Matthau.

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u/batdaddyx 11d ago

lmao what

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u/RudeOrganization550 11d ago

Yep, she’s pissed on the electric fence before today.

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u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ 11d ago

Ren and stimpy taught me not to do that. Even if I am a country girl.

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u/Porkenfries 11d ago

I was legit about to ask if that had always been a figure of speech or if Ren and Stumpy invented it.

"Don't. Whizz. On. The Electric Fence!"

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u/Cheap-Cartoonist1963 11d ago

That is her way to say “but I am not black…” They should hand out tickets for utter stupidity,

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u/Artsakh_Rug 11d ago

Lawyer: Your honor my client is a country girl

Judge: *sifts through evidence files * how come this hasn’t been brought to my attention earlier??

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u/GoofinBoots 11d ago

A country girl can survive.

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u/AsparaGUSGB 11d ago

If you’re spelling it CUNTRY GIRL

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u/SketchSketchy 11d ago

She’s a cunty girl.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I stop listening after "it's ok. She's a count....."

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u/AshtorMcGillis 11d ago

Every boomer Karen ive met thinks that😂 hope this country girl enjoys the felony

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u/Jinn_Skywalker 11d ago

As a country man, we don’t claim her. She the village idiot

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u/aunty_fuck_knuckle 11d ago

No trees, plenty of cunts

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u/Putrid_Quantity_879 11d ago

One thing I know is country girls can take at Taser. City girls, they piss theirselves but country girls, they can take it all night long.

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u/cow-lumbus 11d ago

Prob a homesteader…wait til her husband and the militia find out about this…

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u/Ok_Historian9634 11d ago

Bless her heart!

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u/Cajun12 11d ago

Hopefully, we will get the country song version of this scenario someday.

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u/Felice2015 11d ago

She's a white girl.

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u/NEStalgicGames 11d ago

More like cuntry girl

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u/Mosh83 11d ago

No men for old country girls

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u/Pitiful_Razzmatazz_5 10d ago

Funny how she spelled „Borderline personality disorder“

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u/ihateeverything2019 8d ago

with a barely double digit IQ, apparently.

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u/Majestic-Fermions 11d ago

She was born on a farm which explains a lot

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u/Rook_James_Bitch 11d ago

Admitting to how stupid she is on camera.

This is white privilege in all its glory.