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Elyse Johnson (affluent beggar)
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Anonymous
| I would like to see this as a Portlandia skit. |
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Anonymous
| I had a lengthy conversation with Elyse yesterday in front of Market Basket in Burlington, MA. I spent a good deal of time talking about my friend who has been fighting brain cancer for 7 years. I was trying to give her and Adrianne hope. I didn't have a dollar on me, so I took a note from her with her Go Fund Me address on it. I just sat down to make a donation and then started reading the notes of people who've donated. I found it pretty suspicious that the people were from all over...so I googled a little bit and am utterly disgusted to read that these people are scamming hardworking people by LYING about something so awful as childhood brain cancer. Along the way I see that they've also told people that one of their kids has leukemia. Now I also know from google, that Elyse and her husband often reply to these kinds of threads, so I guess I'll just address you directly. Shame on you Elyse!! How can you LIE about something so awful?? I spent a good deal of my day feeling so horrible for your little girl Adrianne. (I truly hope that she isn't really sick. But that is not an excuse to scam people.) I have seen personally what brain cancer does to a person and a family. My husband and I have attended an annual fundraiser for brain cancer research and have met several real people who actually have brain cancer. And we've met their loved ones who have mourned their deaths. You are teaching your children to take prey on good, hardworking people who believe people at face value when they say a kid has cancer. But you know this. You obviously wrote the book on taking advantage of people's emotions. You know that approaching a mother pushing a little kid in a cart isn't going to ignore your plea to help your own. SHAME. Get a job. Get a life. Pay some taxes. And get some respectable adults to teach your children that begging isn't a career. Oh, and you should really think a little bit about the people you're hurting as you continue your life of lying. Because I'm definitely going to be more careful about who I give money to from now on. So, good job on making people less trustful. |
Anonymous
| elyse, where are you now- its carol from vermont |
Anonymous
Hopefully not in the DC area. I'm sure if you contribute to her faux-fund-me, er, I mean gofundme site, I'm sure she'll be in touch. |
Anonymous
I thought pp was awesome and not stupid at all. Unlike posters who want to call pp stupid. Who would be.. uuuum i guess stupid. |
Anonymous
| I met Elyse and 2 of her children today at the Westbard shopping center in Bethesda. |
Anonymous
Don't give her any money! |
Anonymous
BTW, Carol, she sold her first two of her kids for $. Please don't buy into this woman's crap: http://jennifermargulis.net/articles/affluent-beggars/ |
Anonymous
| Can someone post a picture of her? |
Anonymous
| Did anyone see her a few nights ago outside the Tenley Whole Foods? |
Anonymous
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I was just reading one of the old threads. OMG! They remind me of Randy Quaid and his wife.
I'm guessing they both have drug-induced psychosis. I'm amazed that they've been able to maintain custody of their children. |
Anonymous
This is an old one: http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20060113/BIZ/301139999/0/wap&template=wapart My guess is she had another baby to use as a begging prop. The kids she (still) has have gotten too old to play up the sympathy card and people would wonder why they wouldn't be in school. |
Anonymous
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FYI, just spotted this person outside the Starbucks on Livingston and Connecticut Ave in Chevy Chase, DC. She saw me with my little boy and asked for a donation - I happened not to have any cash on me, so she gave me a piece of paper with the GoFundMe information on it so I looked it up. The thing that made me go "hmm!" was that a lot of treatments and surgeries that her daughter supposedly had were in Boston so it made me wonder why she and her children were in DC during the school year (shouldn't they be in Boston in school, close to where these treatments and therapies are supposedly taking place?) and furthermore why they weren't covered by Massachusetts' pretty extensive program of health insurance for children whose parents have low incomes. So then I Googled, and this is of course one of the things I found ... Now it makes more sense: guess the children aren't IN school, and you do have to submit tax information in order to get those health benefits.
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Anonymous
| Shit I gave her $20 at the Glover Park Whole Foods a couple weeks ago. She didn't have a baby, though. |