Phony steals from GA VFW post

Just A Grunt sends us to a local Georgia TV station link to a story about a phony who played up PTSD-symptoms to hoodwink the Roswell, GA VFW post out of some of their cash;

“[He] showed a lot of the signs, common signs that you would expect from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and some different traumas,” he said.

Mitiu said he gave [Michael Bradshaw, 32 years old] about $345, and other members kicked in several hundred more dollars in “good faith.” Several weeks later, he said Bradshaw’s military record became available and it showed a different story.

“Once we saw his discharge papers, that he’d been kicked out in 2001 before 9/11, then we started asking the police for advice,” Mitiu said.

Mitiu said Bradshaw’s story also raised flags when he told other veterans he’d gone to Ranger School at a military base that didn’t have a Ranger school.

So he wasn’t just a liar, he was an idiot about it, too.

“Every penny we raise that doesn’t keep the lights on is going to help these guys out,” he said. “So, when someone is taking those funds, they’re taking it from another soldier and a family that needs that assistance.”

Roswell police said Bradshaw’s alleged scheme should be a wake-up call for other charities and nonprofits eager to lend a helping hand.

A real veteran won’t mind proving his creds, folks. I busted one in my house a few weeks ago. One of my wife’s friends brought her boyfriend over and he was wearing a Ranger T-shirt and a cell phone on a Ranger strap around his neck. He introduced himself by mentioning he’d been in the 1st Ranger Battalion.

I asked him when and he told me during the same period I’d been there. I thought it was pretty silly that he was introducing himself as a Ranger and wearing all of that silly shit so many decades after he was there, so I asked him which company while I reached for the yearbook and asked him which one in the photos was him. He told me that he was sick the day we took the pictures not realizing that people who were absent were still listed without a photo.

So I threw his ass out. I guess his girlfriend broke up with him, too. Life is hard when you’re a dumbass.

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