We swear every life event is in a simpson’s episode!

It's silly and unfathomable until you start watching true crime and find out 'parents' actually do lock their kids up.

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Lol, I have a similar dark side. I've told my kids very similar stories, but never in that detail. Four of the six are grown adults now and don't seem broken or scarred...too much.

Yeah they did. Reading about their torture methods and victims took an emotional toll on me. What they did is literally beyond my comprehension.

Yes

I once convinced my younger brother while on a flight that if he went to the bathroom on the plane it would suck him in the toilet and he would be spit out of the bottom of the plane. He started crying and my fucking dad and a few people sitting next to us starting laughing at him. My mom was understandably pissed off. Good times.

If this story was true the principal should have called police and CPS immediately and you would have had an emergency custody hearing losing your child while police searched your house and ask much more but cool story bro

To be fair to the parent who ratted you out, confronting someone who might have a kid locked in their attic never seems to end well in the movies so I don't blame them for not talking to you directly about it....having said that, that whole story is hilarious 😅

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Frankly they SHOULD have called CPS and searched the house just in case. What if it was true?

Yep and the wests killed one of their daughters and joked about her being buried under the paving stones im pretty sure

In a less fun turn of events, it's also what quite a few abusive parents do to their kids. Off the top of my head, Fred and Rose West had cages for their kids, and so did the authors David and Leigh Edddings.

I’m surprise this wouldn’t fall under mandatory reporting even if it was the alleged abused of a supposed non existent child. Kinda a failure of the system for cps or the cops not to check in your attic 😂

My sister had me legit convinced that they found me under a rock. Believed it for a few years. She also convinced me that my insides would explode if I didn’t poop for 3 days. Queue finding me sobbing on the toilet during a slight bought of constipation completely convinced I was going to die at any moment.

That is dark. Lol.

You handled it well right at the end.

Was tough at the time.

Lol. Don't tell the principal.

My ex and I used to make this joke that he had a feral twin who lived in his closet. We used to talk about "Nigel" so much as a joke that one day, my friend overheard us and asked me if we SERIOUSLY kept Nigel in a closet. It was quite funny.

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That is one of the best f ups I've ever heard.

Obligatory.

I was raised believing the my older sister Mary went into the pigpen when she was told not to and the pig ate her... My dad's way of keeping little me away from the dangerous animal. I mean, it worked, and then became a family joke about sister Mary, who was eaten by the pig. Thanks for the laugh, I'd forgotten about that. 😂

Honestly, this is one of the best TIFUs I’be read in a minute.