You mean to tell me that there are consequences for being an unmitigated asshole? Well, I never knew that.

@anglophone Let's see how he copes with the oncoming cold weather.

@Betty I can hear it now. He calls his mother with chattering teeth on the telephone: "Mummy! Please send me money so that I can get warm again. Please!"

@anglophone I can just see it now. Promising anything she wants. If she's smart she'll make him suffer for awhile then make him work for it. lol

@anglophone Funny that you two should be discussing exactly that because just as I was thinking about getting my Breakfast on the go, a very timid sounding knock comes on my front door.
Thinking that perhaps it may be someone who has had their car break-down or something similar. I answer it to find a very depressed and dejected looking Evangelidiot who immediately says, " My mother has refused to send me any money to get my wood-burner fixed and has cut me off completely from the extra money she has been sending over the last 10 years, can I pay you for repairing my wood-heater at an amount of $10.00 a fortnight and get you to fix the wood-heater as quickly as possible because it is getting very very cold at night in my house, please?"
I pretended as best I could to be deep in thought then responded with, "So your mother was paying according to both and what she told me over the phone less than a week ago $2,000 per fortnight straight in to your bank account and has been that EVERY fortnight for at least the last 10 years and you've been going around crying poverty on the shoulders of whom ever you thought might listen, correct?"
"Well, that's what I learned from the street people when I was hanging out with them from time to time save myself from having to find a job or get cut off from the Dole, plus I would have had to tell Centrelink that I was earning money as a Male Prostitute and Mummy could have found out and then she would have kicked of out of the family."
"Hmm, so in this neighbourhood we have a voluntary part-time Male Prostitute who did it solely for the money and kicks, etc, BUT did not need to do it to actually survive, is that correct?" I responded.
" Yes, but don't tell anyone from Centrelink because they will cut off my dole immediately, now will you do what I expect and fix my heater on credit because I am a Christian and you should never say No to a Christian."
My response was, "Get your ears tested asap, because I am saying, loudly and clearly to you as a Christian and a, in my opinion, lying, thieving, dishonest, trouble-making piece of self-righteous, arrogant piece of shit, NO CREDIT, NO receive now, pay later in drips and drabs deal, the deal and contract, SHOULD you sign it which I guess you will BECAUSE NO-ONE in town will take you on as a customer, as they have informed me, NO CREDIT, etc, etc, so raise the money or spend the coming winter as cold as naked Eskimo on an iceberg for all I care, now go away and let me get my breakfast ready."
By his demeanour as he shuffled away I think I may have shot a few torpedoes into the "mighty Christian Warship" (LOL) the Payne.

@Triphid JFC.

I would equate his defeated look to what I have seen in and on old news-reel footages of the German troops surrendering en-mass to the Allies in and after the Normandy Landings, etc.
The look on his arrogant face was, I suppose, like what could be expected from a Samurai warrior about to commit ritual suicide and discovering that instead of his sword he has brought along his wife's shaver instead.
A kind of universally shattering "Oh fuck" situation and expression all rolled in to one.

@Triphid I guess you could say he has pretty much burnt all his bridges.

If, and that's a big IF, he has a brain cell or two knocking about that empty head of his, he would get a job any job even if it's picking up road kill and start paying back every vendor he scammed. Then he can start making amends to all the people he took advantage of. He should then help his neighbours whenever he can, painting a fence or weeding a garden. Oh wait! That's a Disney Movie. My mistake. lol

He is finding out that KARMA is a Royal Beeeeep.

@Triphid, @anglophone No...I think 'he' did that. lol

@anglophone, @Triphid He just found out the consequence for being a lying thieving jerk.

Too bad you don't get snow. You could offer him a snow cone. lol

@Betty No no snow but we get some truly nasty and heavy frost here during winter, we often get what they call " Black Frosts" and I experienced many of when I was working Night shifts on the Railways, we all needed to wear Thermal underwear, 2 sets of winter clothing, 2 pairs of gloves and 2 pair pairs of socks PLUS a pair of women's large sized tights under everything else just to try and stay warm when out in the Shunting and Marshalling yards checking and repairing the trains, etc.
And a friend of mine for the Weather Bureau who I spoke to yesterday by phone tells that they are predicting a colder than records winter for this region where I live.

@Triphid So the Payne baby will need now to rug up at night. I wonder why I couldn't give a shit about that.

@anglophone Same goes with me here for him as well.
And guess what, NO matter how he begs pleads, etc, etc, my doors shall be locked firmly, securely and solidly against him EVEN if we were to get the impossible and end up with snow a few feet thick all over the town.

@Triphid I don't think you would do well with the winters around here.

Your foolish neighbour will just have to learn the harsh lesson that, you reap what you sow.

@Triphid, @anglophone With no lady friend to help keep him warm. lol

@anglophone, @Triphid You should print that out as a reminder should he catch you on a generous day.

He needs this lesson if there's ever a chance albite slim, for him to make some positive changes in his life. Talk to the other neighbours to get them on board with the plan.

@Betty Shall be doing as you suggest later this afternoon.

@Triphid I know you have a caring heart. I just don't want you to get caught in a moment of weakened resolve.

@Betty When it comes his ilk, my caring heart automatically switches to being stone cold and hard as granite.