Amish Mafia

[binaryterror]

I do recall another reality show a few years back that dealt with Rumspringa directly. I seem to remember seeing at least a partial episode. I respect it as they are giving the kids a choice once old enough and let them go, so to speak.

How many other cultures are so good about allowing this?

Often times though the family disassociate with the kids on Rumspringa to add loss of family into Rumspringa. While their goal is to ultimately keep all their kin in the family, if you throw a young kid to the wolves without family often times they'll be back quickly.

 

[jcboof]

I live in an Amish community. I am FAR from being even remotely Amish but you guys would shit if you knew all the crap they pull around here.
They are so far from what everyone's perception of them is it would make your head spin.

 

[gregrocks90046]

 

[merlin_008]

Watched it last night and I am hooked...

 

[322]

I live in an Amish community. I am FAR from being even remotely Amish but you guys would shit if you knew all the crap they pull around here.
They are so far from what everyone's perception of them is it would make your head spin.

I wanna hear some goods.

 

[binaryterror]

I wanna hear some goods.

I hope Jesse pipes in with some, he's told me many stories. Its shocking to hear, but only because you think "no way they are amish". Gotta remember they are still human.

 

[TexasSP]

Often times though the family disassociate with the kids on Rumspringa to add loss of family into Rumspringa. While their goal is to ultimately keep all their kin in the family, if you throw a young kid to the wolves without family often times they'll be back quickly.

I would think that's everyone's ultimate goal with their children though. Typical American's do much of the same, just in a different fashion.

Of course I have met a couple of Amish who didn't go back. I just try to take the culture like any other, while not normal to me, interesting none the less.

I also find Mennonites interesting which from my understanding is an off shoot of the Amish. Of course then there are Quakers, of which my cousin is married to one.

Do I want to join any of these cultures? Hell no! However I do respect them.

 

[jcboof]

Here's story from just a few weeks ago in the town where I live


Amish guy walks into a trailer factory with a handgun demanding to see someone. Everyone freaks out and the Amish guy takes off on his bike. The guy is apprehended about 30 minutes later at the hardware store down the road.

Background of the story...

The Amish guys wife works at the factory and she has been getting rides home from work from a coworker. This is a fairly common thing to happen. The Amish workers often pay someone to pick them up and drop them off at home after work.

Well supposedly the Amish wife has been "paying" the coworker with special favors and the wife and her coworker have been exchanging explicit text messages back and forth for weeks. Yes, Amish people have cell phones around here......

The ladies husband found out about the arrangement and rode his bike to her work to confront the man and possibly kill him.
When the guy was apprehended, he no longer had a handgun but instead just a lunch pail with a knife, rope, and rubber bands. The Amish guy admitted that he was going to attack her wife's lover and tie him up and castrate him.

This is one of the many messed up things that happen around here with the Amish.

The young kids party lime crazy and literally get away with drunk driving and drug possession . They often run from cops when they get pulled over. If they are caught, the charges are usually dropped because they tell the prosecutor that they are joining the Amish church again and won't cause any more problems.

Many Amish run puppy mills and illegal deer farms.

LOTS AND LOTS OF DRUGS!!!!!



I could go on for hours about all the stuff I know happens around here but I'm sick of typing.

I have lived and worked closely with the Amish community for about 13 years and people just have no clue how messed up things are. Granted , you will always have some bad apples in every bunch but most of them are really good people.

Its just amazing to see how their culture works and how glad I am that I was never raised that way.

 

[RootBreaker]

wow next time I go to Bird in Hand I will be more careful!!!!!

 

[bob1961]

I wanna hear some goods.

i know here in PA they are big time poachers........bob

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[jcboof]

Here's another thing we have to deal with here.
My car was clean before going to the grocery store 3 blocks away from my house.

This is all horse shit.......

 

[322]

Don't they make them put crap catchers on their horses?

 

[1.55Yota]

Very $hitty