'Street justice': Toxic older sibling redeems himself by standing up to late mother's vulture "friends" trying to claim her things

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
May 4, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Nothing can be more difficult for a child than losing a parent. Even if it's a complicated family relationship, that kind of loss is heavily felt, especially when experiencing it as a kid. Recently, a Redditor shared the story of her complicated family life and when she lost her mother. 

On the subreddit thread r/EntitledPeople, she shares the heartbreaking story of her mothers vulture "friends." He mother was very sick and when she passed, she reported it and everyone in the neighborhood watched. After her mother was taken away, her fake friends came rushing in and started fighting over her things. The Reddit poster said that her mother was a very beautiful redhead that had great style. Since she was just a kid, she couldn't stop her mother's entitled friends from ravaging all her mother's belongings. There was one dress in particular, a green silk dress, that was her mother's well-known statement piece. The vultures fought over it, but one eventually was able to lock it in her car. 

While this is happening, her older siblings were coming home from high school. Her oldest brother, a 17-year-old drvg dealer, was feared amongst the family and even the neighborhood. The reddit poster said she was actually terrified of her brother and experienced lots of anger from him. However, in the moment the sadness of losing her mother consumed her, and she went to him and silently showed him their mother's green dress along with a pile of their mother's stuff inside one of their mother's "friend's" car. 

That was their only sibling exchange until the funeral. The reddit poster says her brother really stepped up for the wake and was a different person. He stood tall and made sure all his siblings were okay. The part that truly redeemed him for the family is when they saw their mother, laying their looking peaceful in her beautiful green silk dress. The reddit poster never asked how he did it, but in that moment she finally was sure that, despite all of his issues, her brother really does love this family. Scroll on to read the entire story.

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    Sleeve - r/Entitled People Posted by u/gulleyowl 2 days ago A stolen dress
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    Reddit post by u/gulleyowl

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    Font - My mother died when I was 12. At the moment of her death our family could have been the stuff of movies. We had not seen our father in a couple of years and we were well used to a life without any adult input.
    via u/gulleyowl
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    Font - I had found my mother dead, called the ambulance, and the neighbors all witnessed the spectacle. By afternoon, there were her "friends" going through her closet.
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    Font - Before illness had stolen it, my mother's true pride was her looks. She was beautiful with stunning red hair. Even after the ravages of her illness she was very pretty. She had a green silk dress that was a treasure from the times before everything went bad. In that dress she could still silence a room. I stood at her bedroom door and watched these women try on her clothes. One of them grabbed the emerald dress and immediately the women started to fight over the prize.
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    Font - They all wanted it. one woman claimed it but another grabbed it out of her hand and immediately locked it in her car. A tension took over the room. I stood and watched - powerless. The hyenas who did not get the dress started to bargain their pilfered loot to exchange for the dress but no deals were made.
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    Font - Word of my mom's death must have gotten to the high school and my older siblings were now walking in the door. My brother was a successful drug dealer who at 17 ruled our house. We all feared him, even her friends knew he was dangerous. He had once taken a gun to my mothers head. Seeing him approaching the house, the women stopped what they were doing and we all held our breath. But he did not come inside, so they returned to their looting.
    via u/gulleyowl
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    Font - In the moment I totally forgot I was afraid of him, I forgot that I believed he hated us, I forgot the gun. I showed him, and my older sister, the dress locked in the vultures car. Mom's stuff was piled on the seats of various friends cars but we all were focused on the dress. I went back in to witness the harvest of our home.
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    Font - On the day of the funeral, my brother was a different kid, he stood tall and brave. He made sure to escort each and every one of those vultures up to see our mother laid out in the coffin, adorned in the green dress.
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    Font - More-Jacket-9034 2 days ago Despite his flaws, in that moment, your brother was the hero your family needed. Whatever he did to retrieve the emerald dress, I 100 approve. Hopefully it scarred and scared those old biddies! Bonus points if it cost them to replace a car window or two
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    Font - gulleyowl OP. 2 days ago That is precisely how I feel. He did love her. He did love us. He was a powerful drug dealer but he was also a lost kid whose mom just died.
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    Font - all kinds_of_no_4me 17 hr. ago Street justice
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    Font - 00 laurabun136 2 days ago After my mom died (she was also a stunning red-haired woman) my sister and I, our brother and his wife met our father at our childhood home to go through our mother's belongings and decide their disposition. After spending nearly five hours going over one of her dressers, we stopped as the stories and memories surrounding each article had become overwhelming and we were all exhausted.
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    Font - We made plans to finish the rest of her bedroom later in the week. After that there were two other rooms filled with her things and we knew we didn't want to put it off indefinitely. The next day, I got a call from my very angry sister, telling me to get to our mother's house. When I got there, she told me I needed to see something and I wasn't going to like it.
    via u/laurabun136
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    Font - Her room and closet were bare, with a few items of clothing tossed about. Everything had been ransacked, even her jewelry box had been emptied and the lining ripped from it in an attempt to find more expensive pieces. Our father had allowed a couple he knew to go through her belongings and take whatever they wanted. And they did; hardly anything remained. These people had gone over her personal items with their greedy hands and snapped up all that caught their eye.
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    Font - This SOB's excuse for letting these strangers touch our mother's things? "Well, you all didn't take it yesterday, so I thought you were finished." There was no way we could have gotten through all of her clothes and such in less than 24 hours and that would be if we just threw everything into boxes to sort later. Our mom had exquisite taste in clothing and all that we remembered from our childhood and adult years, was gone in a flash to those people who didn't even know our mother.
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    Font - So, OP, I applaud your older brother for doing the right thing and retrieving your mother's beautiful green dress from the marauding vultures.
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    Font - Morella_xx 2 days ago My dad's cousins did this to my Nana's jewelry when she died. She didn't have a will but she had said many times she wanted it all to go to me, her only granddaughter. Those three greedy bitches went through and took everything even remotely valuable.
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    Font - First they denied it (then where tf did it all go?), then they admitted taking "some" things, but swore the important pieces like her wedding rings were still there but they hadn't seen them, then finally they said, "She [me] is a child, what does she need nice jewelry for anyway?" When my granddad died years later any my dad was clearing out the house, one of them had the nerve to ask if he managed to find the wedding rings.
    via u/Morella_xx
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    Font - deannawol 1 day ago My aunt did the same with my dad's house after he died. She turned up one day and cleared it out, gave stuff away and had someone haul the rest to the dump. She even called me during it and had an odd conversation about what I was planning to keep. I was at work in another city and just wanted her off the phone. When I got back to my dads house... I was devastated
    via u/deannawol
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    Font - Griselda68 2 days ago Something similar happened to my husband's aunt when she passed away. Her daughter in law was one of the most avaricious, the most grasping, the most entitled people I've ever known. As her mother in law lay dying, she pilfered through her closet and jewelry box, and took what she wanted.
    via u/Griselda68
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    Font - heard later that she actually had the audacity to brag about one particular dress she had taken. She had worn it to some church group she was a member of. I don't believe she had the opportunity to wear it very often-she died a fairly short time after her mother in law. I'm so sorry that, as a young girl, you had to deal with such monsters,
    via u/Griselda68

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