we all want kids. but really...

Being a man of impeccable taste; spending my nights in reading the latest issue of FHM (no ladies, it's not actually a porn mag, get your facts right) slowing nibbling on a pack of hobnobs, and browsing The Sun online, I find it hilarious to come across an article entitled...

Benefits cheat mum invented 10 children

Now, if you fancy re-reading the sentence above, be my guest, because it took me several times before I finally got it drummed into my head. No, not because I'm slightly of the stupid nature and I cannot read, but because I was shocked and entertained by what I read. A British mother; a mother of two mind you, who for the record are not disabled as she said in a claim to get more benefits, wants more money. Spends her daytime sitting on her 'poor' ass all day whilst caring for her other 10 kids. The only problem is - those 10 kids are not real! Now, we've all heard the ploy of making up a kid or two to claim more benefits (if you haven't then it's probably just my weird mind) but to come up with 10 kids is just plain silly.

You miss, are a silly billy.

I do have three problems with the subject. Three problems that are causing me a lot of stress and I really shouldn't be stressing over them. 

#1. Did she name each one? I mean, did she think of a gender? Did she convert rooms of the house so each one could have a bedroom? Imagine if she had family or friends round, or a social worker maybe - "where are the kids?"... "oh, they're all down Lidl getting my shopping" It wouldn't work for long.

#2. A family friend knew about the whole f**king scheme! "She was then told about this foolish scheme by a friend. She was always going to be caught." The article doesn't mention whether it was this friend who 'dobbed' her in, but come on, who would know something like this and not let anyone know. Yes you may use the excuse of being a 'good friend' but if you think about it theoretically, that mum of 12 (whose name by the way should be dually noted - Sarah Jane Smith, and I will get on to that subject) is claiming benefits from the government. These benefits are made up from taxes by your everyday tax payer. Also known as, the friend who found out! She is paying for John and Susan and Edgar and Boris and Nancy and all the rest of the 'children' to live their fictional made-up lives. 

#3. Sarah Jane Smith. Sarah Jane 'f**king' Smith! Now, either that is a codename used by the paper to cover up her real identity or her parents genuinely went on a journey with Doctor Who and felt it necessary to pay homage to the mans most well known assistant. Now one of her kids better be called Davros or I'm taking action! And I bet she's using some of the claimed money, a whopping £42.000, to keep her dog, ironically named K-9, in good health. 

But reading this article has given me a proper insight into how low some of the nation will go to get the money others quite clearly deserve. Sarah Jane obviously felt her 10 fictional kids came before every other real child in this country. 

Or she could be using the money to build her own TARDIS?

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