Was Anya Peters a homeless person using technology to her advantage or just another con artist out to exploit people with her gimmick.
Read the facts about Anya Peters and decide for yourself.
New readers would be best advised to start at the beginning to acquant yourselves with the saga.
Monday, January 01, 2007
1st Post of the New Year
Best Wishes to all Fans of Truth, Justice and The British Way !!
Ummm.. that's what I meant. And please moderate your language. We may have some readers of a tender age. I myself am only 12 but extremely precocious for my age. (I must ask my governess what that word means)......
Given that it's now just over four months until THE BOOK is published, maybe we should remind ourselves of its claims and announced content.
"'Abandoned' is the true..."
Allegedly.
"...story of a childhood full of secrets, abuse and a little girl who didn't belong. This inspirational story is about how one woman finally overcame her traumatic childhood and adult homelessness..."
For less than a year, actually.
"...to find a place she could call home. 'Abandoned' tells the heartbreaking story of a little girl's abusive childhood and her subsequent homelessness as an adult."
For a few months.
"Born illegitimately to Irish lovers, Anya was given away by her real mother and brought up in England by her loving aunt. However, her childhood with her new family was far from happy - verbally and sexually abused for years, Anya finally cracked and shopped her violent uncle, resulting in his imprisonment. After his imprisonment and a few months before her twelfth birthday, Anya lost her whole family overnight. They didn't die, although they might as well have done; they just went away, abandoning her."
So the local social services never noticed ? Nor the neighbours ?
"There was no one else to care, so Anya pretended that she didn't either. She learnt to shut down, and not to let anybody in. She thought that she had worked through it all, overcome it. But then, several years later..."
Given that she claims to be a law graduate, 'several years' must include seven years at school/sixth form college and at least four years at university - say another 11, which makes her 21, 22 (and just how did she manage the study time and finances to go to uni ?)... yet on the BBC article, she's described as 'in her early 30s. So, after leaving college she presumably held down a bog-standard life and job for some ten, eleven years. Thus, several years becomes 22.
"...through a series of unrelated problems, her life imploded again. Several things ended together: a job, a relationship, money, luck - and she ended up homeless and living in her car in a laneway at the edge of the woods."
Allegedly.
Of course, the saddest thing of all is that the damn thing will sell like hotcakes to the touchy-feely tree-hugging woolly-minded baby-boomers.
And yes, I'll probably get it out of my local library - purely for research purposes, of course. :-_
Hmmm.... I must admit that when I came across WanderScribes blog I was taken in by it, even though it was for a total of errrm 5 minutes!
I am a person that has empathy for my fellow human beings, and normally I would give the last button from my shirt if it meant that it would help someone in trouble. However, something that had me questioning her story from the outset was ' to spend that much time writing that much crap she would have to of spent nearly all day every day somewhere with an internet connection?' - hmmm, and another thing her laptop must of needed charging up at a hell of a rate too - so, without having to read all her ramblings, does she mention how this was possible in her little lane?
Interesting too that waterstones have catorgorized her book as fiction LOL!
I will be keeping an eye on your blog to check for updates (that's if you don't mind lol)
I don't undertsand it at all. Anybody that lives in the U.K knows the system. To be entitled to benefits you have to have an address.....no? Also, the paypal thing - you can't have a paypal account without a legit bank account and again, an address.
On her blog many many people gave genuine advice which she just ignored, but when people kicked up about her putting a paypal button up all her minions said basically 'it wasn't her idea, it was her fans idea' ....yea! and she still took that advice over and above a lot of very sensible help offered *sigh*..............I really don't want to become obsessed with this but it is bloody annoying that someone has made it big off the back of genuine caring people with utter bullshit!
You make some very good points Mr Shoop Shoop (or may I call you shoop?) and most of those have been addressed in my previous posts. I'd recommend you go through my archives as they are a bloody good read (even if I do say so myself).
Anya was claiming benefits illegaly by using an old address. The benefit (and bank statements etc.) would have been going to that address. So wouldn't the peeps at that address been just a teensy weensy bit suspicious about their address being used in a benefits fraud?
Sadly, when these kind of pertinent questions were started to be asked, Anya closed off her comments section completely.
Best Wishes to all Fans of Truth, Justice and The British Way !!
8 comments:
I prefer to think of it as the English way. The Scottish and the Welsh are just cunts.
Ummm.. that's what I meant.
And please moderate your language.
We may have some readers of a tender age.
I myself am only 12 but extremely precocious for my age.
(I must ask my governess what that word means)......
New Year Hugness.......
Wandering Scribe
Middle England blessings to all those that abhor the vacuum of WS's blog.....
Given that it's now just over four months until THE BOOK is published, maybe we should remind ourselves of its claims and announced content.
"'Abandoned' is the true..."
Allegedly.
"...story of a childhood full of secrets, abuse and a little girl who didn't belong. This inspirational story is about how one woman finally overcame her traumatic childhood and adult homelessness..."
For less than a year, actually.
"...to find a place she could call home. 'Abandoned' tells the heartbreaking story of a little girl's abusive childhood and her subsequent homelessness as an adult."
For a few months.
"Born illegitimately to Irish lovers, Anya was given away by her real mother and brought up in England by her loving aunt. However, her childhood with her new family was far from happy - verbally and sexually abused for years, Anya finally cracked and shopped her violent uncle, resulting in his imprisonment. After his imprisonment and a few months before her twelfth birthday, Anya lost her whole family overnight. They didn't die, although they might as well have done; they just went away, abandoning her."
So the local social services never noticed ? Nor the neighbours ?
"There was no one else to care, so Anya pretended that she didn't either. She learnt to shut down, and not to let anybody in. She thought that she had worked through it all, overcome it. But then, several years later..."
Given that she claims to be a law graduate, 'several years' must include seven years at school/sixth form college and at least four years at university - say another 11, which makes her 21, 22 (and just how did she manage the study time and finances to go to uni ?)... yet on the BBC article, she's described as 'in her early 30s. So, after leaving college she presumably held down a bog-standard life and job for some ten, eleven years. Thus, several years becomes 22.
"...through a series of unrelated problems, her life imploded again. Several things ended together: a job, a relationship, money, luck - and she ended up homeless and living in her car in a laneway at the edge of the woods."
Allegedly.
Of course, the saddest thing of all is that the damn thing will sell like hotcakes to the touchy-feely tree-hugging woolly-minded baby-boomers.
And yes, I'll probably get it out of my local library - purely for research purposes, of course. :-_
I like the cut of your jib, Mr Doe.
:)
Hugness abounds.......
Wandering Scribe
Hmmm.... I must admit that when I came across WanderScribes blog I was taken in by it, even though it was for a total of errrm 5 minutes!
I am a person that has empathy for my fellow human beings, and normally I would give the last button from my shirt if it meant that it would help someone in trouble. However, something that had me questioning her story from the outset was ' to spend that much time writing that much crap she would have to of spent nearly all day every day somewhere with an internet connection?' - hmmm, and another thing her laptop must of needed charging up at a hell of a rate too - so, without having to read all her ramblings, does she mention how this was possible in her little lane?
Interesting too that waterstones have catorgorized her book as fiction LOL!
I will be keeping an eye on your blog to check for updates (that's if you don't mind lol)
Jeez....... This is really bugging me now.
I don't undertsand it at all. Anybody that lives in the U.K knows the system. To be entitled to benefits you have to have an address.....no?
Also, the paypal thing - you can't have a paypal account without a legit bank account and again, an address.
On her blog many many people gave genuine advice which she just ignored, but when people kicked up about her putting a paypal button up all her minions said basically 'it wasn't her idea, it was her fans idea' ....yea! and she still took that advice over and above a lot of very sensible help offered *sigh*..............I really don't want to become obsessed with this but it is bloody annoying that someone has made it big off the back of genuine caring people with utter bullshit!
You make some very good points Mr Shoop Shoop (or may I call you shoop?) and most of those have been addressed in my previous posts.
I'd recommend you go through my archives as they are a bloody good read (even if I do say so myself).
Anya was claiming benefits illegaly by using an old address.
The benefit (and bank statements etc.) would have been going to that address.
So wouldn't the peeps at that address been just a teensy weensy bit suspicious about their address being used in a benefits fraud?
Sadly, when these kind of pertinent questions were started to be asked, Anya closed off her comments section completely.
Nothing to hide there then ......
Huggssssssss..................
ws
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