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No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
On Easter Sunday 2005, ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition aired an especially poignant episode. Five children, ages 14-21, from the Higgins family were orphaned. A couple from their church, with three children of their own, took them in. The result was 10 people living in cramped quarters.
The show finds families with horrible living conditions and heroic natures who are flourishing despite the hardship. Then the family is whisked off to a vacation, the house is razed and rebuilt, and ends with the presentation of the house to the always overwhelmed family. The rebuilt home is always astonishingly beautiful and completely furnished. In the Easter Sunday special, the rebuilt home had nine bedrooms, including one for each child. The show also paid off the mortgage. The Higgins' happy ending did not last. The family that took them in asked them to leave the beautiful nine-bedroom home because it did not belong to the Higgins. http://tv.netscape.com/story/2006/06...r-this-family/ How can people sink so low?
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06-30-2006, 04:43 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
What the f**k are their hearts made out of, stone!? No, don't answer that, they DON'T have any!
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06-30-2006, 04:49 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
I agree, what total and utter B_stards. You can't do something like that and then decide it's not convienient later on! I hope one of them accidentely sets fire to their big nine bedroom house.
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06-30-2006, 05:13 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Lots of these types of internet stories turn out to be false. Hopefully this is one. I've always wondered about how these poverty-stricken families pay the property taxes on their new million-dollar homes, though.
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06-30-2006, 06:04 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
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MSNBC is a relatively credible source, and a google search on the keywords Extreme Makeover Home Edition Higgins produces many results that mention a lawsuit. Unfortunately, this one appears to be true.
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06-30-2006, 07:27 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
I remember hearing about this story. it is really sad when people can be so selfish and inconsiderate. It is too bad that the house could not have been put in the name of the kids...as the oldest was of age, at 21!
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06-30-2006, 08:08 AM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Well one good thing, the Higgins get to take their case in front of a jury. Hopefully they might get something out of all this after all.
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 I am *always* aware of not becoming more cynical as I get older. But it's hard when you read about A**HOLES like these people, isn't it?
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06-30-2006, 03:19 PM
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Re: No Happy Ending for This Family's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
I remember watching that one, one of the few times I ever have. That is sad.
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