Peninsula Village

[Anonymous]

hey i did some research
i don't have it organized exactly, mainly because it ended up with me reading a bunch of war stories
but the gist of it was
i was wrong, i kind of new this already
you can't ever fight back against your abuser
because the person who fights back always seems to end up in trouble
especially in the case of battered women
the cops can't do much either
i don't know i'm going to organize it better and write you all a paper
maybe i can use the idea for a college assignment

i knew this already anyway
like my friend who pepper sprayed her ex because he had a knife and was trying to cut her tires and she ended up in jail
the idiotic guy even told the cops he was trying to cut her tires :roll:
it was in the police report, "yes officer i was waving a knife but"
apparently he made it sound like he was trying to help the cops by keeping her there?  
so they/ he could punish her properly for trying to leave him?

or when i called the cops on my mother and the cop said "your over eighteen you can go sleep in the Walmart parking lot!!!"
basically it seemed like it's your mothers house she can  smack you around if she pleases
there were all sorts of things in relation to whose house it was and whose name was on the lease and such
all i could get from it was if some other person owns the house, you had best let them beat you up some otherwise you have no where to live?

anyway it's an interesting topic to research
What i also got from it was never let anyone elses name be on the lease
don't move in with boyfriends and if you do have your name be the only one on the lease
if he doesn't respect your paranioa then dump his ass
dump his ass in general, although considering how much money i make working for large chain companies like Barnes & Nobles or Bath & Body Works or Hudson Belk, if you dump him sometimes i don't think a lot of women can simply make ends meet
my boss offered me an assistant manager job
making a whole 9 dollars and hour working 40+ hrs a week, so no college
9 dollars an hour, the assistant managers work all the time
remember we are open till midnight, sometimes they work till midnight and come back in at eight
you ever want to spit in someones face so bad you can taste it but you just smile and nod and smile some more
i get that a lot
i was also reading this great book on the Vietnam war
wow that's a piece of history for you
the guys in it are so young
it's so horrible
it's by this guy Tim o'brien "the things they carried"
wonderful book, true of course, he was DRAFTED
i still can't get over the draft and just the whole horror of dropping those kids in the middle of a blood bath
70% of the guys in it die
horrible really makes you mad
great book everyone should read it
i'm trying to get my mother to
her views on Vietnam are direct quote "Jane Fonda is a traitor"
that's it, all she's got on it!
she lived at the time and all she thinks about it is some conservative circumspect propaganda
that's it again nothing else just Jane Fonda's a traitor
nationalism and no one listening
and prejudice and propaganda and blank stares
Damn Mexicans need to speak english is about the level of higher thought around here sometimes, it's hard because i've always read a lot and i've always wanted someone to teach me and talk about stuff
around here i literally can't finish a sentence
no one listens they interrupt after the first line,
and send you off to die

[Anonymous]

here is another survivors account i took off of the Cafety thread
posted by MilkBlood
again you can get to that thread by simply googling Peninsula village
no offense but i think Fornits scared her,
her avatar is a baby raccoon, she's about twenty
 and seems like a sweety,
she came on here for about a minute or two
wrote horible a few times and went back to cafety,
you can find her account over there with her signed in and everything
why staff has someone carrying around a bag of vomit in her story i don't know, i can't figure out if the vomiting girl is an anorexic on a hunger strike or someone who's liver is about to fail
Milkblood and sara were chatting over on Cafety and the vomiting girl isn't her.
again there is a lot of vomiting in PV,
JerseyGurl was restrained in her vomit,
 the girl with ecoli also almost went into liver failure because staff also denied her medical attention,
 the girl with ecoli is also not socleansara because you can find a history of the case filed on another page, so there is something weird going on with stomach problems
PTS also does not help with your stomach not being tied in nots
speaking of war stories
Zen says his daughter remembers girls throwing up on work detail and saying they felt sick and couldn't work
so anyway something is causing it
here is Milkbloods account
Milkblood was also apparently a cuticle self mutilator! the freak!

"I was in Peninsula Village for 8 months in 2003-2004. I was in the lockdown unit for the first 4 months and in the cabins (in the winter) for the remainding 4 months. The lockdown unit is one room with 12 beds in it, seperated by walls. You are not allowed to look up from the floor at anyone entering or leaving the unit. You are not allowed to look at other patients or talk to them. You have to sit in the middle of your bed all day, back to the wall, no sleeping, eyes open. If you are seen by another patient breaking a rule (which i never understood as you aren't supposed to be looking at other patients) you are then confronted by the whole group and are given a consequence. When I was on STU (the lockdown unit) I was restrained countless times. The very first time I was restrained on the bed, I had these huge mitts on my hands to keep myself from picking at my fingers. I will not deny that I had been harming myself by picking at my fingers. The nurse on charge put bandages on all of my fingers. As I was in my bed with these huge mitts on and bandages, I was touching the ends of my fingers to see if the blood was still flowing to the tips of my fingers as the bandages were way to tight. A staff saw me doing this and literally jerked me onto the floor as those horrible sirens went off. They hoisted me up onto the bed after about 5 minutes of holding me down (I wasn't resisting as i was terribly frightened). As they were strapping my legs and arms into the bed net I remember (and will never forget) the words that the staff said to me. She said "We are not doing this to hurt you." ALl i could think about at that time was why am i being strapped to this bed. I will never forget these moments.

In the cabins we live in a small cabin with 12 bunk beds. We slept in our own sleeping bags as it was winter. There was no electricity in the cabin. There was one lightbulb over the staffs desk that was lit by a car battery. The cabin was heated by one woodstove in the center of the cabin. We were forced to clean every place we visited, (the YC, the bathhouse, the cabin) numerous times. If there were over 5 specks of dirt found in the location, we were made to clean it all over again. Repeat process if more dirt was found. Sometimes we spent the whole day cleaning the YC while the staff sat in the chair and watched. We were forced to wash the van in the dead of winter. One patiend that was there was always vomiting her food up. She thew up in the woodpile and they made her clean it up. She even resorted to vomiting in the vent in the school bathroom. After a month it was discovered and they just ende dup giving her a grocery bag to carry around and vomit in whenever she wanted. IF she vomited in the bag she had to carry it around with her until the staff said she could dispose of it. Is this sanitary??? NO. Eventually this girl passed out in the toilet and was taken to the hospital, probably from severe dehydration. Girls were put in straight jackets and walked around all day.We had to carry around bags of sand as a consequence. Our consequences as a group got so backe dup that we had to wake up at 5am and do over 200 push ups for weeks. I pretending to be asleep one night and I overheard the staff making fun of a few patients. When i told my mom about this in treatment i was brushed off by my therapist as being manipulative and lying to get attention.

there were so many things that happened at PV that i would love to forget, as they still give me nightmares to this day. I am 20 years old now.I have No doubt that Pv is life changing."

[Anonymous]

any one responsible for sending those kids off to die in Vietnam is a traitor, stupid, insane and abusive and should go to jail  :flame:
sorry the book is just really moving and a fast read
totally go get it
what's scary if you think about it, a lot of the SOB's in power then are still around today, like Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld worked for a Pharmaceutical company for eight years too, G. D. Searle & Co.
and the guy that replaced him as Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates was the head of the CIA from 91-93
Neo-cons are really creepy
on gut instinct i trusted them right away about as far as i could throw them, which isn't far considering the secret service and all
otherwise ancient neo-con tossing sounds like a good sport

[ZenAgent]

Hey Zen no offense but they didn't have any Columbine candidates in PV when i was there, although they were sure looking for them

None taken.  They were (are?) in the guys' program, so you wouldn't have been aware of them.  I imagine a lot of female patients' parents would have been pissed and horrified to know a baseball bat rapist/sodomite was within shouting distance of their daughters.

when i was in the only girl they were billing as a columbine candidate was this thirteen year old who had written something in her diary about wishing the kids who bullied her in school would die :roll:
Her parents were going through a divorce and her father seized custody.
He used the girls typical teenager who's parents are going through a divorce angst filled diary as an excuse to say she was suicidal!
her father was a therapist. So he was using PV against the mom, making it seem like the girl needed to live with him instead of her!
This is true, she slept on the cot across from me in STU

I certainly don't doubt the truth of it.  The story sounds uncomfortably similar to what we went through.  Tennessee laws make it easy to pull "legal kidnappings" - you can get emergency custody of a child from the custodial parent with nothing but hearsay evidence, and the parent who requests emergency custody isn't checked out at all.  It's possible for an alcoholic/drug abusing/alleged pedophile parent who hasn't had real contact with a child in years to cook up any kind of BS accusations, grab the child with police assistance, and get a three day head start on flight.  A wretch could get even more running time by getting the custody papers on Friday morning and delaying the serving of papers until Saturday.  That tactic makes it nearly impossible to get legal counsel until Monday, then the lawyer needs to get a grip on the situation, and a week or more goes by before any action is taken.  It doesn't sound legal, and probably isn't.  There's supposed to be an evidentiary hearing within three days - don't expect it,  especially if the child has already been removed from the state.

Basically, don't expect the legal system to work in any sort of fair and reasonable fashion.  I was forty years old when I finally saw that the legal system I always thought would be just and prudent, punished the guilty and protected the innocent, etc., etc., was a joke..  Justice is more than blind -  it's blind, crippled, and crazy as a shit-house rat.

You have a year in TN to sue for med malpractice,
although there are loopholes,
but i can't get a lawyer to take the case without paying them a couple thousand dollars at this point

You're right about the ridiculously short one year statute of limitations for filing malpractice.  Tennessee has one of the shortest filing periods in the country.  The statute is worded to discourage people from suing - the legal system doesn't want the hassle.  However, the clock doesn't start ticking on the statute of limitations until the patient is 18 - very useful information for PV survivors.

Then there's the "date of discovery" - for example, you suffered the torments of the damned in PV seven, eight years ago and no one took you seriously.  You turned 18, and the time limit came and went. Years later, you discover the PV psychologist who diagnosed you wasn't licensed by the state, despite PV's claim that all clinical directors are "state licensed".  Your diagnosis shouldn't have been made by someone not authorized to oversee your treatment or prescribe an aspirin.  Or you discover the substance abuse counselor who didn't go to college suddenly appears on PV's website with "Education/Qualifications" stating he's an APA certified, state licensed psychologist.  When the real psychologist finally got his license, the AA freak reverted back to ropes specialist and SAC, main qualification:  failed druggie, out to punish anyone indulging in what he can't have.  Conspiracy...  The day you discover this kind of information is when the one year to file starts again.  Get a lawyer, post haste.  If the case looks solid, an attorney will take part of the settlement/judgment as his fee.

[Anonymous]

Hey Zen no offense but they didn't have any Columbine candidates in PV when i was there, although they were sure looking for them

None taken.  They were (are?) in the guys' program, so you wouldn't have been aware of them.  I imagine a lot of female patients' parents would have been pissed and horrified to know a baseball bat rapist/sodomite was within shouting distance of their daughters.

when i was in the only girl they were billing as a columbine candidate was this thirteen year old who had written something in her diary about wishing The kids who bullied her in school would die :roll:
Her parents were going through a divorce and her father seized custody.
He used the girls typical teenager who's parents are going through a divorce angst filled diary as an excuse to say she was suicidal!
her father was a therapist. So he was using PV against the mom, making it seem like the girl needed to live with him instead of her!
This is true, she slept on the cot across from me in STU

I certainly don't doubt the truth of it.  The story sounds uncomfortably similar to what we went through.  Tennessee laws make it easy to pull "legal kidnappings" - you can get emergency custody of a child from the custodial parent with nothing but hearsay evidence, and the parent who requests emergency custody isn't checked out at all.  It's possible for an alcoholic/drug abusing/alleged pedophile parent who hasn't had real contact with a child in years to cook up any kind of BS accusations, grab the child with police assistance, and get a three day head start on flight.  A wretch could get even more running time by getting the custody papers on Friday morning and delaying the serving of papers until Saturday.  That tactic makes it nearly impossible to get legal counsel until Monday, then the lawyer needs to get a grip on the situation, and a week or more goes by before any action is taken.  It doesn't sound legal, and probably isn't.  There's supposed to be an evidentiary hearing within three days - don't expect it,  especially if the child has already been removed from the state.

Basically, don't expect the legal system to work in any sort of fair and reasonable fashion.  I was forty years old when I finally saw that the legal system I always thought would be just and prudent, punished the guilty and protected the innocent, etc., etc., was a joke..  Justice is more than blind -  it's blind, crippled, and crazy as a shit-house rat.

You have a year in TN to sue for med malpractice,
although there are loopholes,
but i can't get a lawyer to take the case without paying them a couple thousand dollars at this point

You're right about the ridiculously short one year statute of limitations for filing malpractice.  Tennessee has one of the shortest filing periods in the country.  The statute is worded to discourage people from suing - the legal system doesn't want the hassle.  However, the clock doesn't start ticking on the statute of limitations until the patient is 18 - very useful information for PV survivors.

Then there's the "date of discovery" - for example, you suffered the torments of the damned in PV seven, eight years ago and no one took you seriously.  You turned 18, and the time limit came and went. Years later, you discover the PV psychologist who diagnosed you wasn't licensed by the state, despite PV's claim that all clinical directors are "state licensed".  Your diagnosis shouldn't have been made by someone not authorized to oversee your treatment or prescribe an aspirin.  Or you discover the substance abuse counselor who didn't go to college suddenly appears on PV's website with "Education/Qualifications" stating he's an APA certified, state licensed psychologist.  When the real psychologist finally got his license, the AA freak reverted back to ropes specialist and SAC, main qualification:  failed druggie, out to punish anyone indulging in what he can't have.  Conspiracy...  The day you discover this kind of information is when the one year to file starts again.  Get a lawyer, post haste.  If the case looks solid, an attorney will take part of the settlement/judgment as his fee.

That story seems really familiar.  Have you posted it here before or have I read about it in Anderson County Chancery Court files?

[Anonymous]

i also have great doubts about the legal system at this point
i think most of us tend to avoid it
then when we actually have to deal with it we find
it is blind, crippled and crazy in a lot of ways and not at all what we were taught to believe
i am trying to figure it out with the whole political science thing but it seems like i never get to learn what i want
sometimes i wish i could just spend the time it takes for me to take "required courses" like ancient medevil science, or the philosophy of morality and ethics, or latin and just spend the time researching law in the library

it's annoying,
 because i had to transfer to the state school
there are all these specific things that they require that were not required elsewhere before
i have to take two science electives!!!
i have already taken the core sciences and labs,
 i took physics damn it!
but now, as a senior who could be doing a lot more important things with their time, they have me taking Home Horticulture!!! and Ancient Midevil Science because i need the two science electives to graduate from their college!
i live in an abusive family and can't afford to move out until i finish college and the "public" state college requires me to take underwater basket weaving and knitting before i can graduate, Home Horticulture!!!!!!
the morality and ethics class is pretty stupid too and i've basically had it before, I have to take it because the "public" state college also requires that you have one philosophy credit and they wont count other very similiar classes as my philosophy credit, philosophy was not required at Colorado State or the womens college.
so they have me taking a philosophy credit
i took religion and culture, but because i am not formally accepted at the state "public" college, even though i got a 3.7 GPA at their idiotic school last semester and have a very high GPA over all at this point,
the advisors are not very helpful

i have been trying to become formally accepted at the only "public" university in my city for the past year because my father won't pay the 10000 a semester for the private womens college i was attending.
but they want high school credits of course and not from a behavioral modification facility either!!  It's  very selective for how run down and small most of the buildings are, the kids are really clean cut and there are lot's of religious ones,
i don't think i've seen a pot head yet, no pink hair, i don't even think i've seen acne!  i have this weird feeling they are all in an internment camp somewhere!
no matter of course i have three years of college completed,
with high grades,
I also took one class at their stupid college back in 1998 when i was right out of PV and had no homework skills
and i failed it when my mother kicked me out
last year they kept telling me i had to retake the class from 98 and that it would be offered next semester, before i could apply formally
it turns out that the class isn't even offered anymore!
it was another underwater basket weaving class,
ancient theater or something
oh well i got a 97 on my last underwater basket weaving test
again i had a 3.7 GPA last semester at their stupid school
 it's not that hard
frustrating and stupid and a little evil maybe but not hard
and last semester i was taking international politics and law and justice system classes

I filled out all these forms to be allowed to take classes this semester too, and they didn't even get back to me!!!
how horrible is that, i got a 3.7 GPA last semester and they can't even get back to me.  I had to go in and talk to all these people, apparently they had done away with the adult education program i was enrolled in over the summer and so all my forms didn't go anywhere!!  
No one thought to tell me this when i had gone in to pick up the forms a month before, they did finally tell me "oh sorry that class we have been telling you to retake isn't offered anymore!!!!  But it's too late to apply formally now."  
before they had told me I had to retake that class from 98 before i could be addmitted formally and that i could take as many classes as i wanted through adult ed!!  
I also think it's interesting they just did away with adult education over the summer but what the crazy hell ever!!
so anyway i went down to talk to them and the woman who used to be in charge of adult ed magnamously decided to let me take as many courses as i wanted without being formally admitted as a special case, of course my life and education depended on her arbitrary decision to take pity on me that day
again despite that i have three years of college credits and got a 3.7 GPS at their school the semester before and they have been giving me a beurocratic run arround like i have never seen!
i also have no idea who all these people behind desks that get to decide my fate are, they don't look like college professors?
this school isn't that great a school either, it has a reputation as the local cow college, perhaps hence the required home horticulture.
i get really tired of being treated like i'm stupid too
again i could learn a hell of a lot more if they just left me alone in a library
it's less intelligence then nodding and smiling while someone tells you your stupid and jumping through hoop after hoop after hoop
the hoops are stupid and a waste of time, especially when you wake up and realize they have you taking HOME HORTICULTURE when you already took Physics and Biology,  
i ended up taking all these idiotic required credits too because by the time i got all of the above crap worked out the very specific Political Science classes i have left to take were all full or reserved for actual formally admitted students only
i know this all sounds like Catch 22
i still am having trouble figuring it all out
i think i've decided that beurocracy especially at this college
it archiac and the spawn of satan, and maybe some old men in funny pants, my Latin professor has very funny pants

also  my boss said i could work full time and become an assistant manager at B&N, he didn't actually say i'd make 9 whole dollars an hour
i just know that's how much the other assistant manager makes
he's been there for years though and is thirty four and lives with his mom and he's so depressed poor thing, otherwise he's an ok human and smart
i'm guessing i'd make 8.25, I think they just put the .25 in to be insulting
why not just make it 7 or 7.50 how Nickled and Dimed is 7.25!

State laws are often archiac,
the whole state legal system needs more oversite to say the least

here is my confused admission letter so you know i'm not making this crap up,  I still can't believe they just did away with adult education without at least mailing the students out something saying so!!!
this is actually my application letter, i filled out an application as soon as i found out the class they kept telling me to retake was no longer offered,
they again did not even write me back about my application!!
i guess because it was past the deadline?  The took my 70.00 application fee just fine of course, no refunds there, even though they couldn't even write me a letter saying sorry to late, we fucked up i guess you can't retake that class we told you you had to retake.

Thank you for considering my application for admittance to NC State.  I realize that it is past the deadline for acceptance for the Fall semester but I just learned today that my plans to take full time classes through the Lifelong Education program were not possible.  I am currently attending as a Lifelong Education Student.  I was told when I applied for the Spring of 2007 semester, that I would need to retake a course I took through the Lifelong Education program back in 1998 before I was considered for admittance.  I  had planned to take this course this upcoming Fall semester, it was not offered in the Spring, i was just told today that it is no longer even offered at State and that there is therefore no way i can retake it.  I have been attempting to transfer to State from Meredith College due to expenses.  
I attended courses at State last spring semester and earned a 3.7 GPA for the semester.  Without that course taken in 98, I have a GPA well over the 3.0 needed for admittance.   I have worked in retail for many years and am completely dedicated to finishing school, as my more recent grades prove.  
I had hoped to request to be allowed to take a full course load this Fall, or at least four classes all told, despite not being admitted formally.  My understanding was (you assholes told me) I could request to take more classes through the Lifelong Education program, as i had this Spring semester.   I had planned to retake the class from 98 with a full course load, keep up my high GPA and formally apply for the Spring 2008 semester.  I really want to finish college so I can have a career and an independent life.  Working in retail or getting married does not provide this.  I really want to be given the opportunity for a college education.  I think I have proved my ability and I plan to retake the course I failed in 1998 next semester.  I had moved out of North Carolina to get married, and only moved back home to my family when that fell through.  
I am a dedicated and hard worker and I hope that you will allow me to get a college education.  I can not afford to move out of the Raleigh area.  I am currently employed at Barnes & Nobles.  It is very important to me to be able to take a full course load next semester, I moved back in with my parents to facilitate this.  Much of the money I make working goes toward school.  This is the only way I have enough to live and still graduate anytime soon.  I was enrolled in Meredith College as a full time student, but my family does not have the ten thousand dollars a semester required for me to continue at Meredith.  I would have loved to stay at Meredith and my GPA was high.  Please allow me to take a full course load next semester, perhaps with the stipulation that I have to take and pass the course from 98.  I am really very worried about this.  If it is not possible for me to be accepted formally this Fall semester, I only ask that I be allowed to take at least four classes through the Lifelong Education program.

[Anonymous]

and i know that’s not how you spell bureaucracy, it's early in the morning
My mom is trying to hook me up with her forty year old recently divorced plastic surgeon, i think she wants free Botox
no joke, she was going on and on about it last night
underwater basket weaving and marrying the plastic surgeon!!!!
i feel like i'm treading water in the 14th century and yes it’s medieval too

[Anonymous]

that was actually a rough draft of two different letters i think
this summer was a stressful bureaucratic nightmare
oh and magnanimos, sorry type fast early make free crazy and dyslexic
i'm sorry too the kids, a lot of them don't know their asses from their elbows from a camouflage truck with deer lights and yes there are more then a couple camouflage trucks with deer lights
not to sound like a snot, but i've lived all over the damn world
i literally eat books for breakfast,  my idea of fun is to read  Anna Karenina, that's actually sadly the last thing i did for fun!
the only thing i watch on TV is History channel 2 and the Military History Channel, and some 18 or 21 year old twerp in pastel and kahki or
 deer camouflage actually chewing tabacco is more qualified to get a college education?
the kids really don't know much, i'm not joking, even the seniors
 i am also really not joking about my mother and the plastic surgeon, he hits on me too, so i'm worried about it, it's creepy
he's old and i think he cheated on his wife thats why he's getting a divorce

[Anonymous]

some of my random classes the professors are very nice and it's a very good class, it's just that i need to graduate so i can make a living
and none of these classes were required at the Women's college
and i feel like i'm on some damn side tangent with time passing and the wheels spinning, again i feel like i'm in another century
like my mom says "if the plastic surgeon calls and asks you for a date you say yes!" no joke direct quote from a good twenty minute conversation last night

[Anonymous]

I am not picking on the kids with deer headlights on their camouflage trucks
i have sadly chewed tobacco and all I can say is I can’t believe they do it all the time
when in Rome and all that
friends who’s relatives hunt are actually pretty useful
deer meat is good, you’d be amazed
 especially if you marinate it with apples and slow cook it with a bunch of  vegetables
all I am saying is they don’t look like any better intellectual scholars then me!
Just because they got through public high school in a nice little small town somewhere
I think at my age with my life experience and nerdy affinity for books
I am just as capable of succeeding in college!
Zen what you wrote is great
I think it’s important that real people talk about their real experiences with the different state legal systems and their mind numbing bureaucracy
There are many non deer hunting children at my college
 and a few of them don’t wear pastel and khaki
my medieval science professor is a lovely older gentleman too
and the class is great, it’s just that at the women’s college I felt like I could see how to get from A to B, now I’m taking all these weird classes I didn’t have to take there
and I feel like it’s putting me behind by another semester, while ancient medicine is cool I don’t feel like it’s getting me any closer to a degree!
but oh well, irony and patience is good for my future career as a writer or something
I’ve seen enough of it at this point
the woman who was in charge of adult education is a really nice person
I think she’s upset they decided to do away with the program, which is why she helped me!

[Anonymous]

one random science elective ok but two!!!!
that's almost half of a semester, half of my year!!!
and working and going to school is hard too
especially 8 hr days there isn't time for all of it
the colleges are really unaware and elitist,
college shouldn't just be for little kids

[Anonymous]

Check out the new PV Vision. It is spilling over with exuberant claims of excellence! Fraudulent advertising at its finest!  


http://www.peninsulavillage.org/vision% ... %20web.pdf

[Anonymous]

Winston? Is that you? It must suck being a propagandist when you don't actually work for the government.

[Anonymous]

Tis me! How did you know? This gives me the m*th#f&king HORN I tell yer!

[Anonymous]

And it's VICEROY not Winston!