Anatomy of the Stephanie Jarvis Grift - A Major Chateau Setback video
As is typical Fanny, IMHO, this is an intentionally set up fake event to generate content, create another âdelayâ for heating since the pressure is on for her to do something about heating since Fall is arriving, create a new âsudden setbackâ and rake in more monies from Patrons. She knows and is aware before the video is shot about the condition of the chimneys and the flues.
How to Set up the Grift
1. Start with the obligatory bed shot, then leaning out her open bedroom window, then create faux doomsday scenario by dramatically and breathlessly claiming that the log burners must be installed so âwe wonât freeze this winter.â Oh no, little Orphan princess Fanny could not freeze, how horrible.
She neglects to mention that the log burners will only heat a few rooms of the Dump, so she really means I, Snorts, Anne Marie, and the Argentenian Bully need to be lukewarm in the winter. The most she will ever do for heating at the Dump will be the purchase of the 3-4 log burners.
And remember, Fanny will be traveling with Potts for weeks most likely from Mid November to mid February, when racing starts up again. She will be there for a week max and then will be off on her travels. She will use the lack of heating to be gone from the Dump for weeks.
2. Have Anne Marie start the project by tearing out a portion of the fireplace in Fannyâs âoffice.â
Film him, while heckling his efforts and imperiously laughing at the difficulties he encounters and the bricks and debris falling on him. She has Anne Marie doing this when she knows that the wood burners cannot be installed.
3. Create drama by her ârunning down to see how they actually clear those chimneys.â She has seen it before but has to pretend that this is the first time it has occurred and that she is incredibly curious about it.
Mock Anne Marie for putting up plastic sheeting to protect the walls and furnishing from dust and debris. Stop to heckle the Douche Lorde, and film the latest volunteer.
Moving on to the heart of the grifting scheme
4. Oh No, the cherry picker is too small and they need to rent a taller cherry picker. Need to rent a bigger one. Refer to what Claire has posted about the cherry picker, chimneys, etc. in this thread. Fanny amps up the manufactured drama by breathlessly narrating the cherry pickerâs actions.
She then breathlessly and manically ambushes a fed up and unsurprised Percy and Mummy, â They canât get to either chimney, the picker is short by one and a half meters (approximately 5 feet). Mummy wearily replies, âI know,â and she and Percy shuffle out of the lens of the camera.
5. Fanny then shuts down the whole notion of cleaning the chimneys and installing the wood burners with â So annoying!!! Nothing can be done.ââ They canât get to either chimney.â Creates drama but âthey were soooooo close.â âSo near and yet so far we had everyone hereâ â No they have to hire another cherry picker and they have no idea when their next slot is to come back to the Dump (how convenient) so â we donât know when we can get them installed.â Fanny complains that âshe is very sad to see the wood grate put back into place in her fireplace.â
She then tells Snorts that âthey canât do itâ and layers on a new lie âthey canât reach either chimney and they said that is the biggest cherry picker they can get in the local area.â âThey canât get to either chimney so they canâs put flues down.â âNow we have to think about scaffolding or if there are any bigger cherrypickers.â None of the logburners an be installed at the moment.
6. Fanny claims that she just realized that there are 4 fireplaces on one chimney. This is the first time she has learned this after 17 years at the Dump? Bullshit. She has never had the chimneys inspected although she had used them on and off for over 17 years? WTF.
Now it is time to amp up the drama, lies, and little lost orphan victim scenario. Fanny now claims the chimneys are a mess and a mystery and they have no ideas where the flues are going. All the chimneys are in such a confusion and a state and we wonder about the one chimney we use regularly. She pretends she is surprised that the chimneys may be unsafe.
Now she is quite demoralized Here come more little victim Fanny. Fanny, furiously blinking, says she had all the equipment to install the burners. Then the blaming of the chimney company starts in full force:
Cherry picker not big enough
They hired a second cherry picker that is not big enough
Now we need scaffolding
Closing the grifting scenario with news that it will cost lots more money to âfixâ the âsudden surpriseâ about the chimneys.
Now have to completely rethink the way that the chimneys are to be used with 4 fireplaces going thru one flue, you canât have 2 fireplaces going thru one flue, that is illegal. Then Fanny hastens to add, to cover her ass, that âwe havenât used them, thank goodness.â Who believes that.
â This is going to be a very big job now.â For the cost of a few hundred dollars to the contractors, she now has pushed the heating scenario to the background for months so she can be excused from doing nothing about heating, and create another tragic issue that will require lots more money to fix...... just like the chapel scheme.
How many times has she pulled this con? Then she flits off to an expensive Disney vacation with 4 of her employees/volunteers, and the Douche Lord. She is so predictable.Rinse and repeat.