Florida Trailer Trash Appropriate Park Slope Boy

Over at Gothamist, there's a post from a distraught Park Slope baby-blogger about someone copying the photos of her kid and then posting the photos on another blog as their own child. Wrong, yes, but not that surprising. If you post things publicly on the net you should be aware that this sort of thing could happen. But then here's the kicker:

There were pages of odd stories about her Latino boyfriend, Marco (in fact my husband - not Latino either) and her step-mother (this was actually a photo of me...27 and already a grandmother). Included with the baby photos were shots of her drinking in bars, partying with friends. This girl is 19 years old at most and is bragging about her adorable love-child. As you would expect, I was horrified. Why would somebody do this? Is this allowed, is it legal? And maybe unexpectedly, the absurdity of her story bothered me even more. Suddenly, my Manhattan born Park Slope boy was Hispanic and living in trailer conditions somewhere in Florida. His college educated, former school teacher, stay-at-home mom replaced with a party-girl teen who wears shirts that say "Nail Me".

The horror! Bad enough that someone copied her son's picture, it had to be trailer-trash Latinos!

The more I think about this the more I think the whole thing must be a parody, I mean on the part of the Gothamist poster as opposed to the trailer folks. Even in Park Slope I wouldn't think most people are tone-deaf enough to post something like that. Maybe it's a subtle sendup of shallow, grasping, baby-obsessed Slopers. I love how she sneaked in "Manhattan-born" - if that doesn't signal high-class, what does, right? If it is a parody, bravo! You had me going there for a minute.

If it's not a parody, then the race and class prejudices embedded in the post are really disturbing (yes I know, I'm stereotyping Park Slopers, but c'mon some of them at least deserve it). I guess we should just be able to see the upper-middle-class white goodness radiating from this kid, so we couldn't possibly believe he's a half-Hispanic Floridian. Or maybe it's just jealousy - that chick on the other blog with the fake tan and the "Nail Me!" shirt is hotter than the Sloper mom, even if she is pretty cheesy. And she's obviously out there somewhere having a good time, even if the other blogger stole those pics too. Maybe for the Sloper pushing the Bugaboo to the park where she can tell everybody how much the condo has appreciated is not giving her the kick that it used to, so now she's taking it out on the Latinos?

UPDATE: After looking a bit more through the baby-stealer's blog, I agree with one of the Gothamist commenters that it looks like the setup for a scam. There are lots of meandering posts about "Marco", supposedly the baby's father, that seem to be leading to a "breakup" and then pleas for money to help out with the baby. The pictures of the girl are obviously lifted from some Florida sorority girl's photo blog. I wonder if anyone really falls for this stuff. Hmmm...