All quiet on the western front

The kidlet has gone to school. The husband has gone to work. Most of the cats have come and gone to do whatever cats do during the daylight hours. Sleep, most likely. And the brother is no longer here. The husband took Friday off so he could transport the brother back to my parents' house. He said he never heard the F bomb so many times in one day. I didn't go. There's no way in hell I'd subject myself to being trapped in a car with him for two+ hours.
A few quotes from the whole debauched attempt at my good deed:
"No good deed goes unpunished." (Mom) She wasn't kidding.
"He's your headache now." (Dad) More like one continuous migraine.
"He doesn't have a handy bone in his body." (the husband)
"I'll beg, borrow, or steal if that's what it takes." (brother) Apparently he won't work though. I think the appropriate quote would be "lie, cheat, and steal" but that's splitting hairs. Apples/apples. He said that dad abused him as a kid and he's still abusing him now. The brother is nearly 60 years old. He had the opportunity HERE to get away from that "abusive" situation but he decided to beg, borrow, lie and cheat from us instead.
The parents gave him their version of an ultimatum: They'll put tires on his car and get it on the road, rent him a Uhaul, clear his debt with them, and give him a fat check for $10K provided he never darken their doorstep again. That would be his inheritance. End of story.
Or so you'd think.
Who knew ultimatums had options. It was a brilliant move on his part. He had everyone here buffaloed into thinking he was a bit brain-dead but the cunning gears were silently cranking away the whole time he was here. He said, "No." Shut the front door!
He knew full well that he'd run thru the 10 grand in a heartbeat. It will be much more lucrative for him to stay in their home and wait for someone to die...and maybe even help the process along a little bit. Dad, "the abuser", is 86. Mom, 78. They both have high blood pressure. It wouldn't take much. Besides, he couldn't let his brother on the hill get away with what he was doing: living on the parents' property without paying rent, or the electric bill, snuggled down all cozy with his girlfriend, his wife and her 46 year old unemployed son (who was paying the brother rent when he had a job but now spends his days hiding in the woods drinking beer). That brother's extended unemployment is about to run out and yet he has every satellite cable channel imaginable, smokes like a train, drinks beer (although there was a NO ALCOHOL ultimatum in effect...haha), and apparently has had certain illegal substances DELIVERED to him on occasion. That brother has his knickers in a twist because brother #1 is living in the house with the parents and not paying rent or utilities. So, I guess, if brother #1 isn't paying the parents anything, he won't either. The parents complain about it to me. I hear it all. Every excruciating detail.
"We're not funding him (brother #1) for another trip!"........right.
"We're going to tell the electric company to pull the plug!".......right.
"We've sacrificed enough!"........enough is such a subjective term.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)