>Oh incidentally, I found my previous post conveniently cut and pasted
>to a newsgroup by some "anonymous" stalker/lurker using a service to
>attempt (only halfway successfully, I might add) to hide themselves
>and the location that they are writing from. My favorite stalkers are
>obviously trying to stir up a little trouble.
>
>There are some really lonely and pathetic people out there in this
>world.
>
>Like I said, while those of us in this community generally have a very
>positive view of our fellow man (or woman) there are some crazys out
>there. And I'm kinda surprised that more people don't do those cross
>country drives to take a shot at someone or (in the case that we were
>talking about) burn down their homes.
>
>Not a rage thing, but a weird online activity thang that I remember
>from years past: When AOL first became popular several of us in the
>Raleigh area used to have some great parties. It was mostly a bunch of
>30's and young 40's computer geeks and other professionals. This was
>maybe 15 years ago and I'm still in touch with a couple of those
>folks.
>
>Anyway, there was one dude that I vaguely remember who would drive
>down from somewhere up north (Virginia perhaps) and he didn't quite
>fit it. And he was nice enough but hung out by himself.
>
>Anyway, he got involved with some gal from Western NC around Asheville
>(or maybe he was from Asheville and she was from up north; the details
>get foggy after all of these years) and they concocted some sort of
>ritualistic murder/suicide pact. She drove to see him, left messages
>with her hubby that she was going to kill herself, and he strangled
>her with her blessing. The implication that I got from the newspapers
>at the time was that it was a ritualistic bondage/submission/suicide
>thing.
>
>You just have to wonder what goes through the minds of some people.
>
>Be trusting. Be friendly. Be kind to others. And party hardy.
>
>But be aware.
>
>_________________
>--PirateJohn--
>
http://www.PirateJohn.com
>
>
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So everyone knows what lying sociopath asspiratejohn gilmer is
referring to in his irrational and illogical whimpering quoted above,
here is a copy of the earlier message posted by someone who is
obviously well aware of the malicious fallacy originally stated in a
website discussion forum by reprobate gilmer:
From: Anonymous
mixmin.net>
Subject: PirateJohn explains how it really went down here:
Message-ID:
<06bb7c7fc4ffd48075dd40869eee118a@anon.mixmaster.mixmin.net>
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:40:59 -0000
http://www.buffettworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=13194&hilit=
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You have to laugh at this stuff.
I had some crazy old woman fly from Washington State to Florida
insisting on meeting me several years ago. When I refused to meet her
(as politely as I could) she sent me a package of photos - about 45
pics of her and her vibrator and enough extra photos to make it
obvious that she hung around and followed me and my new (at the time)
girlfriend for several days.
It turned out later that I was just one of several men that she had
stalked during the last decade or so.
Then she hooked up with a couple of other psychos (one lesson from all
of this: stalkers and online trolls hang together) - one was the town
retard from some one-horse town up in Wisconsin and the other one had
done prison time and was such a notoriously lying ex-con
snitch-for-hire that he wound up getting mentioned in an article in
Time Magazine.
I wound up on the receiving end of countless death threats, dirty
tricks, and just generally lies and bullshit posted literally
thousands of times that anyone with an IQ over 65 would have trouble
believing.
Yet these people present themselves as "respectable" contributors of a
few newsgroups so they have their fans, despite their actual
backgrounds (One lesson here: be wary of people that avoid letting you
know anything about them in the Real World. Second lesson is that
there are plenty of people online who simply aren't very smart. )
While none of this slowed down my writing or meeting online folks one
bit, it did go to show that, to quote one of the cops that helped me
with this (who in turn had been stalked online too and knew how this
worked) that there are some "sick fucks" out there.
One has to be aware of this. One also has to be aware that much of the
information that is getting onto the 'net these days is being
manufactured by some sick and obsessed people that distort, lie, and
make this crap up 24/7.
Frankly, I'm surprised that there aren't more people going after
others that they disagree with on the 'net.
Which is a pity, because I generally have a very positive view of
humanity. But we do need to realize that there are some serious
nutcases out there and most of them seem to have discovered the 'net.
If it's any consolation I've found that 99.9%% of online stalkers are
pussies. Despite the death threats, over three years none of them ever
had the balls to confront me face-to-face, despite the bravado and
despite the fact that I'd write extensively on my joke list and
motorcycle club mailing lists about where I would be from time to
time.
That, and I'm a cranky SOB and basically squashed those idiots like
bugs both online and in the Real World.
Like I said, ya gotta laugh at this stuff. But be aware.
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