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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
DK wrote: Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote: hk wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:44:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote: I would however love to meet Salty if anyone has his real info.. Although I suspect if he were outed here he would shut up faster than kanter did when he was outed. Check with your local FBI office. Now there's a *corrupt* federal agency if ever there was one. I wonder if the FBI's labs are still playing around with evidence to help support prosecutors. Do you remember when you told us that you contacted the FBI because someone left a message to you on your wife's work number? I believe there was more than one - according to WAFA. That was the suicide hotline (or something) that was monitored 24/7 by the police. Yeah, a suicide hot line monitored by the police and handled by voice mail. Got it. No editing... I have three phone numbers. The phone number listed is not one of mine. It has never been one of mine. The phone number *did* belong to an after-hours message recording hotline my wife maintained for her most mentally disturbed patients. Some of these troubled souls were court-ordered referrals. *Every* call to that phone number--every call--was recorded AND because of the nature of the line, my wife had the ability to alert the telephone company to trace the phone number of every incoming call to that line, *even* if the person making the call tried to block his number. Why, you might ask? Because when you are dealing with suicidal people, they'll liable to tell their therapist over the phone that they are planning to take their life. If the therapist believes the threat is real, she or he will want to dispatch emergency srvices and perhaps the police. In the years my wife has provided this pro bono service, she has never received a threatening or abusive call from a mentally ill patient or court-ordered referral. However, after the ranking Flaming * of this newsgroup posted the hotline number in this newsgroup, she received a number of abusive, foul-mouthed AND life-threatening calls. These were mostly directed at me but, of course, I never received them BECAUSE (duh!) the phone is not mine and I've never answered it. Naturally, my wife alerted the authorities, with whom she works closely because of her court-referred patients. The authorities are investigating the callers and have involved both the FBI *and* authorities in other states, including Florida, Georgia, California and Texas. Working with the telephone company, the authorities have been able to trace the origin of virtually every abusive call. And, of course, they have the tape recordings of the abusive messages. Several suspects have been identified. I really don't know what the outcome of all this will be. We haven't had an update in several weeks, nor are either of us here that interested in the sleazeballs that would make such calls. The phone number, of course, is "wired," so when the obnoxious calls came in from the idiot rec.boaters, the numbers were easy enough to trace. The local police handled a complaint, the local telco was involved and when it was discovered the point of origin was out of state, the FBI got involved. At least one of the idiots was caught and prosecuted. As far as I can tell, he has not posted here again |
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