Odd Phone Call Today

[Evil Monkey]

I had a similar incident not to long ago...as some may remember. You know something? Everything went ALRIGHT and is taken care of.

You know who were the scary people that had me staying up all night? Not the FBI, or the CIA, or the local Police, or the State Police, or Homeland Security, or the Secret Service, or the SWAT teams, but the very people in this forum.

"this seems phishy..."
"it's ODD to have fbi and state trooper..."
"a robber is gonna get you..."

^^^^
All that stuff proves that human beings have a serious problem with rationalizing probabilities. People are worried over things that will almost NEVER happen to them like being a victim of police corruption but they aren't worried about things that happen more often like car accidents or mismanaging your money and becoming broke.

I read somewhere that Novelty + The Unknown = FEAR

 

[budney]

•*Magazines for many different firearms
• MREs
•*Body armor
•*Rifle protection plates for body armor
•*Ammo
•*Firearms
•*Assorted ranges bags and tactical bags
•*Pepper Spray
• 10 pairs of handcuffs
•*A scope
•*a lasermax for my glock
•*bunch of hostlers

It was the MREs. Only whacko militia survivalists buy MREs. As for the handcuffs and Hustlers... you're just sick.

--Len.

 

[GhostlyKarliion]

Quote:
*toung falls out of head in surprise* bleh!..!!

how the hell is defending your home "not your job"!?!?

Something tells me you need new batteries in your sarcasm detector...

yeah, I'd check yours too there, buddy, I think you misse something...

 

[CavalryJim]

These guys were fishing for information....talking to them is a bad idea.

 

[TimboKhan]

A couple of years back, I got a call from the Fort Collins police wanting me to come in and talk. A situation at work had occured, and I was supposed to go to court to testify (fradulent check, if anyone is curious), so I assumed that it was about that. It turns out I was wrong. Evidently some guy that looked a lot like me had robbed one of the local Wells Fargo branches, and I ended up being interrogated for about two hours. I have never had anything worse than a traffic ticket over my head, so I will tell you that I was more than a little freaked out. Here is what I learned:

1. Lawyer up. I don't care what anyone says, what anyones feelings towards lawyers are or what anyone tells you about the pros and cons of getting a lawyer. I will never talk to the police again without a lawyer present, Period.

2. The cops aren't screwing around. To this day, I have no idea how they got my name in relation to this case, but they did.

3. Tell the truth. I didn't have anything to do with this crime, and in fact had never even been in that bank. I will let my lawyer do all the talking for me if this ever happens again, but you will have to talk at some point, and when you do, tell the truth. Sounds like simple advice, but I found out later from my old boss that they had went to my old work and looked at the security tapes to see if I was where I said I was. I told the truth, and the tapes reflected that.

4. Seriously, get a lawyer.

5. The police are trying to get you to admit that you did something, even if you didn't. It's not that they are trying to frame you as much as much as it is that they are trying to trip you up. In my case, I honestly answered that I didn't think that I had ever been in that bank. The fact that there was doubt expressed in my statement added, I think, at least an hour to my interrogation. At some point I am sure the cops know your not the person they are looking for, but by tripping me up a little bit, they were able to probe way deeper. Get a lawyer, and this is much less of a problem.


By the way, if I haven't made it crystal clear, I did not rob the Wells Fargo. I don't know who did, but it wasn't me. I would like to find the guy that did and punch him in the face for making me go through two hours of being really, really freaked out! Get a lawyer.

 

[Cosmoline]

Dude, you should have lawyered up. You still should. I'd be concerned about how they learned about your online purchases and why it's any of their business in the first place. Instead you invite them in and tell them everything they want to know. Why?

 

[kellyj00]

the same thing happened to me.

I've done a lot of shopping online recently myself....
A dozen pair of black tactical underwear.
Two boxes of Iam's deluxe dog food
a baker's dozen of disposable enimas
50 lbs of coffee sealed in women's nylons and bubble wrap
box of sparklers
a grande meal from Taco Bell.
an autographed picture of chuck norris.

Except I was interrogated by a duck, an adult movie director and MacGyver himself.

 

[D.S. Ambrose]

the same thing happened to me.

I've done a lot of shopping online recently myself....
A dozen pair of black tactical underwear.
Two boxes of Iam's deluxe dog food
a baker's dozen of disposable enimas
50 lbs of coffee sealed in women's nylons and bubble wrap
box of sparklers
a grande meal from Taco Bell.
an autographed picture of chuck norris.

That's because they thought you were Marylin Manson.

 

[992]

Normal

After reading this,I feel almost normal.Yep,I am not even close to being in the majors when compared to some of you guys.

992

 

[TallPine]

[are you] planning to overthrow the government?

Well, yes - every time I vote as a matter of fact

(not that it works all that well ... )

 

[pacodelahoya]

I think that it is pretty messed up that a guy buys some perfectly legal stuff off the internet then gets the third degree from the feds. Any one who doesn't think this a big deal needs a reality check.
A sign of things to come.

 

[1911ShooterTJ]

After reading this,I feel almost normal.Yep,I am not even close to being in the majors when compared to some of you guys.

992

So it ended "well" (at least as far as not being robbed). However, perhaps you should be feeling a little too complacent…

Getting that kind of treatment, as innocuous as it may seem superficially, just for purchasing a few things online? Give me a break.

Perhaps I should hurry and cancel the 500GB external hard drive I just bought online. You never know… I might be locked away for purchasing a device that can store “dangerous information” (like my résumé and iTunes purchases)

A bad sign of things to come…

 

[runfrumu]

you should have asked them if they had AIM so you could add them to your "friends list" and for their myspace page so you could add them their too.

 

[dasmi]

The moral of the story: Pay cash, buy local if you're buying something that might tweak the nose of some friendly government agent.

 

[Engel]

Now when I imagine Jester, I imagine Gary Busey living in a school bus in the middle of the woods surrounded by booby traps and land mines... and oh yeah.. he has the whole bruce lee set on lazer disc.

 

[Blackbeard]

I think we're being a bit too paranoid here. It's probably some antiterrorism task force just checking that he's not a jihadist. It wouldn't be too hard for several Al Qaeda to live in the US, become bail agents, order a bunch of hardware and take down a school somewhere.

 

[MinnMooney]

This equation is just bad equating! lol

by : Evil Monkey -

I read somewhere that Novelty + The Unknown = FEAR

No disrespect EM but Novelty & The Unknown are nearly synonymous.

Webster's : Novelty : 1. A state or quality of being novel, new, unique or unknown; newness

 

[Torque]

Edit: Now to be fair they never said exactly what the items in questions where in the last few months I have bought

•*Magazines for many different firearms
• MREs
•*Body armor
•*Rifle protection plates for body armor
•*Ammo
•*Firearms
•*Assorted ranges bags and tactical bags
•*Pepper Spray
• 10 pairs of handcuffs
•*A scope
•*a lasermax for my glock
•*bunch of hostlers

ALL of the ABOVE!

Dood seriously from ME to YOU..... BE CAREFUL! You'll probably need an attorney pretty soon. If they disregard you it is only because you are bail enforcement. I still bet they are going to 'have an eye on you'.

I really do know what I am talking about. And not from just watching action TV shows like alot of these people who posted here.

 

[Evil Monkey]

No disrespect EM but Novelty & The Unknown are nearly synonomous.

Notice how I said "I read somewhere"....

*runs away from the spotlight*

 

[bogie]

"Gee, Brain, what are we going to do tonight?"

 

[Molon Labe]

This story is BS.

Sorry.

FBI? Asking for your screen names? Gimme a break. They can lift that in about 2 seconds. They'd know if you were involved in anything illegal and would have no reason to talk to you or ask you about screen names.

Folks, this thread is a hoax. Just follow the story. Ignore all posts except for the actual events. Does this sound like law enforcement? Sure, LE does some strange things...but they way it plays out is just too convenient.

I agree.



Here's a thread on SOCNET where jester5167 tells everyone that he was in Special Ops. A number of members believe he was BSing them:

http://www.socnetcentral.com/vb/showthread.php?t=68818

The guys in the thread are the Real Deal. And they grill him good.

 

[teknoid]

This does sound like something "Homeland insecurity" would do. Your tax dollars at work (paid for the Mercedes, too).

 

[buck00]

These guys went fishing big time. The bottom line is you don't have to cooperate or answer any questions for police. Sure, you may think "but I didn't do anything wrong I want to clear my name" but often cops are simply looking to double talking you into saying something you didn't intend, and then using it against you later.

Thanks for sharing the story.

 

[heron]

Jester, I don't think you need to worry about it too much at this point. From what you've already seen of their prior knowledge about you, you can infer that they also know a lot more. If they thought you were really up to something, they'd have sent in the guys in the ninja suits at 3:00 am.

I'm not surprised at the whole thing; someone at Homeland Security must have peed themselves when they saw your shopping list. "Tip line"? Just as likely one of their own trolls, either working out of their office, or maybe within eBay itself.

I find it interesting that they had all their questions ready (I assume they weren't working from crib sheets during the interview) -- which tells me that they've been discussing this beforehand to a great enough extent that they had all the puzzle pieces memorized.

Quite a ride, all in all; nearly everybody's paranoia meters here are on "11," and likely to hover there for a while -- but the underlying truth exposed here is that the Feds are right up there, too.

 

[Elza]

TimboKhan: Evidently some guy that looked a lot like me had robbed one of the local Wells Fargo branches, and I ended up being interrogated for about two hours.

I can well believe this. A fellow worker walked up to me one day and said “I saw you down at the court house yesterday. Your beard and that three-piece suit you were wearing made you look like a lawyer.” Only problem is I hadn’t been at the court house the previous day. All of our co-workers agreed that I had been at work all day. However, he insisted that he had seen me. All of us combined could not shake his belief.

Now, here is someone with whom I had worked for years. He was convinced beyond any doubt that I was not at work but at the local court house. Suppose that he had witnessed a crime instead. I would have had a great time with the cops. And people wonder why I am skeptical of eye-witness testimony (and a little paranoid to boot.)