Dear Behr, Leave Us Alone! No response Needed.

[XLFD]

In the last few days, at both Ludington Talks and here, The Ludington Torch, several members have been contacted  either via messages or “friend requests” by what appears to be the same individual operating under the names “DaisyMae”, “John Queere”, “Plan B”, etc.  Aquaman/KN, Edie Lindsey, myself, and others, have received messages that were threatening, fraudulent, and/or inappropriate.  To whit:

 

1) Aq/KN received this on a “friend request” from John Queere at LT 3-6-10 at 11:38 AM:  “Aww... did {King Neptune's first name} get his feelings hurt?  You know, the sick mother thing is getting old - just admit to us you are an alcholic - that's believable!”  This was several days after Aquaman's mother died, and he hadn’t posted anything for awhile.
2) EL received this on a "friend request" from JQ at LT the previous day:  "It's cute how you hide behind the screen - I bet you wouldn't have the nerve to be bold in person :)"
3) I received this here at the Torch 3-6-10 1:50P-- A suspended member has sent you a message on The Ludington Torch.  Plan B  writes:  "It's okay - I'll be back as someone else. - It's time members knew the truth about {My real name} - or I mean XFLD.  Oh wait - I am already on there as someone else :) and you know something {my first name}? I'm right you know it - and you can't do anything to stop the truth from coming out - should your members know the truth of why you got fired from the Fire department? or maybe they'd like to see who you are in a photo?"

 

Among others.  I come to this site, and I used to go to Talks, to cordially debate topics, rally around local causes of importance to myself, and check out the wisdom and art of my fellow Torch bearers.  Maybe I make a friend, or change others or my own viewpoint on things in the process.  I don’t come here to find some deranged cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs adult kid contacting me with a threat, an unsubstantiated claim, or any other sort of harassment.  I believe most members would agree with me. 

 

He/she claims to be an ex-cop.  While I don’t believe this or most of his/her other claims, I myself have had some practice in looking up laws on the web.  Perhaps he/she knows the Michigan Penal Code MCL 750.411h (in its entirety attached below) which deals with Harassment:  conduct directed toward a victim that includes, but is not limited to, repeated or continuing unconsented contact that would cause a reasonable individual to suffer emotional distress and that actually causes the victim to suffer emotional distress.  And Stalking: a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

 

Let this thread be a public notice that any further contact with the members of this site, The Ludington Torch, by this man/woman or his/her operatives will not be tolerated; it will be “unconsented contact”  (as per subsection 1(e)(vi) of the above law) and subject the violator to be criminally liable at the discretion of the member(s) so contacted.  Please, leave, and play in your own muddied sandbox, sir/ma'am.

 

To make it clear to this individual, you may post a personal notice addressing him of your desire not to be contacted, bothered and/or intimidated by him.

 

 

 

[XLFD]

And just if you think this individual is a harmless loveable fuzzball, look in at the following posts he made on a you tube site at about the same times he was sending his troubling messages above (you may be able to catch them before he removes them; if not, they are archived. A big guy ranted about Southwest Airlines policy for overweight passengers, it and other posters set him off (warning: sensitive members may not want to view this site):

BehrGoneWild (1 day ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply Maybe someone should shoot you in the face instead Fred?

BehrGoneWild (1 day ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply SWA is a pathetic company - infact I've gone further to put up a blog on the hostile nature of SWA to overweight people - have you ever seen how they treat their overweight employees? NO YOU HAVEN'T - I happen to work for them Freddy - show's what you know with your lil phone cam. I still think it's f**king weird some skinny freak is here bashing someone overweight on his opinion - are you some kind of fatfreak or somethin?

BehrGoneWild (1 day ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply I highly doubt you know SWA. I don't have to tell you where i work at - I don't care to have you stalking me. They won't miss your poor weld puddles either.
YouTube - FU SWA.mht

[Dave]

So let me get this straight... he works for SWA? And he's an ex cop? I thought he went to college?

I'm no genius but something isn't adding up there.

[XLFD]

Thought you'd catch that, Dave. How does he find all the time? There are tons of SWA workers living in Mears, ROFL.

[Dave]

Yeah, the airport is just down the road and all

[Dave]

Kind of funny that someone suggested that they had 'moved on' over yonder.... me thinks they are full of crap due to recent events.

I guess the Soup isn't doing so great if they have to lower themselves to what they are doing. Their loss.

[XLFD]

It speaks volumes when you consider the amount of effort he is putting into posting (mostly) negative content at Ludington Talks, here, and other places, yet there hasn't been any activity at the Soup since Thursday.

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

It is a typical liberal mindset... Its not really about bettering the planet.. Its about trying to make myself look good at the cost of others rights lol Nothing harmless about the emmm fuzzball I agree.

[XLFD]

Guido, you know a bit already about having unconsented contact via the electronic medium from this person that was meant to cause you distress, and having personal and false information posted by him on his site about you. Let us know if it doesn't stop as of today.

[masonco]

What you are talking about is called cyberstalking and harassment. Check with the state police to file and see where to go.

[masonco]

I have information somewhere on internet cyberstalking and MI law.

[masonco]

Here it is for everyone to see. Making copies of everything is vital. I think some of this is newer but I'm not sure.

Michigan
750.411s Posting message through electronic medium; prohibitions; penalty; exceptions; definitions.

Sec. 411s.

(1) A person shall not post a message through the use of any medium of communication, including the internet or a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network, or other electronic medium of communication, without the victim's consent, if all of the following apply:

(a) The person knows or has reason to know that posting the message could cause 2 or more separate noncontinuous acts of unconsented contact with the victim.

(b) Posting the message is intended to cause conduct that would make the victim feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

(c) Conduct arising from posting the message would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress and to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

(d) Conduct arising from posting the message causes the victim to suffer emotional distress and to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a crime as follows:

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.

(b) If any of the following apply, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both:

(i) Posting the message is in violation of a restraining order and the person has received actual notice of that restraining order or posting the message is in violation of an injunction or preliminary injunction.

(ii) Posting the message is in violation of a condition of probation, a condition of parole, a condition of pretrial release, or a condition of release on bond pending appeal.

(iii) Posting the message results in a credible threat being communicated to the victim, a member of the victim's family, or another individual living in the same household as the victim.

(iv) The person has been previously convicted of violating this section or section 145d, 411h, or 411i, or section 6 of 1979 PA 53, MCL 752.796, or a substantially similar law of another state, a political subdivision of another state, or of the United States.

(v) The victim is less than 18 years of age when the violation is committed and the person committing the violation is 5 or more years older than the victim.

(3) This section does not apply to an internet or computer network service provider who in good faith, and without knowledge of the specific nature of the message posted, provides the medium for disseminating information or communication between persons.

(4) The court may order a person convicted of violating this section to reimburse this state or a local unit of government of this state for the expenses incurred in relation to the violation in the same manner that expenses may be ordered to be reimbursed under section 1f of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1f.

(5) This section does not prohibit a person from being charged with, convicted of, or punished for any other violation of law committed by that person while violating or attempting to violate this section.

(6) This section does not prohibit constitutionally protected speech or activity.

(7) A person may be prosecuted in this state for violating or attempting to violate this section only if 1 of the following applies:

(a) The person posts the message while in this state.

(b) Conduct arising from posting the message occurs in this state.

(c) The victim is present in this state at the time the offense or any element of the offense occurs.

(d) The person posting the message knows that the victim resides in this state.

(8) As used in this section:

(a) "Computer" means any connected, directly interoperable or interactive device, equipment, or facility that uses a computer program or other instructions to perform specific operations including logical, arithmetic, or memory functions with or on computer data or a computer program and that can store, retrieve, alter, or communicate the results of the operations to a person, computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.

(b) "Computer network" means the interconnection of hardwire or wireless communication lines with a computer through remote terminals, or a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected computers.

(c) "Computer program" means a series of internal or external instructions communicated in a form acceptable to a computer that directs the functioning of a computer, computer system, or computer network in a manner designed to provide or produce products or results from the computer, computer system, or computer network.

(d) "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or unconnected, computer equipment, devices, software, or hardware.

(e) "Credible threat" means a threat to kill another individual or a threat to inflict physical injury upon another individual that is made in any manner or in any context that causes the individual hearing or receiving the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of another individual.

(f) "Device" includes, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, electrochemical, biochemical, hydraulic, optical, or organic object that performs input, output, or storage functions by the manipulation of electronic, magnetic, or other impulses.

(g) "Emotional distress" means significant mental suffering or distress that may, but does not necessarily, require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.

(h) "Internet" means that term as defined in section 230 of title II of the communications act of 1934, chapter 652, 110 Stat. 137, 47 U.S.C. 230.

(i) "Post a message" means transferring, sending, posting, publishing, disseminating, or otherwise communicating or attempting to transfer, send, post, publish, disseminate, or otherwise communicate information, whether truthful or untruthful, about the victim.

(j) "Unconsented contact" means any contact with another individual that is initiated or continued without that individual's consent or in disregard of that individual's expressed desire that the contact be avoided or discontinued. Unconsented contact includes any of the following:

(i) Following or appearing within sight of the victim.

(ii) Approaching or confronting the victim in a public place or on private property.

(iii) Appearing at the victim's workplace or residence.

(iv) Entering onto or remaining on property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.

(v) Contacting the victim by telephone.

(vi) Sending mail or electronic communications to the victim through the use of any medium, including the internet or a computer, computer program, computer system, or computer network.

(vii) Placing an object on, or delivering or having delivered an object to, property owned, leased, or occupied by the victim.

(k) "Victim" means the individual who is the target of the conduct elicited by the posted message or a member of that individual's immediate family.

History: Add. 2000, Act 475, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

I know the implication here mason co but the part here is trying to push doesn't apply if it is none name specific on a public forum... In fact here is being far more stalkative than he is trying to imply out of any of us... but he thinks its cute...