TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Author: Trench Reynolds

  • Reader sends in apartment scam experience

    I got the following e-mail from Christa who was looking for an apartment on Craigslist…

    I’m 20 years old and this is the first time I began searching for apartments. When I saw an ad that looked too good to be true- I hesitated but gave the guy the benefit of the doubt and emailed him. This was his exact response:

    “Hello. We are so much excited. My name is Mcgrath Garrett the owner of the apartment and also want you to know that it was due to my transfer that makes me and my wife and little daughter to leave the apartment and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person that can take very good care of it while we are not at the state as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own. So for now, we are here in West Africa, our new house and put all my worries off concerning the maintenance of the apartment for, since i am not residing there for now. I left behind some Facilities and electonics which include the rent, DVD player, air conditioning, alarm system. The kitchen is fully equipped with all necessary cooking utensils, refrigerator-freezer, four-hob and oven, microwave, dishwasher and washing machine, my computer connected with Internet access also the keys and document of the apartment are right here with us in West Africa, and the lease document. Which i can send to you after all necessary agreement has been accepted. Also i will like you to know that the rent charges is not really the issue, hope you are okay with the price of $900 per month including utilities like hydro, water, gas, heat laundry facilities, air condition and so on, but your absolute maintenance of my apartment is most important thing, if you are really interested in renting this apartment get back to me so that i can forward you an application form for you to fill so that i can start all necesary arrangement asap.

    Here is the apartment address : (California address)

    …. Pls note that you will be viewing the apartment from outside only and 100 % sure that you would love to stay in the place because it is locatedin a very cool, quiet and safe neigbourhood. There was a man who want to rent my apartment his name was Mr Daniel called me about the apartment, i told him that I can’t give him the apartment because he loves smoking, drinking and dont want him to get drunked and damaged my property one day so If you are still interested, no extra fees. I will like you to give me a call at (foreign number) or (other foreign number) on this effect to know how serious you are. I personally will actually come visiting you sometimes during the year as our new tenant. Looking forward to hear from you with all this details so that i can have it in my file in case of issueing the receipt for you and contacting you. Awaiting your reply so that we can discuss on how to get the document and the keys of the apartment to you. “

    I soon googled the e-mail and the only response was for a rental fraud website. I want to make sure this story gets posted because it might help a stupid person from making an even more stupid decision of sending money.

    Thanks for your time 🙂

    Thank you, Christa, for sending this in. It gives one more fake scammer name to post.

  • Eleven years of dispensing the truth

    Either yesterday or tomorrow marks the official 11th Anniversary of my web presence. 11 years ago I launched my first crappy website on Tripod. (Remember them?) 11 years later I now have 9 crappy websites. I’m not addicted or anything.

  • “Don’t know where Giovanni is at”

    Father Says He Doesn’t Know Where Lynn Boy Is:

    Ernesto Gonzalez was back in court again on Friday trying to get his bail lowered even though he has not assisted police in any way to help find his son Giovanni.

    “Don’t know where Giovanni is at,” Gonzalez said.

    After that, Gonzalez wouldn’t say anymore.

    In court, Gonzalez showed no emotion. Prosecutors told the judge he was the last person to see his son Giovanni.

    Thankfully the judge denied his lower bond request and it’s still set at $500K.

  • Foss shooter found competent once again

    Douglas S. Chanthabouly
    Douglas S. Chanthabouly

    Accused Foss gunman found competent to stand trial:

    For the third time, Foss High School gunman Douglas S. Chanthabouly has been ruled mentally competent to stand trial.

    Chanthabouly is accused of gunning down fellow Foss student Samnang Kok in January of 2007.

    Chanthabouly’s defense team will still argue an insanity defense claiming their client has a history of schizophrenia.

    If he had such a history why wasn’t anything being done about it?

    A tentative trial date has been set for March.

  • Last of WV torturers pleads guilty

    Last of Logan Abusers Sentenced:

    The last of the infamous West Virginia torturers who kept Megan Williams hostage and physically and sexually abused her has entered a plea.

    The last suspect, Danny Combs, entered a guilty plea yesterday.

    He’s looking at 20 years behind bars.

  • The Mutant Network

    Admirers of school killers exchange views on Internet:

    This happens after every recent school shooting. Some media outlet prints a story about how the mutants congregate in their dark slimy corners of the internet.

    “I love this day! I love it!” declared one person who had known about Matti Juhani Saari on his YouTube page a few hours after the shootings.

    As I’ve been saying for the past 8 years there are groups on the internet that basically worship school shooters. Most of them can be found on LiveJournal, MySpace, and YouTube.

    “He was intelligent. He was beautiful”, says one video of Pekka-Eric Auvinen.

    These websites are well within their rights to ban these types of groups.

    “They all had much courage – if we want our community to change, we need to hear their ideas.”

    But they never do.

    Already on Tuesday, a website in the United States was selling T-shirts featuring a picture of Matti Saari.

    They hide under the guise of free speech.

    The same site maintains a list in which school killers are placed in a “ranking order” based on the number of people they have killed.

    When it’s really hate speech.

    The two shooters at Columbine, Jokela’s Auvinen, and most recently, Matti Saari have an iconic status on certain websites, similar to that of serial killers depicted in horror films.

    Then everyone wonders why when it happens again.

    Typical features include posing with weapons, shouting at the camera, shouting at the camera, firing into the ground, and television footage broadcast after the massacre.

    Parents. teachers, police, and websites need to be made more aware of these groups. For the most part, they’re not groups looking into the whys and hows of what happened and how future shootings can be prevented. They’re mostly a cultlike subsection of society that relishes in these mass murders. Because their lives are unfulfilled they feel the need to live vicariously through the actions of cowardly mass murderers.

    It’s not just kids either. In my travels, I have seen adults, who were even adults at the time of Columbine, who worship or sympathize with these scumbag killers.

    Freedom isn’t a right, it’s a responsibility. It’s high time we started holding people responsible for this cancer that infests the internet.

  • Casey Anthony gets sued and I called it

    Woman named Zenaida Gonzalez suing Casey Anthony:

    I knew I said I wouldn’t post about the Casey Anthony circus anymore but this story was too good to pass up.

    Remember how Casey Anthony maintained that the last person she saw Caylee with was a baby sitter named Zenaida Gonzalez? At the time she and Cindy Anthony kept saying that I said that they better be careful because someone with that name is likely to sue them. Behold my prognostic powers…

    If it turns out that Casey was the only one responsible for Caylee’s disappearance Cindy is probably going to be sued by every Zenaida Gonzalezes in Florida or at least have a restraining order slapped on her.

    So it was written, so it has come to pass…more or less.

    A woman caught up in the case of missing 3-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony is suing the girl’s mother saying she was defamed, her lawyer confirmed this evening.

    Zenaida Gonzalez, 37, of Kissimmee, was falsely named by Caylee’s mother as the missing girl’s babysitter, even though they’ve never met. Mother Casey Anthony said she last saw her daughter with a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez in mid-June. Caylee was reported missing in July.

    Since news of the missing girl broke, the Kissimmee woman has been threatened, Morgan said, and people nationwide consider her a suspect in the case.

    Really? There are people still out there that think Casey Anthony is innocent. Then again there are people who believe Elvis is still alive.

    Anyway, I hope Ms. Gonzalez gets a shit ton of money out of this.

    Sweet Lady Justice, let’s make out.

  • Kauhajoki victims identified

    All victims of Finnish school shooting now identified – Update:

    All the victims in the Kauhajoki School shooting have been identified even though their cowardly killer burnt their bodies.

    Police are still withholding their names.

  • More information on Kauhajoki School shooting

    Finland school shooting: Gunman Matti Saari made phone call during slaughter:

    More details are being made public about the Kauhajoki School shooting and the gunman Matti Saari.

    As you can guess by the headline Saari called a friend only identified as Rauno and said that he had just shot 10 people and was saying goodbye. Isn’t it nice that he got to say goodbye but none of his victims could? That was sarcasm by the way.

    The friend also said that Saari had claimed previously that he was going to shoot up a school and then later said he was ‘joking’. Again, those type of ‘jokes’ need to be taken seriously.

    Not surprisingly Saari was booted from the Finnish army for discharging his weapon against orders which terrified the other recruits.

    Witnesses say that Saari was enjoying himself while committing mass murder.

    The article also states that Saari and Pekka-Eric Auvinen did, in fact, know each other. It’s alleged that the pair played Battlefield 2 together over the internet and that they discussed their respective school shooting plans with each other.

    The two school killers also sent typed messages to each other on their computers talking about their plans for a shooting. One of the messages said: “Let’s do it together.”

    Auvinen wrote: “If I can’t do it I know you can make it.”

    They even bought their guns at the same weapons store, called Tera-asekeks, a few hundred yards from the school in Jokela where Auvinen killed eight people and himself last November.

    A girl even broke up with Saari because of his IM’s back and forth with Auvinen.

    Finnish police also fear that there may be a network of school shooters, They’re not far off but it’s probably not as big as they think it is. And it’s not just Finnish either, it’s international. Don’t forget that Auvinen also had contact with would be school shooter Dillon Cossey.

    It seems that he was bullied in the army as well…

    Army recruits who knew Saari described him as “weird and silent” and said he was teased and bullied.

    One said: “He wasn’t very good at shooting and didn’t really know how to handle a gun.One day we had to go into the woods and only the people at the front were supposed to shoot.

    “But he shot from the back and everybody was very scared. They decided he wasn’t suitable for the army.”

    When you act like an anti-social and dangerous fucknut you’re inviting the harassment on yourself. And again, he attacked innocents like a coward. Army units are supposed to be teams. Not a bunch of guys and one lunatic.

    Police believe that his brother’s death from a heart attack in 2003 may have also contributed to his deranged mental state. Life sucks but it’s no reason to commit mass murder.

    So my original assessment remains unchanged. Saari was an unoriginal, selfish and cowardly mutant who should have done the world a favor by putting a bullet in his own brain before harming others.

  • Man drops off 9 under Neb. safe haven law

    ï»żFather Talks About Abandoning His 9 Kids:

    The new Nebraska safe haven law just hit another snag. A man in Omaha dropped off his 9 kids at a safe haven.

    His wife died recently and he says he can’t take care of the kids by himself.

    So what do you think readers? Was this man justified or just selfish? Does the law need to be retooled?

    Let your voice be heard in the comments.