TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: reader mail

  • We get letters (It’s a long one)

    I got some interesting e-mails and comments over the weekend about my stance that craigslist should eliminate its erotic services section. Let’s start with the long boring one from a male craigslist ‘escort’.

    Since your blog makes it perfectly clear you can do a better job of discerning what are “legal” or “illegal” services offered in the erotic services section of craigslist, I challenge you to the following test: I will provide you with the legal statue of the state in which I work, the content of my ad, and a synopsis of what is discussed with a client before

    services are delivered. Your task will be post that same information & then an explanation of how it qualifies under the state statute as illegal activity WITHOUT relying on conjecture and presumptions. Are you up to the challenge? We’ll see….

    1. STATE LAW: Prostitution is performing for hire, or offering or agreeing to perform for hire where there is an exchange of value, any of the following acts: Sexual intercourse; sodomy; or manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another.

    2. CRAIGSLIST AD: Interactive, Sensual, Satisfying, Massage PLUS – m4m Much-deserved, much-needed, and completely satisfying sensual massage. Former USArmy – 5’8″ husky & masculine — tattooed/hairy arms & legs — Just a real guy for your very real pleasure. Interaction Welcome.

    Special Attention given to Mature Men, but all ages (18+) welcome. Older? – Fully Appreciated & Respected Bearish, Hairy or Chubby? – All body types accepted Straight/Curious? – Your Limits Completely Respected Married? – DDF, Safe, Clean & Absolutely Discreet

    ###-###-#### – EMAIL, TXTMSG or CALL for APPT

    Available MOST WEEKDAYS after 5PM….or ANYTIME Saturdays & Sundays

    INCALL: $60.00/hr; Home or Hotel Outcall: $80.00

    3. UPON CLIENT ARRIVAL: There is never any discussion of sex or sexual acts of any kind for payment.

    Client is asked whether he agrees to the “Terms of Service” presented in large-type which read, “This is not an offer of prostitution and no fees will ever be solicited or accepted for illegal activity. I AGREE that money exchanged in legal adult recreational services if only for time,

    companionship, and general/non-therapeutic massage. I AGREE that anything else that may or may not happen is a matter of personal choice and personal preference between two or more consenting adults of legal age and is not expected or included in the services provided for fee. I AGREE that the services provided for fee do not in any way include or relate to performing for hire, or offering or agreesing to perform for hire where there is an exchange of value, any of the following acts: sexual intercourse; sodomy; or manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of that person or

    another.”

    4. SERVICES DELIVERED: As stated in the ad….massage.

    5. SESSION ENDED: Clients pays (and hopefully tips).

    FROM THE ABOVE INFORMATION ONLY can you explain how anything illegal has been offered or has taken place?? If you can’t, I bet you won’t have the guts to post it on your blog. Have fun!

    You’re right. I can’t say with 100% certainty whether or not your services are illegal or not without actually using your services, which I wouldn’t but that’s just my personal preference.

    However, if I were law enforcement in your community your ad would definitely draw my attention.

    Buzzwords like Massage PLUS are a tip-off. The fact that you posted the typical escort ‘this is not prostitution..blah blah blah, would lead me to believe that’s exactly what it is. Not to mention when you posted I AGREE that anything else that may or may not happen is a matter of personal choice and personal preference between two or more consenting adults of legal age and is not expected or included in the services provided for a fee also leads me to believe you’re offering an illegal service. You know that argument never holds up in court right?

    If your massages are so legitimate then why are they posted in the erotic services section? Do you have a professional massage license in your state? Have you ever been arrested for your ‘massages’?

    The next I received as a comment on my post about Jon who was harassed by the ‘hobbyists’ of the erotic services section for flagging ads…

    So you’ve got nothing better to do than this, huh? I have no problem with you having your own religious morals. Just don’t try and force them down my throat!

    If you go back and read that post you’ll notice that religion is never mentioned anywhere. It’s got nothing to do with religious morals but everything to do with prostitution being illegal. I’ll stop when one of two things happens, when prostitution is made legal in the other 49 states, or when craigslist eliminates the erotic services section.

    This next one is from a repeat customer who I’ve ignored up until now. I figured since I was addressing hobbyists and escorts I might as well address a comment from the cult of craig. I received it as a comment on my post about the journalist who took out craigslist escorts on actual dates.

    So you are a judge and jury and human expert?

    What is the objective of this website?

    You need to provide a page telling your tale,

    or you ware just a whiney person, who looks

    a the world and complians,,,but has NO SOLUTION,,,

    what is your purpaose?

    First I’d recommend that you switch to the Firefox browser. It comes with a spell checker. Secondly, I thought the objective of this site was pretty obvious. It says so in the tagline, “The craigslist crime blotter“. Do you know what a crime blotter is? A lot of local newspapers in the US have a section that’s called the police blotter which mentions calls that the police have had. That’s sort of what I do except all the crimes here deal with craigslist or other classified sites. And I have three basic solutions that I’ve mentioned repeatedly that would go a long way to reducing crime on craigslist. 1. Make users have a public profile on craigslist. 2. Eliminate the erotic services section. 3. Don’t do business on craigslist.

    Hell, craigslist should be paying me a consulting fee.

  • We get letters

    I got the following anonymous e-mail yesterday.

    WHY YOU NEED TO SINGLE OUT CRAIGSLIST AS THE WORLDS BIGGEST CRIME PLAYGROUND IM NOT SURE BUT YOU NEED TO GET A GRIP ON REALITY. YOU WANNA BE A VIGILANT Y COME ON DOWN TO THE HOOD. CLEAN THAT UP WITH ALL THAT ENERGY. oh and if you are female and are married…SCREW your husband once in awhile that will keep him off craigslist.

    It sounds like someone doesn’t like the work I do. I’m guessing either a pimp or someone who uses craigslist to sell stolen goods. First off I’m not a vigilante. I’m just a guy with a website and an opinion. Secondly, why should I clean up the hood? Why can’t the hood clean itself up? And lastly I’m male and I don’t need some skank on craigslist to get my rocks off.

    Thank you and have a nice day. 🙂

  • More reader scam mails

    Received an e-mail from reader Hanna with a couple of craigslist scams she encountered.

    Jamie Lescott to me

    Thanks for your email and it is my gladness to hearing from you.I am RevJamie lesscott,the owner of the house you are making enquiry of.Actually I resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only daugther before and resently we had packed due to my transfer from my working place and now situated in the Madrid,Spain,and presently my house is still available for rent including the utilities like hydro,washer and security,it is urnised.Moreso Now,i went for a

    Crusade in the West Africa and i will like you to get in touch with my wife in the state for more discussion as She is with the keys and the document to the house.Pls i want you to note that,i am a kind and honest man and also i spent alot on my property that i want to give you for rent,so i will solicit for your absolute mentenance of this house and want you to treat it as your own,is that taken,it is not the money the main problem but want you to keep it tidy all the time so

    that i will be glad to see it neat when i came for a check up.i do that once in a while.I also want you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my word.Where are you located and where do you see our advert also let us know if you need more pictures.

    Email my wife Elizabeth.(Elizajamie@gmail.com ) and she will attends to you better.

    God bless you

    A crusade? Is he off to find the holy grail? His wife will attends to you better? Unrised? Is the house made of matzoh?

    I’ll bring you more of Hannah’s scam emails in the days to come.

    If you want to share your scam story either send me an e-mail.

  • NJ real estate scam submitted by reader

    I received the following e-mail from Amber in New Jersey about a scam that someone tried to pull on her while looking for an apartment on craigslist…

    The guy from the UK used this email: “Alan Erickson” alan.ercks@gmail.com. Now when suspicions arose because I’d asked him to call me a number of times or to send his number for me to call and he never answered certain questions, kept pushing the money wires and some bullshit third party parcel service that’s blacklisted from the Better Business Bureau (www.tnt.com) I googled his name and found a broker in New Jersey who dealt in apartments in and around Montclair where our supposed apt was. I thought….hmm, I’ll call him, sort of beat him to the punch and so I left a message. The REAL Alan Erickson called me back and explained that this guy had done this to many people, and he’s tried to track the guy down and get him for identity theft/fraud. The ad has been removed because we reported for abuse by myself and the real Alan…so I wish I’d have saved it. Basically, if it is too good to be true…on Craig’s List, it probably is.

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  • 3/14/08: From the Mail Sack

    It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since we dipped into my sack…of mail that is.

    I received the following e-mail twice yesterday from a supporter of the West Memphis 3.

    User Name: John O’Bryan

    To whom it may concern,

    I’m a little curious to know why you’re so adamant about the guilt of the West Memphis Three? Especially after the lack of DNA evidence. I grew up in Memphis and remember very vividly when the crime took place. The way the news media handled the case was ridiculous, and every southern baptist idiot within 200 miles was saying “obviously these are the guys who did it”.

    Can’t you at least admit they didn’t get a fair trial? I understand you don’t want to be labeled a “follower”, but sometimes being a stubbornly obtuse contrarian can be even worse. What do you have against natalie Maines anyway? If you’re still a Bush supporter, that might go a long way toward answering ALL of my questions.

    I find this e-mail kind of ironic because the whole basis of the West Memphis 3 movement is that the WM3 were allegedly judged unfairly yet Mr. O’Bryan goes on to make a lot of judgments himself, but I digress.

    Like I’ve said before I’ve been writing about school shootings for going on 8 years now. Over the years I’ve developed sort of a profile of school shooters. Damien Echols and company fit that profile to a T. Also like I’ve stated before if the WM3 were born 10 years later they would have been school shooters instead of child killers. Do I say that because they dressed in black and listened to heavy metal? No, because that describes me at the time they were convicted. Hell, it describes me now except now my black clothes are a suit and tie instead of an Iron Maiden T-Shirt and I’ll be metal until the day I die.

    Can I admit that they didn’t receive a fair trial? No, I can’t. I believe the movies and books made about them were heavily biased. The authors and filmmakers already had their goal in mind when they started. Not only that but they left a lot out of the whole story from their respective works.

    As far as the DNA evidence or lack thereof goes it proves nothing. The flip side to none of their DNA evidence being found at the scene is that Mark Byers’ DNA wasn’t there either. For years the WM3 supporters have called for the head of Mark Byers claiming that he was the one that actually committed the murders. I could then say that since his DNA evidence wasn’t there that he couldn’t have committed the murders either. Let’s not forget that their bodies were found in a creek which could have washed away any DNA.

    What do I have against Natalie Maines? Let me count the ways. She insulted the office of the President while overseas. I don’t care who is in office at the time have some respect for your country. She’s a member of PETA which is only a few vegans short of being an eco-terrorism organization. She fell for the hype of the Paradise Lost movies. And lastly, her music sucks.

    For the most part, West Memphis 3 supporters remind me of Ron Paul supporters and members of the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement. Just because you’re big on the internet you think you’re more important than what you actually are.

    Personally, I think you’ve all given Echols exactly what he wanted, fame and a following that was bigger than Manson’s.

  • We get letters

    I received the following e-mail from someone only calling themselves Bert…

    RE: I think you should stop your site

    Really, in any community of 100 millioin people there will always be a spread of bad people. Your one of them. By focussing on bad stuff your feeding the appepite of wannabe bad people. We dont need you doing what you do. We already have the news. Do you think that tech-incompetent parents are going to read your site? No. The only people reading your site are the bad guys, and their jerking off to it. Your fascination with this material is clinically questionable. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were peaodo yourself.

    Methinks Bert doth protest too much.

    I’m not going to bother defending myself because my stance on predators has been established. However, I will not have you sully the good name of my readers.

    Are you going to take that, readers? He called you all the bad guys and that you’re jerking off to my site. Please let Bert know what you think in the comments.

  • 10/24/06 From the Mail Sack

    10/24/06 From the Mail Sack

    Every once in a while, I get the opportunity to talk to a reporter. Whenever I tell them that there are “fans” or sympathizers of school shooters, they sometimes find it hard to believe. Well, wonder no more, you journalistic types.

    Here is an e-mail I received from someone calling themselves Gill. I’m assuming it’s in reference to Kimveer Gill, the Dawson College shooter from Montreal. This is one of the more mild e-mails I’ve received…

    Why do you start a website called trenchcoat if you’re not sympathetic to why these kids do school shootings? You call Gill’s pain “adolescent.” I guess it’s okay to do it if you’re George Bush, huh? Nobody calls a military funeral “juvenile,” to belittle it, do they? Fuck arguing with you, I just don’t know why you bother with it at all.

    This is a popular tactic with the mutants, comparing school shootings to the war in Iraq. That’s like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. Hell, that’s more like comparing apples with chickens.

    Now, I’m not here to debate the merits or the lack thereof of the war in Iraq, however, typically in a war zone, two separate factions are armed and shooting at each other.

    At Dawson College, Gill was nothing more than a coward shooting at unarmed people. And usually in a war, the goal is some greater good. In Gill’s case, the goal was only death.

    I not only call his “pain” adolescent and juvenile, I also call it selfish. What about the pain of the family of Anastasia DeSousa? You know, the promising young girl that Kimveer Gill killed. What about their pain?

    I think their pain is a lot more important than some gun-wielding psychopath. Kimveer Gill was a 25-year-old living with his mommy. He was a loser in life and an even bigger loser in death.

  • 7/11/06: From the Mail Sack

    7/11/06: From the Mail Sack

    It’s time to take a dip into the mail sack. This is from my entry on the Columbine Rampart Range tape…

    DISTURBED BY SCHOOLS Jul 11th, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    im not american n when this shit happened i got put into a SPECIAL CLASS so i think DEATH TO ALL JOCKS its because of the im so cool im in the football team they did all u ppl who think down on some one cause there diffrent should wake up.FUCK if it wasnt for ppl being who they r n not what others want where would the world be. i say KILL ALL JOCKS. they ant ppl there SCUM :mrgreen: HAVE A SUPER DAY

    My spellcheck just went on strike. It refuses to work until these kids start writing in proper English. The commenter is from Australia, in case you were wondering.

    Anyway, for one second, let’s just say that you were put into a special class because of Columbine. Why are you blaming the jocks? You should blame the two little cowardly scumbags from Colorado.

    And I’m guessing that special class didn’t work.

    And remember, I’m not picking on you because you’re different. I’m picking on you because you’re stupid.

  • 6/16/06: From the Mail Sack

    6/16/06: From the Mail Sack

    Let’s dip into the mail sack today, shall we?

    Today it’s from a mutant that escaped from the cornfield in my entry about the Columbine death photos…

    Vodka & Reb Says:

    June 16th, 2006 at 2:54 am

    Check out Super Columbine Massacre RPG. It’s a game with crummy graphics, but it’s a game about the columbine shooters. Super cool. They’re actually making games about these Heros, One day they’ll make a game, with graphics like Doom 3, but it’ll be just about that day April 20, 1999. The whole game. Can you imagine.

    Hope a gaming company makes the game soon.
    That would rule 😈

    Is that the kind of dialog you were hoping for, Danny?

  • 5/24/06: From the Mail Sack

    5/24/06: From the Mail Sack

    It’s been a while since we read the mail from the mutants so let’s get started, shall we?

    This one is from my entry on the Columbine Rampart Range Tapes…

    jacob Says:

    fuck all u white haters out there im not that racist but when it comes to niggers tryen to get at us that pisses me off u niggers have enough problems so fuck off…. by the way that was are ancestors thatdid that shit to you so dont pull that shit on inasent ppl by the way ur not african americans its africans in america

    o and marcus and dante get a fucken life.. you stuped ass niggers probaly have an ique of 50 u fucken idoit and come in to my school and pull that shit ill fucken but ur thick skulled head in u bitch ass niggers

    If they have an ique of 50, it’s about 50 points higher than yours, Klanboy. And I love how he says he’s not a racist except “when it comes to nig**ers”. I hate to break it to you, Spunky, but that is the textbook definition of racism.

    Then we have this comment about the Columbine RPG designer being outed…

    Lay-Z-Boy Says:

    This may be off topic or whatever but i dont give a fuck. Anyways i just wanted to say that Eric and Dylan what they have taught me is that i can do anything i want. They may have been bad guys to you but to me they were in a way heros they opend my eyes and took my mind to another level beyond all this do what society tells you sheep bullcrap. And what the hell all your post are really stupid all you see is a couple kids that killed some people. I think that you gotta open your eyes and take a look at the world around you and not always see things just for what they are. It’s something youll never understand. To me your the fucking mutant and your the one that should be non existent. Mutants? You are a fucking asshole,it’s people like you bringing everyone who has differnt veiws down.
    Your just a fucking number your useless i dont evan see you as the same species. You got alot of evolving to do buddy,suck my balls.

    REB and VODKA thanks for showing me that i can do anything whether it be good or bad.

    I remember when I was young and idealistic, and I thought society’s rules didn’t apply to me. Then I grew up and got a job. With that whole “I’m the rebel, and you’re all sheep” bit, I see only one option of employment in your future…

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