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alcibiades_mystery

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30. Laziest. Stalker. Ever.

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 09:58 PM

Dec 2012

The woman is living under her own name?

And the stalker was unable to find her until already publicly available information was published by a newspaper?

Um, what?

We're to believe that there's this stalker - a real Sleeping with the Enemy style bad guy. He's going to go to the ends of the Earth to find his victim, yeah? I mean every single Internet "find this person" service sends him "Best Client" postcards at Christmas. He's an expert at querying every public database. He checks all 50 states. He's written algorithms for scanning online registries of 86 varieties. This guy is LOOKING.

But he can't find his victim.

Until a newspaper publishes her name. From a public database. That anyone can access. Of her name. Her own name. That she lives under. At her address. Which would thus be findable in approximately 12,672 other ways.

You realize this scenario is fucking stupid beyond description, yeah?

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Something to consider re: the published list of gun owners. [View all] WilliamPitt Dec 2012 OP

You want others to consider this? For some, it will be their first time. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #1

I hate cliches pipoman Dec 2012 #7

Before publishing anything like that they should ask themselves the question lunatica Dec 2012 #2

It's good to see that there are still some level-headed people on DU who think with their brains slackmaster Dec 2012 #3

I had also thought about how the list... Little Star Dec 2012 #4

My sister bought a gun pipoman Dec 2012 #5

Perhaps, but things like this keeps the snowball rolling. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #6

Actually things like this are counter-productive. JoeyT Dec 2012 #8

Exactly. Lizzie Poppet Dec 2012 #18

There's something funny about rolling snowballs slackmaster Dec 2012 #9

I agree. But I feel compelled to discuss DV victims and guns a bit more. PeaceNikki Dec 2012 #10

That study is incomplete. GreenStormCloud Dec 2012 #23

Timothy McVeigh thought he was being 'stalked or threatened.' nt onehandle Dec 2012 #11

What does that mean? WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #12

onehandle means that every gun owner is a potential mass murderer slackmaster Dec 2012 #13

I would at least like the cops to know if my neighbor has a basement full of arms. onehandle Dec 2012 #15

At least onehandle is consistent in his support of expansion of police powers slackmaster Dec 2012 #16

Why does it enable them? treestar Dec 2012 #14

It enables them because now they can find out easily where their victims live slackmaster Dec 2012 #17

Yes, because most of these women bought guns Disgraceland Dec 2012 #20

Let's see... Coyote_Tan Dec 2012 #22

Victims they know have guns! treestar Dec 2012 #24

THE POINT is that the victims were trying to keep their locations secret. slackmaster Dec 2012 #25

Then the victim wouldn't need the gun treestar Dec 2012 #26

The fact that a person has a permit doesn't always mean he or she has a gun slackmaster Dec 2012 #27

Phony issue Disgraceland Dec 2012 #19

for the win frylock Dec 2012 #21

It's unproductive for several reasons to various agendas. JVS Dec 2012 #28

Other papers have done this before and realized the mistake in doing so. aikoaiko Dec 2012 #29

Laziest. Stalker. Ever. alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #30