There goes the neighbourhood, pt. 2This is the perfect post to save for April Fool's day. I found this in my mailbox recently.
o_O
OK, let's try some amateur psychology. It's definitely a guy, it's written with a stark emphasis on facts (though made-up as they no doubt are) which is rare in female fiction writers. Multiple font sizes, footnotes, two column layout in landscape, he knows his way around a word processor. There's a lot about the ANU (Australian National University) in it, he could be a honours student (they hand them out like student union condoms there) or someone who has cracked while doing their doctorate. There's mention of court matters, but I don't think that he's a law student. I have a mental picture of exactly who this guy is, but publishing such a caricature without proof would make me no better than him. The terrorists would win.
There were enough obviously fake quotes in there for me to cross-reference against a repository of archived transcripts and court documents. Then I remembered that I am in 2009, so I just Googled parts of it and came up with this nugget of Internet gold. It looks like my mailbox surprise is really pages 5 to 8 of a much longer, more elaborate rant. I admit that I haven't read it all, and I suggest that you don't either. It wavers between gibberish and slander, with some unhealthy fixation thrown in. If Dan Brown had written it, it would have been a best seller.
Running a WHOIS on the website name reveals some interesting information. The technical contact, which is really the domain lessee (or in other words the person responsible for the website) is a name that appears a few times in the rant. I hope that's his real name, if not then he's breaking the law. His address is in the ACT, making me think that he's running a one-man bizarrothon.
Futher Googling of this name leads to some smaller rants, such as this one filed under a business directory entry for a local restaurant. This guy was probably drunk one night and set this breadcrumb trail up for curious people to follow, ultimately to nowhere. This jerk has wasted an hour of my life that I won't get back, and a few minutes of yours.
Sigh.
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In a previous place of employment we were given warning about him. He is a well known in certain pube departments as a serial and occasionally violent pest.
I even got to meet the man in person once. He is everything you imagined and more.
"It wavers between gibberish and slander, with some unhealthy fixation thrown in. If Dan Brown had written it, it would have been a best seller." Brilliant.
That sure is some high quality crazy. He isn't the guy who stands on street corners and looks at buildings while scrawling in his book of paranoid conspiracy theories is he? Does anyone else know the guy I mean? You see him around Civic a lot, a look at his note book is highly recommended.
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