Yes Todd, it is doing no good to give names of people. I did in fact write to Mr. Clark. He said he does not post his complaints on the BOI. There you have it, at least one name you should keep out of here.
So what if Bob Clark does not want to post here. What is wrong with someone saying this is is what Bob told him/her? And please don't say, oh that would be hearsay, and we should not use hearsay on these forums because it is wrong (unless it is a violation of the TOS that I missed).
If all you have is hearsay, it is not admissible in court, so it does not belong here as this thread may just end up in court.
There were also other remarks made about hearsay, but you can only cut one thing at a time, and I am not going back to reread 11 pages to find all of them.
Why doesn't hearsay belong on these forums. This is not a court of law, is it? Do the Terms of Service say that hearsay should not be posted. If so then fine - hearsay does not belong here. However, if the TOS does not forbid it or recommend against it - why would anyone try to ban it. Hearsay is always, and I repeat always allowed as evidence for investigators to consider in the performance of their investigations. Heck, that is how many great cases are made. You know like when a tipster calls a police hotline: "Yeah officer, I heard this guy at work saying that he heard a friend of his Mr. John Doe (fictitious name) say that he would kill that no good trollop of a wife of his if he thought he could get away with it. That had to be 6 months ago, and yesterday I read in the paper about this woman Jane Doe (fictitious name) found dead after she supposedly fell off a cliff while having a heart attack." Heck, almost all the info the guy has is hearsay! Yet, something like that could make a 'natural causes death' turn into a homicide investigation - and it could all be started by hearsay. And by the way, there are a fair amount of circumstances whereby hearsay is allowed into criminal court proceedings.
As for who is the guilty party, if any in this forum discussion - boys and girls I gotta tell you this one is worse than a real cut throat Dallas rerun! Has anybody thought that there may have been a total foul up of communications on both ends, because it sounds to me as if the people on either end of this just don't want to listen to one another. Do your deals in writing and save the emails or letters.
NOW after just checking back with the forum I see a whole new page has been added since I started typing.
Ritchie L,
Thanks for the info on the IP Address of bigguy, it saved me from including something I was writing to Evan about his reply to bigguy; and it certainly has pretty much destroyed, in my opinion, the credibility of Todd S, and bigguy - but that is just my opinion.
Oh heck, I'll post the part for Evan anyhow, becuase regardless of the fact that it is possible that bigguy is an alias for Todd, I think the point I was making still stands:
Evan,
Please read this in the same light with which we both wrote our pieces, the ignorance of the possibility that Todd and bigguy were possibly one and the same person. (note that I will put my own words in quotes to indicate that was what I wrote before I got the new info based on the IP address of bigguy)
You accuse someone of violating the TOS and then call that same someone a coward (your own words seemingly a pretty clear violation of the TOS on these forums if I understand them correctly) then you go on to, in my opinion, threaten him/her because he said
maybe people like Evan come on to back him because they are part of the deal.
. That word "MAYBE" is a powerful word in a court of either criminal or civil law; you would not stand much of a chance simply because maybe also implies maybe not. He did not call you a cheat or a conspirator as I see it, but he did, in my opinion, troll and you, as I see it, bit the hook. I understand your getting mad, I would be too if someone said that about me; but you need to chill before you reply in apparent anger like that. As I understand it you are a pretty big seller - what do you think it does for your business when people see replies like yours? In fact, unless I missed another post from 'bigguy' I do not see where he actually accused you of any wrongdoing; so your saying that he did so could possibly be held against you in court in a countersuit. I am not meaning to pick on you, yours was the most recent post that leads up to the next point I will make, and that is why I used it as an example of: This topic really getting out of hand, mean and nasty.
This is for everyone,
I for one think that all the parties who were actually involved in this mess have had their say, and the moderators ought to, in my truly humble opinion, consider shutting this one down. I think you all pretty much know I am not in the habit of making this particular type of suggestion - I enjoy these posts as much as the next guy - but please this one is really becoming a flamer
I guess my point still stands, maybe now even more than before, since we now have the IP address evidence that someone MAYBE (as in: is possibly) using an alias to make posts here. This is all getting out of control, and the involved parties have already said all it seems they can say that makes any point. So why not give it a break and can it.
Best regards,
Glenn B
