ravensgait said:
As for Mike jeez I can't believe this has gone on as long as it has.. Sadly have to give the guy credit for playing folks like a fiddle he sounds like a real pro at this game and no he wouldn't and never will kill himself(at least not unless someone sort of helps him) It was just a tool to use just like the tools we all use at our work to get the job done.. Unfortunately he used those tools on people we know here and respect but if it hadn't been these folks it would have been someone else as this is what the Mike's of this world do they Play you for their advantage.. Randy
I want to try and give some insight into Mike and why we were friends for so long without any strong of knowledge of his wrong doing.
In most cases Mike would try to weasel money out of his "friends" within six months of their friendship. He would be caught in his lies and ripoffs quickly and that would be the end of the friendship. I never gave Mike that chance. He was never given money no matter how poor and distraught he was. I was never in the financial situation to do so and simply said "sucks to be you" (literally). I knew Mike for a couple of years, it was not until after Cory brought a girl home that I learned of Mike's Power of Attorney over his mother. Before then Mike would tell me he would ask for money from his mother and she never had much because his siblings were using it. Cory let this go on. Not once when I was in Arizona with them did Cory ever speak up about Mike's siblings taking his money, we had that conversation. So Cory acted as a witness to Mike's good deeds. Cory turned a blind eye to all of this.
Mike is to be in court today over some of his domestic disturbance with Cory, yet Cory told me he is not going to show up to court.
I did not have a need to call so many people and find out what lies he told until he involved me in his fake suicide text messages. I did not need to question Mike about his mother, the terrible things he told me about Cory's girlfriend. I have known (thought I knew) Mike for a couple of years.
Mike has his ways of manipulation. When he wants you to believe his side of the story, he will use personal information shared to him by the other person and use it against them. Causing one to believe Mike is the better of the two evils. Mike shared information about others to me that should never have been told to anybody, but to create a more dramatic affect he adds a lie to the story that is bad enough that you would not even bother to call and find out the truth. To say Mike can make you hate a person you have never met is an understatement.
I always kept an open mind about his stories, I would ask Mike if he was just pissed at them and going off and he would admit that he was upset and going too far. To me he was truthful (so I thought) and would even admit he said things that he should not have.
After Mike told me about his Ebay scam, he stopped answering my calls and that was before my first post in this thread. I had a lot of questions to ask him and I wanted to hear it from him.
It was clear that I was Mike's friend, but he was not my friend.
Funny thing though, is that Tere and I have become friends because of Mike's lies. He sent me her phone number in the fake suicide text messages. She has to be one of the sweetest ladies I have met and I can only but wait to embrace the fun stories in life we have yet to share with each other.
I will make one thing clear, looking back into the past, I
do not regret being Mike's friend. When I give someone my friendship I will have fun. Mike and I laughed a whole lot over little things, we spent countless hour on the phone sharing stories. Going out to Arizona with my wife and hanging out in Tombstone was one of my favorite memories in life. I have fun pictures, which Tere has now seen. Trust me when I say I did not waste my time, these last 5 or so months only gives me more stories to laugh about (even though what he did was despicable). Never did I think I would personally be good friends with someone like him, just something else to laugh about in the future.
