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Bad Guy Scammed by J. Daniel / Herpterra

and I'm sorry J, but I think the name calling was a bit childish considering you are older than me, and I'm not the one who's making themselves look retarded. I may be "fat" but that has nothing to do with my person or the type of person I am. I know what I saw, and stand by so. And the only reason I contact you about stuff is because you just so happen to make "fake adoption" ad's on craiglist, and the only thing I've inquired about is a hognose you posted, as I'm into those and are looking to get a group of them. But that has nothing to do with such.

As far as the society goes, it's funny you say my group thinks I'm retarded, but a lot of them sure call me for advice or for me to find them things in the area. And as far as friends goes, I have more friends than I can personally ATM keep up with. This thread has NOTHING to do with me, but with you. So...take your childish name calling else where.

As far as your society goes, your Middle State Herp Society is ran by you.

And this thread is about you, so it is been brought up. And nothing can be removed from the BOI unless it's not about the subject.
 
AND fyi to anyone who may not know, when you contact anyone on craigslist you can't see who your messaging as most people hide their email address. SO believe me, I didn't contact him on purpose.
 
Hello ,

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Transaction Date: Jun. 26, 2009
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This is j.daniel my paypal account is locked up due to your refund request so i will do it from my father-in-laws account, Here is you refund i am sorry it took a while i fell into a rough spot, Also dragging a non-profit into the situation is not good but oh well. Please take off the refund request
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Glad you decided to do the right thing.

I don't really understand the feud between you and Sonnie but you've said some incredibly hateful things to her. I understand that you are upset with what was said, but you're hitting a bit below the belt. It's rather unbecoming of someone who is running a business.

Anyway, I'm glad the OP is finally getting a refund and I truly hope that there won't be issues like this in the future. There aren't a huge number of herp keepers in TN....We don't need any going over to the "dark side" ;)
 
She was always going to get a refund and sonnie you knowing me (other than your misrepresentations of my abilities to breed and keep reptiles) as well as people I speak with regularly in your society Know what i was going through, other than that You should keep to the issue
 
Regardless of what other people knew J, this lady needed to know, not us, I don't think what we knew of whatever, is regardless.

And second, I find it even more immature, of you to go and join my site, once with the name Houston, and I quote "You can't get rid of me"...

Then a few minutes after that, ban and join with the name Asshole.

I swear, you really should act your age. I'm 24, and your...well i have no idea how old you are other than I know your older than me. For real grow up. And my misrepresentations are not so.

Since you want to argue my intelligence, I know what I'm talking about.

You kept no heat on those animals, cept for one. The burmese in a small cage on the floor, he was the ONLY animal that had heat.

Then I wondered why in the heck, these Amazon's were on dry coconut.

And I quote "I've been trying to get their humidity right"....and then you went on to tell us that's why you had the window open in your bedroom where all these animals were being housed.

Um..it was Feb 14th, this year and it was my friend VERY Cold.

You don't regulate humidty by opening your window and letting in very cold air in..during the winter...that has to be the stupidest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life.

You then went on to tell us your excuses for those animals and their housings, saying it was temp.
Then my friend...why is there more than ONE person on here saying the same thing I have.

Then you go on to threaten me in email, saying If I don't buddy up to you, I'm going to have a war? wtf is wrong with you?

I stated my dealings with you, such as the BOI is for, I tried to contact you in a proper manner and get this resolved and what do you do? you go and make fake sn's on my site and pretend to be a chick from Chatt.

Well if you read the user agreement, it states clearly,

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.


So my actions weren't in vain and I'd wish you'd grow up and act your age. Stop acting like the dog who jus got whipped for peeing in the floor, you done, you got the action, now stop pointing fingers at those you think you can harm. I have no urge to be in any type of childish war with you, I have more important things to do.

But either way..here is the email's he just sent, so you can see for yourself.

I have no urge to be any type of war with you, hence why after this I'm no longer responding to you, as I've said what I want to say.

And secondly, my "year" is actually years.

I've been handling herps since I was big enough to chase them. I've only been doing the more exotic herp side since I hit my teens, and more since I hit 18, and (FYI I'm 24.) So. Go look at the join date on Fauna. it sure wasn't a year ago.

-Sonnie

In a message dated 6/27/2009 3:41:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
well that is fine and fine this childish yes I did have a cookout my family will always come first, and the funds LOL most of it was spent trying to get that animal to health, but fuck that i have no reason to lie Sonnie , you dont want peace and I love war fuck i am infantry i love war so i hope you like the stress, I got on there in another name just to make sure you were not talking shit again, I found you wernt so i left it as that, dude i have a total of 6 emails from that lady and uh yeah she didnt write that much either, but that is fine, Sonnie You are a noob in this maybe a year now you have handled herps, i have many years and i surround myself with respectable people who have the knowledge so I can learn new things,but it is ok, watch my banner.....

J.Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: Regardless


Regardless of children, and your bills that come first, you should always make sure you don't spend funds til someone has the animal in hand. As well as you should have simply told her that, instead of letting this go as long as you have, and lying about such. You sure had a cook out the same weekend, you excused why you didn't do something, so personally, you were outted there. You can't lie, when date's are in place.
Secondly as far as our societies goes, you did not handle yourself in a manner that I find excusable. I kept the peace, but you are not going to come on my site, and make fake names. That my friend is wrong and childish. You and your gf making fun of my society is not funny. And I'm done keeping peace with someone who has no urge to be a real person to me. I don't have to like you, and I don't, plain and simple. I don't have anything else to say to you, but I wouldn't have posted any more, or even banned you, until you decided to pretend to be someone else, it just added the big list of the reasons I don't have any respect for you, and I have no urge for you to be associated with me or my group. If my group wants to be with yours, then they will be, as I can not speak for them personally, but I can speak for myself and my own goals in this hobby. Good luck, and I hope you learned from your mistakes and maybe change the direction that you are heading.

-Sonnie Mynatt-



In a message dated 6/27/2009 3:25:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Regardless of one "bad guy" thread our societies are in it for the same goal, I think that this is bigger than our problems between us, banning me as a fellow herper because of one issue is really not making it easier for people to get together with others who share the same intrests, I think it is somewhat childish, if you want a war, it can be arranged, but neither of us need that at this point.

Take it as you must and post this as you like but the situation is solved on fauna, I have a new child as you know that takes money and being that I do not have health insurance shit had to be paid before I could handle business situations must you know MY CHILDREN COME FIRST and medical bills are not cheap.

Thank you


J.Daniel
www.midtnherps.com
(615) 750-3726
 
And I also know that since you and your gf are not married. She is unemployed as far as I know, your children qualifiy for TennCare. And Tenncare pays for pretty much almost everything.
 
Just because you want to live off of taxpayers money go ahead i would rather pay my taxes and let more NEEDY people use those services (call it a pride thing) and i pay my bills,

Funny how you bring an issue between you and i here, these people cant save you Sonnie,

No one but jenny Craig can, or the South beach Diet,

you posted the wrong info and very very slanderous material which is NOT by any means true, some may think i am a child, vengance is sweet and anyone but an extreme christian would see that it is. And trust me when i say you are on my #1 s%*t list. this issue with the refund is over, it has been refunded, but you haha words cant describe without another infraction notice for foul language, I came at you respectably, you started this some days ago before this post was ever thought of.

Now to the animals, I had heat pads on everything in that room, we were ALL in that room it was HOT as all get out, all animals were cared for, you know the funnything I had TWRA here a few days ago....someone said i had an american alligator...whatever but they looked at all my animals....and SOLD one crazy huh? just to think I am some crappy dealer with neglected animals, metro police? yeah they buy from me to, the Chatt Zoo...yeah them they bought from me, i am some POS huh, sonnie more animals die in your care than anyone I know.

I challenge anyone to come out here and look at my setups, PLEASE do

But sonnie everyone knows you for you other than your little croonies like onebreitgurl and Pythonpassion (both on her site) really thinks you are a turd,

I am not a criminal or a person that deals in crap animals, and I even told you a while ago if you didnt like the amazons come get your money back i would have met you half way.

So dont act like you are all high and mighty

ever since i started mid tn you have been trying to find a way to discredit me, but remember all is fair in love and war
 
I am onebreitgirl....I haven't always agreed with the things Sonnie's done and have called her out on this very forum and I've spoken to her in private on issues. I don't have to go behind someone's back and talk trash unlike the people you are referring to. I think both of you are being played by people who just want to gossip and start problems....But that's neither here nor there and certainly not a BOI issue.
 
Anything I want to say to you Jay I have. I haven't even spoke of you, really since we last chatted on the phone. I could care less about your "Society" and I could care less about you.

As far as your tax payers thing goes I've been working since I was 16, I paid my way into having my school paid for a while. And as soon as I have my degree I'll be right there again paying for someone else's school or paying for the illegals.

Now, Bringing members of my forum into this, is bs. And your just trying to get a rise out of me, and that my friend is not going to happen.

And I'm the only person you know who's animals die in my care, let's see.
The only animals I've had die, in this year, is the blood python that my friend had in his care and I went and got and had 2 days that died. Now Virgil went with me to get it, and can vouch for the time frame and the location of the animal.

Then some leopard geckos that I put to sleep, because I trusted someone who I posted a BOI bad guy thread about not to trust who also scammed me.


Those were mistakes, and I learned from those.

What about this snake this chick was suppose to get ..why did it die?

For the amount of amphibians I keep, that's really good, cause most ppl can't get frogs alive, and I sure as heck do pretty good.

So last time I checked, I wasn't acting all high and mighty. I'm sorry but you did not come at me respectfully as I haven't said anything about how you or your gf look.

I have no urge to go that low. So neways...I said my peace, and you should get over it. This thread is about this lady not us. I'm glad she got her refund.
 
jay i'm calling you out, expecially after u call daniel and tell him that after me and jesse get done over at his house we run to you, you are an idiot. you have never bred a litter or clutch of snakes man. i know all about you, you purchase your stuff wildcaught in hopes of hatching them, you tried to buy my gravid female boas, that was a joke. you are scared of snakes, it was funny a guy from clarksville told me he also called you out on that one. as far as threatening the twra on people, who was it that got their class 2 permits jerked by the state. dude u need to fall off the map and out of the reptile business because you are never going to make it you have done ruined your name. i'm sorry man, when i first talked to you, you didn't seem like an idiot
 
Jay you are what I call a forum Rambo. I live in Nashville ( as I believe you do). I will continue to monitor your cl activity and will be on guard for your "captive bred" scams. I simply asked you to respond to the controversy here in this forum. I had made no judgement against you. You responded by revoking my membership (which is a demonstration of guilty man). I'm sure you were quick to remove the thread with the link I provided to the small group of unsuspecting members in MidTN Herp. Your existence in the hobby is just an unpleasant reminder of the handful of bad apples we all have to deal with from time to time.

It takes no man at all to belittle someone for their appearance. It's simply a testimony of your character.
 
well, for one, i don't know you. Secondly, why in the world would I "sell" myself to someone. LOL, that's really amusing. Mucus plug? that's even funnier. I never told Jay of ANY services I was going to give him for ANY type of animal.

Secondly your post will hopefully be removed for lack of full name rule. I think you should get information straight, and I think an IP search should be done on that name, no telling who might really show up, considering the join date.
 
Please do an IP search it isnt me it IS Jesse and funny thing is I wasnt even going to bring up the mucas plug and you creming on yourself and you offering services but I guess since HE WAS there when you bought the ATBs he is witness to you misrepresentation that you have tried to share with every, I dont think his post should be removed if the post that are bashing MIDTNHERPS.COM cant nd wont be removed due the that organization not even being apart of this circumstance
 
I'm sorry Jay but your a flat out liar if you say I offered my services, when in such there is NO services of that kind i offer to anyone. it's sad you have to call your hounds to come fight your war with you because your mad. I'm not going to stoop to your level.
 
In my dealings with Sonnie Mynatt i have kept alot to myself, there were plenty of people from outside this site as well as the person you just removed whose posting actually depicted the real nature of this woman (but this isn't a post on Sonnie Mynatt is it) BUT IT IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY, isn't it only fair to see the otherside? or are you just a mob of people looking to satisfy your shortcommings by attacking others? To me the Fauna BOI is a good program but once the situation has been solved (i.e. Meghan was refunded her money) the case should be closed, looks to me that this is a witch hunt because some people in TN wish to open a shop or something or maybe I didn't have what you wanted when you wanted it or possibly you are one of the ones that are mad because I will not sell you any of my ETBs. Anyway For those who wish to keep this going on me and those who like to attack my character please keep going, be a hypocrite for I have nothing better to do than argue with you. Not really.

Scammer/criminal.....no she was refunded, If i wanted to be a scammer/criminal I would not have paid it and said to hell with this post, but I have morals and even though it did take a while it was done and again Meghan i apologize for that.

This is a board of inquiry not a Let's talk scheisse about someone just cause, and those of you that do NOT know me personally honestly you have no right to pass a judgment on me.

Thank you and Just know I am re-working Herpterra.com Hope to see you all soon when it goes back up,

You can kick me down but you cant keep me down, nobody is perfect and what is life if we never make mistakes?
 
Sonnie i was never going to bring it up and you say i am lying all the time but in TN if more than 2 people heard it um it happened, and the whole house heard it and my gf was near me when you were talking all dirty and offering your "services" I got yelled at for it and your convo of services almost cost me my relationship. As far as the rest of the nasty stuff like the mucas plug that I would have laughed at about you on a personal level and not spread that, but I didn't have to. Some people have friends, some people live by the truth, and for you to deny it wel man you are just a hypocrite.

I WOULD HAVE SENT THIS IN AN EMAIL TO SONNIE BUT SHE WOULD HAVE JUST POSTED IT ON HERE ANYWAY SO I AM CUTTING OUT THE TIME
 
Please do an IP search it isnt me it IS Jesse and funny thing is I wasnt even going to bring up the mucas plug and you creming on yourself and you offering services but I guess since HE WAS there when you bought the ATBs he is witness to you misrepresentation that you have tried to share with every, I dont think his post should be removed if the post that are bashing MIDTNHERPS.COM cant nd wont be removed due the that organization not even being apart of this circumstance

That post was removed, not because of anything that Sonnie said, but because it violated a number of site rules. Had the poster followed the rule about including his name, it would have remained. As it stands, that member will be free to return in a few days
 
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