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Posted by WadeInLincoln on 11-04-2010 at 15:32:
50th post - FREAKED OUT!!!
This was not how I wanted to do my milestone 50th post but here goes....
Three things happened that have kept me away for the past week or so
1) My job had work for me in the middle of no-where with not much, if any, computer access. Some of you might know that I work construction and quiet honestly there is not a whole lot of internet access on a lot of these construction sites.
2)I noticed the more I talk about Gatchaman-type collectibles on this site, the more prices started to vary on the items I was referring to. Some prices went down but many more started to go up. I would hate to think that "my words of wisdom" started to affect the 'Global Gatchaman Economy'. I am still looking to add a lot of items to my collection and I already throw enough money towards my collection that I do not need to make it worse. Coincidence maybe??? But keeping my mouth shut probably wouldn't hurt.
3)Now this is what really FREAKED me OUT!!! I do not expect any of you to believe me, in fact I would probably prefer that you all call me crazy and just lock me up and throw away the key.... Before leaving for the work I had to go do on the road, I was over at the girlfriend's house fixing her car. She ends up getting a strange phone call from a young lady who has just pulled into her neighborhood and is on her way to visit my girlfriend's 12 year old son. Needless to say, my girlfriend gets very confused by this quick conversation and asks me to keep my eyes and ears open and to make sure we know where her son is. I check to make sure I know where the boy is at and head back to the garage. I continue to work on the car trying to keep myself somewhat concealed but in a position where I am aware of my total surroundings. The young lady pulls up in a her car with out-of-state plates on it (Yes, I did write down the license plate number). She gets out of her car. This girl has green hair!!! Not only that but she is wearing a pink ringer-style t-shirt with green trim with a big number 3 right in the middle of it. White pajama bottoms with sandles completed her outfit. This girl could not have been more than 20 years old. She looked extremely "dazed and confused" with her blood-shot eyes that could barely open. I am in total shock at what I am seeing. The young lady approaches my girlfriend asking to see the boy. My girlfriend does not watch Gatchaman with me and has no idea of the significance of this young lady's outfit. My girlfriend keeps asking this young lady how she knows us, her son, how did she get her phone number, address??? The young lady in all her 'confusion' can not answer anything, just that she is here to see my girlfriend's son and wants to take him for a ride, tears start rolling from her eyes. My girlfriend then asks me to talk to her. I explain to young lady that in our 'neck of the woods' that we have had many missing children throughout the years, and as a parent it is our job to protect our children from any known or unknown dangers, and with her showing up like this makes her look very suspicious. The young lady seems to finally understand why she is not going to allowed to see my girlfriend's son. As she is about to get ready to leave, I comment that I really like her outfit. I tell her that there once was this cartoon I used to watch where one of the characters would wear the same clothes (I did not mention the green hair) and asked her if she was a fan of the show. She turns to me with a sad face and says that she did not have any television growing up and did not know what I was referring too. She gets in her car and drives off. Oh, almost forgot one piece of the 'story' when I went to ask her name, I swear by all that is good she said her name was "Jun" so I said, sorry I missed that, and this time she said "Jen, you know as in Jennifer."
If this was some sort of practical joke, it MIGHT have been funny if you didn't get a child involved. That makes this whole situation SICK and TWISTED to me. It's been a week later and I still do not know how to take all this. Coincidence??? The way I see it... this was all someone's idea of a joke or there is a some girl out there named Jen, dressing as Jun taking young boys who knows where. Either way, I am not sure how much more I want to be a part of this site. I still need to calm down. I would rather think I am crazy than to believe that all happened... but it did, it wasn't my child she was after, other people were involved that can verify my 'story.' Be careful out there people.
So much for my glorious 50th post 
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 11-04-2010 at 16:48:
Breathe, Wade. Calm down. Don't make any hasty decisions.
One:
It's probably a coincidence about the merchandise. There are only a couple hundred members on this site (and an unknown number of lurkers), and there are a LOT of Gatchaman fansites out there. There are also some more generalized anime sites. Which means that it's unlikely that you coming here to talk about your latest acquisition (or even to ask about whether Item X is worth buying) is causing significant numbers of fans to run out and bid themselves silly.
If anything is happening, it's that tendency of people to get stupid. In the physical world, people will stand in a line just because it's there, and if asked, will say that there must be something worthwhile going on, or there would not be a line.
So, some folks go to a site, show an interest in something, and others think, "I have to get in on this!" and participate. Thus affecting the prices. (To the delight of sellers, and to the buyers' dismay.)
Two:
As for Jennifer -- I doubt this was someone's idea of a joke, sick or otherwise. There are enough people in the United States that it's entirely possible to run across someone who has a freakish resemblance to a character from a favorite television show, comic book, or movie. (I have a book somewhere on ancient Celtic warriors, and one of the illustrations bears a remarkable resemblance to a former co-worker of mine. He could have posed for it -- except for the warrior moustache. Since the book was written and illustrated in England, and my co-worker and I were stationed at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia, I can safely say he did not.)
If someone were playing a joke, she would have had her act much more together and not been so freaky. (Even if it were a sick joke, I think. After all, you could easily have decided to call the police on her. They might not have been able to do much, but their presence would have removed any 'fun' for the jokester -- and definitely for her.) But, the way you describe things, you could easily have not been there that particular day. For a prank to work, the prankster has to know the 'victim' will be at a specific place at a specific time.
I STRONGLY advise that you make sure your girlfriends' neighbors know about this young woman (omitting any Gatch references), so that they can keep their eyes open and their own children out of harm's way. If she shows up again, wanting to see your girlfriend's son, you might be well within your rights to call the police, but I'm not sure. I know they have certain restrictions on what they can do. (If they did not, idiots would be swamping them with even more stupid calls than they get now.)
By your description of Jennifer's behavior, she could have been off her medication, having an adverse reaction to medication, or have been using some illicit pharmaceuticals. Or using alcohol or illegal drugs while taking her meds. Some people are stupid that way. (Others are stupid enough to mix medications, ignoring package warnings.)
That still doesn't explain how she knew about your girlfriend and her son. (You did warn him, I presume.)
BTW, we don't know anything about you except what you put on your profile and in your posts. So nobody could have decided to mess with you based on what you wrote here. Not unless they had some mad skillz to track you down. And I'm not certain that someone with those skills would do all that just to send out a woman dressed like G3 to spook you and your lady.
You have her license number. You might be able to track her down and find out what's going on. She asked to see your girlfriend's son, but your girlfriend didn't know her. To me, that sounds like it has nothing to do with your 'visits' to us, and everything to do with a disturbed mind.
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Posted by amethyst on 11-04-2010 at 17:13:
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That was my first thought when I read this. Your description of the girl screamed that she was strung out on something.
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Do more than that. Make sure that your girlfriend is knowledgeable about the online communities he visits. Something I do with my children, particularly my 12 & 11 year old is if they are on any forum site that I'm on, they need to add me as a friend. Also, at anytime, I want access to what they are one, who they are talking to, and what the main content of the site is.
They've not argued, nor have they given me any reason to push to be more invasive. My first thought, is this girl knows the boy online, he was shocked by her appearance (or maybe scared that he would get into trouble).
Check with your school district or county child services office, many offer parent cyber-education programs to help you let children and teens browse the web safely. Learn to read the boy. Does he need a tight leash, or a loose lead, if he needs one but if you give him the other, it could backfire big time at this age. Hopefully, he is freaked out enough from the experience that he won't want to repeat it for a while.
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 11-04-2010 at 17:58:
Good subsequent advice, Amethyst. I don't have children, so I didn't think of school programs.
Wade, if this is a combination of a boy's indiscretion and a woman's mental problems, you and your girlfriend need to be extra vigilant for quite a while. Not only with the boy (who might not have known he was giving information to a disturbed adult), but in general. Depending on her delusion, she might be readying Plan B or Plan C.
I still think you should check her out. She might transfer her attentions to some other child. There doesn't seem to be much you can do unless she becomes violent, but I'm not a lawyer. If you know one, you could ask what actions you can legally take. Given her apparent age, she might have relatives who can help. Unless they are total assholes, you might be able to tell them what happened and they can get her the help she needs.
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Posted by Springie on 11-04-2010 at 21:00:
Wade, I agree with everyone else. Just the fact that someone like that came to your house is freaky enough. Take care and find out how and why this happened...
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Posted by gatchamarie on 12-04-2010 at 09:26:
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Same advice here, Wade! As I was reading I, myself, felt uneasy thinking that it could happen to one of my children! The circumstances really are freaky ... not to alarm you, but please make sure to take care of the situation as very well advised by the others! The lady really seems like being mentally unstable ... you cannot know what's her next action! There was one day, some months ago, when a young lady, similar to the one you have described, that is seemingly "dazed and confused", came and mingled with us parents when we were seeing our children in the school's doors. She stopped at almost each and every one of us without any embarassment and started talking with our children with such a confidence that we could have sworn that she knew our children, and started asking them personal questions! And all this in front of us as if we didn't exist! Unfortunately, there really are persons like these around and, fortunately for us, this person has not been seen for months now ... just once on that day! We took our precautions the same just to be sure and you have to do the same for your girlfriend's child security and others'. Hope everything will turn out okay for you! Don't let your obsession of thinking that this might have only been a prank (which is most unlikely) let you getting distracted from taking the right actions.
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