Humans are creatures of pattern and habit. The longer we deal with Patrick, the more likely we are to fall into a hamster wheel of 20 or so names. We need fresh Patposters to give fresh names. Fortunately, Patrick seems eager to give us those.
The SWATs aside, if real, Jennifer is not being harassed. Other people do not have a burden to not contact you, Rick makes himself publicly available and does nothing to stop it, so a reasonable person would conclude that he is open to being contacted. The Milwaukee Police can't order everyone on the planet not to call a phone number just because the person doesn't want to change it. Unless you've already been convicted of harassing Patirck it's not a felony to do it and there's no police force on the planet that's going to spend the resources to track down every person who could have plausibly committed a misdemeanor offense. They're definitely not going to kick it up to the feds because the feds aren't going to touch it because they'd ruin their careers trying to fit the world's stupidest case into any federal laws.
It's entirely legitimate. Doing it to threaten or intimidate him wouldn't be legitimate. There's nothing illegal or even immoral about mocking an asshole for his repellent behavior. No legitimate purpose also generally means none whatsoever. In other words, if you called him fat because you disapprove of obesity, the fact you were also amused by him flailing around denying being fat, while staring fatly at you wouldn't defeat the (second better) purpose.
I still wouldn't continue to contact someone on a phone number if they say not to, even if they do continue to engage. It's just asking for trouble. There isn't some hard and fast rule that someone being harassed isn't allowed to respond. It just makes it more difficult to prove and generally cops are just going to laugh at you if you give them a bunch of interactions like Pat has.
That's more of what I'm saying, that he basically hasn't done anything but complain and expect prison. The police, and especially prosecutors, don't just respond to every
The context is great, too, he's in some sportsball thread pretending to be a man, and he suddenly acts like a retard (turns comments off in a discussion thread). Someone is like "why are you acting like a retard?" "Read this thread, child." "Lmao no, fuck off retard."
A case in point would be the Nadolsky thing where Pat tried to sue over someone feloniously having a drink at Hoolie's. Arguably (a weak argument granted), while you need no reason to have a drink at a public establishment, there really isn't much purpose of deliberately telling Fatty you're doing it. It's to annoy him. I don't think it comes up to the legal definition of "annoy" in a harassment statute, which excludes protected behavior, but whatever.
So Fat's already over 50 K in the hole and the second, better debt is yet to come. He's really gonna end up turning that free 100 grand from sci-fi pedophiles into negative 100 000. I'm so sorry, Lynne. Hope you weren't planning to retire before turning eighty.
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Most people with personality disorders have next to no awareness that their behaviour is problematic and will think nothing of it. Delusions are present in about a quarter of patients, and they may range from intermittent to persistent. I genuinely believe Pat thinks he is the personification of intelligence. His distinct lack of self-awareness is extremely telling. There is no breaking character for him, if he's even capable of doing so, as it would cause extreme levels of distress. Heavy substance use (alcohol), poor lifestyle habits (fat), and unbridled anger are again all telling signs. No friends, no family contact—just the idea he is a "thought leader" speaking to literal bots in the vast expanse of the internet with no hint of irony—is Pats world. He has poor impulse control and is at the whims of his volatile emotions. He would've been bullied relentlessly at school, and I'm sure many lockers had his indentation. An acknowledgement of failure could very well make him spiral.
Go BRUINS
He's also supposed to pay taxes on that if it wasn't a loan which it doesn't appear to be from the SFWA tax filings far as I remember, and if it was he'd have to pay it back which is worse.
