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Let's put aside the swatting, which is under investigation and was probably not committed by anyone here.
I don't think sending annoying text messages is a crime anywhere. There are laws on the books about telephone harassment, which is what Pat is banking on. But those laws seem to be about calling someone's landline repeatedly, which was a much more effective form of harassment before smart phones.
Pat can block anyone's number and set his phone to silent for anyone not in his contacts. Also, cyberstlakers don't call him, so he doesn't even have to make calls silent. If he doesn't want to miss any legitimate texts from people not in his contacts, he can periodically check his texts that were silent and respond to the legitimate ones. There's really no excuse for Pat to be engaging with cyberstlakers via text.
Then there are Pat's claims about identity theft. I'm pretty sure you have to steal something or obtain improper access to sensitive personal information to commit identity theft. Just pretending to be Pat to call a black woman a spade is not identity theft.
There is some gray area with stuff like the high school transcript and I think some rascals have signed up Pat to receive marketing emails from "debt solutions" companies. I guess you can argue that by impersonating Pat to engage with a financial service company, you're committing identity theft. But you're really just signing him up for spam. No one here has Pat's social security number to be able to commit actual identity theft, and what would be the point, he's fucking broke.
The vandalism was obviously Pat.
Then there's the guy who scattered lunch meat on his front steps a couple years ago. That's littering.
I don't think sending annoying text messages is a crime anywhere. There are laws on the books about telephone harassment, which is what Pat is banking on. But those laws seem to be about calling someone's landline repeatedly, which was a much more effective form of harassment before smart phones.
Pat can block anyone's number and set his phone to silent for anyone not in his contacts. Also, cyberstlakers don't call him, so he doesn't even have to make calls silent. If he doesn't want to miss any legitimate texts from people not in his contacts, he can periodically check his texts that were silent and respond to the legitimate ones. There's really no excuse for Pat to be engaging with cyberstlakers via text.
Then there are Pat's claims about identity theft. I'm pretty sure you have to steal something or obtain improper access to sensitive personal information to commit identity theft. Just pretending to be Pat to call a black woman a spade is not identity theft.
There is some gray area with stuff like the high school transcript and I think some rascals have signed up Pat to receive marketing emails from "debt solutions" companies. I guess you can argue that by impersonating Pat to engage with a financial service company, you're committing identity theft. But you're really just signing him up for spam. No one here has Pat's social security number to be able to commit actual identity theft, and what would be the point, he's fucking broke.
The vandalism was obviously Pat.
Then there's the guy who scattered lunch meat on his front steps a couple years ago. That's littering.
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