Public toilet telephone numbers - ADVICE PLEASE

[Strephon]

I don’t know how many readers of the Hot Topics forum venture over to the Fetish & Kink forum, but there’s a thread there called “Public toilet telephone numbers.”

Here’s part of the conversation:

Love ringing numbers that i've found in a public toilet. Find it hot, anyone else?

I've always assumed that 99% of them are gags and pranks- especially in this day and age.

I am the victim of one such prank. A friend (?) wrote my cell # on a couple of toilet stall walls as a gag, and I was inundated with calls.

I had to change the #, so if you're thinking of doing such a prank, think again. It really does cause a lot of trouble and inconvenience.

Grrrr!

And out of all those calls you couldn't find 1 person to hook up with?

The problem is, the idiot who scrawled my cell # on the toilet stall walls said I was a schoolboy who wanted to be fucked for the first time.

Need I say more?

That's just twisted. Did you at least report the calling #'s to the cops?

OK, the fact is I DIDN’T report the calling #’s to the cops - and I’m wondering if I should have?

Just opening up this topic to a ‘broader’ audience (if that’s all right) and I wonder what you think.

Should I have contacted the Police? Pros and cons?

Would you have?

 

[Jayden]

I dont understand why you have posted this in HT.

 

[Strephon]

Jayden, HT is a broad discussion forum and I wanted to open the subject up to a wider group of Jubbers.

 

[Jayden]

Fair enough.

If it was me I would just change my phone number and move on. I hope that helps you out a bit.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

OK, the fact is I DIDN’T report the calling #’s to the cops - and I’m wondering if I should have?

No, you should not. you do not want to get yourself involved in a pedo investigation in any way, shape or form.

Just run away, change the number and pretend you don't remember those calls.

 

[Blue Diamond]

Strephon, this is a serious matter and I can understand why you are concerned.

If you feel even slightly guilty for not contacting the cops, then don't. You didn't ask to get involved in this. You are the victim of a bad prank, and the last thing you want is to get in any deeper.

Jasun always shoots straight from the hip and I would take his advice. It is sound and I agree with him 100%

 

[cityboy-stl]

I would not report the numbers to the police. I might tell the caller that I am, but I wouldn't do it. Why? Scare them into stop calling me. Second, you wouldn't just report the numbers and be done with it. You could be dragged into a police investigation that could go on for months or even years, that could take your time, tarnish your reputation, cost you big money in legal fees. I would also no longer have a certain "friend".

 

[Scott-Countryman]

Keep the conversation in "Fetish & Kink".

None of our business, and if we wanted to make it our business we'd have gone over there to read.

Bye.

 

[Passion4Muzik]

Why can't he just tell you where he wrote it so you can erase it? School boys can be 18 as well, so that doesn't automatically make someone a pedo...

 

[Pinocchio]

I don't know what the previous poster is on about, so he's best ingored!

Strephon, some good advice here which I hope you will take on board. To summarise the general consensus: “Don’t get involved!”

You say you’ve changed your # … good! Now walk away and don’t worry about it any more.

BTW, also ignore posts from the likes of Scott Countryman and Jayden. I think you were OK to post on the HT forum. It’s a forum with a broad range of topics.

 

[TickTockMan]

This is a funny thread.

 

[FPNY]

I'd find myself a new friend......

 

[mike_n_herrin]

While it is completely true that the folks calling you may not be pedophiles, i'm kinda surprised at the bulk of the responses.

in general (not specifically related to this topic) i would have said if you believed something illegal to be occurring then it would be your responsibility to report it. i don't think that's necessarily where we are in this case. i think the "school boy" thing is a fantasy and i would fully expect the bulk of callers to know that. having said that if you really really think someone was a predator then the moral high ground would be to report it.

i would tell your "friend" to go take them off the walls where ever he put it. why should you have to change your number because of something stupid he did?

 

[Seasoned]

Your friend is no friend. It's not your job to pass on information to the police. It's your ex-friend's job to erase the john stalls. It's sad if there are tons of guys looking for kids. This almost sounds like an episode of that entrapment show, To Catch a Predator.

 

[Paws]

1. Apparently you know who wrote you number and what he wrote.

2. If "schoolboy" means underage, how can the callers be sure that it's not a trick by the police to lure potential pedos into illegal activities? If the callers annoy you, play the police

3. I would report your "friend" and any number that repeatedly calls you. It's harassment and that's a crime, at least in my country.

No sane person would actually write his own phone number on toilet stalls and call himself underage just for kicks.

4. To all: remember something similar can happen to us all anytime on the internet. There are enough message boards (4chan, Encycl0pedia Dramat1ca, Ebaumsworld,...) dedicated to harass people by publishing their contact infos worldwide. Anybody can easily write your phone number and a fake fact (____ is a pedo! Order tons of pizzas to his address!) or even fake your whole identity (dating sites, social networking,...).

 

[Strephon]

First of all, thanks very much for the replies. I do pride myself on being a good citizen, and it worried me that I was ignoring what some may consider my duty by not informing the police. However, most people (via the posts on this thread and quite a few PMs) have put my mind at ease. Thanks again - I appreciate your advice.

A couple of points:

I think a few people may have misread, or misinterpreted my opening post ….. so to clarify:

The thing that concerned me wasn't whether or not I should just change my #. I did that immediately the calls started - that was easy if inconvenient!

Nor was the problem getting my friend to erase the graffiti. When he realized the impact of his stupid prank, he immediately did the right thing.

No, the problem was whether or not I should report the calling #’s to the police.

I’m not sure about the view that “schoolboys may be 18, so that doesn't automatically make someone a pedo...” Frankly, anyone who responds to an “advert” for sex with a schoolboy is, conceivably, thinking of someone a bit younger than 18! Or a lot younger!

And whilst I respect the poster who said that, in his opinion, “the schoolboy thing is a fantasy and I would expect the bulk of callers to know that” I have to disagree. I think the bulk of callers were hoping to hook up with a naïve vulnerable youngster, pure and simple.

One poster asks “if ‘schoolboy’ means underage, how can the callers be sure it’s not a trick by the police to lure potential pedos into illegal activities?” Goodness knows! I’m sure a few potential callers may have thought of this, but it didn’t stop a lot of people calling me on my cell. Maybe they’re as naïve as the schoolboy they hoped to attract!

The same poster noted : “No sane person would actually write his own phone number on toilet stalls and call himself underage just for kicks. Well, there are, I’m sure, some not-so-sane people who would do just that! More to the point, there are people who would do that not for kicks - but to actually hook up!”

Which brings me to one of the oddest (IMHO) posts on the thread (# 11):

“Were these places like nightclubs/bars? Are they places that would have little boys using the restrooms? Or, would one assume that everyone using the rooms would be of age?

You know, you sort of make it sound like the restrooms were at a paedophile convention center.”

I’m still shaking my head about that one. Funny how some people’s minds tick over!

Anyway, for the record, the messages were etched in two separate stalls of the gents lavatories at my city’s main railway station. This landmark building is situated in the hub of the central business and shopping district with several thousand people passing through hourly. He couldn’t have picked a better spot to launch a prank with which to have maximum impact!

By the way, I don’t hold a grudge against my friend, who has now learned his lesson and won’t do anything like this again. He’s a good guy, but I suspect, somewhat immature like the Jubber who wrote the gem at post # 13.

 

[CudDULL]

Its over with now, just leave it be and move on. Its not like any of these guys actually committed a crime even if they had intentions. I do not support pedophilia but really, you would only be wasting your time.

 

[TickTockMan]

By the way, I don’t hold a grudge against my friend, who has now learned his lesson and won’t do anything like this again. He’s a good guy, but I suspect, somewhat immature like the Jubber who wrote the gem at post # 13.

I wrote what I did, because this thread shows how much of a hypocrite Jubbers are. Every pedophile thread on here, if the thread lasts long enough, has guys saying how bad pedophiles are, that they should all be killed, they shouldn’t be allowed around normal people, etc.

This thread show that these Jubbers are so protective of children that they will say anything on a message board to keep them safe, but if it means actually protecting them or potentially “getting involved” that its too much trouble and not worth it.




As a side note that doesn’t really matter; you call me immature, but you are the one on a message board asking if you should do the right thing. You’re the one so concerned about children’s safety that you ask strangers whether or not you should do something because your gut keeps telling you, you did the wrong thing. Who’s the immature here? I would have already contacted the police.

“You don't want to get caught up in all that crap. The longer you use the same number, the more likely you are bound to find yourself in a nasty mess.” This quote shows the type of people you are asking. 1) Their morality is felxible and 2) they don't bother to read the OP/ or can't remember it.If you did nothing wrong there will be no reason for you to have a lawyer, the DA will help you with anything you need involving the case. Yes the investigation could go on for years, but how does that involve you besides being contacted every once in a while? Its not like they are going to place a cop in your living room just to be safe.


I wrote what I did because the morality you guys showed above was great and not in a HAHA way. The fact you even asked shows the type of person you are. I can see the lengths you will go to protect a kid, too bad the lengths you go to protect yourself takes precedent.

 

[DBSKIsMine]

If "schoolboy" means underage, how can the callers be sure that it's not a trick by the police to lure potential pedos into illegal activities?

Wouldn't that be considered entrapment?

 

[Willie Boy]

OK. I didn't read through all of the posts, but I read enough to be saddened by the attitudes of many of my fellow JUBbers. I would say definitely get the police involved. If you don't want to be directly involved, do it anonymously (although I don't see why - that would tend to raise my level of suspicion if I were a cop). By reporting the potential of a serious crime like that you are not making yourself out to be a criminal.

But just imagine this possible scenario for a second: One of those callers did turn out to be a pedophile and he gets caught by the police. In the process of their investigation, they find your number in with a bunch of others and start tracking it. Sooner or later they will track it back to you. Now there is suspicion on YOU for also being a possible pedo and they just might start watching you in an attempt to gather evidence of a crime. If you had reported the situation at the beginning, there would have been a simple solution, the prank played on you. Instead, if my above mentioned hypothetical were to happen, the actual reason it happened sounds like nothing more than a hastily created attempt at an alibi. Not that it will happen, but it might.

Now on to the reason for the other responses saddening me: I can't believe so many fellow JUBbers would rather assist potential pedophiles than try to make life a little safer for everybody by spending a few short minutes of their time doing the right thing. That is just pathetic.