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| Hoaxer targets army wife with false death call |
| 2005-02-23 |
| Hat tip: Captain's Quarters SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) -- Military police are investigating a cruel hoax in which a man wearing an Army dress uniform falsely told the wife of a soldier that her husband had been killed in Iraq. Investigators are trying to determine why the man delivered the false death notice and whether he was a soldier or a civilian wearing a military uniform. "We're taking it extremely seriously. Whatever motivation was behind it, it was a sick thing to do," said Fort Stewart spokesman Lt. Col. Robert Whetstone. . . . . . . When the 3rd Infantry first deployed to Iraq for the 2003 invasion, some Fort Stewart families reported receiving phone calls from pranksters saying their soldiers had been killed. This time around, troops and their spouses got pre-deployment briefings that included detailed explanations of how death notices work. Two soldiers, including a chaplain, in dress uniform always arrive to tell the family in person. The Army never makes notifications over the telephone. . . . . . . Military police described the suspected hoaxer as being 6-feet, 1-inch tall and about 180 pounds with black or brown hair and a pale complexion. He was reported to be driving a blue or green pickup truck with chrome wheels, oversized tires and a Georgia license plate. Impossible to say yet whether this is an isolated sicko or organized moonbattery at work. I can think of an appropriate punishment, though. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #11 I think they should cut the naughty bits off and nail him to that California couple's house that likes to hang effigy's from their house to try and demoralize our fighting men and women. Just be sure to slap a "Just Visualize Whirled Peas" sticker on his chest. Now if you really want to be cruel, you slit his belly open and haul out his intestines to wrap around the trees in the yard. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-02-23 10:52:13 PM |
| #10 GK: thanks for getting my back. |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-02-23 10:13:02 PM |
| #9 Touche, CrazyFool. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-23 1:31:46 PM |
| #8 What the hell did buzzards, vultures, stray dogs, and crows do to you BigEd that you would inflict this sick creature on them? The Mad Mullahs now.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-02-23 1:26:22 PM |
| #7 GK. It works only if you leave him there so the buzzards, vultures, stray dogs, and crows can have a "snack" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-23 1:17:47 PM |
| #6 Cut out the caller's tongue, and sew his lips together. It is written. |
| Posted by: Allah Akhbar 2005-02-23 1:09:34 PM |
| #5 I don't condone any vengence, but if a wife shot the fellow I couldn't convict her. If there is anything that would justify a temporary insanity plea it would be responding to this kind of sick cruelty. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-02-23 11:18:27 AM |
| #4 Nah, a Gary Powers flight into Iran [insert smiley here] |
| Posted by: Spemble Whaimp3884 2005-02-23 9:59:34 AM |
| #3 A paid vacation to Iraq sounds like a plan to me.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-02-23 9:17:38 AM |
| #2 I'm thinking more along the lines of a free trip on the CIA's mysterious white plane. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-23 8:36:35 AM |
| #1 Mike's link to 'appropriate punishment' didn't work. Try this: http://www.wildweststructures.com/gallows.jpg |
| Posted by: GK 2005-02-23 8:24:35 AM |
