# Am I Crazy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 3, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758 "2017-05-03T01:38:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758/41 "2017-05-03T20:24:29Z")

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OP: Could you have a stalker (an ex-boyfriend)? Are you a celebrity? A criminal? An ISIS supporter? etc?

If not I think it just coincidences and have simple explanations.

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**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758/42 "2017-05-03T21:05:35Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> If the government were doing it, I agree. But they’re not the only ones who can do surveillance.
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> Some average Joe, or a less than competent PI, would likely act amateurish and be spotted. If I had reason to spy, I don’t have access to cell phone bugs or whatnot. I’d have to plant cameras or bugs, or fly drones, myself.

I’m speaking from a practical standpoint, to physically tap someone’s phone, it wouldn’t be done from the telephone pole outside the home. The access to it is located in a box often at the end of the block or blocks away.

And no spy application would be displaying a message on a cell phone to alert the owner of the phone something unusual is going on. That’s something in movies they do to show the audience something special is taking place.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758/43 "2017-05-03T21:59:08Z")

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> [@edwardcoast](#):
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> I’m speaking from a practical standpoint, to physically tap someone’s phone, it wouldn’t be done from the telephone pole outside the home. The access to it is located in a box often at the end of the block or blocks away.
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> And no spy application would be displaying a message on a cell phone to alert the owner of the phone something unusual is going on. That’s something in movies they do to show the audience something special is taking place.

All valid points. The phone message is either just a misread, or the OP really is crazy.

Wonder if we’ll ever know.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-crazy/785758/44 "2017-05-03T23:51:12Z")

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These vague references to this shadowy husband person make me think of gaslight.

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