# Attack of the Crazy Woman **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 8, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305 "2007-12-08T18:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/341 "2007-12-12T16:41:12Z")
I might have a clue what MPSIMS thread you’re referring to. Either there’s a bunch of people just playing along, or they need to be walloped with a clue-by-four. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/342 "2007-12-12T16:50:26Z")
Grr. I am going bananas with curiosity now. I don’t know how to enable my pm and I can’t get to my yahoo email account from work!! What is this thread of which **percypercy** and **Jodi** speaks?! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/343 "2007-12-12T16:54:07Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Grr. I am going bananas with curiosity now. I don’t know how to enable my pm and I can’t get to my yahoo email account from work!! What is this thread of which **percypercy** and **Jodi** speaks?! [/QUOTE] Go to User CP. Click on Edit Options. Scroll down to the part about private messages, and check the box that enables PMs. ETA: Oh, yeh, remember to scroll all the way to the bottom to click on the save changes button. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/344 "2007-12-12T16:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Navy SEALs never die… > > They just stomp off in a huff. If they wait sixty second, they could leave in a minute and a huff. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/345 "2007-12-12T17:00:40Z")
The Transsexual Teacher Trainwreck Thread: [Ms. Kaitlyn’s first day in the classroom](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295309&highlight=transsexual+teacher) I’d forgotten all about this. If there were only someway to re-read these classic FUBAR’s whilst taking a long hot bath. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/346 "2007-12-12T17:10:39Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] **marshmallow** , if you like a good trolling, there’s a current MPSIMS thread that is IMO one of the most obvious examples of bullshit I’ve seen in a while, in which the distressed OP’er and his/her unbelievable situation is garnering much support from many well-meaning uncynical Dopers. I of course would not _dream_ of linking it, since I can’t _prove_ it’s complete horseshit, and I’d hate to be the big meanie who drives the widdle OP’er away, but PM me and I’ll send you the link. [/QUOTE] Amen. I do not know what the heck is going on over there, I saw it when it was only a few posts long and couldn’t help laughing at the lessons not learned. I guess everybody is in a rush to show they are not newb chasers and are acting all supportive. Still, wow. (Darn it, now I will go and read the whole thing and I just know I will need a corkscrew to unroll my eyes back to normal) ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/347 "2007-12-12T17:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] If there were only someway to re-read these classic FUBAR’s whilst taking a long hot bath. [/QUOTE] er, print them out? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/348 "2007-12-12T17:29:16Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] The Transsexual Teacher Trainwreck Thread: [Ms. Kaitlyn’s first day in the classroom](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295309&highlight=transsexual+teacher) I’d forgotten all about this. If there were only someway to re-read these classic FUBAR’s whilst taking a long hot bath. [/QUOTE] That thread doesn’t seem to contain the incident in which **Kaitlyn** was called out and confessed. At least, in the last page of the thread, she’s still talking as though her story is true. Is the incident contained in a different thread? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/349 "2007-12-12T17:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Is the incident contained in a different thread? [/QUOTE] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5880782&postcount=108](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5880782&postcount=108) I found this by looking for K6’s last post and working backwards. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/350 "2007-12-12T17:43:14Z")
Goodness, such sturm und drang. I started skimming this thread, and I had just about lost interest when my eyes perked up because my hometown of Manitowoc was mentioned. ‘What the heck, I’ll give my folks a call about this, they would get a kick out of this story what with the recent police fooforaw there’, I thought - which I did, and which they did. Then I thought - you know, there is a lot of information here if you want to prove **justanoldvet** ’s story: a date (Wed, Dec 8 2007), a location (Manitowoc, WI), and a name (Debby/Deb/Deborah). In for a penny, in for a pound - so I called the Manitowoc Police Dept, who denied any arrest of a Deb/Debby/Debbie on Dec 8, and the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Dept, who also denied any arrest of a Deb/Debby/Debbie on Dec 8. Now, it may be that my assumptions about the date or spelling or whatnot are off, but I’m not going to call them back and ask them to expand their search parameters for my entertainment alone. It seems that if you’re so emotionally invested in whether they guy’s story was true or not, it would have been easier to just check it out rather than to go back and forth about it for so many pages. In other words, _cite_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/351 "2007-12-12T17:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=brossa] Now, it may be that my assumptions about the date or spelling or whatnot are off, but I’m not going to call them back and ask them to expand their search parameters for my entertainment alone. [/QUOTE] It was the Wednesday before December 8. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/352 "2007-12-12T17:52:23Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5880782&postcount=108](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5880782&postcount=108) I found this by looking for K6’s last post and working backwards. [/QUOTE] Thanks. (Who the heck is K6 and how was one to know his/her last post would be a thing to look for?) -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/353 "2007-12-12T17:53:44Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Thanks. (Who the heck is K6 and how was one to know his/her last post would be a thing to look for?) [/QUOTE] K6 is **Kaitlin** in that thread who previously posted as **Number 6**. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/354 "2007-12-12T18:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] It was the Wednesday before December 8. [/QUOTE] Aw hell. I knew about the Wednesday part, I knew that it was the fifth, not the eighth, and I’m all but certain that I asked about the 5th when I called. But the fact that I made the typo in the post makes me question what date I gave them. Oh, well. Easy enough for some other person to confirm or refute. If you call today, you can say that you’re looking for the same Deb that the other guy was calling about, but maybe on a different day. Give the nice records ladies a little mystery to chat about for the next few days. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/355 "2007-12-12T18:07:26Z")
[QUOTE=brossa] Oh, well. Easy enough for some other person to confirm or refute. If you call today, you can say that you’re looking for the same Deb that the other guy was calling about, but maybe on a different day. Give the nice records ladies a little mystery to chat about for the next few days. [/QUOTE] Please don’t do this. We strongly discourage people from playing Internet Detective to ferret out other poster’s real life identities, no matter how unlikely their story. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/356 "2007-12-12T18:11:12Z")
[QUOTE=brossa] Oh, well. Easy enough for some other person to confirm or refute. If you call today, you can say that you’re looking for the same Deb that the other guy was calling about, but maybe on a different day. Give the nice records ladies a little mystery to chat about for the next few days. [/QUOTE] He said in the OP that she _wasn’t_ arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/357 "2007-12-12T18:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] He said in the OP that she _wasn’t_ arrested. [/QUOTE] This sounds kind of like she was. > [@](#): > > As we were concluding the above conversation, she went into her house and returned with TWO metal baseball bats ( the cops had taken away the first one ), and started waving them around, banging them together, saying she was going to kill me, kill my dogs, burn our house down, kill the cops, and assorted other threats. The cops looked at each other, and said " Well, that’s it".. and went to arrest her. It took the three of them to subdue her, a third cop having arrived during my conversation with the other two. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/358 "2007-12-12T18:20:24Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] He said in the OP that she _wasn’t_ arrested. [/QUOTE] I reread the OP last night, so I may be misremembering, but I could swear that she WAS arrested once she threatened police officers with two metal baseball bats. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/359 "2007-12-12T18:24:55Z")
And, speaking now as a poster, I think both sides are going a little nuts over this. It’s an anonymous message board. We’ll rarely if ever know for sure that people here are who they say they are, and there’s no shame in taking someone at their word. At the same time, the Internet is full of self-proclaimed Navy SEALs and CIA agents – anyone claiming extraordinary credentials should expect skepticism. Such is the problem of anonymity – real-life actions don’t carry much weight so respect has to be slowly earned by what you say and how you say it. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305/360 "2007-12-12T18:28:10Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] But then you have to go and add the second paragraph. For one thing, it’s alrady been stated it was PM’s and emails that made him leave. For another thing, that is the kind of thing that’s been driving me nuts in this thread. Comments like, “yeah, we shouldn’t chase away so many newbies but hey, I was a little suspicious of him, too!” just aren’t necessary and only keep this train wreck careening down the track. Oldvet’s not coming back and at this point I can’t say I blame him. I don’t know about you guys but to me this place seems to have slowed down lately, we need new blood. Let’s face it we’re a suspicious bunch and we tend to be suspicious of any new people or anyone with big claims. I hope that we can all just learn a little lesson from this and try to give people the benefit of the doubt until such time as we get more evidence that they don’t deserve it. [/QUOTE] I’m sorry for forgetting to get your stamp of approval before submitting my post. I never said that I was suspicious of him. I didn’t pay much attention to his stories because I personally didn’t find them all that interesting. (I may very well be the only one. I can accept that. That does mean however that saying,“Look at the interesting poster who’s left because of all this crap.” does very little to sway me.) My point and it was not as well articulated as I would have liked is that there are many posters here who have received rude and nasty email, who have been the targets of other posters, and have been accused of trolling, lying, etc. and are still here. He is not and I suspect that if it hadn’t been because of this thread it would have been something else. I don’t know and I don’t care if he’s a seal or not. But if he’s going to let a momentary setback like this decide his participation level then at the very least he’s not that interested in posting here, so why should I care if he does or not? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-crazy-woman/429305.md?page=19)