I’ve had a hinky feeling about my BIL for years. Set aside the fact that he’s full of crap (two engineering degrees in six months, can speak seven languages, served with John Kerry in Vietnam, blah blah blah. Oh, he also thinks if you drop a magnet and it breaks it loses its polarity.)
Many years ago we were over at their house for my nephew’s birthday. Ivylad witnessed this and said it gave him chills.
The little ones were whacking at a pinata. BIL swung at it, missed, and hit a little boy in the mouth.
Now, what’s your first instinct? “Oh, my God I’m so sorry let’s get some ice on that,” right?
Nope. First words out of BIL’s mouth were, “Don’t tell your mother.”
Ivylad said he said that a little too quick, almost like that was his go-to response for hurting a child. We don’t have much to do with them.
Look, I found his face on NYS registered sex offender site.
They actually list 100% of his full address, including zip code; I think it’s a Megan’s Law thing. Anyway, I honestly want nothing to do with him and I’m sure not going to list his Voldemorte name and possibly bring him to this board if he Googles himself.
I also don’t want to open myself up to slander if some of the details I was told are wrong… and I’m not looking to leave any trails of breadcrumbs back to me-and-mine. He’s “The Bronx” problem now.
My daughter was into Taekwondo, and her dojo had to close. We went to a new one, and the guy running it truly skeeved me out. We never went back, and he was busted for molestation a month later. I’m glad I didn’t write my reluctance off as just a dad overprotective of his daughter.
I’ve only legit hated three people in my life on first meeting them. All of them seemed superficially OK despite my misgivings, so I decided to ignore my intuition.
Turned out that two of them had some form of mental illness and are now both dead by their own hand. The third was a conman who stole all the money from the charity I was volunteering for. Last heard of in the Philippines trying to sell a “treasure map” to some “buried gold”. I’m not kidding.
I do get such intuitions quite a lot - though nowhere near as violently as in the above cases - and they do turn out almost always to be right. Can’t go into detail but I met someone a year ago who gave me the vibe; I spoke to his business partner few days ago on an unrelated matter and she said he’d recently become threatening and abusive.
However despite no false positives so far, it doesn’t always work. The most 100% legit sociopath I know - she’s like Donald Trump on speedballs, telling fifty easily disproven lies an hour - was so pretty that it wasn’t a case of dismissing my spidey sense, it just never even occurred to me that she could be ugly on the inside.
I went with a bunch of Fraternity brothers on Texas Week for Spring Break, and decided to go across the border from Padre Island. At some point I wandered away from the bar to take a leak, and got a funny vibe and then got a little lost trying to find the bar again. Walked up to some folks and asked for directions, and found my way back, feeling super creeped out the whole time.
We were in Matamoros, and I have no idea whether my vibe had anything to do with what happened there, but I’d say it was damn possible.
I am sorry to say that I got this vibe not that long ago about a 9-year old kid. He was very smart, charming, and articulate, but just seemed wrong somehow. Like a young Hannibal Lecter.
Fortunately he was just the son of the neighbor of a friend of ours, so it was not hard to get my kids away from him. But I did wonder whether I should tell my friend about my vibes. Would you have?
Ou family attended a small church during the time my sons were preteens. The priest was really great theologically, did great sermons and so forth. Everyone thought he was great, but I got strange vibes. He had something that was anti female about him, but nothing specific. He also seemed to be friendly in a weird way with the young males. I told my wife, and we made sure that our two boys were never alone with him. In private conversations other couples said we were wrong.
A year after we left the church, he was arrested for child molestation, and is currently in prison.
This place I worked hired a “salesman”. I knew he was a con-man the first time I met him. And he knew it, too.
He was hired by my boss’s boss. I suspect my boss, who was a very smart guy knew it too, but had to suffer much abuse behind these two assholes. The “salesman” cost that company a lot of money, time and misery before imploding in a ball of shit all over the country.
It was an interesting few months there, to be sure.
Second hand. Way back in high school, I worked in a hospital dietary. One of the cooks was a black lady named Una. I liked to hang around with her. She had a cool way of speaking. She’d say “Mmm Hmm” and “Sho 'Nuff” in conversation.
My mom later told me she had a black co-worker named Jackie who thought Una was a witch. The child-eating devil-consorting evil-eye-cursing type of witch. I have no idea how she arrived at that kind of conclusion. Una had a couple of facial bumps, baggy eyes and a broad flat nose, which I thought gave her character, but which Jackie saw as frightful, I guess.
A guest in my home set off my spidey senses. She was an acquaitance of one of my sons I think. Our sole interaction was “nice to meet you”. But someting was off about her. It bothered me enough that I went out of my way to keep passing through the room the groups was in but nothing happened. Then. About a month or so ago ago she set her gfs place on fire with her gf and a child sleeping inside.
He was. He was convicted. But now he’s out again… living somewhere in the Bronx.
Ted Kaczynski is still in jail.
I thought I saw him at the corner of Passaic Ave & Westville Ave in West Caldwell (waiting for a bus?) in the winter of 1994… but people say I had to have been wrong.
I just drove by whoever it was, but even from 20 feet away they just felt… evil…
Nope. I try to avoid irrationalize fear anyway. I’ve certainly met plenty of weird people though, like today met a guy who brought up Trump in regards to me installing fiber optics to his home and he said something to the effect of how Trump was the anti christ and all the numbers are lining up now so they can track him through the fiber optics.
I just nodded and said…soooo, I’ll be running that fiber up here within a couple weeks and went about my business.
I even met a guy that told me about how the giants that were hibernating in the mountains, were waking up due to some frequency being emitted and he went on and on about some weird stuff like that. I learned years ago to just nod in agreement but I did give him hell when he mentioned Hillary is part of the alien race of lizards people that came through a portal of some sort and I think he felt a bit insulted.
I got the feeling about a guy one of my friends, L, introduced me to as his new boyfriend. Turned out the guy was HIV+ and lied about it until after they’d slept together a couple of times. Fortunately, L insisted on condoms and testing, and the guy broke up with him, and that’s when L found out through the grapevine that he had lied about his HIV status to several other people.
Now, I am not prejudiced against people who are HIV positive. I have had a number of friends with HIV, and I will hug them, and share food with them, but I have no time for someone who tries to lie his way out of having safe sex, and puts someone at that kind of risk.
According to L, he confronted the guy, and the guy did a total Jekyll & Hyde, threatening to beat L to a pulp and bleed on L if he told anyone that he was HIV+. It was a college town, though, not someplace like Manhattan, and the guy eventually moved on.
I hate to say it, but I hope he died before he got a chance to infect too many people. This was in 1990, when HIV was still pretty much a death sentence.