WHAT HAPPENED?
· At 1:26 on the afternoon of the Fourth, Dirty brought our attention to Dobry’s account of the “hang-up call”
he said he’d received the night before [1]. Dobry in fact called it “another hang-up” call, though he hadn’t
been complaining about that earlier. He added that
a) he had a new unlisted number;
b) he used the *57 “protocol” to trace the call;
c) that the call had been successfully traced to Cleveland, Mo; and
d) that he had contacted the Cleveland police force
and the FBI.
· Discussion of this “news” only began in earnest several hours later, when Shell reported that a friend
in the States had explained to her that if one uses *57, the results of the trace go to the phone company,
who then relays them to the police. They are not sent to the person making the complaint [3].
· Dirty responded saying that *69 is used to “ID the caller”, and that *57 is used “for a police report” [4].
· Laughing Rat informed the group that *69 is automatic call return [6].
· Dirty again insisted that Dobry had used *69 [8].
· Shell noted that in his original message Dobry had clearly said he used *57 [9].
· At 6:27, Bob Zumbrunnen, accused by Dobry of having made the “hang-up call”,
joined in the conversation [10]. He categorically denied having made the call,
and pointed out that his town does not have a police department.
· Dirty then vanished as “dirty_bull” and returned as “mobaction” [12],
noting that “what your buddy Bob for got [sic] is there are *69 plus cal;ler ID”.
It’s not at all clear what that was supposed to mean.
· Dirty announced that he “was there when Bob called” [14].
· Dirty informed Bob that his town does indeed have a police department, and that there was
“one guy on duty at the time of the call” [17].
· Dirty denied Shell’s allegation that he’s Jay Marvin, and “explained” that one uses *69 for callback
and *57 for a “record of the call” [22].
· Bob asked Dirty to prove that his town has a police department by posting its phone number [24].
· Dirty replied that he didn’t have the number “in front” of him, but that he could get it,
and would also see if he could get the name of the officer to whom the call was reported [25].
· Laughing Rat asked Dirty to provide the name of the officer and the number of the police report [28].
· Dirty posted the supposed number of the police department: 816-658-3463 [31].
· Bob called the number and reported that it wasn’t correct; he invited others to try [33].
· Dirty immediately replied that he’d made a “mistake”: the actual number was 816-658-3462.
· Bob responded that the recorded message was the same for both numbers:
“out of service or disconnected” [36].
· Dirty disappeared for awhile, and then returned saying he’d called Dobry, and that the number
Dobry had “called last night while I was standing there” was 816-380-5200 [41].
· Bob replied that the new number was located about an hour and fifteen minutes from where he lived [44],
and then added that the number was for the county sheriff’s office. He was told that no report had been
filed by Dobry, and moreover, that “harassing calls have to be reported in the jurisdiction in which
they’re being received” [45].
· At this point—it was after 8 in the evening eastern time—Dirty disappeared for good,
rather implausibly announcing that he was going on vacation.
He was immediately replaced by Dobry himself.
In his first post, Dobry said once again that he had “performed the *57 protocol”
AFTER “seeing” (presumably by means of Caller ID) that the number was from Cleveland Mo [50].
And how did he know that number traced to Cleveland and not to some other town?
He didn’t explain.
He said further that the then called the Cleveland Police after being given their number
by a dispatcher for the Belton Police.
He added that he would give this “information” to the “Feds” the next day.
Ooops!! Hadn’t he said many hours earlier that the FBI had been “contacted”?
· A few minutes later, changing his story slightly, Dobry claimed that
the “hang-up” came from the 816 area code [52].
· Dobry then reported that he had received the “confirmation for the trace” shortly after
he’d received the call, and said he would call the “Feds” on the 5th [53].
· In a series of posts, Dobry taunted Bob, saying that if he wasn’t the person who made the call,
then he shouldn’t object if it’s posted [54, 56, 57].
· Shifting ground once again, Dobry said that “Ameritech confirmed the trace”,
and that he got the number from Caller ID [55].
· When pressed by Shell, Dobry explained that “you simply press *57 to trace the call you want traced.
A recording gives the number to call to see if the trace is successful, mine was.
Then you are instructed to get a police report, in my case, I go to the feds with it in
the AM, the phone co. will give the feds the number " [59].
So. Difficult to understand what he means by “getting” a police report.
· Dobry reiterated that “the phone number will be retrived by the feds here” [60].
But didn’t he say he already had the number??
· Apparently thoroughly confused by this time, Dobry continued:
“The trace was successful, its [sic] all computerized.
Tomorrow I give the number & make the report with the fes here, they get the trace” [62].
· A little while after, Dobry posted the number that he had supposedly traced.
The next morning he had that post deleted, but from the messages of various other contributors
it’s clear that the number he offered was 816-251-6082.
· Shell tried that number immediately, and got the following message:
“You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service” [67].
· Dobry responded: “now do what I did, cal Belton PD, they’ll give you the right number” [69]. Huh?
· Shell noted that Dobry and Dirty had posted a total of four numbers,
one of which was the sheriff’s office. The other three were disconnected.
Dobry, replied: “I posted ONE NUMBER, the one that was traced” [72].
Really? That number—816-251-6082—is out of service or disconnected.
· When braced with that indisputable fact, Dobry declined to respond to questions.
Bob noted that 215 is not a valid prefix in the 816 area code [82].
· Dobry did, however, announce mysteriously that “they” had called 411 and had been given three numbers,
all disconnected [79]. Why on earth did “they” call 411, if in fact they did so?
· The next day Dobry managed to have about eight of his posts from the night before deleted. Some have
been recovered from cache, a couple haven’t, though Dobry should remember that all can be subpoenaed
from Raging Bull.
In mid-afternoon, he posted that he had reported “the number”—the disconnected number,
evidently —to the “Feds”, but rather weakly added that they probably didn’t care much about hang-ups [91].
He finished with a feeble comment about a “campaign of terror”
evidently prosecuted by a mysterious disconnected telephone.
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