Orlando man given George Zimmerman's old cell phone number bombarded with death threats

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Orlando man given George Zimmerman's old cell phone number bombarded with death threats

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/08/orlando-man-given-george-zimmerman-old-cell-phone-number-bombarded-with-death/

ORLANDO – At the age of 49, Orlando man Junior Alexander Guy finally bought his first cellphone. Within days he wished he hadn't.

At all hours of the day and night, the phone would ring and callers would insult and threaten him.

He quickly worked out that the number he had been given by T-Mobile previously belonged to Trayvon Martin murder accused George Zimmerman, The Orlando Sentinel reported, and was the number Zimmerman gave to 911 dispatchers the night of his fatal clash with Martin.

In all, he got about 70 threatening calls between May 7, when he bought the phone, and May 16, when he gave it to a lawyer -- who is petitioning T-Mobile to pay damages to Guy.

[cali]

1. that's fucking awful.

And it would be awful if it was still Zimmerman's phone number. sick fucks making death threats. fuck them.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Sure...it might be "awful" if Zimmy still had that phone number.

But you know what's even more awful? Stalking, following, and gunning down an unarmed kid carrying skittles and an iced.

[uppityperson]

10. So you believe in vigilante justice in some cases? My my my.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. No

[cthulu2016]

11. emetic

[cali]

14. uh, grab some critical thinking, dear.

condemning the former is not condoning the latter. duh.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. I never said you condoned the latter, honey

I said that shooting an unarmed teenager is more awful than death threats. Duh.

[cthulu2016]

17. So the comment was made for the purpose of being irrelevant?

If you were not minimizing death threats (you were, but lets' play along) then your comment was random... you just felt moved to say something utterly irrelevant.

If you were just saying something that was true then why not "bananas are yellow"

Your comment was intended to minimize death threats.

If someone popped into a Zimmerman thread to note that Zimmerman shooting Martin was small potatoes compared to the holocaust you would, rightly, question why the poster chose to make that particular random true observation, and would conclude that they were minimizing shooting Martin.

And you'd be right.

And your comment was a morally bankrupt minimization of death threats.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. Death threats directed toward Zimmerman should be taken seriously. n/t

[cali]

18. lol. sweetiepie

you still need a primer in critical thinking. That one can't condemn something terrible without the piss poor argument that something else is worse, demonstrates a real lack of said critical thinking skills. duh, dearie.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. LOL

I didn't immediately condemn the death threats directed toward Zimmy and I instead mentioned how he shot an unarmed teenager.

So sue me, honey.

[slackmaster]

2. How could anyone possibly have seen that coming?

[HopeHoops]

3. (You needed a :sarcasm: smiley in that post)

[The Northerner]

4. Hopefully he'll report those sending death threats

This incident seems similar to when Spike Lee posted the alleged address of George Zimmerman on his Twitter account but later realized that the address belonged to an elderly couple who had no connection to Zimmerman at all.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. I hope Lee wrote a FAT check to those folks.

I don't really care for Lee, his arrogance. There was no excuse for his actions...it was "vigilante justice," no better than the attitude that kept Zimmerman in pursuit of Trayvon after the 911 operator told him to back the fuck off.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. How horrible.

I'm not a Zimmerman supporter but death threats aren't going to help put him in jail where he belongs.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Just ask for another #?

In college I was given the old FAX number of some major business...For a whole semester I was getting woken up at all hours by that screechy noise from I guess Europe or Asia...

[Cali_Democrat]

9. LOL

That must have sucked.

[eridani]

15. My parents moved when I was 2 and my twin brothers were newborns

The number they got formerly belonged to a whorehouse.

[MelungeonWoman]

12. What an unpleasant introduction to cell technology!

I hope Guy gets satisfaction with T-Mobile. People sometimes do awful things but I think a lot of it is a growing frustration over the increasingly obvious lack of a functioning justice system in our society.

[rug]

20. Now he can track them down and shoot them all.

[Zax2me]

22. Not surprising at all.

And isn't this guy getting creepier and creepier the more layers pulled back from his life?
I'm surprised only that it took this long for him to implode/explode.