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This is important, someone who knows Trendon Shavers please let him know about this.

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I had less than the cost of a new laptop in a PPT, and don't care anymore or expect to see it back. But you need to know about this:

My family and I are currently in New York on vacation for the long weekend.

We were in a taxi this morning (Sunday) on the way to breakfast, and our taxi driver was talking the whole time into his cell phone in a very animated, agitated way. And not in english.

It was only about 5 blocks, and he'd been talking the whole time. I'm hoping he actually understood me when I told him where we (my wife and daughter and I) want to go.

About a block from the restaurant, he said something into the phone that caught my attention.

"... Pirate ..."

Then went back to whatever language (Russian?) he was speaking.

More words: " ... Texas ..." "... Trendon Shavers ..."
(except he said it drawn out, like "Treeendon Shaaavers" with an 'a' sound as in 'ah')

We get to our restaurant, and as I'm leaning back into the front passenger window paying the fare I joked, "Pirate owe you money?"

Bad mistake. He got out of the cab, leaving it in the street double parked with the door still open out into traffic, and burst over to my side of the cab. I got a look from my wife like, "What the hell did you just say to him?" She heads into the restaurant with my daughter, leaving me on the sidewalk with our driver.

him: "You know this Pirate?" Taxis behind him are laying on the horn. I've got flop sweat.

me: "No, no - he owes me money too" (that got me a skeptical look) - more honking.

him: "Fuck Pirate. My father has plane ticket. We'll be paid" - then he's back into the cab and drives off. I have to stand there and let the sweat dry from my face before I can join my wife and daughter.

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Well, in a way I'm impressed to have encountered a bitcoin discussion in the real world, but this isn't the kind of thing bitcoin needs.

Again, keep my coins - it's a tiny portion of my stake. But do SOMETHING! Let some trusted member of this community know what's going on. Pay back something, borrow the rest from some bitcoin-millionaire, and then pay back the rest. Think of your family. Don't keep saying things on IRC that mock your lenders and make people angry...

... people like my Russian taxi driver (and his father) in New York.

Who are you really?  Why hide behind a new account?

Free bump for the drama.

Lol Pirate Fan Fics already? Whos going to write the next chapter?


Hmmm.... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104178.0

...that got whitelisted with only one post.

~Bruno~

http://i.qkme.me/3qqi77.jpg

Christ....

I would put the odds of that story being legit at slightly less than Pirate's "investors" getting paid in full.

Seems legit. Except for the part that he has a wife, pics or it didnt happen.

And what odds would you give that among all the scammed there is someone with enough motive and means to do s.t real?

Significantly higher but it won't be the imaginary Russian Mafia Taxicab driver in the fan fic of the OP. 

Would you care to place a 10,000 BTC wager on this?

Did you pay the ride with BTCs?

How did a sockpuppet get out of Newbie Jail, yet this is his first post ?

Nice try, Forum Staff.

he had a whitelist request msg  which has been deleted.

Not his first post, he deleted the first posts.

Nice try imsaguy.

Any sockpuppet can get out of Newbie jail simply by having his regular account PM any Moderator asking to be whitelisted. They don't even need to say it's a sockpuppet account, they can just say they know the person.

Thank you for that ;)

Heh, have your boss check the ips. Certainly not me.  I was too busy being heavy handed on irc  ::)

...not to mention, having a semi-full mouth.

Come to think of it, you should run back there...like...NOW.

I am almost certain Pirate is being attacked and troll'd by UNREASONABLE PEOPLE and could use your protection of his good name.

That's just if.. if pirate's not there, you're just attacking into the channel and making everyone else read it.  How is that helping anything?

Indicator no. 127 that you have been obsessing about Bitcoin too much: You measure time in blocks mined.

Here's My Current IP smart guy: 70.73.52.25  (Admins HERE can confirm it)....AND IT HASN'T CHANGED IN A WHILE NOW.

Go ahead YOURSELF and confirm that I am NOT THERE, NOR HAVE I BEEN, NOR DO I CARE.

Go ahead and ban me from your Gay Bike Rally.

Like I said and maintain - I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.....nor do I hide from anyone.



I can't however say the same for YOU.


Are you using Pirate's IRC Server/Secure Connection now ? OR ARE YOU JUST SIMPLY PIRATE'S REAL LOVER ? (or Pirate himself)...

Well that Pastebin was easy to find and interesting.

~Bruno~

LOL'd so good!

I'd just like to point out that posting personal threats (even if deliberately vague) is a criminal offense in pretty much every developed country.  Even if the threats are done via an alleged third party 'someone said that they might do X....'  

Could you give us a few actual examples that you have noticed, that led you to bring this concern up here ?

There have been several cases that have been made invisible by the mods as outlined here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104198.0

Come on....REAL EXAMPLES or REFERENCES ?

It truly is a sad world that we live in these days. Castrated Males seem to be in abundance around here.

Maybe I am just too old, don't give a shit, don't kiss my Mom on the mouth or live in her basement, don't have a collection of 9th Place Athletic Ribbons/Awards from middle as well as high school, lost my virginity to a member of the opposite sex before I could legally drive a motor vehicle, actually had a Prom date....OR A COMBINATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ?

As an 'older' boy, I guess all I can say is, "I just don't understand kids today"......

Hey cousin.

Let's go bowling.

My apologies.  When I said 'you' above, I was referring to a 3rd party in general, not actually you the person.  I'll restate what I said above to be more precise:

"That's just it.. if pirate's not in the channel, a person bitching there just ends up making everyone else read it.  How is that helping anything?"

I haven't changed my ip, afaik it remains fairly stable.  As to my irc network connection, I use SASL, which is the preferred way of connecting because it auth's you to the network on connecting and it prevents MITM scenarios between the client machine and the irc server.  The TX server is only a coincidence, as I use chat.freenode.net and the dns RR picked that.  I'm sure the next time I ping out, it will be different.

No idea. I don't make a habit of hanging out in IRC.

How about Pirate K/B'ing Otoh then ? Are you familiar with the situation ?

Have you seen the movie Machete ?

Well, like I said, I'm away from home on vacation, but this morning my encounter with the cabbie occurred exactly as I described it above.

Yes, this is an alternate account, because I really don't wish to discuss the pirate situation on a daily basis. I'm really just ready for it to all go away so bitcoin can move on.

ha that is a good one, made me laugh.

Expect it to get worse.

The story should have involved a cia agent in the passenger seat dressed as a cabbie in trainning, and when mentioning pirate the car screeches to a halt only to be suddenly swarmed by a passing by SWAT team, coming full force with guns drawn screaming at "HOW DO YOU KNOW SUBJECT TRENDON SHAVERS?"

Hey I got it, we can get all our money back.  Let's work on a script about this whole thing but really Hollywood it up.  Get Bruce Willis to play the ripped off boss to take down... I don't know... how about Kevin Smith from Clerks to play pirate and we can add in all the crazy drama we want.  We get the show and the money plus it is like Die Hard 4 without the jet and a little more believable.  Send me the treatment and I will go pitch and let you know what they say.

Man this whole situation is just going and going......

Umm, that's how Pirate was planning to repay everyone, only he was going to get Jared Leto to play himself.

Ah that would be the right amount of delusion

HAHAHA... this whole thread...  :D :D :D
Wow. I never thought a ponzi scheme could provide so much fun.
It's like Pirate is the best comedian ever.

nice story.

I started the thread last night and have already included JT's name in the mix at the time of penning said thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=105573.0