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That Potential Axe Murderer Bloke ... update

38 replies

BatmansWilly · 18/03/2009 10:48

(quick back ground: started talking to man online, he kept asking for my home address, got stroppy and said he'd waited up all night for me to text, arranged to meet me in a pub and then asked me to meet him around the BACK of the pub in his car!!!)

If anyone is interested! I was too intrigued to just block him like I was advised to but I did cancel the dodgy car date.

However I was chatting to him on msn last night, trying to work out what he was upto. He again asked for my address. I said "no". He asked "why" and said he was a good bloke and wanted to prove it. I said "I can't give my address out to some random over the net, surely you can see that?" and he said "but its silly though ... "

So I said "ok, give me your address and I'll come and visit you" he went VERY quiet and then said he was an ex para and couldn't give out his address incase I wanted to go and blow his house up (I took the opportunity to say "exactly, you never know WHO you're talking to on here".

So he went all quiet and asked when we could meet ... and then said "once you see I'm ok, then you could give me your address x"

So I changed the subject and asked him about sports ... simply to lead him to ask me what I did and I told him I was a karate instructor and trained 4 times a week. Needless to say he went VERY quiet again!! He then said "cool, you'll have to show me some self defense moves". So I'm thinking "gotcha" and I replied "Oh, I would have thought you knew lots already". He said "why?" so I said "well, being an ex para ... I was in the army, you are trained heavily in self defense...right?" so he went quiet again and said "yes, it was a long time ago though, I forgot most of it". So I said "What did you do? Muay Thai or Kung Fu?"

He replied "Kung Fu" PMSL ... I know for a fact they don't teach that in the paras lol

So he's obviously a nut. But what do you reckon, 'innocently' just cheating on a wife somewhere or serial killer?

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AMumInScotland · 18/03/2009 10:59

Erm, either way, ditch him fast!

charitygirl · 18/03/2009 11:00

good update...what a wanker he sounds. i was going to say that on balance of probability he's unlikely to be really dangerous, but wanting your home addy is weird!

BatmansWilly · 18/03/2009 11:01

I know! I even asked him why he was so desperate to 'rush' a meeting and have my home address. He says he has been away so long that now he's home he wants to settle down and get on with his life.

Doesn't quite fit considering he last told me he went to live on his families farm after 'the break-up' which suggests he's been here a while.

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BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 11:04

You have had a lucky escape madame! Now block him

BatmansWilly · 18/03/2009 11:05

Oh but its so much fun watching him squirming out of my questions

But I will block him now

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BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 11:07

There'll be plenty more weirdos to bait with your Paxman technique, alas!

aseriouslyblondemoment · 18/03/2009 11:10

Grin Wink

hobbgoblin · 18/03/2009 11:10

Rofl - can you keep this going please and then write a column or a mn blog?

wannaBe · 18/03/2009 11:10

have to say I would be intreagued as well.

Do you have a good male friend whose address you could give him?

Stretch · 18/03/2009 12:31

Erm.. he sounds very familiar Willy (if I can call you that!) You don't happen to live anywhere around the midlands do you? Or him?

aseriouslyblondemoment · 18/03/2009 12:34

omfg i do stretch
will be looking over my shoulder now

BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 12:35

You mean there is more than one pretend paratrooper who wants to meet women round the back of the pub?

Hang on, yes, there probably is...

Stretch · 18/03/2009 12:43

Don't worry! I'm sure he's not the same guy. He was not that bad, just sounded similar.

Makes up army/raf type bullshit, lives on a farm, mad keen to meet up etc..

Sorry!

SerendipitousHarlot · 18/03/2009 12:48

What??? Stretch, you know someone that's told the same stories??? Bizzare! It must be the same bloke, surely!

BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 12:58

Come on Stretch, we need the full story now so we can laugh at him properly

BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 13:00

Actually, wasn't there some poor woman in the news recently who was conned out of thousands by a fella who claimed to work for MI5 and kept her locked up for years or something? When he actually worked in a chippy or something...

Gorionine · 18/03/2009 13:14

mI5 conman
and another one

If you google MI5 conman, their is loads more. I am ed at the amount of loons arround!

Stretch · 18/03/2009 13:18

Yep, I think there are a fair few. It's common for men to pretend they are in the forces etc.. because it means they don't have to explain absences I suppose?

My loon wasn't that bad, he never suggested meeting round the back of a pub, but he did tell a lot of lies about his life and was very eager to meet up anywhere except his home town.
Of course I refused!

BatmansWilly · 18/03/2009 13:22

Stretch - he lived on a farm, dead keen to meet up and army stories??!

What did this bloke look like? Don't suppose he gave a story about working in liverpool in construction did he?!

MUST be the same person!?

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Stretch · 18/03/2009 13:24

Not liverpool, but he was in construction, lived in London too?

OMG, you've actually shocked me now! I didn't think they were really the same person, but now?

Is he Midlands?

BitOfFun · 18/03/2009 13:24

Gorionine, my gast has been completely flabbered at those links

Lulumama · 18/03/2009 13:27

someone i was friends with many years ago, ended up married to a bloke who said he worked for M15 and was an anti terrorist spook type person . i thikn there;s a lot of it about more likely to be a sad bloke who still lives at home and cannot get laid IMO

BatmansWilly · 18/03/2009 13:29

No he doesn't live in London but he said he hasn't lived here for long ... He mentioned something about Leeds? Has a daughter? (or says he has a daughter, 5 year old).

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Stretch · 18/03/2009 13:36

No kids!!

Although at there being 2 of them so similar!

Just make sure you steer clear!

Gorionine · 18/03/2009 13:38

It might still be the same guy, he might justy have added a daughter to look more reassuring.