No, though I’ll admit that I don’t text. It seems just a step above Morse Code to me, and a silly thing to do on a device that allows for actual speech. Still, let’s pretend that I am new to the interwebs.
How would an unknown “14 year old girl” get in contact with a Secret Service agent via text? Is there a directory of Secret Service agents?
I’m looking forward to replies to your post, Charlie.
I guess you don’t know, either.
Ya, I don’t text either, but there is more to the story here.
Cops looking to entrap the guy would get that info. Maybe they had a tip on the guy. Knew he was inclined. Set him up.
That’s why I’m looking forward to the replies, silly.
That’s the sort of information that might have made this story interesting. Also sounds like the cops need something more productive to do.
Oh. I thought you were looking forward to seeing people mock me because I don’t text. I already get plenty of that on a regular basis.
Um, no. But I think one could find people in other ways and then text.
But what do I know?
Wait a minute. You don’t text?
I haven’t figured out if Charlie wants to reach an SS agent or a 14-hr old.
JK, Charlie. I am glad that not all TPM commenters live on the internet.
It’s not as ambiguous as you claim.
I’m on the Internet about 14 hours a day. I’ve yet to have either a 14 year old girl or a “14 year old girl” try to get in contact with me via any means of communication.
Let me clarify - this story would make sense to me if the girl were real. He’d met some kid and they started texting. I get that. I don’t get how he’d end up in a conversation with someone who wasn’t real.
Could it be because you haven’t been looking? Which is good, btw.
Charlie… I don’t text either.
The level of unprofessional behavior at the Secret Service is just astounding. It’s almost a miracle PBO has escaped unscathed to date.
Doncha wonder what they were getting away with in the Bush White House?
Charlie, I luvvve your posts!!! PM me, I’m really looking to get to know you better. <-- one way.
There are also phone apps to contact people that are geographically near you that you’ve even never met for conversation and/or hookups.
Then there are dedicated sites for hookups, virtual or otherwise.
We don’t care if someone living in a sewer is blackmailed. We do care if someone supposedly guarding the White House is blackmailed.
Predators be predatoring.
Cops are out there with bait, posing as little fishies for the big fishies, chumming the water (e.g., in ponds like Facebook), carrying a nice big digital harpoon.
He ruined his own life.