A Texas man has pleaded guiltyto communicating threats after saying he would kill “every black person at the Social Security office” if he didn’t get his benefits. And that’s not all he said. Not by a long shot!
We used to get threats, not as bad as this, in office before we had guards in the office. Since then which was close to 30 years ago for our office, it's pretty rare to get an in person threat.
About 6-7 years ago, I had one of our local drug dealers (he used to frequently bring some of his "clients", as he referred to them, to the office) threaten to come through the front window at me after I asked him very politely to have a seat and please stop disrupting window interviews. He looked me in the eye and told me "You think that little window (we didn't have a barrier window, just a sliding wooden door) is going to protect you, you got another thing coming", followed by "I guarantee you that worthless f**k of a guard over there ain't gonna do s**t to me before I get to you" and "You think I'm afraid to go back to prison?". Guy was absolute dead serious when he said it, and I have no doubt he had a gun in his jacket pocket. And he was right - the guard we had couldn't have been trusted to protect a candy stand from a pair of kindergartners without calling for assistance.
When told about it, the office manager at the time just laughed it off as an "obvious misunderstanding" because "he really meant it as a joke", probably because she was leaving to go on a vacation cruise the next day and didn't want to have to do the paperwork to ban him before she left.
Funny thing, while the manager was on her cruise, he called the office and left a message for the her on her voicemail saying he was going to "chop her up into messy little pieces with a machete" if she kept messing with his business (she had declined a request for an immediate payment to one of his "clients" the day he threatened me due to lack of proof of hardship).
This, of course, gets him immediately arrested for terroristic threatening, his parole revoked, and ends up with him permanently banned from the office in record time.
Afterwards, I just of course had to ask her if her "obvious misunderstanding" with him was finally settled. For some reason, she really didn't seem to appreciate the humor. I guess when it was her that was being threatened, it took the fun right out of it....
I like how the retired FBI Agent says he hopes the individual gets the help he needs. He obviously knows nothing about the mental health system for the poor.
We used to get threats, not as bad as this, in office before we had guards in the office. Since then which was close to 30 years ago for our office, it's pretty rare to get an in person threat.
ReplyDeleteAbout 6-7 years ago, I had one of our local drug dealers (he used to frequently bring some of his "clients", as he referred to them, to the office) threaten to come through the front window at me after I asked him very politely to have a seat and please stop disrupting window interviews. He looked me in the eye and told me "You think that little window (we didn't have a barrier window, just a sliding wooden door) is going to protect you, you got another thing coming", followed by "I guarantee you that worthless f**k of a guard over there ain't gonna do s**t to me before I get to you" and "You think I'm afraid to go back to prison?". Guy was absolute dead serious when he said it, and I have no doubt he had a gun in his jacket pocket. And he was right - the guard we had couldn't have been trusted to protect a candy stand from a pair of kindergartners without calling for assistance.
ReplyDeleteWhen told about it, the office manager at the time just laughed it off as an "obvious misunderstanding" because "he really meant it as a joke", probably because she was leaving to go on a vacation cruise the next day and didn't want to have to do the paperwork to ban him before she left.
Funny thing, while the manager was on her cruise, he called the office and left a message for the her on her voicemail saying he was going to "chop her up into messy little pieces with a machete" if she kept messing with his business (she had declined a request for an immediate payment to one of his "clients" the day he threatened me due to lack of proof of hardship).
This, of course, gets him immediately arrested for terroristic threatening, his parole revoked, and ends up with him permanently banned from the office in record time.
Afterwards, I just of course had to ask her if her "obvious misunderstanding" with him was finally settled. For some reason, she really didn't seem to appreciate the humor. I guess when it was her that was being threatened, it took the fun right out of it....
I like how the retired FBI Agent says he hopes the individual gets the help he needs. He obviously knows nothing about the mental health system for the poor.
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