I got in a political argument with some clown on Facebook. He managed to retrieve my wife’s cell phone number and our home phone which is unlisted and technically just provided by our Internet company that we never use.

None our personal info is really available on Facebook and our profiles are pretty locked down, but he called my wife’s phone a few times last week which she has blocked and never answers. Comes up as anonymous on her id.

He tried our home phone 16 times which I ignored, everything stopped, he called again tonight. I decided to answer. He said he knows where I live my wife and daughters name, and our address. He never gave out that though and that he is coming to kill us. Said that on the line

I have called my local police department. But this is rural Nebraska they said they can’t do anything or have our phone companies run a trace.

Is there anything I can do to figure out who this guy is?

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    Home security.

    Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

    I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.


    Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

    But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

    May he rest in peace :(

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        The sound of someone racking a 12 gauge is enough to make most people stop dead in their tracks and evaluate their life choices.

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            With basic ammo it won’t, but a shotgun is versatile, and I’ve seen custom ammo that is definitely a warcrime by pretty much any metric.

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          I was in a fight with some coked up racists in my youth (we were prolly gonna lose that one, lmao) and that precise sound legitimately stopped the fight. Don’t get the wrong idea, we dipped too, it wasn’t “for” us lol