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…or Internet Dating as it’s known today. How can this happen?, people getting involved yet they’ve never met, so he goes out and kills the opposition…I think she’s as much to blame here.
Leaving aside the killing, just how does a woman, or anyone, keep up the facade of being 18 when you’re 48 for a year and a half? Surely they’d only need to ask what music you’re into.
“So, you like Amy Winehouse”?
“I beg your pardon, who?….. I love Genesis”….game over….*boink*
anyone on here internet dated? don’t be shy, do tell – I’m curious!
“BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 48-year-old man entangled in an Internet love triangle built largely on lies was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for killing his rival for the affection of a woman he had never met.
Thomas Montgomery, who posed as an 18-year-old Marine in online chats, pleaded guilty in August to gunning down Brian Barrett, 22, in a parking lot at the suburban Buffalo factory where they worked.
The motive was jealousy, investigators said. Both were involved online with a middle-aged West Virginia mother — who herself was posing as an 18-year-old student……”
http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/national/story/216254.html
It makes you laught doesn’t it UM
Obviously I am not talking about the death, and my sypathies go out to all concened.
The first thing that I thought was that if this 48 year old was setting out to meet his internet lover, then how the hell does he think he would get away with trying to look 18
Perhaps he had no intentions of falling in love or falling in lust with this person, and would always pretend to be an 18 year old while behind his screen. But surely when it gets to the point where she says, "shall we meet", the guy has to think that his game is up!
Bizarre to say the least.
Mike
Don’t want to go into too many details, but I’ve had an internet ‘friend’ for four and a half years now. Neither of us is in a position to do anything about it, what with families etc and him being 1000s of miles away, so we’re just happy with chatting over the interweb. We’ve always been honest with each other though, none of this pretending to be 22 crap! We know each other warts an’ all.
And neither of us was looking for it to happen, it just did.Nope not in this neck of the woods – just like chatting on here to all you complete strangers
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The trouble with the phone though is when I’m talking to the Irishman up in Yorkshire or the Scotsman on Skye I have no idea what I’m saying yes to
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I’m really a 62 year-old transexual prostitute from Brazil who found this site when googling for other … ahem … "horse-riding" enthusiasts and not the 33 year-end Irishman I claim to be
lol….some funny comments, making me giggle today…
Burroughhill – thanks for being so frank. I’m quite shocked in a way, you would have been the last person I would have expected that from, but good on you for keeping it sane, by the sound of things. It’s nice to have a friend though like that I think, one you’ll never meet, but they’re just there.
I think the title of this thread would make a great James Bond novel though.
…yes I believe you’re right, that so many are doing it now, it’s the way to meet people, apparently.
The title of this thread by the way came from Thomas Hardy’s ‘On The Western Circuit’, about a London solicitor who during a visit to the west country falls for a young servant girl who gets pregnant by him.
On his return to London they engage in correspondence. However the servant girl is illiterate and she gets her mistress, who is also her guardian, to write the letters for her. Over time she herself, through writing the letters, starts to have feelings for the man she’s never met.Bit more romantic than the way they do it today, don’t you think?
anyone on here internet dated?
Yep. Met my partner as a result, the only time I did it. We corresponded for 5 or 6 weeks before meeting and hit it off in "real" life as much as we had by Private Messaging.
Better than chatting a girl up in a club and realising only too late that it was all a big mistake, in my experience…
There was one many years ago – but, I am sorry I can’t remember the members names. I believe, it all started at a TRF "meet up" at one of the race courses.
Rory, might be the one to get his "brain cells" up to speed and remind us all of the parties involved.
Regards – Matron
There was one many years ago – but, I am sorry I can’t remember the members names. I believe, it all started at a TRF "meet up" at one of the race courses.
Rory, might be the one to get his "brain cells" up to speed and remind us all of the parties involved.
Regards – Matron
So when is the next TRF meet up then
Mike
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