txt stalker, can anything be done?

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Mammalian said:
what if a text said "change your number and i'll come hunt you down and kill you", easy fix? easy way to get yourself killed imo.
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If that happens you walk to the police station, show them the phone with hundreds of harrassing messages and death threats and they will do something about it.
 
Sawell said:
Borrow her phone and text him back saying:

"hi dis is me i rly dnt no wot 2say i bean finkin bout u loads 4eva n ur so spesh i fink im pregnant wiv sum guys kid cn u txt me bk n we cn sort dis out"

She'll never hear from him again.
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Did you copy that from your inbox? :p :D
 
Neodite said:
Im sorry but text harrament is an easy fix with changing your number.
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Of course unless you are scared what the person will do because of the number change.
Text harassment could easily escalate to a bigger problem if the number was changed.

Neodite said:
Inless your talking about real harrasment including the phone, in which case your point is invalid
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The Police take text harassment very seriously and is very real.

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I've just shown my eldest daughter your post and she walked away shaking her head.
She has to walk around with a personal attack alarm now but that was REAL harassment.
 
to the OP, your friend obviously does not care too much or a quick phone call and you can get a free number change, new sim card, whatever, its not hard, 80 txts a day, troll.
 
My sister's ex was cautioned for harrassment a few months back, all it took was a simple phone call to the police and a couple of officers came around, saw a few messages and had a chat, and they picked him up, took him down to the station and had a "word" with him.

After that, she was told that if she heard from him again, all she had to do was call the police and they'd arrest him.
 
-westy- said:
My sister's ex was cautioned for harrassment a few months back, all it took was a simple phone call to the police and a couple of officers came around, saw a few messages and had a chat, and they picked him up, took him down to the station and had a "word" with him.

After that, she was told that if she heard from him again, all she had to do was call the police and they'd arrest him.
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And that is exactly the way it works however you can't help some victims thinking that the stalker will do something far worse after the Police had a 'word' with them.

My eldest was sexually harrassed at work over christmas.
She had told colleagues who didn't believe her but one of them witnessed him waving his **** at her.
The Police were called in but she didn't want it to go any further (because she was petrified).
He was fired but for the last 6 months (since his firing) my daughter has lived in fear because he may come and get her.
I bought her a personal attack alarm and it's made her feel safer.
 
I don't understand a lot of the responses to this thread.

If someone won't change their number for fear of 'what they might do to them if they do' - it's suggesting that the person being harassed is in some way responding to the texts - otherwise how would the stalker know?
Again - why not go to the police? Fear of 'what may happen' is irrational when it might happen if it *isn't* reported - tough call to make, but at least one way you have the law on your side!
I don't see how letting their mates (or yours) take the law into their own hands is going to be any more effective than the actual law - ever heard of joint enterprise?? If you in anyway infuriate / agitate / arrange the situation - you are possibly getting yourself part of whatever their sentence is!

I hope all of the people in this awful situation find a way to resolve it!
 
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