And then I got a phone call from an old friend.
She had gotten a Facebook message from "Kevin Phillips" saying that I am a convicted (word deleted to avoid being picked up by search engines), providing a link to a blog that went live yesterday.
I won't give you the link, but part of the first page is up above. "Silver Sands Books" is the name of a small publishing company I own.
I'm known for very realistic pranks, spoofs and April Fooling, and my friend first thought that this was one of my own gags -- and then she realized it wasn't. There is no way I would accuse myself of the crimes mentioned in the sick blog.
And then I started getting emails and phone calls from other people.
Apparently the vindictive asshole who is responsible for the blog, notified many or all of my Facebook friends of my alleged criminally perverted past, using a variety of aliases. My favorite is "Jonah Ark.".
"Jonah" also posted a petition on a Criminal Justice website seeking to get me put on the "Connecticut Sex Offences Register." A more careful asshole would have written "Connecticut Sex Offenders Registry."
And he also started a petition on Facebook, which quickly attracted a collection of likeminded crackpots who believed every morsel of bullshit that Jonah served up. The bloodthirsty defenders of morality wanted me drawn, quartered, keelhauled, burned at the stake, and dispatched to the lowest level of hell.
After multiple complaints, this page was removed by Facebook. It is possible that all of the crackpots were fake alter-egos of the instigator. I hope that Facebook will investigate.
I called the local cops and the FBI, and I'll have more to say tomorrow.
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