Has William Johnson fulfilled his obligations?

When I was in boot camp, one of my drill instructors borrowed $80 from me. By the time I left boot camp, he had never paid me back.

After boot camp, I was going to school at the same base when my instructor overheard me telling another student about the money I lost.

The instructor contacted his commanding officer, who contacted the commanding officer of the person who owed me money.

The result was that I got my money back. Very quickly.


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Hoodoo

No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Lao Tsu
 
Danny, you can use the worldwide military personnel locator to find out his unit, though I think Derek may be able to help you out there. Once you do, just call the base to find out the phone number of the unit itself, and ask for the CO / 1SG, that should take care of it quick.

Spark

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DannyC.,
There was someone else here involved(cant remember who) that picked up knives directly from William Johnson's office. That person can find out the information for you to contact his commanding officer. Also, if neccessary, you can post the name and address here so a few of us can write and complain. I hate to see stuff like this happen on BF cause 99% of those here are dealing honestly.
As for Bruce, dont sweat it Danny. Here in the U.S., except for a very few, most officers make it on the backs of enlisted men and NCO's and they can be expected to stick together. That is why there was occasionally the friendly fire accident during the festivities in southeast Asia.
Hang in there Danny

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lifter
Phil. 4:13

Dave
Wharton,NJ


 
Lifter,

Uncalled for and for those that do care and have concern for their fellow soldiers, unwarranted. Stereotypes are just that: stereotypes
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Glenmore
 
unfortunately Icarian, during all my time serving my country, more officers than not fulfilled the stereotype.

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lifter
Phil. 4:13

Dave
Wharton,NJ


 
Thanks Spark and Lifter. I am actually hanging on. With roughly 20 days to go, I'm starting to look at all the possibilities of working this deal out with the guy. Unfortunately, he never replies to my emails anymore after he was banned from the forums. Though I guess he won't be hard to find. I know he still reads the forums, though.

I will start researching on it, and see what I can dig up. Thanks a bunch, guys.

Dan
 
Just wanted to let everybody know that Bruce and I have settled things amicably through private email. As I have said earlier, I have nothing against him, and I still don't. I know this is all just a huge misunderstanding.

Dan
 
Regardless of the injustice of being tried in the press, so to speak, I have emailed Dannyc my apology for sticking my nose in where it didn't belong.

Lifter, for your information and edification, the person in question is not a commissioned officer, he is a non-commissioned officer. Now ain't that ironic?
An officer protecting an NCO!

I guess I could stereotype powerlifters (I've known some--but then they were all Army officers!) but that would be unfair.

I think I'll check out of the net before someone really gets me mad by saying something about my first name, like, "do you own your own hairdresser shop or do you work for someone else?"

 
I received an email from Shane. Things have toned down a lot, and everybody's calm once more. I really hope this is a good sign, and that things would be back to normal real soon. We're going to try and fix this problem out. I sure hope this is the last time I see this thread pop up.

Bruce, what's wrong with your first name?
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Oh okay... forget I asked... hehehehe..
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Dan
 
I hope things work out after all! If it does then some of his good name might be restored.
 
How could his good name be hurt? I am still unsure what his name really is. He seems to have so many.
 
Originally posted by bruce:
I think I'll check out of the net before someone really gets me mad by saying something about my first name, like, "do you own your own hairdresser shop or do you work for someone else?"
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Huh?

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Later,
John


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Skeleton walks into a bar and and says "give me a beer and a mop."
 
Yeah, you're right Db. Presumably, Scarman is motivated by being able to trade on this forum once again. But like you imply, (I think) even after he does pay Mr. Chua his money, who would want to trade with a person that has a double alias on this forum and has had negative feeback on his ability to keep his deals.

Question: How does the sysop/admin keep forumites from trading with a "banned" member? That Arcaine/Arcane/Arkaine thing we had awhile ago shows someone "banned" can
still post to trade or make comments. NOT trying to start something here, merely curious. If Cougar Allen finds this post offensive, delete it and I'll get the "message". Thanks in advance.
 
Well, you can ban IP's, email addresses, and forum names.


-AR

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I don't find that offensive at all; it's a good question. People can change identities on the net, change ISPs.... When you think about it, though, how vulnerable is this community? Someone could steal a few bucks from somebody and get a new identity at a new ISP and do it again -- each time he has to reveal a name and a snailmail address to the victim; the victim will post that information so each time he'll have to establish a new identity and mailing address in real life as well as online; he'll have to evade the USPS Mail Fraud Division each time if he's in the US -- if you pay with a postal money order that makes it mail fraud even if the mails aren't used -- if you want to go in for crime you ought to be able to find an easier and safer and more profitable way....

In general the net is a safer place to do business than real life, IMHO. Fraud on the net is difficult to get away with, and there isn't much money in it, either; few people will send large amounts of money to someone with no track record; they use COD instead. It's possible to cheat somebody of fifty or a hundred bucks and then you've lost not only your online identity, you have to sacrifice at least a mailing address, too, and the Mail Fraud Division is no joke ... if you want to go in for crime there are better ways.

Johnson didn't come out a penny ahead in the deal with his William Johnson identity, and it doesn't look to me like he's going to come out a penny ahead in this deal with DannyC with his Scarman identity, either. Even if you assume his motivations are entirely nefarious, although he could conceivably take yet another identity and make another trade on Bladeforums ... it's hard to see how he could gain much by it. He'd get better pay for less work if he got a job at McDonald's....

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This post is not merely the author's opinions; it is the trrrrrruth. This post is intended to cause dissension and unrest and upset people, and ultimately drive them mad. Please do not misinterpret my intentions in posting this.

[This message has been edited by Cougar Allen (edited 01-12-2000).]
 
Hello Cougar,

Well, I believe William is really serious this time about reimbursing me the amount back in full. And he is going to do something about it, accordingly. I do not really believe he has any malicious intentions when this thing happened. The only thing that got to me was he neglected his responsibility on the issue. Now that we have communicated again, he already gave me his word that he will make good the deal. I sincerely hope that this time, everything will work out okay.

Dan
 
Originally posted by bruce:
Regardless of the injustice of being tried in the press, so to speak, I have emailed Dannyc my apology for sticking my nose in where it didn't belong.

Lifter, for your information and edification, the person in question is not a commissioned officer, he is a non-commissioned officer. Now ain't that ironic?
An officer protecting an NCO!

I guess I could stereotype powerlifters (I've known some--but then they were all Army officers!) but that would be unfair.

I think I'll check out of the net before someone really gets me mad by saying something about my first name, like, "do you own your own hairdresser shop or do you work for someone else?"
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You know, I have to put my two cents in on this one. As a Non-Com on active duty (10+ years now) I have seen entirely too many "children" promoted to ranks they could never handle. This has everything to do with the enlisted side, and nothing to do with officers. I have worked with guys who only required a pulse to make Sergeant, and abused that authority right off the bat. On the same note, I've worked with Sergeants that couldn't lead themselves out of a paper bag, but were promoted to Staff Sergeant. As for this gagglef-ck with William Shane Johnson, obviously, he has proven he is not worthy of the present rank he wears.

Just the ramblings of an old Airborne NCO.
 
2-1-00

What's up Danny?

Later,
John

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