BACKGROUND: Checks have holes

With the current background checks available, on one hand it’s good, on the other hand, I wonder how many people get caught in the web by some psycho who is checking them out for criminal reasons.

Giving our cell phone numbers out to telemarketers violated our privacy rights, home phones in the book generally give names and addresses along with the number.

As an illustration, there was a man who befriended a coworker for years. Then the booze hound psycho started having an affair with the man’s wife and the two of them conspired to knock him off. After a year of stalking, it all came to an abrupt end, well sort of. The psycho’s brother started calling him, telling him that the Lord had contacted him and that he was to avenge it.

The psycho went silent for 30+ years. Silently monitoring the man and then openly accused the man and when he found out that didn’t work, started calling him on a restricted number and hung up when answered. The one good thing about it, you can shut off the gps so they can’t tell exactly where you are.

Background checks should be run through the sheriff’s office and the one requesting the check should be on record. That could prove very handy in crime prevention, or solving crimes.

ART KREBS

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