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Ok, i just worked it out with all my friends. Things are cleared up. It was all a misunderstanding and couple of jokes that went a bit too far.

Thanks for the support guys.

Thanks agbullet. This morning i certainly stepped up my alertness.

I was just editing out the explicits from the Tuesday night chat log. After re-reading it 4 times, im beginning to see that my friend might, and i mean ever so slightly might, have been joking. Its border line nuts still.

hmmmm

pbwalker wrote:

Enron Exec wrote:And for those that say i had acted childishly or wrongly, how about you at least explain your argument?

Enron Exec,

First off, welcome!

I'll take a stab at it. I can't speak for anyone else but can only speak to my perception of it all. I am right around the same age as you (I'll be 30 in January). "Fighting" over the internet is, well, child's play. The whole chat fight is very '13 years old'. I've been made fun of online, threatened, and Photoshopped (the worst of all of them) but I still realize that this is the internet. I've been told, by friends, that they were going to "Kick My Butt" or some other colorful wording. I ignored it. That is the key. Ignore them. If you are truly worried over some ICQ chat, block them and cut ties to them. If they want to act childish, be a bigger man and let it go.

My $0.03 (2 cents adjusted for inflation)

And again, welcome!

Thank you. At least someone here isn't out to flex their e-muscles.

Im not new to all this guys, and i dont squabble on instant messengers and forums like you think i do. I have better things to do then look for all the internet drama.

Guys, just for a moment put aside the fact this took place on an IM. It doesn't matter if my friend threatened me over the phone or left a dagger through a note on my door. I have always tried to be reasonable and fair so when someone i know explodes and threatens me for no apparent reason, i kinda am at a loss.

The last thing i told my friend was that i dont trust him any longer and i have nothing more to say. He got mad and we haven't spoke since. Which is what i want, so everyone has a chance to cool down and maybe rethink things over.

Well im a CHLer and im asking for help. Im sorry the topic doesn't fit this subforum to the T.

Well thank you to those that provided the helpful responses.

And this is not a troll post. I use the same handle on all the other firearm forums. If you will just do a search on sig forum, ar15.com (enronexec), the high road, glock talk, the firing line, texas gun talk, you'll see i dont troll. I came here because its a less known forum that my peers dont frequent so i may be able to get an less biased opinion. I am sincerely looking for advise on this matter. And for those that say i had acted childishly or wrongly, how about you at least explain your argument? As far as i can tell, I did nothing wrong, and i responded in a manner that was in the best intention for everyone. I know the internet is a poor medium to carry such conversations in detail but i did the best i could with the time allotted.

Crossfire wrote:

Enron Exec wrote:Questions? Suggestions? If requested, i'll copy paste the chat log from Tuesday night between me and friend 1 so you can all decide.

I suggest you gather up all your firearms and give them to your Mommy or Daddy to keep for you until you grow up.

Ohh...k.

Am i missing something here? Care to explain why?

If these types of posts are not welcomed here, be my guest and lock/delete it then.

DoubleJ wrote:the guy threatening you.

Oh no, i dont hang around those types. Friend 1, i thought, was a real nice easy going guy. I had no idea he had it in him to threaten my life and the lives of others over a promise about a silly ATV accident. Took me off guard. Took everyone off guard. We all thought he was joking at first because it was so unlike him.

I will copy past the chat log of that Tuesday night between friend 1 and I when i get home.

hankintexas wrote:Sounds like a grade school fight. Be the bigger man and quit feeding the fire. You can always find enemies why try to drag others into it? Evreyone has been threatened at one time or another.
Heck, I'll be you friend and I don't even need to see the posts that started the problem.

I better just go ahead and tell you guys what lead to all this.

During a hunting accident, friend 1 wrecked an expensive 4 seater ATV belonging to his grandfather by hitting the concrete guard rail on a 1 lane bridge. No one was badly hurt. Friend 1 was traumatized and wept a little. He made us all promise not to mention this accident outside of our circle and we agreed.

About 9 days later, Tuesday, friend 2 posted a response on a forum on a thread where a Camry had driven itself onto the guard rail of a bridge nearly turning it over on its top. Friend 2 posted something along the lines of "reminds me of what friend 1 did." I posted in response "rofl." In all honesty, i dont think we broke the promise, but friend 1 must of been adamant or bitter on the topic, more so then the rest of were aware. So later that night, friend 1 IM me and began the threats. He said "I am going to kill you, friend 2, and friend 3." .... "You better keep you gun on you..." Now, friend or not, most of you guys would prob just told him to shut up but i chose to diffuse and salvage what was left. Later he explained to me he was afraid everyone on the forum would laugh at him if they had found out he wrecked the ATV. I just dont see how someone could be so worried or have so much pride that they would flip out on their friends and threaten them.

WarHawk-AVG wrote:How old are you!

Internet tough guy syndrome or something!

30

Who's being a tough guy?

KaiserB wrote:

Enron Exec wrote:A relatively new friend, lets call him 1st friend, of mine somehow got mad over what another friend and myself posted on a local forum and then threatened to kill me and two other friends over an instant messenger ...Questions? Suggestions? If requested, i'll copy paste the chat log from Tuesday night between me and friend 1 so you can all decide.

1. Find a new friend.
2. Posting someone else's comments will just exacerbate the situation.

Its not just comments or a chat log. Its the threat he made to me and my friends. Those where not idle threats. Any reasonable man would take them seriously, but since this is a first for me I would like to hear other's opinions on the matter. I want to know if this threat warrants more attention or even contacting the authorities.

A relatively new friend, lets call him 1st friend, of mine somehow got mad over what another friend and myself posted on a local forum and then threatened to kill me and two other friends over an instant messenger Tuesday night. This came as a complete shock to me because he didnt seem to be that type. I tried to calm him down and find out why he was so mad, even though he was somewhat belligerent over the course of the approximately 30 min chat. Well i thought he probably calmed down a little and we ended the discussion. And during this whole time, i was relaying the chat to a 2nd friend. He could hardly believe it and wanted to assume the first friend was just joking. So i just brushed it off and went to bed.

Then again, a 3rd friend, unknowingly to the threat that took place Tuesday night, posted another comment on the local forum, and then again friend 1, instant messaged me Wednesday night and continued to be belligerent. This is where it becomes complicated. At that time, i decided to tell friend 3 about the threats i have been receiving. The target of these threats is myself, friends 2 and 3. He couldnt believe it either so i forwarded the Tuesday night chat log for him to read, but he only skimmed it and completely missed the threats. He then thought this was all a big joke and then messaged the first friend and 2nd friend to turn this joke against me. The first friend even left a voice recording in the message box of friend 3 saying he is going to cut his neck as part of this joke. Well this went on for over 30 mins and the first friend said "it was all a joke." So now im really irritated and confused. I started asking them when this joke started. Was it Tuesday or Wednesday? Friends 2 and 3 told me just now, Wednesday. I felt that the joke was in very poor taste. Pretty messed up up stuff. I told all 3 of them i was irritated and very disappointed in such a terrible joke. A joke that costed my trust. Friends 2 and 3 felt sorry and tried to apologize. Then i thought about what happened and i suspected that friend 3 had not read the whole chat log and understood the severity of the situation. I asked him if he read the whole thing and he confessed he didnt. I told him to reread the entire chat log and thats when he was shocked. He said that what friend 1 said was messed up up and he sincerely apologized to me for the terrible joke. We informed friend 2 of our new position on the matter and he apologized and admitted he only followed along with the joke because friend 3 told him to.

So here is my assumption. Friend 1 lost his temper Tuesday and said things that he regrets, but im a careful person and dont take real threats lightly. He then saw the opportunity Wednesday night to turn his mistake around so that the entire thing looked like it was only a joke. Now that all parties know the truth, friends 2 and 3 are cautious of friend 1 and are distancing ourselves from him.

Sorry for the long winded post but i really would like all your opinions on this. What should we do? Report our friend 1 to the authorities? Should we continue to distance ourselves and break off the friendship with friend 1? I for one can never trust him again. All of us have firearms and have even went hunting together. I just cannot put that kind of trust together for friend 1 any more.

Questions? Suggestions? If requested, i'll copy paste the chat log from Tuesday night between me and friend 1 so you can all decide.