[Passionfruition]

Ok, those of you who know me even a little bit know I'm an honest person - please know that I am telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Tonight I called the cops. Finally. After over 4 months of harassment, I've had enough. I have a phone stalker. He started calling me mid-January - the first time as a "wrong number". But once he heard the sound of my voice, it's like he couldn't get enough.

For the past 4 months now, "Ricky" has been calling me nonstop. 3 in the morning, 7 in the morning, 11 at night, 2 in the afternoon, you name it..........and breathing into the phone. (And when I don't answer......10 minute breathing voicemail messages!! It's creepy!)

I called Sprint (my service provider for my mobile and only phone) - and Sprint said that they can only block business phone numbers related to telemarking type calls. My only choices were to 1) change my number (and I just did that when I moved here 6mo. ago, and I'm not willing to do it again.) or to 2) "Answer" the phone calls by opening my phone for 1 second, and then ending the call. - This would register his number in my received calls list that will be visible by the cops if and when I call them and they subpoena my phone records.

HOWEVER, the cop who filed the report tonight told me that he can't press charges yet b/c "Ricky" has made no threats of harm to me - in fact, he's said nothing at all. Just perverted breathing. Every time. But, the cop DID tell me he was going to call and tell the stalker to stop calling me. The OFFICIAL "warning" that if he continues his behavior, further actions will be taken against him.

I'm hoping this scares him off!!! The cop also told me to keep a "journal" type record of every time he calls from this day forward. It is "harassment" but a weak case since the guy isn't actually saying anything.

My husband used HIS phone and called the stalker's number back when the harassment first started, and told him to STOP CALLING HIS WIFE. He sternly told him never to call me again. But, the phone calls only stopped for about a week before getting worse than ever. (My husband said "Who is this?" and the guy answered in a horribly deep southern drawl "Ricky" that sounded more like "Reeeck-eeeyyyy.") But that's all we know of him.

ARUGH I'm so frustrated. I'm scared, too, I mean if this idiot doesn't stop after 4 months of not even having the pleasure of hearing me say "hello?".....I'm afraid he'll further try to contact me in other ways, etc. I have to push it out of my mind b/c every time he calls, it upsets me to the point of tears. But I've let him hear me cry once (in the beginning) and I know it just "feeds" his want to keep calling me so I stopped even saying Hello. My friends don't even call as much as this guy does. It's SO dumb. And scary.

Thanks for letting me vent.