I do believe that someone needs to give a good 15% tip to Mick here, because Heidi JUST GOT SERVED.
We live in an age of recordings. George Orwell would have been disgusted. It’s come down to a time when if you can’t prove anything you say, via video or pictures, people don’t believe you. If you claim you ran into Stan Lee in an elevator at a convention, people call you a liar because you didn’t have the forethought to get your camera ready and get a pic.
This happened last Comic Con Intl, btw. Two years ago. We got on an elevator to go to dinner with my mother, maybe 4 other people in the elevator with us. We got on at the 10th floor, Stan Fucking Lee got in on the 5th floor. Was a moment of awesomeness as I asked him if he was who I thought he was. Dude was classy about it, shook everyone’s hand, was really cordial, then vamoosed into the night when we hit the ground floor. Left us all with giganto-grins on our faces.
Let’s get some Unwoman up in this shit.
Edited because I had reported something that I already posted to my bloggertrons three days ago.
Heidi ain’t too bright.
I still say Mick should have taken a week of leave and went camping in Big Bend or something.
(okay maybe not Big Bend in July)
I’d say quite the opposite. She is very smart.
Heidi seems like the type of person who’s extremely bright, but also megalomaniacal. She’s a sociopath, using people for her own gains.
She does what she does because she thinks she’s too smart to be out-done. In this case, she was out-done.
I know people like this. There are, honestly, people who think they can do whatever they want to other people because they perceive themselves as better.
Thinking she’s smart is not the same as “she’s smart”.
The reason dumb people get away with stuff is because no smart person would think that anyone would do that(in Heidi’s case, hiding a camera in a gun IDPA competitors bedroom and then try to blackmail him).
Likewise her big plan(so far) to get him back seems to be “I’ll harass you until you give up”.
I was at a con years and years ago as a vendor in Columbus GA. I was going up to my room and some drunk old guy ( I was young then) got on the elevator. He was bitching about ” fu$king losers, I am sick of this crap, why don’t they just leave me alone”
He got off on the floor below me, I laughed and thought nothing of it, I thought he was a writer or artist.
Next morning I come down for breakfast and everyone is crying and lamenting, “the Doctor is dead” . I saw a picture and realized it was the guy that was in the elevator.
I kept my mouth shut, as I did not want to share his “last words” with that group.
Depends on your state, actually. In 12 states what Mick just did was illegal.
Sauce: http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/telecom/electronic-surveillance-laws.aspx
God bless Texas.
IANAL, but I suspect not all of those laws apply in this case. IIRC, an open-for-business retail establishment counts as a public place, and a public place has a lower expectation of privacy. Otherwise, the law would be tantamount to “no using recording devices of any kind in a public area if anybody else is speaking”. (In the cases of photo laws, replace “speaking” with “present”.)
You’d be surprised. People have been arrested for taping public meetings in public venues.
http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/23/dc-commission-arrest
gencon/origins 1988. some old man (no convention badge) wanted to “look” at my 1st ed players handbook. I gave the wiseass “why you don’t have your own? this is a convention…dealers tables are that way..go buy one!”
later on I found out it was Gary Gygax and he wanted to autograph the book. it’s not like there were any pictures of the guy anywhere at the time, and he didn’t have a badge or any security or anything. i still kick myself over that one.
Oof…that’s hard. I knew/hung around with Gary a bit; he probably took it in stride.
Well, that’s what you get for being an asshole.
I’d had other items stolen that day (a barely-used 1st ed copy of chainmail) by some guy doing exactly what he did..”hey that’s cool can I look?” “ok” guy looks at it for a sec, then RUNS..good luck catching him.
it’s a big convention. I was 17 and I had busted my ass all summer just to afford to go. I hardly had the money to eat much less replacing books I needed for the games I had signed up for that day.
s, I suppose I was an asshole. but “hi, I’m gary gygax and I wrote that book..can I autograph it for you, kid?” would have been nice too.
Yea, xkcd had a similar point Monday.
http://xkcd.com/1235/
I suspect it still ain’t over. Recording a conversation may be legal, but its admissibility in even a civil proceeding is a more complex matter. Heidi may still not go gently into that good night.
True, but at least it seems to have given her pause.
Mind, I actually think Mick is bluffing and didn’t actually record her saying it.
Ah when the ex shows up at work. Had an ex do it to me once. Broke it off with her after finding some interesting conversations with an ex she was going to meet later on in the week. I was mad because she was cheating.
She was mad because I didn’t trust her and was “Spying” on her. Only reason I was even on her PC is because she unlocked it so I could reset a password for her. Some stupid reality show was too important to miss. We used to have lunch together at my job. Told my two guys working the front she was there to surprise me, wait until I was out of my office and she would go in and wait for me. They ignored pretty much all of the rules and let her in when I went for a meeting.
Broke the monitors, slashed my chairs, even keyed my desk lol. Luckily for me the camera coverage in the hallway out of my office was great. Lovely picture of her going into the room and everything intact, another lovely picture of her leaving and the room trashed.
She’s gotten over it. I think… Maybe, I don’t care too much lol. Wonder if Mick might have luck with a restraining order.
My ex almost became my ex FOR showing up at my job (at the good ol’ EB Games, so retail). He hung out and we sort of had a not-quite-fight, me continuing to do shelving stuff during, and after he left my boss complained and said he couldn’t do that anymore. I agreed.
Some people just don’t get that it’s SO not cool to show up at the SO’s work uninvited. Or else they do it on purpose, like your experience. Wankers…
Exactly. Show up for lunch and I know you’re coming, great, no problem, nice way to break up the monotony of a day. Show up unexpected? Well still a nice gesture, don’t get me wrong, but I do have work to do, I might have things planned that I can’t reschedule/move around, and I might not be able to get the time to spend with you, and don’t dare get pissy about it lol.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’d love seeing them, but I would feel unbelievably guilty if I wasn’t able to clear the day or some time to spend.
NICE.
Good thing he’s in Texas where recording a conversation like that is legal.
Oh please…….Mick’s got to get over his altar boy tendencies, and realize that a hot, kinky, absolutely batshit insane broad is a dream come true.
Oh granted, never SLEEP around her, and have a bugout plan well in place, but the “activities” are amazing and would make Sam Kinnison blush. I highly recommend that any guy have at a relationship like this once in their lives. Just one though; don’t be like me and be a repeat customer……
“Never put your dick in crazy.”
This phrase irks me. Nothing against you, sire. I’m just tired of people throwing that particular “wisdom” around.
Don’t stick my dick in crazy? Guess what? Everyone’s fucking crazy. Men, women, everyone. If I have to use that phrase as my guide, all I’d have left are my hand, fleshlights, and watermelons.
A better phrase would be “don’t fuck anyone whose craziness exceeds your own by large amounts.”
I say dont fuck anyone, but we get fucked in the end somehow, Lets just be hopeful someone is kind enough for a reach around.
sometimes crazy doesn’t seem so crazy till AFTER you’ve stuck your dick in it.
I had one girl roll over, look me longingly in the eyes and say…
“I love you, so I’ll have to kill you now”
I almost went out the 2nd story window to get the fuck away as fast as I could.
Oh that made me laugh. Thank you, JL.
Crazy chicks are fun, but trying to understand them will drive you nuts, You keep wondering ‘why?’ Why didn’t she just ask? why didn’t she tell me? why did she send nudes to my uncle? why is she hitting on my wife now? There are no good answers that make sense outside her head. Either roll with it, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes, or run. After you’ve hugged the tar baby it’s too late to get away clean.
I… almost want to ask, but I know that way lies madness…
“that way lies madness…” sums it up very nicely! BTDT. I realized after me and my ex split (she was very f*king bipolar, *her* words), that quite literally, living with a crazy person will make you crazy, as your thought processes change to follow and anticipate theirs, hence, you become crazy too. Took a while to deprogram myself, with the help of someone else who loved me and was willing to put up with the angry residual outbursts until that fire burned out.
Well played, Mick.
Advice for Mick: Stay away from Redheads. They don’t seem to do him any good.
Recorded without your consent? Oh, my! Tell me, Heidi, how does THAT feel?
Based on previous pages, probably hot & bothered…
Dunno where you get your taste in music, as it seems varied as hell. But i’ve fallen in love with a few of them. I liked Lard anyway but had never heard Power Of Lard. Now it’s a staple in my playlist. Now I think i’m gonna be obsessed with this Unwoman as well :-p
When I say “I listen to pretty much everything,” I really do listen to pretty much everything. The only thing I can’t stand is New Country and most polka. My primary favorite genres are Metal and Industrial, but I also listen to Hip Hop, Classical, Rock, Punk, Bluegrass, Reggae, Dubstep… the list goes on and on.
try
Didgeridoo Funk? Bouzouki Fusion? Klingon Opera?
I’d be willing to check out the first two. Klingon holds no appeal.
But shit, man, I’ve got Bagpipe Industrial, Tuvan Throat Singing Hip Hop, and Pirate Metal in my collection. I like weird shit.
Seen her perform live a few times … a friend paid her (and a few other local musicians) to play a gig at a bar in Concord for his wifes’ birthday. Another friend hired her to perform at a somewhat hedonistic houseparty (details NOT available, some people need to keep security clearances). She can do some really awesome stuff with a loop machine and a cello.
Heidi didn’t respect Mick’s privacy in posting the videos without asking. The subterfuge was pretty deliberate. And he doesn’t have any identifying marks, but that AK poster above his bed is pretty recognizable. Ergo, how he found out about this in the first place. If there was just a camera in her place, that’d be one thing. But the camera in his own place was unforgivable.
ooops, forgotten all the html I learned a long time ago
http://youtu.be/MbAZPHtDIY0
That was fucking gorgeous.
Yeaaaah, I don’t know. I get that Mick is standing up for himself and not letting himself be blackmailed, but considering Heidi must genuinely love him (or at least wants to repair the relationship) I think the least he could do is put aside 5 minutes to actually talk it out with her without changing his number or launching into the legal talk – even if just to end it more smoothly. Considering he remained anonymous and they got along so well, it just seems like a chance at redemption isn’t too much to consider.
Something tells me most of the crowd that frequent this comic will think my opinion too beta or whatever. But it sorta seems like he wanted an abrupt split with no recourse so that he could switch to the chick that better shares his ‘hobby’ and who he’s been hardcore drooling for and flirting with well before he found out about the whole recording thing. Whether that’s a ‘bad’ thing or not is personal opinion – but it flies in the face of what he said to Joe about wanting a relationship that lasts.
Damn, you’re a pretty fucking astute one. No sarcasm. Well done!
Thanks haha. I admit I had to read your reply over a few times to convince myself you were being serious heh.
Although, I admit I’m curious as to why you played the situation out this way. I know you said Mick is not ‘you’, but some insight would be interesting. Of course if that’s a spoiler or if it just ruins the magic of storytelling, feel free to say nothing 🙂
Nothing!