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What should I do?

  • 15-08-2007 9:54pm
    #1
    another123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi,

    I don't know if I should be going to the Gardai about this issue and want to see about the legal side of it and if I am right. I deleted someones Bebo account in late June....it was made just two days before...I deleted it because of the verbal abuse I had received for a while.

    Since then, that person has continued his further verbal abuse and is trying to turn everyone I know against me, he has since succeeded. His friend has tried to fool me to go somewhere, and tried to get me beat, but I didn't turn up. I am also getting threats to my life about this. I am receiving many prank calls and some disturbing ones as well even today, to this minute, which is nearly 7-8 weeks after I have done this, and I have apologized for my actions as well, the day after doing it.

    This has remained a problem, and has started due to it being my fault by starting the thing. But is this harassment on their part? And should I go to the Gardai about this, but what can they do. I cannot step outside the front door in fear something might happen. We are all 17 years old here and I don't know if that makes much of a legal difference. So I am asking for advice on this situation, and do I have any legal matter here as to harassment or is it my fault and my own doing.....maybe nothing can be done. I have little evidence as well, only the phone call ones really.

    Help please.


Comments

  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Sorry, I'm not a bebo user. What does delete the account mean? Did you have access to someone else's account and removed it from bebo?

    Anyway, there is no reason for these people to abuse you over something trivial like that. An account can be recreated.
    Boards cannot give legal advice as Boards can then be held liable.
    Teenagers can be very cruel and sometimes something small can set off a chain reaction of problems, like in this case. I think you should talk to a close adult, a teacher or similar. Perhaps this person can break the reaction.


  • #3
    embee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭embee


    Deleting someones Bebo account does not give them an excuse to threaten your life, to try to trick you into walking into a beating, etc.

    Go to the guards if it continues or starts to escalate in any way. Explain that it all started from you deleting someones Bebo account. If you receive any abusive texts or voicemails, save them. Keep a log of all incidents where you have been threatened, by whom etc.

    In the interim, I'd discuss it with an adult - they may be able to advise you on some way of stopping this without you needing to go to the Gardai.

    Good luck.


  • #4
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Please do report this as the Gardaí do have powers to deal with this kind of situation. I just cannot locate the specific act at the minute. They are dealing with an increasingly number of these situations. You should not at this age be suffering like this at the hands of these people.

    Please do report it and tell a parent/aunt/uncle/friends parent.


  • #5
    carnival_joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭carnival_joe


    Go to the guards, its harrassment (as i understand it) and you do not have to put up with it. Try collect evidance (tape calls, save messages etc) so that you have some proof. Dunno how much they can do, but at least lodge a complaint with them.

    sounds like a very dicey situation, be careful and the best of luck


  • #6
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    Talk to a teacher and tell your parents about this asap. Then go the Gardai about this.


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  • #7
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Miss Fluff wrote:
    Talk to a teacher and tell your parents about this asap. Then go the Gardai about this.

    What has this got to do with a teacher? School is also closed until next month should they ring one of their teachers at home? :confused:


  • #8
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    tuxy wrote:
    What has this got to do with a teacher? School is also closed until next month should they ring one of their teachers at home? :confused:

    Jesus, hold the phone will you? Forgot it was summer holidays. LOL:D


  • #9
    another123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭another123


    I have logs of calls and messages held, including the threatening one. I have also recieved called from a Private Number, but this has only started since the whole thing occurred, so I believe it's them, but because the number is Private, it may well not hold up. I might call a centre to find out whom though and use this as proof to the police.


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