Missing FG

[Marked Trail]

The party line of "Extraordinary sensitivity and judgement is requested" is starting to crack as it becomes increasing bizarre to ask everyone to stop wondering WTF happened...

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facebook.com/groups/ForeignVolunteersJPN

[Mike Oxlong]

Can't view the photo via tapatalk on iPhone.

[Marked Trail]

Can't view the photo via tapatalk on iPhone.

That's the idea.
I would not know but I assume the iPhone is brain-damaged and does not support 24-bit PNG format (which is ideal for displaying text images). Here's a JPEG and URL.

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A plain text post of this would link back to FG, and the "party line' is we are supposed to be quiet and not talk about the sad situation.
(Their advice of calling the J-police if information is known will only result in the well-meaning caller being grilled and treated like a criminal by the police. )

[Mod edit - URL fixed]

[wagyl]

not that is really matters (to me since I am not on a fruit brand and not on a mobile device) but the url is borked: it goes via jlist as well as an anonymizer. Clues to where you have been browsing???

[GomiGirl]

See the facebook group "Foreign Volunteers Japan" for the original thread on this matter.

[matsuki]

The party line of "Extraordinary sensitivity and judgement is requested" is starting to crack as it becomes increasing bizarre to ask everyone to stop wondering WTF happened...

Yeah, I still don't understand it unless he's been arrested and they are backpedaling in an attempt to not expose it?? More and more, I find a kidnapping harder to swallow...

[Coligny]

Choko, not that I trust the popo that much, but if they say:

The police have confirmed that Dart is NOT in custody and they are searching for him.

Then go on "ta data, we wuz joking"

After that... No matter what they might say will be met with a new "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...."

At least in the real world...

[Samurai_Jerk]

If they have an idea of what's happened, they might not want people wasting their time and effort trying to find him but still want to keep it quiet because it's embarrassing or could hurt his business.

[Taro Toporific]

If they have an idea of what's happened, they might not want people wasting their time and effort trying to find him but still want to keep it quiet because it's embarrassing or could hurt his business.

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BBC | 11 June 2013, 02:29 GMT
An ex-CIA employee who leaked details of US top-secret phone and internet surveillance has disappeared from his hotel in Hong Kong.
Edward Snowden, 29, checked out from his hotel on Monday. His whereabouts are unknown, but he is believed to be still in Hong Kong.
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FG's 'embarrassing' exclusive: Snowden and Mystery Man Spotted in Torrid Tokyo Trist!

[Coligny]

Dood, we know it's a joke, but if a mouthbreather with an axe to grind start retweeting or posting this shit on Facebook it might trigger another derp storm. Watermark heavily with "parody/joke" before it spills...

Th3 weurld haz become much moar st00pider lately... And it was not exactly brilliant to start with...

[Yokohammer]

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[Taro Toporific]

Looks like rattling the cage helps to get some reponse...

Branden Brazil on facebook.com/groups/Foreignvolunteersjapan/
Dear friends,
I have just spoken to Garin's wife on the phone. She contacted me, because she was very concerned, due to posts added here yesterday, that people think that not enough is being done to find Garin. This is frankly not the case at all. There are many professional people involved, who are working on this and advising his family.
Many on FVJ have wondered about whether the police have checked his passport, telephone records and bank accounts. The hard reality is that to do this, legal procedures have to be completed first. These laws are designed not as hurdles, but to protect an individual's privacy. For the police to gain access to this sensitive information, it takes time and patience.
Indeed, patience is what Garin's wife is asking from us. She told me that she deeply appreciates everyone's concern and willingness to help, but please trust that his family are doing everything they can.
Again, I request that everyone please show extraordinary sensitivity and judgement. This is the best way we can help his family, at this time.
10 hours ago (Tue. June 11, 2013 10pm)

________

The sad Dart disappearance reminds me of...
Back in my university days in the Anthropology Dept. we using a have a drinking toast to Michael Rockefeller who went missing on expedition to the Asmat tribe of western New Guinea: "Good luck Mike wherever you are!"

[Coligny]

Privacy between spouse ? and for a gaijin ?
Bitch please...
Me Djooly can't have any thing tuned without my signature and another 3rd party authorising it. I ended up teaching her to fake my handwriting to cut on paperwork displacement...
As for banks... if you have the hankoz you have all the power...

But then again... there's those assholes from asahi-net who won't reset a stalled link without speaking directly to the account holder...

[matsuki]

Looks like rattling the cage helps to get some reponse...

Branden Brazil on facebook.com/groups/Foreignvolunteersjapan/
Dear friends,
I have just spoken to Garin's wife on the phone. She contacted me, because she was very concerned, due to posts added here yesterday, that people think that not enough is being done to find Garin. This is frankly not the case at all. There are many professional people involved, who are working on this and advising his family.
Many on FVJ have wondered about whether the police have checked his passport, telephone records and bank accounts. The hard reality is that to do this, legal procedures have to be completed first. These laws are designed not as hurdles, but to protect an individual's privacy. For the police to gain access to this sensitive information, it takes time and patience.
Indeed, patience is what Garin's wife is asking from us. She told me that she deeply appreciates everyone's concern and willingness to help, but please trust that his family are doing everything they can.
Again, I request that everyone please show extraordinary sensitivity and judgement. This is the best way we can help his family, at this time.
10 hours ago (Tue. June 11, 2013 10pm)

3 weeks to gain sensitive information about one's missing spouse? Even in Japan, that seems far fetched. Still a "hang fire" on plastering Tokyo with missing posters and such? Doesn't make much sense with the info we've read. And the kicker...going missing in the middle of the day in downtown Tokyo?? WTF is going on?

[Taro Toporific]

3 weeks to gain sensitive information about one's missing spouse? Even in Japan, that seems far fetched. Still a "hang fire" on plastering Tokyo with missing posters and such? Doesn't make much sense with the info we've read. And the kicker...going missing in the middle of the day in downtown Tokyo?? WTF is going on?

The family says they got all the "professional" help they need. They want us to butt out of their business. Ok. Fine. Whatever. (Just don't expect us to not to wonder WTF happened, sheesh.)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Wasn't a photo of him posted online yesterday with the NSA whistleblower?





(Just kidding!!!)

[matsuki]

3 weeks to gain sensitive information about one's missing spouse? Even in Japan, that seems far fetched. Still a "hang fire" on plastering Tokyo with missing posters and such? Doesn't make much sense with the info we've read. And the kicker...going missing in the middle of the day in downtown Tokyo?? WTF is going on?

The family says they got all the "professional" help they need. They want us to butt out of their business. Ok. Fine. Whatever. (Just don't expect us to not to wonder WTF happened, sheesh.)

Starting to sound like SOP for TEPCO....but yeah, lil too late to ask the public to butt out of this one. Whatever the situation may be.

[TennoChinko]

So, what's the latest word?

a) Kidnapped & held for ransom?
b) Killed by the mob.
c) Caved in to mental pressure and/or financial problems and did a runner like this guy.
d) Killed by his wife like this case.

[Russell]

I vote for (c).

[Taro Toporific]

So, what's the latest word?

The family has insisted that we must not talk about it...

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[Coligny]

Yea, like the NSA insist on people looking up for leaked data on their pr1sm stuff... because even if it don't exist it's still classified shit...

This planet is turning into a real life 'Brasil'... but with even more incompetent bureaucracy...

[TennoChinko]

So, what's the latest word?

The family has insisted that we must not talk about it...

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Hmmm that sounds like either [c] or [d]...

c) Caved in to mental pressure and/or financial problems and did a runner like this guy.
d) Killed by his wife like this case.

[Russell]

Or the guy left his wife. Sometimes, preggers can be hard to live with.

But I wonder why Interpol was involved.

Would he have gone straight to the airport after removing that battery from his mobile phone? Wondering where he is now? Hong-Kong, no?

[Marked Trail]

...wonder why Interpol was involved.
Would he have gone straight to the airport after removing that battery from his mobile phone? Wondering where he is now? Hong-Kong, no?

Interpol was involved to make sure that he didn't go to Thailand for a x-change.

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Hong Kong is the last baston of freedom, and we already have seen 'proof'posted that he is there.

[Mike Oxlong]

Anyone checked the veranda ... bathtubs, sand, all that ...

[matsuki]

Waiting for people to stop caring before the big reveal it seems...

[legion]

Or the guy left his wife. Sometimes, preggers can be hard to live with.

was my wife's first comment, especially with the second kid, not unheard of

my theory is he went for some asian relaxation therapy and got caught up in an immigration sweep, hence the radio silence

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Or the guy left his wife. Sometimes, preggers can be hard to live with.

I kinda hope so. Of course, if this is the case, the poor bloke is going to be vilified...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Or the guy left his wife. Sometimes, preggers can be hard to live with.

was my wife's first comment, especially with the second kid, not unheard of

my theory is he went for some asian relaxation therapy and got caught up in an immigration sweep, hence the radio silence

If he's here on valid visa, they wouldn't detain him. Unless of course the hand job he got constituted doing business with the Yaks and they used that new anti-gangsta law as an excuse to lock him up. Hard to deny the transaction when they've got a tissue (or mouth) full of DNA evidence.

[matsuki]

That would be quite a stretch, even for Japanese cops. I can understand the escape theory but a guy of his caliber would more than likely have made it into a "business trip" and not a missing person drama. Going to be interesting to hear what the story is...