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Originally Posted by dobbles
As someone that knows pimking in real life, I am very surprised the turn this thread took. It's hard to look past the evidence and links provided and say he didn't do anything wrong. He seems to have milked people for what he could.
With that said, I don't think it was some evil long term con. While I don't agree with him on most issues (he's conservative and I'm liberal) I have always felt he was an honest guy. He's been to my house, attended my wedding, and sat next to me for a season of qc flames games.
I guess what I'm saying is try not to vilify the guy too much. We all do stupid things.
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PIMking always came across as a bit of a simpleton, I doubt this started out as some long ongoing con. My guess is he used GoFundMe the first time, whenever that was, and thought he could keep going back to it, got addicted to the free money. Don't think he set out to con anyone but that's what happened, to more then people on CP it seems.
It's funny looking at the pics he posted and others have posted here today, an Xbox One controller next to Thanksgiving dinner, concert photos at a big venue, engagement ring, etc etc etc, big purchases made on our dime when he was claiming it was all going to get him back on his feet. If he had any smarts to him he would have packed up shop and stopped going to the CP well after that. Instead he kept dropping hints about still being hard up, in hopes of getting more money I'd imagine.
Maybe it all starts with embarrassment, the new companion in his life doesn't know he's hard up, he wants to keep the fun times going was to do this, across many platforms, but that doesn't excuse anything.
Really not interested to hear what he has to say either, no way can he make these stories not fishy. Pretty clear he saw my post this morning, sometime after I submitted it at 1am, and decided that was it. Changed his signature to a farewell message and last logged out at around 9am.
He then logged back in, fully capable of replying but logged out again. Only now, after he can't post does he claim he wants to reply.
BS, such BS.