Pranking a homeowner

[Abby Normal]

Just how desperate/delusional do you have to be to think this is a good idea? 


Jerald Rice typed his wife's name into an Internet search engine. A series of unsettling stunts had perplexed him.

Advertisements for sex with his wife popped up. "Adult entertainment of all types when my husband is not home," the ads said. "Not for the faint of heart. Come see me during the day while my husband is at work and we can get our freak on."

Some ads contained the couple's address and a photograph of the home they shared with their two children. Some had his wife's photograph, he said.

Alarmed, he called his wife at work, and then spoke to an FBI agent. He installed security equipment and pleaded with the websites to remove the ads.

Janice Ruhter, Rice's wife, had just given birth to their second child. "I was scared," she said.

Since buying their home in San Diego's upscale Carmel Valley, the couple had been plagued with strangers at their door, deluges of books and magazines they had not ordered, solicitations they had not sought.

Someone wanted them out of the house.



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[Bonny]

Wow, what a horrible thing to do.

That woman needs some serious mental heath help.

[Wisconsin Beth]

I'm pretty sure an ex of mine gave out my email address shortly after I asked him to leave me alone.  This would have been late 90 so while I got some spam, I kept the email address anyway.  It'd be a lot worse nowadays. 

[Peace Of Mind]

Well, in the prankster's defense that is a nice house and neighborhood.  <<makes notes for future house buying tips>> 


But yeah, bitches be crazy.   Who would even think of something like that but a nut ball?   

[Sam_2.0]

Holy crap! Wonder what kind of settlement they got out of her. I don't see those as "harmless" pranks at all. Seems like she was escalating and wouldn't have stopped until they got hurt or moved out.

[achelois]

She definitely was escalating. I cannot imagine this. What if the man had raped her, even thinking it was consensual pseudo-rape per the email.  This woman doing this stuff  should be locked up. 

[Mardi Gras Audrey]

That is scary! This woman should be locked up and put away from other people. What a nut job. Her lawyer is just as bad, saying that she "wasn't soliciting rape because it would have been consensual". Um, as far as I know, you can't consent for another person. Yes, she was "consenting" but she was consenting the homeowner's body. How can that be consensual when it isn't your body or home to give consent to?

[Apple]

Wow

[Tiny]

She was so motivated to provide for her family (her justification for the harrasment) - I wonder how she's going to provide for her daughter/hubby from jail or how that's working out for her with all this legal mess going on.

The scary-er part is that Crazy Woman is a care taker for her hubby and daughter. I'm envisioning one of the many scenarios when some abuse (or death) of a dependant hits the local news/media. It's always - 'oh, the Care Taker was doing so well until it all spiralled out of control over the course of a year or two'. YIKES.

[toomuchreality]

Wow! I thought the woman who admitted the pranks, was going to be the wife. Not some whacked out other party, who wanted their house.

This is just bizarre!

[MarleyKeezy78]

Wow!!!   What kind of crazy ass person do you have to be

[TheHaitian]

What a nut job :eek: :eek:

[taz157]

Sept 15, 2014 14:05:59 GMT -5 Sam_2.0 said:

Holy crap! Wonder what kind of settlement they got out of her. I don't see those as "harmless" pranks at all. Seems like she was escalating and wouldn't have stopped until they got hurt or moved out.

Yeah that!

[Nazgul Girl]

   She needs to have her custody of her daughter terminated.   If she's willing to do that to someone who bought a house she wanted, what would she be willing to do "to" her daughter ?   Blech.   Horrible person.

[haapai]

Am I the only one that's thinking, "Wow!  There's something about caretakers and boundaries that we don't talk about nearly enough."? 

I've definitely run into a few women who have slid into (or perhaps carved out) caretaker roles for themselves that have this kind of sense of entitlement .  That is, as long as their actions can be described as benefiting their dependents, those actions are justified. 

[Deleted]

So, this is a 'prank', but doing one rude things to a statue of Jesus is 'harassment'. 

[Deleted]

Seriously?  For a house?  Like she couldn't find another single story with a garden and pool.  What a nut case.

[geenamercile]

I feel sorry for everyone, yes the lady went into crazy land but it looks like it was a long drive there.  I feel for her that no one noticed that she needed someone to step in and help her before she hit crazy land.  

[Nazgul Girl]

   I honestly don't feel sorry for her.   She did some terrible things and could have gotten the wife of the homeowners raped.    If she was going to be a caretaker, she should have spent her time actually taking care of her husband and daughter.   I think she had picked out the perfect model house that she wanted to live in after husband died, and would stop at nothing to get it.   She deserves some serious jail time.    

[haapai]

Sept 18, 2014 7:53:46 GMT -5 Nazgul Girl said:

   She needs to have her custody of her daughter terminated.   If she's willing to do that to someone who bought a house she wanted, what would she be willing to do "to" her daughter ?   Blech.   Horrible person.

Reading between the lines of that article, I'd surmise that she also needs to be removed as the trustee of a pile of money. 

[Nazgul Girl]

Sept 18, 2014 9:30:31 GMT -5 haapai said:

Sept 18, 2014 7:53:46 GMT -5 Nazgul Girl said:

   She needs to have her custody of her daughter terminated.   If she's willing to do that to someone who bought a house she wanted, what would she be willing to do "to" her daughter ?   Blech.   Horrible person.

Reading between the lines of that article, I'd surmise that she also needs to be removed as the trustee of a pile of money. 

   Probably very true.   She's a self-entitled creep, all the way around.   Her behavior reminds me of that of Lori Drew, the woman who drove a young teen to suicide with faked myspace posts purporting to be a boy that liked her, and then dumped her, all online.   

   www.meganmeierfoundation.org/megans-story.html

[haapai]

I was just about to edit that post regarding a trust.  After reading a bit more closely, I notice that Ms. Rowe seems to be the source behind every hint that there's a pile of money somewhere. 

The settlement with her victims was reached but nobody says "paid".  The planned community didn't seem to respond to her initial offer on the house.  Her victims didn't seem much interested in her offer to pay them a 12% premium on a house that they had just bought.

Her money seems to be invisible at times and she sleeps on a chair at night.  Maybe it doesn't exist. 

[Deleted]

She was blatantly soliciting the rape of that woman. There is no way she should get away without jail time.

[Deleted]

Sept 18, 2014 8:01:28 GMT -5 oped said:

So, this is a 'prank', but doing one rude things to a statue of Jesus is 'harassment'. 

It's not the same people calling this a prank. This is a worse crime.

[zibazinski]

This isn't a prank at all. It's sick.

[haapai]

Is this kind of coda becoming more common?  The stuff that follows in italics is the last few sentences of the article.

This story is based on briefs filed by Kathy Rowe's lawyers, an appeals court ruling and a transcript of a pretrial proceeding, and interviews with defense lawyers and prosecutors. The couple's statements came from court transcripts, and Rowe provided a lengthy, written explanation of the events to the court and to prosecutors. Rowe, Jerald Rice and Janice Ruhter did not speak to The Times. Rowe's lawyer said his client was under too much stress to do an interview, and Rice and Ruhter did not return telephone calls. Rowe and her lawyers acknowledge that she engaged in "pranks" over 10 months.

I seem to remember a time when an article that didn't include a single original quote was deemed unacceptable for publication.  In cases where nobody would talk to reporters and stories had to be constructed largely out of court documents, that fact was made very clear from the outset and the source of some of the more interesting parts of the story was explicitly mentioned in the body of the story. 

I'm not sure what to make of this type of cut and paste job.  It makes for a jollier and less disjointed yarn, but it involves an awful lot of reweaving.