jive learnal ([info]tylerjpetito) wrote,
@ 2008-09-13 02:28:00
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so ive never really encountered a true compulsive/pathological liar (is there a difference?) until just recently. i made friends with this guy from canada on the internet who said he was going to be moving here for work when in fact he had no intentions of ever coming here. for weeks all i heard from him was about him packing or him trying to sell his place or trying to find a place here in vegas to stay etc. he told me so many lies about his job/his schooling/his hobbies etc etc etc. the list goes on and on. its fucking ridiculous. the thing is i dont even know why! he must have something seriously wrong to lie about the most insignificant things for absolutely no reason. id have totally blown off the whole situation and said "fuck it" if i hadnt made myself look/feel like an ass. i had offered to pick him up from the airport last friday morning, come friday night he isnt here and didnt text me about any delays, i finally get a text back saying he was stuck in cleveland because his flight malfunctioned and that he was getting a flight out saturday and would be here around 8pm. so come 9-10ish on saturday i text and call him just saying that i was just wondering if his flight was delayed or something and (thinking he was probably on the plane at the time) i said to call me when he lands.so the next morning, sunday, im on aim and he signs on, so i send him a few messages just saying that im curious where he is/if hes ok, etc etc and not a minute later i get a message from him on myspace saying that he got a call while in cleveland saying his brother was dying and he had to fly to north carolina to see him and his family and that he was on his sisters iphone and he could only use myspace on it because his phone was broken. yadda yadda yadda. so at this point i know something is up so i basically called him out telling him that something was fishy and that i think its funny that hes sent me this myspace message saying he has no phone/internet and can only use myspace and not facebook while hes on aim (it didnt say he was mobile either) and had just posted new pictures on facebook. needless to say, he never replied to my message. theres way more to the whole story but thats a super brief synopsis. and i dont think he realizes that facebook shows me like everything he posts in comments to others and stuff on my main facebook page. eh, whatever. just a random dude. but its still fucking nuts in my opinion. heres a brief rundown of some of things he told me that i found out were lies.

-his age. told me hes 24 but thanks to the magic of facebook updates i was informed that a friend left him a comment saying "happy belated birthday. the big 20!"
-his job. he said he was some high up manager at apple and got all these crazy discounts, but i dont think he even works at apple as a regular employee.
-his schooling. he actually told me he was done with school and had a masters degree. i knew this was a lie the second i heard it and this was actually the lie that led me to start questioning most things he said. anyway, i found out that hes still in school and apparently has classes from 3-7pm on weds. again, thanks to the magic of facebook.
-he told me he doesnt smoke and HATES smoking yet there are pictures of him on myspace smoking.
-i had told him i liked guys who wear glasses so a few days later he posts pictures on facebook of when he and his friends went out one night and he wore his "old glasses" because he didnt want to wear his contacts and you can clearly tell that theyre girls glasses (they had a big chanel logo on the side) and actually in one of the pictures from the same night you can see one of his girl friends wearing the same exact glasses, and in that photo he happened to not have "his glasses" on. odd right?


i dunno...there were so many more small and not-so-small lies he told me but i cant even remember/dont care to remember most of them. but my favorite was the one where he told me this long elaborate story of how he got into a fight with one of the owners of google.

pfft. bitches be crazy!



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[info]ideogram
2008-09-13 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Haha, omg. This guy is so crazy. Words just do not describe. Some of the lies he's told I just don't understand how he thought he could get away with and some of them are just plain creepy.

What would we do without facebook eh?

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[info]tylerjpetito
2008-09-14 09:53 am UTC (link)
i think youre the only person who knows most, if not all, of the lies he told me. since i was giving you like day by day updates of what i had uncovered haha.

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[info]lawsofeden
2008-09-13 07:47 pm UTC (link)
that is so scary :(

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[info]letsstealatank
2008-09-13 10:35 pm UTC (link)
lemme guess. his name is walker?

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[info]tylerjpetito
2008-09-13 10:52 pm UTC (link)
omg yes.

so I'm guessing this is some sort of pattern? the sad thing is he's a decent guy minus the lies. I guess I should just get a laugh out of it instead f being totally aggravated and annoyed at it all. he lied to me about some of the most insignificant things and did it in a way where it was clearly a lie but I figures it was just a character flaw or he was just trying to impress me to make friends so he'd have a friend here when he moved. this was when I still believed he was moving here. I mean who would lie about moving somewhere? you'll obviously get found out whb you don't show up yaknow. ughhhhh

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[info]letsstealatank
2008-09-13 11:26 pm UTC (link)
same thing happened to my good friend dave in canada. then he actually moved to canada eventually. they dated. and he cheated on him with a shitload of people.

he broke up with him on the 1st. bet you never heard about him?

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[info]tylerjpetito
2008-09-14 09:50 am UTC (link)
he did tell em about dave but had told me that they were in an open relationship. and had told me maybe a week or two before the 1st that they had broken up.

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[info]davidpike
2008-09-13 11:15 pm UTC (link)
oh my god. you need to add me on facebook or aim (skyisfalling250). we have..so much..to talk about. holy fuck

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[info]justtofindmeli
2008-09-14 06:06 am UTC (link)
At what point did he ask you to put money in a special nigerian account?

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[info]tylerjpetito
2008-09-14 09:46 am UTC (link)
yaknow, i think that was his next move. good thing i got away from him while the gettin' was good.

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(Anonymous)
2009-03-07 11:30 am UTC (link)
i read this entry and was like "....wow"
and then read the comments and noticed one of them said "walker"
aka john bolles?

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[info]tylerjpetito
2009-03-08 09:55 am UTC (link)
yep. nailed it!

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Latest Update From NYC April 2009
[info]brillianttrash
2009-04-08 08:58 pm UTC (link)
He's been here in New York City since sometime before new years and most likely arriving after Thanksgiving.

As it turns out he owns no apartment on Park Avenue South near the corner of 24th Street, there is no trust fund with regular midnight money transfers, or a wealthy grandfather who invented sheer pantyhose and tales of an oil baron father, there is no $3000 monthly stipend from his Marine service for staying active after spending time in both Iraq and Afghanistan, there's no job at American Apparel in Chelsea that can be substantiated or that he worked as a photographer for National Geographic's Lindblad Expeditions.

As of April 2009 he has alienated just about everyone in the gay/bear community here in NYC with his lying. A reputation that now precedes him. To make matters worse, personal property had gone missing from people that he stayed with. The ripples in his wake have been felt by many here; some scoffing him off from the beginning and some less fortunate who have been emotionally and psychologically harmed by his actions.

At one point on Facebook, he admitted to being a pathological liar apologizing to everyone (by telling only a few people) claiming he was in therapy twice a week for it. None of which could be substantiated by his behaviour or continued lying.

For now he appears to be on his way out of NYC because of all the bridges that have been burned. He was briefly in Toronto at the end of March. Most recently in Philadelphia on a weekend visit from which he has not yet returned.

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
[info]tylerjpetito
2009-04-09 08:24 am UTC (link)
so fucking insane! i feel bad for all the other people who were duped by him, but feel validated that its happened to other people besides me and that i wasnt being stupid and overreacting to his too-good-to-be-true stories.

just curious, who is this? you can email me your identity if you want haha. tylerjamespetito@gmail.com

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
(Anonymous)
2009-04-09 03:11 pm UTC (link)
He really didn't have many people in NY fooled for long. All of his friendships were fleeting acquaintances (of which he gained by going on a friend-adding spree on Facebook) that didn't last longer than a few weeks at most. He has nobody close to him. No real friends.

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
[info]brillianttrash
2009-04-10 12:56 pm UTC (link)
I'm merely one of the people he got close to here in New York City. And like many people here in the city - I'm the wrong person to deceive and take advantage of.

What goes around comes around. When you stab someone in the back, expect to get it back.

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
(Anonymous)
2009-04-16 03:09 pm UTC (link)
MY favorite story was at Ty's - he's going on and on and on about how he was a former photographer for the Marines or some such bullsheeeeet.

Well the subject of his ridiculous, hipster Jyhad-scarf comes up. And he goes, "Whenever someone mentions my scarf, I got seven words for them: Marine, Marine, Marine, MARINE! MARINE! MARINE MARIIIIINE!!!"

I, finally fed up with the barking hamster, shot a look at him and replied, "Well you're nothing but AQUA-Marine now sister."

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
[info]tylerjpetito
2009-04-16 07:38 pm UTC (link)
he's such an idiot.

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
(Anonymous)
2009-04-16 03:49 pm UTC (link)
This link should be of great interest to most of us who've had to deal with him. Just as we've all figured out that we are not alone from New York to Toronto to BC and Texas to Florida to L.A. and back up to DC and Philly with plenty of stops inbetween with the most recent being Harrisburg, PA. Apparently he's not the only one out there looking to take advantage of good people. What's worse is that he fits the profile of a predator. And as with any predator, there are victims.

http://gawker.com/5213534/hipster-grifter-kari-ferrells-victims-speak-out

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Re: Latest Update From NYC April 2009
[info]tylerjpetito
2009-04-16 07:38 pm UTC (link)
i saw that last night and immediately thought of him!

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