Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Why not the possibility that:
Gus's real name is/was Guy Straley, he lives in Wisconsin, but not much else of what he claimed about himself was true. In other words, if he were a mechanic in small-town Wisconsin, or a baker, or worked at Kmart, he might not be very Googleable, and it would certainly explain why there's no record of his PhD or his work or his novel or anything else.
I'm putting this out there because he did interact with brenda and ... someone else I'm forgetting while using the name Guy Straley, since she sent him a check and worked with him (right, brenda?). My gut says that's his real name, but the stories about his scientific research and travels and heritage were probably fabricated for effect.
Dude! I called his fictional nature! GusSue!
Seriously, though, if he just made up a lot of "himself", it sucks, but whatev--a little irksome, given the amount of time he participated here and the nature of this community, but I'd get over it. If he made up the "dead" thing, and made people here grieve? Not cool. Ay.
Intelius says the telephone number listed with WHOIS is from Ashland WI.
If you search Intelius for Straley in Wisconsin, result #46 is Guy Straley in Cameron WI. They have an address, but no phone number, and 70 total public records they will provide for $7.95.
And AmyLiz explains my post a lot better than I could.
Amy, I'm believing he's real, and that he may or may not be dead, and that he was smart enough, and witty enough, to make us believe a lot of stuff he couldn't sustain--maybe he got in too deep and couldn't figure out a way to extricate himself, or maybe he had cancer and preferred the explanation of a weremonkey bite over the more mundane reasons for chemo.
Um...
First, from Wikipedia:
In the United States death certificates are considered public domain documents and can therefore be obtained for any individual regardless of the requester's relationship to the deceased.
[link] So in other words, we have a right to such info.
For Cameron, WI, this information would be handled by the Barron County Register of Deeds. Among other things, they handle "Vital (Birth, Marriage or Death) Records." [link]
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I'm planning on calling them and asking if a Guy Straley of Cameron, WI has passed away in the last month. If they can't tell me, I think I will request a death certificate.
If you search Intelius for Straley in Wisconsin, result #46 is Guy Straley in Cameron WI. They have an address, but no phone number, and 70 total public records they will provide for $7.95.
Well heck. I'll do it for that. If it will serve to make anyone on this board feel better, it's worth it to me.
If you search Intelius for Straley in Wisconsin, result #46 is Guy Straley in Cameron WI.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong -- it keeps telling me there are 26 G Straleys nationwide, but none in Wisconsin.
Deena, exactly. That's exactly where I am.
The thing that bothers me is the issue of his ... well, death, now that I've had time to think about it. Because it's completely manipulative, whether he's doing it or someone else. Maybe no one asked for money or material help, but it's not cool to screw with people's emotions.
And yeah, now that I've read everyone's thoughts over the last twenty-four hours, I've pretty much turned all the way around on this. Just for the record.
