"Yes I did tell him I was writing an essay (I wonder if he's read it). In fact one of the questions I asked him was about Crump's educational background, I asked if he attended college or not. He said he didn't think so, but went on to say I shouldn't write about that."
Tom MacWood:
He told you he didn't think you should write about Crump's educational background? Do you remember what he did tell you he thought you should write about? You didn't mention a thing to him about researching and writing about Crump's suicide did you? And why was that?
The reason I know that is I remember how surprised he was when I told him that was what you were going to write about or did write about.
"If you will remember I wasn't planning on writing an essay when I spoke to the fellow in Merchantville, which was a good 2 years before talking JF. It was only after you & Wayne brow beat the poor fellow that I decided to write the essay. I have thanked you before for being indirectly responsible, and I thank you again. I'm surprised you haven't spoken to JF before about this, its not as if I kept my call to him a secret. I have his phone number if you need it."
No, I don't remember that you weren't planning on writing an essay when you spoke to the Merchantville township manager about Crump's suicide. I never actually knew when you spoke to him anyway. What I remember is you were putting posts on GOLFCLUBALTAS.com alluding to the fact you could prove Crump committed suicide (I'm quite sure those threads are still on this website to confirm that fact).
That was when Wayne and I began asking you how you could prove that. Of course you were evasive as always and you just continued to claim on this website you could prove it. That's when I called you on the phone about it and that's when you actually told me (more like began bragging to me) you basically conned that information out of that Mercchantville township manager by talking to him first about other things such as building architecture which you claimed he liked. And you even mentioned to me on that phone call that that was why you are a better researcher than us etc-----eg supposedly in your mind because you basically conned information you were after out of a man without even mentioning the purpose of why you were calling him in the first place.
And then you have the audacity to tell us we brow beat that Merchantville township manager!? We did nothing of the kind. We simply called him up and asked him if he realized that a person who had called him was intending to write an article about Crump's suicide on information that he claimed he had gotten from him. That's when he told me if you ever showed up in Merchantville he would sue you.
Of course you never mentioned where or from whom you got that information except apparently to me in that phone call which really does make one wonder why you bragged about it to me when it was pretty clear I never thought you should pursue that subject or at least not without informing Pine Valley about it first.
We were the ones who mentioned on here where you unethically got that information and we mentioned it before you put that article on here. But I supposed somewhere in your warped, jaded and highly unethical mind you figured if you didn't mention where you got that information that it was just fine to get it from that Merchantville township manager that way without even telling him what you were really after in the first place. So when it came out you just blamed Wayne and I for your own unethical behavior of conning information out of a public official without telling him why you were calling him in the first place. Again, if you had some information you didn't want anyone to know where it came from why in the world brag about how you got it to me on the phone?
This isn't the first time you've claimed you didn't even know that you would write an article on Crump's suicide when you spoke to that Merchantville township manager and unethically conned information out of him. That pathetic excuse sure doesn't work for me and it shouldn't for anyone else either. You obviously knew when you called that man what you were looking for and it obviously wasn't some discusson about building architecture in New Jersey!
Frankly I had a discussion about Crump's suicide about five years before any of this with Geoff Shackelford. He mentioned he might write about it. I asked him if he did do that if he would mention it to Pine Valley first. He told me he didn't know. He also mentioned that of course he didn't have to do that but he understood it would be the decent thing to do. Later he told me he'd decided he never would write about that subject.
To me that was a considerate and ethical decision on his part, and for reasons you probably don't even understand much less appreciate.