just when you think you've heard everything - oh no.

[thoreau]

So - this morning I receive this email response to an online profile I have on Poz.com:

I am visiting San Francisco in two weeks and hoping to find someone to cum inside of me and make me HIV+. Are you willing to be my Lestat and turn me into a vampire? I also like your Buddhist outlook and would love to talk about art and music. I'll be in for a conference at (insert hotel here). Hope to hear from you. Namaste.

OMG^bazillion

This is the most shocking online response I have ever received.

any suggestions as to how I should respond?

Comments

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

Just... wow. SHIT!

How about saying "call me" and giving the local mental crisis hotline number?

Damn. Every time I hear something like this I think what the hell kind of fk'ed up life does a person have that they would do that?

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

that is one of those

"dont respond" ignore delete block spam leave alone walk away omg leave it alone

things.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

Wow. I can't help wondering if it's for real. You could always respond in the affirmative. Then get him all chained to your bed. Then bring some really sick AIDS patients to tell them how much fun they are having.

While he's chained up, you could also get a blood sample and see if he's really lying.

You can say:

[bearringsd.livejournal.com]

"Dear Sir,

Yes, I am Lestat. I shall use my AIDS vampiric powers to banish you to the farthest reaches of freakdom. Oh wait, you live there already."

Srsly. Don't even bother.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I reported his email to poz.com with his username (as poz.com is pretty explicit about bugchasers being forbidden) - and deleted it.

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Part of me thinks this just can't be legit: it's someone doing a prank, or a so-called "sociology experiment" to see how you'll react.

Part of me is reminded of the fact that I've known people who, although they never advertised it as such, behaved in such a way that made it clear they wanted to become poz.

Re: You can say:

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

"be my Lestat"?

the internet has struck a new low for me.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

I reported his email to poz.com with his username (as poz.com is pretty explicit about bugchasers being forbidden) - and deleted it.

[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

I've heard of this before. I don't know what to make of it. Also heard about people who want to infect HIV- people.

And into a vampire? What?

[bibliocub.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Bugchaser after a HIV+ Buddhist. I wonder what part of "cause no harm" is he not getting? But that is probably only one of many problems this guy has. Guys like him are one reason I don't have many online profiles. (Having a loving hubby is another.)

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

It is not as unusual as people think. I know someone made sure he became positive so that he could be guaranteed a council flat. I also know the bloke who obliged him. But then he thinks it amusing that someone he knows who is a paedophile likes to grope young boys arses (5 years and up) when they are in the street with their mothers (obviously when the mother or anyone else isn't looking).
They are all part of the alternative set that surrounded a radical, together no longer industrial band.
How far out...

It insults positive people and also the memory of those no longer with us.

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

This is either a sick joke, or the requestor is.

If he has vampire fantasies, it may pay to drive a stake through his heart.

I'm shocked.

[whiskerfish.livejournal.com]

That is the most shocking online response you've ever received?

Tell him yes then blow him off.

Or not.

[sierrabiker.livejournal.com]

Sounds like ya did the right thing. I remember seeing that stuff once in a while when I used to surf irc years ago.

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

I think you did exactly the right thing.

[drewan.livejournal.com]

Yes... but did he ask to feel your boobs? (Ugh... it is so hard to let go of that subject!)

I'm sorry that this sick fuck (excuse the pun) contacted you for his warped fantasy. You did the right thing by reporting then deleting.

I might have added a response to him that HIV is not the Anne Rice inspired fantasy that he appears to have. Where her demon spawned vampire virus gives nearly eternal life at the cost of sunlight and fine cooking, the real HIV virus takes away so much more with out even the promise of one natural life.

He obviously has problems with his reality, and it's good that you or anyone else doesn't become a part of it.

(What the hell am I feeling so verbose today? Someone take my keyboard away before I kill again!)

Re: I'm shocked.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

i've received perverted nasty responses - but those don't shock me the way this one did.

[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

Truth remains stranger than fiction.

[c73m.livejournal.com]

id prolly say something like 'im more of a Van helsing than a lestat, but if you want to hang out and eat cheese toast i'm cool with that'..

like, word.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

tell him to come over, give him a bunch of AZT to take and let him enjoy the barfy shits without that annoying HIV stuff.

what a moron

I do love (in a perverse way) that he wants to be a HIV poz buddhist vampire... that is so wacky!

[whatuttercrap.livejournal.com]

Drew's right; just ignore the message and mark it as junk mail or spam. However, the opportunity to write back and say that you employ Orkin and have enough bug chasers is rather compelling.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe it's a police sting operation! They lure into spreading disease, and then arrest you for it! And put it on tabloid TV!

If so, it's a good thing you deleted it.

[labeartorycub.livejournal.com]

You did the right thing. Sadly, there are people out there who really do want to be HIV+ for whatever reason and never a good one.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

(giggle) cheese toast. (giggle) awesome.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

I agree - you did the right thing!
Sadly, this is probably a real search as I know of several people who felt if it was there "destiny" anyway, then why not seek it out the infection and control it. Very sad, as it was too late when they realized how difficult it was for them to control it.