Busting a perp - any ideas?

[Dog Deever]

...Or you could find out if he's subscribed to a trade organization or the local chamber of commerce or something like that and go after him that way. Does he go to church? Talk to his priest. Is he a Mason? Send a letter to the Lord High Badger (or whatever they call themselves) of the local lodge saying how disgraceful you now think Masons are if they allow one another to act like that. Put an ad in the local paper; "We are looking for more victims of Mr X to join our class action suit - call (cheap disposable mobile 'phone number) for details."

If you just want to get on his nerves, you have his address so... Sign him up for as much free shit as you can. Introductory offers, free samples, free estimates, quotations, test-drives - whatever you can think of. All this stuff goes on databases and his junk mail and junk calls will increase exponentially. If you want to spend some money, sign him up to a year's subscription to a suitable porn mag or hairdresser's mag or Guns 'n' Ammo or something weird. Something to play on his mind.

Of course, as you have his address you can do naughty things like order pizzas, taxis and meter readings - but I would not advise that as those kinds of things, and lots of other things like those kinds of things, might get him blacklisted and/or be illegal. Don't do anything illegal.

I hear what you're saying Shark, and it all sounds like immense fun and certainly just deserts. However, the pursuit of vengeance can become an all consuming thing- especially if one is so far removed from seeing the results of said vengeance attempts that one has no clue whether it is even having any effect. It's possibly arguable that the pursuit of vengeance over an extended period is at least as likely to lead down a path of mental health problems as the original event which triggered everything.

If you have absorbed the financial hit (broadly) and are over the intellectual hit, then you've rolled with one more of life's punches and can get on with the struggle of enjoying life as best you can.

[ZenArcade]

Reasonableness seems to have ran its course in this sad affair.  I would ramp it up a step with the Guards.  Go to the Southern equivalent of an ombudsman; your local TD; a solicitor or The Sunday World. I am aware of the amount of 'inertia' prevalent in relation to the ability of the Garda, Police etc to get off their asses and do anything.  They will move when pressurized by superior authority either political/Internal or Legal or by adverse publicity i.e. the Press.

I echo the others, don't personally approach this fucking rat under any circumstances. Regards Z

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Report it to the police. And push it with them. Give his address, even. But do not get embroiled in it.

Vigilantism is, despite what comics might suggest, frowned upon by the law and not likely to end well.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Thanks, again, everyone; you're the best.  I think I'll go with the majority vote here and keep going through legal channels (though it will be hard to give the polis his address when I'm not supposed to know it myself).   
To be honest I'm not really interested in revenge - I just would like to see the situation put right and other people protected from this kind of thing.  I'm kind of surprised at myself; when I was mugged in my 20s I had years of vengeance fantasies involving baseball bats, knives and what have you; in fact I still dream of the same thing happening now that I have some martial art skillz to my name.  I don't know why, but I don't really have the same fantasies about this guy.
Anyway we'll see what happens; I need to keep pressing the police (they'd already forgotten my previous visit, unsurprisingly enough).

[The Legendary Shark]

The legal way is the best way to go.

If you don't get anywhere with the police, there's always the commercial lien.

[Theblazeuk]

That ever work for anyone?

Thanks, again, everyone; you're the best.  I think I'll go with the majority vote here and keep going through legal channels (though it will be hard to give the polis his address when I'm not supposed to know it myself).

He slipped up at some point and you wrote it down but thought it was a mistake when he gave you the fake one later. Or some such shite.

[The Legendary Shark]

You don't have to reveal your sources.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Nice one - might just hand over the address!  I think a sustained campaign of badgering the Old Bill is in order; till it's less hassle to do something about it than ignore it.

[NapalmKev]

Aside from your own circumstances , Jayzus (which is bad enough) there's also the possibility that this character has diddled a lot of others out of their money, maybe causing them to lose homes and seeing their whole family out on the street!

Personally, I would confront this guy. No, it's not sensible but then neither is losing everything to a massive Cunt, and then doing nothing about it!

I really believe you won't get much joy from the Police in this matter.

All the best!

Cheers

[JayzusB.Christ]

Cheers, Kev.  Sadly I think you're right about the police - but I'll keep trying before considering other options.

[Dog Deever]

Slightly off-topic, but related.
Me a guy at work once, in prison. I read about why he was in there in local papers and saw it on local TV news. He and his brother were involved in an argument at a chip-shop. Some guy stepped in and got between the protagonists pulling them apart and getting the guy and his brother to leave the chip shop later. So the two of them followed him in a car from Stonehaven to Aberdeen, intercepted him at his front door and stabbed him in the head, neck and face 11 times.
The man got into his house and locked the door then collapsed in his kitchen, out of steam and running out of blood. His wife shouted down to ask if he was okay, assuming he'd fallen. He knew he was dying so he shouted up he was fine- he didn't want her to see him die. She went down anyway and he was rushed to hospital once she called. The guy who did it used to laugh about how 'it served him right' and he 'wouldn't mess with him again.

While I doubt the cops will be any help, if you're intent on confronting the guy somehow, only do so with your eyes wide open.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Fuckin' 'ell.  Thanks, Kev, that's definitely food for thought; and has definitely made me think long and hard about any kind of confrontation.