Posted on 09/15/2009 12:58:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – Military officials say they're investigating why an upstate New York man was told his son had been killed in Afghanistan when the soldier was alive and well.
Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls says he was camping Sunday when he received a call on his cell phone from a woman who said she was a military liaison. He says the woman told him his son, Staff Sgt. Jesse Jasper, was killed in action Saturday.
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This sounds like what Code Pink would do.
This was either misidentification or a planned attack by some code pinko style anti-America group.
I hate that I think that, but given their other activities, couldn’t I be right?
The call should be recorded on his phone. Unless they used a blocking mechanism.
Didn’t they do something like that last year? I’m not sure if it was Code Pink or some other group, but they called parents of military members and told them their kids had been killed. Disgusting and they should go to jail for this.
The Military NEVER notifies Next of Kin via Call Phone!
what a sick joke.........you are right, the military sends someone to give the news in person.
it should be able to be traced if it was blocked....hope someone is on that task.
Congressman Billybob
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The phone company should be able to do that if the call isn't logged in their records. I'm not sure blocked numbers show on their logs, or if the police have to initiate a trace.
Either way, it should be traceable.
BINGO!
Notifications are always done face-to-face with an officer present.
As well, there is the matter of intentional infliction of great emotional distress. Congressman Billybob, is that not actionable? (Here we assume the perpetrator has enough assets other than fleas and lice to make such a course potentially worthwhile.)
Sounds like a case of some sicko’s prank call.
Yes, but since he wasn't at home to be contacted, he didn't question that.
I think the worst part is that the military said the family misunderstood what the phone call said. BS Why would anyone call his cell phone to tell him someone in his son's unit died?
It’s always been my understanding that the military does not notify next of kin over the telephone. They always do it in person. Or so I’ve been told.
This is an old lefty dirty trick.
This crap was happening in 2003. It was done by anti-war activist creeps.
Our local National Guard unit had to alert all the family members about the risk and make sure then knew that notification would only come from direct, face-to-face contact from officers in the unit.
The military responds with a TEAM sent in PERSON, not by a damned phonecall.
These fake calls have happened during Vietnam and up to today, even during peacetime. Whatever bad happens to the slimeballs who makes these calls is not enough.
This was just a sick joke by some anti-American, anti-war group, such as Code Pink, or maybe just some sicko individual.
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