Posted on 07/19/2013 8:21:47 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
WINTER PARK, Fla. —
A Winter Park woman said she began getting death threats to her cellphone after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman.
She said her number is one digit away from Zimmerman's number and someone posted her number online thinking it was his.
Lori Tankel said she's used to getting a ton of calls for work through her job as a sales representative for different horse companies.
But she could have never expected what began Saturday night.
"My phone just started to blow up. Phone call after phone call, multiple phone calls," Tankel said.
She said the calls and death threats to her cell began just minutes after a jury acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
"We're going to kill you, we're going to get you. Watch your back," said someone on a call.
(Excerpt) Read more at wftv.com ...
“Her number is one number off from the number Zimmerman used to make his call to police just before he fatally shot Martin.
The call and that phone number were played over and over during the trial.
Tankel showed Eyewitness News a log of nearly 100 threatening calls she’s gotten since.
Tankel said she called the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office to report the threats but didn’t get much traction.
“They said they were averaging 400 death threats per minute on social media sites, so what I was getting was just a drop in the bucket,” Tankel said.
She said she doesn’t know what to do and is now being forced to change her number.
Tankel said the situation is aggravating and feels like someone should be held accountable for what happened to her.”
Welcome to Obamaville
She should get Call Forwarding and have all calls forwarded to the Sheriff’s main number.
A cell phone for herself until it blows over-which it will.
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The person who posted her phone number and every lowlife that called her number ought to get locked up on terroristic threat charges.
That is a FANTASTIC idea.
I agree. Look how they terrorized GZ’s patents when Spike Lee tweeted their address, etc.
I’m sure Eric Holder will get right on it.
Lee should see the inside of GTMO for that.
It used to be that just one death threat was a big deal. Now you must get over 100 to be taken seriously!
Yeah really. It’s crazy.
If you had an enemy in Florida you really wanted to screw over, all you’d have to do is put their phone number on Facebook and Twitzer and say it was one of the Zimmerman jurors ;-)
These phone calls are criminal offenses. A man in Pennsylvania recently got jail time for threatening (as a joke) to blow up a school if a girl didn’t go to her classes; he called the wrong number by mistake.
I can think of a few people who very much deserve that. (snicker)
“he called the wrong number by mistake.” PD? hate when that happens. /s
Well, if she’s white, she deserves it.
I hope Seminole county can get whoever is doing this. Like they really need to be dealing with this nonsense, ha?
You got that right. Welcome to liberal fascism.
call and tell her your great idea! ;)
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