I know, I’m supposed to be busy with school and everything, but I couldn’t help but take a short break in order to respond to an email I received regarding SantaBearCam [my old website, which has been defunct since 2007].

The letter reads as follows:

Ok, I don’t know how I ended up with this santabearcam “business card” in my pocket that ended up on my dresser after a drunken evening, hell, I might even now whoever gave this thing to me, but regardless, this site sucks. I hope someone kidnaps santabear for ransom. And if I find out I know anyone associated with santabear, this is going to be my new secret endeavor (don’t tell anybody whoever reads this – maybe we can split the ransom 50/50!). Wouldn’t that be fun? Then I could start my own rival santabear website, or hack into yours, and watch you suckers try to find him and suffer through all the evil tortuous things I will do to him – yes, that’s right, I’m going to bring out the bear “gimp” and sodomize that little f*cker! Man oh man, this idea sounds better with every stroke of the keyboard I type.

Tell the bear to watch his back, a stalker may be on the lose…

-Ricardo (formerly know as Richard) [last name ommitted], aka, the bearstalker

And my response:

Ricardo,

You know, if you don’t like the site, that’s one thing. But to lash out in such a hostile way without much cause is really just mean spirited. If cutting people down and making idle, sophomoric threats is your idea of fun, then hooray for you. Judging by the way you express yourself, you seem fairly intelligent. It’s too bad you have the maturity level of a 13-year-old who has just been given free reign to play under the shade of anonymity that the internet provides.

You’re entitled to dislike the site, and to express it by emailing this address, but I take issue with your lack of tact. In short, grow up.

“Tell the bear to watch his back,” you say, “a stalker may be on the lose…” It’s ironic that you closed your letter that way, because that’s exactly what I was thinking. A stalker certainly is on the “lose.” He must be losing every day with that juvenile attitude. He loses when he lashes out at people for no good reason. He lost when he wrote his offensive letter. What a loser.

-Kevin (the person with a valid cause to write an angry letter)

What I found kind of amusing was the fact that Ricardo actually edited his own expletive. That asterisk in his letter was in the original text. I can imagine him sitting down to write that letter thinking, “Okay Rickie ol’ boy, we’re setting out to shock and offend, but let’s not go over the top here.” Ah, little Richaroo, you’re such a kidder.