Someone call and say they are from PETA

I's almost not even funny. Because some nut, who has never been within a hundred miles of a real wiseguy, yet has a fascination with this crap, is bound to call him just to hear the sound of his voice. You can bet on it.

Crazy talk, PB. People from an internet forum crank calling people they don't know in real life?

Sometimes they even call other board members. Especially the female board members. Which is odd, because the guys who bark the loudest on these boards have never been with a woman who wasn't inflatable.

So what you are saying is that you need to be mob wannabe that knows wiseguys in real life to like crime? Just seems pretenious

No, I think what we're saying is...most of us stop crank calling others by the 5th grade.

Right, but its a joke.

Yeah I get that. And I can almost see the humor in it. But that PB...he takes crank calls very very seriously. Crank calls and pigeons.

Carmela your adorable, its prank call not crank call.....what would crank call even mean? Besides maybe hitting up your boy for some meth.

And that's why crank calls are no laughing matter!!

All these years saying it this way and nobody ever corrected me. They would just laugh and point. Now I know why.

Not at all. I've always given the proper credit and respect to our board members and researchers from other parts of the country and other parts of the world. Guys like Ivy and Hairy and Sonny post valuable links that most of us don't have the patience to look for.

I was merely pointing out that wiseguys have always attracted the same types of groupies and stalkers that celebrities and athletes attract. And it's especially true today, in the Internet age. It's just that, when some nutjob sleeps in his car across the street from Vinny Basciano's old house to take a picture, or approaches Tore LoCasio at the Publix on Marco Island, and tells him "great job on staying low key," it doesn't make the newspapers.

I've never been of the mind that you have to grow up here to have an opinion about these guys. That's bullshit, and I'm constantly sticking up for guys like Ivy and Hairy because I feel that way. Mob guys are public figures and people want to read about them whether they're "from the neighborhood" or not. I'm just saying that there are limits when it comes to invading their privacy because they're just people.

But I do know that you were joking, Extortion. I was joking, too. But it was more of an inside joke between me and Carmela. So if you didn't get it, I understand.

People actually do that in NY?

And I'm from Louisiana, I'm not calling Neil to shoot the shit and ask him if his pigeons are "coo-ing"; That's way too much for long distance.

There are lots of crazies in this world, Lalou. People used to approach Gotti for his fucking autograph all the time. And he enjoyed the fucking attention. But look how things worked out for him .

I don't see how asking for John Gotti's autograph qualifies as "crazy stalker". I'm sure myself and many others on here and in general would want to get his autograph.

Well, you're right. That wouldn't necessarily make someone a "crazy stalker." But sitting on a guy's house just to take a picture and put it on the Internet would. And these guys do get those types of crazies in their lives. And I wasn't singling anyone out on this board.

Look, we all have an interest in this stuff or we wouldn't be here. But if you're searching property records and using Google Earth to see what mafioso homes look like, then your interest is probably a little more than what's healthy.

Definitely agree with you there.

Getting back on track, everyone should watch the movie "Ghost Dog" a real classic and mandatory for LCN and pigeon enthusiasts everywhere!