{"id":6705,"date":"2009-01-28T05:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2009-01-28T05:07:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T12:07:53","slug":"you-want-to-get-someones-attention-try-pardon-me-even-a-shoe-toss-is-more-cival-than-spitting-in-ones-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6705\/you-want-to-get-someones-attention-try-pardon-me-even-a-shoe-toss-is-more-cival-than-spitting-in-ones-face\/","title":{"rendered":"You want to get someone’s attention? Try ‘pardon me’. Even a shoe toss is more civil than spitting in one’s face."},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes some chutzpah to have such an opinion about things and become as successful as Michael Arrington has with TechCrunch.\u00a0 Yesterday he posted about how he’s going off the grid, after the abuse from his peers and critics becomes threatening to his family’s safety.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch – ‘Some things need to change’<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Luckily my tolerance level for verbal abuse has risen proportionately to our growth, so I can handle most of the verbal abuse thrown our way. I can even handle it when my so called friends decide it\u2019s in their best interest to spread negative rumors about us privately. I believe that it has changed me as a person to the point where I generally don\u2019t trust people until they\u2019ve earned it. Before TechCrunch I assumed most people were essentially good, and assumed that an individual was trustworthy until proven otherwise. Today, its exactly the opposite.<\/p>\n

But like I said, I draw the line at being spat on. It\u2019s one step away from something far more violent.<\/p>\n

Something very few people know: last year over the summer an off balance individual threatened to kill me and my family. He wasn\u2019t very stealthy about it – he called our office number, sent me emails and even posted threats on his blog, so it wasn\u2019t hard to determine who he was. The threats were, in the opinion of security experts we consulted, serious. The individual has a felony record and owns a gun. Police in three states became involved and we hired a personal security team to protect me, my family and TechCrunch employees.<\/p>\n

At over $2,000 a day we couldn\u2019t keep paying for security indefinitely. And the police were helpful but couldn\u2019t do much based on the threats until he acted. We had the option of getting a restraining order but that just tells the person exactly where you are (the places they can\u2019t go). So for a week I was literally in hiding with my parents at their home. The TechCrunch office was empty, and the police made regular checks to see if things were ok. One evening they almost arrested one of our Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It takes some chutzpah to have such an opinion about things and become as successful as Michael Arrington has with TechCrunch.\u00a0 Yesterday he posted about how he’s going off the grid, after the abuse from his peers and critics becomes threatening to his family’s safety. TechCrunch – ‘Some things need to change’ Luckily my tolerance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1548,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1548\/refurber-brings-social-networking-to-home-remodeling\/","url_meta":{"origin":6705,"position":0},"title":"Refurber brings social networking to home remodeling","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Via TechCrunch, here's a new category for the taxonomy: Home Remodeling\/Refurbishing\/Restoration. 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