Michael Crook Lives Up to Name, Fakes Own Murder
Michael Crook’s disgusting “forsake the troops” site, which I previously blogged about here, now alleges Crook was murdered today by two soldiers. Lovely. Thanks to commenters Airman Eric X and Peter1968 for the tips.
UPDATE: Some commenters think this too is a stunt, as it appears not to have been run in any Syracuse media. We’ll see.
UPDATE x2: On Tuesday, 5/17/05 at 10:40 a.m. PDT, I put in a call to Crook’s media representative at (315) 295-2602 asking for details about the location of the alleged murder, the hospital, and which police department had been involved. We’ll see if they call back with any real information. I also left a message for Lieutenant Joe Cecil (sp.?) of the Syracuse Police Department asking if he knew anything about the alleged incident. Meanwhile, feel free to call the inquiry number yourself, send an email to gloatingbastards@forsakemichaelcrook.com condolences@michaelcrook.com, or check his forum for any corroborating details. I can’t do that myself, as my prior comments and/or blog posts got me on his sh’list a long time ago.
UPDATE x3: The commenters were right, this was a hoax. A mere four minutes after I left the above message for Lieutenant Cecil, he returned my call advising me his office had been flooded with media inquiries about Mr. Crook’s alleged murder. He assured me none had occurred, and that if such a murder had occurred anywhere near Syracuse, his department would have known about it. In the end, Michael Crook is an even bigger scumbag than we thought he was.
UPDATE x4: Army Times (h/t: UrbanGrounds) has more.
UPDATE x5: Unfortunately, the scumbag just resurrected himself. It’s now official: Michael Crook is not dead, just very, very sick.
UPDATE x6: Now the idiot is gloating over the fact that not everyone knew he was lying from the git-go. He also lies and claims the folks at DU were happy to see him dead, when in fact they were only happy to have a temporary excuse to bash the military. He also alleges that I am two or more people, resurrects his idiotic anti-troop site, and generally acts as though he thinks all publicity is good publicity. We’ll just see about that, won’t we?
May 17th, 2005 at 10:47 am
This guy (http://dreadpundit.blogspot.com/) thinks it’s a hoax, too. But he points out that DU does not.
May 17th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Nice work. Thank you. Has this guy committed a crime or a tort? Is anything being done to him, like having pictures of him defecating on a Koran being handed out in Peshawar? Defamation of the military isn’t really a tort these days, it’s more of an industry.
May 17th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
Faking your own death and blaming it on 2 people is a crime of some sort right? he should at least be charged with impeding police procedure or something of the sort because the police department has had to handle all of the inquiries.
May 17th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
what a douche
May 17th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
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May 17th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
All I have to is that this guy is nothing but a coward. and to medicgirl, yeah, I think you are right, That woman in GA was charged with that when she faked her kidnapping.
May 17th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
no one should care if he was gone. i hate that guy
May 17th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
This started off as a great post, but the ending sucked.
May 17th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
BTW, I have never once been to his “forum”, but when I clicked through just now I find that I’ve been banned.
?????
May 17th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Maybe he’s shut down his forum and “banned” everybody. Or maybe his site is set up to automatically “ban” anyone who follows a link from a hostile site.
May 17th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
I love (
May 17th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Too bad it turned out to be a hoax =(
May 17th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
That motherfucking pile of dung, I wish someone would feed his malignant existance to a limb shredder
May 17th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Murder or Hoax at forsakethetroops.info?
XRLQ is following the bizarre goings-on at the anti-war site forsakethetroops.info. Today a message on the site claimed the site’s Webmaster, Michael Crook, had been murdered by two soldiers. XRLQ thinks it’s a hoax, based on his calls to local polic…
May 18th, 2005 at 7:11 am
And today the site won’t load…. Shocked, I tell you.
Great work, X.
May 18th, 2005 at 7:36 am
Fool Shoots Self in ..uh… Foot — Blows Head Off
blames Kool-Aid Bong All credit to Xrlq on this: Remember that hateful little bug-bite Michael Crook ["Crook" - bwahaha] and his forsakethetroops.info site? Coupla days ago, the site proclaimed that he —had been murdered [settle down, settle down] …
May 18th, 2005 at 11:38 am
Well…, I first heard about all this on EHOWA.com and anybody who is anybody KNOWS what bad practice it is to mess with Ernie. I was just trying to do some research and figure out what I thought, in light of the obvious freedom of speech and press issues. Thanks for the heads up. Some people will exploit even our most cherished freedoms in the name of the almighy dollar, but Oliver Wendell Holmes said something about yelling “FIRE!!” in a crowded theater, if I recall…,
May 18th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Faking one’s own death is not necessarially a crime, making a false report is. I’ve never heard of someone being charged with anything for spreading a bulls, um, a fake story unless they reported that fake story to the authorities.
May 19th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
The language in the Oregon statute is “…or is transmitted to a police, fire or public…..(911) agency.” So if someone else picked it up and legitimately passed it on, the crime would track back to whoever intended to create the hoax in the first place.
Had the idiot done it in OR, he would have gotten a C-misdemeanor ticket.
May 20th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
I just heard about the basketcase when he did a live interview on Hannity on Foxnews tonight…Oh my God! And both Hannity and Colmes destoyed this guy. Being a military officer myself, I just had to learn more about this nut…and the icing on the cake was his faked murder! Due to my oath, I do fight for American’s right to free speech, no matter how ungrateful they are. I’ll leave this in God’s hands. I shouldn’t judge him, but this guy is such a nut that not even Satan himself would have Mr. Michael Crook near him! God bless freedom! God bless the First Amendment! And God bless the USA…where we all know who the true nuts are!
May 27th, 2005 at 8:45 am
This guy is a perfect example of what happens when you shake a baby too hard. Nothing but baby batter up there, if you know what I mean. I have been a U.S. Marine for 7 years now, and while freaks like this guy piss me off, it sure makes my day to know that there are plenty more out there like me, that would willingly bash this guys teeth in for free :)
May 27th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
Remember…..Only the GOOD die young. Too bad!
May 29th, 2005 at 10:23 am
too bad it was all a hoax, someday you’ll be reading about me sticking a sawed off 12 gauge up his ass and letting him have it.
May 30th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
now if you go to his site (www.michaelcrook.com) it says he has been picked up on charges of treason. Dont get your hopes up though. He has done the hoax thing before.
June 1st, 2005 at 5:51 am
Now it seems that he, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to make his personal website a private one with the following statement posted on the main page: edited for content “If you have not been granted a username and password, and you do not know Michael Crook, kindly play a game of hide and go f#$k yourself.” Guess the heat got too hot.
June 11th, 2005 at 8:45 am
Mike did a redirect on my blog post about him faking his murder. He is a coward and I will keep on finding ways to find him guilty of some law breaking.
July 6th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
THAT’S IT. I’M NOT FIGHTING FOR FREE SPEECH ANYMORE. ONLY THE 2ND AMENDMENT.
July 12th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
Since there is not one newspaper article, obituary or other news media comment on this twerp. I agree, it’s his own hoax. Now he should go back on Hannity and Colmes and explain to Allen he’s all about the truth.
He’s a Scum bag (not to give a bad name to scum bags)
December 19th, 2005 at 1:59 am
Jerk Of The Year Award Goes To…
Michelle Malkin writes that some bottom-feeder named Michael Crook has admitted to sending a nasty greeting card to an injured soldier at Walter Reed Army Hospital:
Lowlife Michael Crook, the troop-smearing, cop-bashing, white supremacist sicko, is cla