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   Busker's mom wants police to pick up son   
   Man ejected from Fringe 'very ill'   
      
   Sarah Gibb   
   Special to The StarPhoenix   
      
      
   August 10, 2004   
      
      
   The mother of a busker ejected from the Fringe Festival for posting   
   personal information of Fringe visitors online has appealed to the   
   police and doctors to have her son picked up because he is "very ill."   
      
   Daryl Shawn Kabatoff has recently posted angry Internet messages,   
   saying he wants local children to die and has revealed that he's   
   trying to obtain guns, the StarPhoenix has learned.   
      
   He is now under police investigation, said Insp. Jeff Bent,   
   spokesperson for Saskatoon Police Service.   
      
   Kabatoff's posts, which are full of references to religion, sex and   
   death, contain the names, birthdays, descriptions and workplaces of   
   dozens of Saskatoon residents and their families, including in some   
   instances their deceased children.   
      
   He obtained some of the information from children's obituaries   
   published in the StarPhoenix. The busker says in some posts that he   
   hopes the other children in the families die too.   
      
   Kabatoff, who sat on a Mexican blanket at the intersection of 11th   
   Street and Broadway during the Fringe, recently offered on a bulletin   
   board to trade one of his trademark numerological name analyses for a   
   rifle or shotgun.   
      
   In another post, he says he is acquiring a firearms licence.   
      
   In response to the contents of Kabatoff's posts, obtained by the   
   StarPhoenix, Insp. Bent said: "(We) are going to assign some   
   investigators to this immediately . . . I appreciate your call because   
   after the fact people say, 'Why wasn't something done?' "   
      
   The balding, pony-tailed 46-year-old man, who stood for mayor in 1982   
   and 1985, is a well-known figure in Saskatoon's shopping malls and   
   coffee shops.   
      
   Kabatoff believes people's names are given to them by God and are   
   harmonized with their dates of birth. He says he can reveal this   
   relationship using mathematics and for years has asked passers-by to   
   let him analyse their names.   
      
   An online search has revealed Kabatoff has posted around 1,000 highly   
   disturbing messages on Usenet sites since 2001.   
      
   Usenet is a system of worldwide bulletin boards, also called   
   newsgroups, where people post messages and correspond about shared   
   interests.   
      
   Kabatoff's messages contain the personal details of scores of   
   Saskatoon residents, often teenage girls he refers to as "nubile   
   sweeties" after meeting them in the food court at Midtown Plaza, the   
   Mall at Lawson Heights, the Broadway Roastery and Starbucks.   
      
   Kabatoff is notorious in the Usenet community. One site calls him "one   
   of Usenet's most elusive and creepy psychopaths."   
      
   Another user asks: "At this stage, what can be done under law to stop   
   him getting a gun from any source?"   
      
   Several Usenet members implore someone to alert Saskatoon police to   
   Kabatoff's posts seeking a firearm.   
      
   A post dated June 15, 2004 from a Daryl S. Kabatoff using a Shaw   
   e-mail address and Saskatoon box number, states that he is looking   
   for: "A) a rifle for deer hunting this fall, B) a shotgun for the   
   early deer-hunting season, C) a .22-caliber (sic) rifle for improving   
   my shooting skills during the summer."   
      
   The post, entitled "Wanting firearm" and sent to the calgary.forsale   
   newsgroup, continues: "I'll offer you a trade . . . I will show you   
   gorgeous harmony between your name and birthday and numbers in the   
   Bible . . . In exchange for your unwanted firearm I'll provide you   
   with a short essay that you will treasure far more."   
      
   The next day, June 16, the same post appeared on the   
   talk.politics.guns newsgroup, this time called "Trade for Gun."   
      
   Kabatoff says he's in the process of obtaining a gun licence.   
      
   A June 2004 Usenet post from him states: "I am in the process of   
   applying for and obtaining a license (sic) to acquire a rifle . . .   
   for hunting animals and not people. If somebody . . . trades a gun for   
   my work before I obtain the license (sic), that gun will be received   
   by a friend who is legally allowed to possess such . . . "   
      
   Attempts to reach Kabatoff for comment were unsuccessful.   
      
   In a telephone interview Monday, Kabatoff's mother, who asked not to   
   be named, sobbed as she begged doctors and the police for help.   
      
   "He is not being treated at all. The doctors say they can't force him   
   .. . . When he is well, he is a likeable person (who) is so nice. But   
   when he's ill, he's very ill. He needs . . . the police or somebody to   
   take him in for treatment.   
      
   "He did go to a hospital a number of times. He just absolutely refuses   
   the treatment. Shall I pack up and leave or put my head in the sand or   
   what, because I just can't take any of this anymore. I wish he would   
   just be picked up." She added that she does not believe her son is   
   dangerous.   
      
   Kabatoff's long and angry posts contain names, birthdays, physical   
   descriptions of people, where they work and the names and birthdays of   
   their family members. The details are freely given to Kabatoff by his   
   unsuspecting customers when he offers to analyse their names.   
      
   His most recent post, dated Aug. 8, names a 24-year-old woman he met   
   on the first day of this year's Fringe Festival. He refers to her and   
   her friends as "cheap, filthy assholes."   
      
   Kabatoff also trawls through obituaries, mainly in the StarPhoenix,   
   looking for details of teenagers who have recently died. He posts the   
   information on bulletin boards along with his analysis of the   
   deceased's name, sometimes adding that he is glad the young person has   
   died and that he hopes the family loses their other children too.   
      
   He claims to attend the funerals of these teenagers so he can meet   
   "nubile sweeties" and eat free food.   
      
   One of his posts reads: "(S)ince nubile sweeties are found in greatest   
   abundance at the funerals of high school students, then it is the   
   funerals of high school students that make the very, very best   
   funerals, especially if there is food . . . I stuff my face (and my   
   pockets) with all the good food and look at all the pretty nubile   
   sweeties and have the time of my life . . ."   
      
   Kabatoff writes in a post dated July 22 this year: "I was busking . .   
   .. at Five Corners on Broadway Avenue. (Name withheld) stopped to   
   provide stats . . . He said he had no money for me . . . You people   
   have absolutely zero respect for me . . . I in turn have zero respect   
   for you and so don't require your permission to post these stats on   
   the Usenet. Furthermore I am on my knees and begging God to . . .   
   terminate the lives of these children. If I find any of these family   
   members in the obituaries I will cheer with utter glee . . . and I   
   will post your stats again."   
      
      
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