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   "I'm Such A Big Big Merrie Amsterburg Fan" (troubleinsaskatoon@hotmail.com)   
   writes:   
   > Lemon Tarts   
      
   (K): The above alias is being used by this guy ..... delete or ignore his   
   sick postings until he is forced to get psychiatric help....   
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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   
      
      
   Tuesday, 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 toobtain   
   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   
      
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