Backpage ad as revenge?

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

A friend of mine told me a funny story about this ad:

http://losangeles.backpage.com/MaleEscorts/handy-man/77857531

 

It's somebody's revenge on the man in the pictures. He's a pick-up artist and, evidently, a creep:

 

 

http://www.ironyisalifestyle.com/living/2015/10/6/6nhdl565miyus7bwcq5ytkykdmwbf4

 

Apparently one of the women he sent his pictures to found a better use for them. But she made up the phone number. The number in the ad belongs to a random guy in the Valley. He's getting a lot of unwanted calls and will need to change his number.

[+ sniper]

How is it revenge on HIM if they're using some other poor guy's phone number? He probably won't even know about it.

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

I'm speculating. Probably told him or his friends. Poorly executed.

[maninsoma]

I don't find that funny. I find it obnoxious. If you have a grievance with someone, there's a better way to handle it than to mess with people who have nothing to do with your drama.

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

I agree, @maninsoma . A poor choice of words on my part. It's not amusing and it's certainly irresponsible.

 

I just noticed that in the google cache version the phone number is different. It used to match the number in the tweet. It doesn't add up. Whatever is going on here, it's not the typical bait-and-switch.

 

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oj4NUTjwEdAJ:la.backpage.com/es-us/MaleEscorts/handy-man/77857531+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl