Who do these guys think they are? They publish my name and occupation along with my address – including unit number – without my permission?
What the hell is this shit?!?! So a new building was built and people live there now. Big deal. Where do they get off putting our names and personal information in the media?
As far as I’m concerned that is way offside and uncalled for. I like my privacy thank you. This Frank publication is bullshit if you ask me. Booooooo!
—Frank OFF!!!
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2009.
They just pulled it off the internet from some source. It is already public information if you know where to look.
Freedom of the Press otherwise the papers would look like government documents with every other word blacked out.
I didn’t know names and addresses were secret.
I once used a governmental employment counselor to find a job. Two days after seeing her, I got a phone call and a message in my e-mail from a very persistent man who ran an escort agency. I asked him where it got my personal information, and he said he got it off a job board. He call me several times trying to talk me into working for him. Anyway, the counselor swore that she didn’t give out my personal information to anyone. But, somehow…
HKM, you have a lot of wacky stories.
Well, two, anyway.
Ya know?! No wonder I’m so messed up! Also, I’ve had a lot of time to gather experience = )
The OP wouldn’t be the one listed as “federal silly servant, Unit 412” by chance? If so, be happy they didn’t publish the salary info of those collecting a federal or provincial paycheque. Of course this was presumming the OB was male, cause there are quite a few women listed in the same Frank article.
Do people actually read Frank, besides retirees and people who find it on the bus?
I feel a small part of your pain OP, they posted the assessed value of my parents’ house in Fall River for years. WTF does anyone need to know that for? I know you can look that shit up, but why write it in articles that make it seem like something you’re supposed to be ashamed of? They’re idiots.
OP probably had his address listed as one of the ‘Who Owns What in Wherethefuck’ series – big woof, that’s public information, freedom of the press, yak-yak-wahoo.
I like Frank – in fact, I like Frank a lot. I work in a business where I can determine the accuracy of their stories and they’re dead on most of the time. Of course, as media, they punch it up some to get an eyecatching headline. Frank has known plenty of political poop, way before it becomes public. It’s not a mag for everyone but for those in the know, it’ll give you a lot more accuracy than the two rags this city poops out daily.
You gotta love the Peggy Draper vs. Witch photo comparison on page 31!
Get over yourself, OP. If you buy property, the address, owner, and assessment are public domain information. Frank – and any other media unit – are perfectly within their rights to publish information on property owners. Want to stay anonymous, then rent.
That’s what Joe Howe fought over in the 1830s and I love ol’ Joey even if he’s only a statue these days.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind Frank publishing my name and address – that would mean I was a rich bitch – bahawhawhawhaw!
Frank cracks me the-fuck-up a lot.
There was one story where I knew the players. It was about a female DJ with a hooch problem who left her station because of her enabling co-host – well, I knew the players involved and every word was true. Their accuracy amazed me. And their stuff on ATV is dead on. They hate Steve Smurfy as much as I do.
Steve Smurfy reminds me of a garden gnome. So much so that I named my own garden gnome “Steve sMurphy” (the s is cuz we can’t write real names, yo).
I know people who know people who pretty much know the shit that’s being talked about in Frank and for the most part it’s ALL dead on, TTFN. That shit is at least 95% truth…maybe more, but I like to be conservative in my stats 😛
Well it’s not about “getting over yourself” Windancer. I was the original poster. I want to know what the hell the purpose of this article is? I realize if somebody were so inclined they could find this information themselves. That is a little different than a bullshit “magazine” presenting it to anybody who cares to read it.
Maybe I didn’t want all my neighbors knowing my profession. And any potential stalkers and weirdo’s from my public life knowing my address and unit number.
What is the point of this article? To make me feel embarrassed because I live in a new building? Well, fuck you Frank. Your publication is a tired, amateur wannabe campus newsletter. Jerks.
Just think of yourself as a celebrity because they go through the same thing but almost everyday.
I love Frank. Talk about calling a spade a spade. The raw honest truth. He nails it pretty much every time. Can’t argue with that.
What are you talking about ‘telling it like it is’? What are they telling? Picking on private citizens and publishing personal information about them – unsolicited. What is ‘like it is’ about that?
Would you be happy if they published an unsolicited article which said:
The person know as “topsecret” on the coast bitch page is actually Jimmy Joe Johnson who lives in unit #499 at 6273 Robie street. He works at Tony’s Pizza, Sub, Donair as a donair meat stacker.
WTF is the point of that? It is very rude. You might not be so smug if it happened to you.
There is no telling it like it is. I am a hard working person who lives in a new building in this city. There is nothing to be ashamed of in that and the fact the Frank thinks that is news that rest of the city needs to know is total BS. This is cheap pseudo-tabloid crap and quite insulting to those who’s privacy is has been violated needlessly.
So how many people have been knocking at your door? Or phoning you? By next issue, no one will even give a turd.
I’m sure that woman charged with impaired driving causing death isn’t too keen on having her name, address, etc published. Afterall she hasn’t been convicted of anything.
And exactly how many people who read Frank really care about you or your hous or remember 5 minutes after reading it.
You have to understand the Frank mindset: namely that just about anyone who has made enough money to own a really nice (or even just OK) property and/or to live something above a poverty-level lifestyle, especially if they work for the government, did nothing to deserve it. They are almost always characterized as do-nothing doofuses who only got what they have due to connections, patronage, graft or some such trait. It is sad but true, unfortunately. He has an extremely low view of anyone in the public sector.
That appeals to some of those – the taxi-and-courier-driver mentality, I call it – who read the rag and whose beliefs are in line with that, that they could be millionaires if only The Man hadn’t stood in their way. It plays to the culture of defeat that someone once mentioned as endemic in Nova Scotia. There are a surprisingly large number of people around here who have that mindset, and he knows his audience. Don’t feel bad. Unless, that is, you are the beautiful young lady he also named as living there and published a photo of to boot. That is just creepy given the number of weirdos around.
Funny irony in that the guy he devotes page upon page to in the current issue, a former annoying drunk Irish folksinger who has become a very rich and even more annoying (dunno if he’s still drunk) local celebrity and money manager, has somehow avoided that. Maybe it’s the booze connection. At least the publisher seems to be getting over his Nancy Regan fetish, though he still seems fixated on Cindy Day.
Frank is based on the satirical UK mag ‘Private Eye’ uncovering the corruption, depravity and political hijinks or whatever suits their pleasure. As far as swivel servants go, most of the minions never get to benefit from any governmental largeness – that goes to VIPS – Very (Self)Important Pricks. Halifax is still very much an old boy’s town and if you have the connections, you’ve got an in. What you’ve also got is incompetence to the nth degree and the long suffering staff who have to tolerate the tantrums and all the other childish, bullshit moods while Mr. Big Shot storms off for a game of golf at 11 a.m. Even the fucking useless NSGEU do FUCK ALL for most lowly government employees. I know this all from lengthy experience, one that sucked my soul and made me flee in terror to the private sector. The stories I could tell…
Ethnal, you do realize that this bitch is creating a much larger audience for that article than it otherwise would have had, right? Although I don’t usually read Frank, my curiosity has been piqued and I will probably peruse the issue next time I drop by the public library…. just to see what the fuss is about.
A friend once told me that they once published the owners & values of all the homes in Eaglewood (Bedford), along with owners occupations and income. This may be “freedom of the press” but I know I’d feel my privacy violated if it happened to me.
I agree with the OP. I fail to see the point of publishing such information. To do it just because you can is kind of dickish. Maybe I’ll make up flyers with all the names and addresses and phone numbers of the Frank Magazine journalists and post them all over town…just because I can.
Murder Junkie: that kind of thing really chaps my ass. Just because someone owns a house in Eaglewood means they should be target for ridicule? Just because they’re able to afford a large house in an upscale neighbourhood? FFS. I’d say that’s bordering on harassment.
I mean take my apartment building, for example. No one’s apartment numbers are put beside their names — we all have buzz codes. Of course you can use our apt # to buzz in, but as with parking spaces, no one’s apartment number is connected with anything accessible from anyone coming in off the street. I think people should be able to enjoy a certain amount of privacy, especially in their own homes.
LMAO @ the OP…
“Lookit me Lookit me!”
Anyone remember Steve Martin, when he got in the phone book?
Jeez, OP, if THAT’S your 15 minute’s, you got gyped…
Frank Magazine’s office address is on the internet and I know for a fact they didn’t want it there. God knows the people who work there are far more likely to be stalked or murdered than someone who lives in a multi-coloured rat hole next to the stink plant. You should be more annoyed that Frank told people you lived in a building that smells like wet dog or next to the overcrowded men’s shelter than in a unit that was most certainly overpriced for its location and size and occupied by G-level Haligonians. Take a valium and post something more reasonable/interesting in the morning.
I made it into a small corner of Frank last year.
At first, I was horrified. Then I was sort of flattered. (As if anyone would be interested in l’il ole me!)
I don’t think I want to be there again any time soon, however. Wasn’t a good feeling.
I have no problem with public figures being criticized, but piecing together the “public” data of a private citizen, so that their photograph, address and income level is published in one place is a different story.
It’s quite one thing to be listed in the phone book as Joe Smith on Barrington Street, but quite another to draw to the public’s attention that Joe makes $2 Million a year in diamond trading from his home office at this very same address, and by the way do you know where his kids go to school . . .
I do believe that Frank crosses the privacy line, so I don’t bother reading it.
Thanks Ruby, that is exactly how I feel and exactly my point.
the sort of bs that keeps bieng voiced about.. its all crap.. and who gives a rats ass if your daddy has money.. the fact is the wife is a crazy, and an idiot. where is her claim to all if the dirty laundry???. she just makes herself look like a fool. grow up and control herself.!!! i actually feel sorry for the both of these people…. move on and be a productive citizen, and hope she never get down and dirty and someone spreads there love for her too…. what bs!