Record hate mail

[azom]

Just wondering what your record is for hate mail (or e-mails) received in a day. I got 21 today, all for the same column I wrote on an NFL quarterback. That set a new record for me. 8)

 

[Tom Petty]

Just wondering what your record is for hate mail (or e-mails) received in a day. I got 21 today, all for the same column I wrote on an NFL quarterback. That set a new record for me. 8)

43 in two days. knew i was doing it when i wrote the column, but it had to be said.

 

[Write-brained]

132 or so ... for a story I did on a controversial topic here in the South. The story was posted on a couple of hate group's message boards. About a dozen of the emails were death threats.

I spent about 2 hours responding to each one, with a special prize inside for the idiots who threatened my life ... mainly just pointing out their stupidity with blaming the messenger. Most apologized.

Good times, good times.

 

[Ace]

Just wondering what your record is for hate mail (or e-mails) received in a day. I got 21 today, all for the same column I wrote on an NFL quarterback. That set a new record for me. 8)

I hate that you were writing about a quarterback in June/July, too. Make it 22.

 

[Shaggy]

About 75 in a day...and it was in college, no less.

 

[Idaho]

Well, I got one yesterday after writing an article about a world-class athlete who was in a coma, had brain surgery and is now on his way back to competition after a little more than a year.

dude writes to whine about how medicare/aid paid for all the treatment and how he was stuck with the (tax) bill for all these young punks who do extreme sports and get hurt. Nevermind the fact this athlete had insurance, it happened in Europe and it wasn't an 'extreme' sport any more than running a 10K is.

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

Can this include negative comments on a blog or comments on a story online?

 

[Ace]

Well, I got one yesterday after writing an article about a world-class athlete who was in a coma, had brain surgery and is now on his way back to competition after a little more than a year.

dude writes to whine about how medicare/aid paid for all the treatment and how he was stuck with the (tax) bill for all these young punks who do extreme sports and get hurt. Nevermind the fact this athlete had insurance, it happened in Europe and it wasn't an 'extreme' sport any more than running a 10K is.

Let me guess. That hate mail was from Michael Moore?

 

[John]

I don't think I've ever had more than 30. Of course, that was after Alabama lost to Miss. State.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Back in the days before e-mail, I got 125 on one column.

 

[Idaho]

Well, I got one yesterday after writing an article about a world-class athlete who was in a coma, had brain surgery and is now on his way back to competition after a little more than a year.

dude writes to whine about how medicare/aid paid for all the treatment and how he was stuck with the (tax) bill for all these young punks who do extreme sports and get hurt. Nevermind the fact this athlete had insurance, it happened in Europe and it wasn't an 'extreme' sport any more than running a 10K is.

Let me guess. That hate mail was from Michael Moore?

Nope. It was Yawn.

 

[Angola!]

I once had 22 e-mails and 11 phone calls saying I should be fired for not giving a proverbial blow job in a column to the local college football team.

 

[Mayfly]

I guess this kind of makes me feel better about the horse's head I received in a package the other day, wrapped in my story.

 

[Willie-Butch]

I had a few dozen one day after a column. One lady assured me that I would eventually have to pay for my sins in front of God himself. Highly entertaining. Another lady called, saying her friend -- the subject of the column -- couldn't even make it to work because she couldn't stop crying. I should have been ashamed of myself. Or so they said.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

85 in two days. I criticized Nick Saban before it was cool.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

More than 1,000 e-mails over four days, after a big sports radio station used a column for two days worth of material. It also led to 30 cancelled subscriptions and a suspension of my column for 30 days. All because I didn't like State U's new offense and predicted the new run-and-shoot style offense was a sign the anti-Christ was walking among us.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

I guess this kind of makes me feel better about the horse's head I received in a package the other day, wrapped in my story.

Someone sent me rotten cheese and (dog, I think) ****. I was working an evening shift that day, and an editor got the package before I ever saw it. He received a phone call that morning from the receptionist, near whose desk the mail was stacked every day.

"Um, could you come and get the mail? It stinks."

 

[SCEditor]

I wrote a column after 9/11 saying they shouldn't play high school football the Friday night after the terrorist attacks because it was a national day of mourning (there were other reasons as well). I received exactly 25 calls/e-mails for and 25 calls/e-mails against. A major advertiser also pulled their advertising because of it.

 

[Breakyoself]

i haven't had the en masse numbers like you fine folks, which kind of bothers me. But I was told once that God was going to get me for what I wrote. I liked that.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

I'd be interested to know about what some of these columns/stories were about.

I got about 20 e-mails/phone calls last week for a column I wrote. One guy left a message basically demeaning my existence as a human being. He didn't leave a name or number, of course. I e-mailed everyone back very nicely, and most apologized.

Not sure if I'm up to telling what the column was about, because I'm sure I'd have to hear it from everyone on this board, too.