April 17, 2010 by sharky
The unedited email I received on 4/16/2010 at 5:57PM (EDT):
Hello Sharky,
My husband frylock is in jail and asked me to relay a message to you. He is sorry that he has been out of contact but is in jail. You can read about it at Etiv in the news section. He seemed very upset about leaving you hanging.
-Elizabeth
(Below is my unedited response, but I have yet to receive a follow-up). I’ll update this post if/when I get a reply.
Wow, that’s crazy info! Crazy, as in ‘not good’.
I thank you for the correspondence, much appreciated. Nevermind him being upset with leaving me hanging; he’s got bigger issues to be concerned about. BitTorrent is such a small thing that people take way too seriously.
When did all this happen? I haven’t heard back from him in at least two weeks, and he’s not one to disappear unexpectedly like this.
I wish you both the best, you’ll both get through this. Definitely keep the line open to me.
—Best regards, Sharky
Back on Etiv, here’s the original thread:
Hello Etiv.in,
My name is Elizabeth and my husband Frylock has asked me to deliver some bad news to his Etiv.in friends. What follows is directly dictated to me from him via a phone call.
Whats up etiv?!?
The mighty Frylock has run aground with California law and I am currently sitting in County jail on a charge related to marijuana. It seems the police around here don’t take to kindly to good citizens having a pound of weed stashed (allegedly) in the back seat. Shit happens I guess.
Worse case scenario I will be away for about a year but with some LUCK I will be out in about a month. It all depends on how hardcore the DA wants to be with me. I’m sorry to leave you all hanging for so long about whats going on but it is hard to comunciate via a jail cell. I have my wife and the almighty MastaShake to thank for the little communication I do have.
The bastards have set my bail at 50k and the bail bondsmen around here charge 10% and 5k is no joke to my family so I;m prob gona sit here till my trial at the end of the month. Lucky for Etiv my position as Co-Sysop is more political than practical…If Shake where ever to get locked up we’d be in REAL trouble as he is the real work horse of Etiv.
Wish me luck my friends and take care. I’ll see ya on the other side.
p.s. to Backie: The wife tells me you’ve been posting some ugly shit at Soap! Keep on keeping on brother! Can’t wait to join you again.
That’s all for now Etiv.in. I’m really scared and have no idea what the future holds. I just want my man back :( I’ll update you when I have new information..
-Elizabeth
Loyal fans (and staff) of Etiv already know that Frylock has been AWOL lately. It’s no secret that he’s been completely absent from the forums for more than two weeks now, and the last time he joined Etiv on IRC was 11 days ago (according to logs). In fact, Frylock and I (Sharky) were in negotiations towards a new FSF article for Etiv.in which was tentatively scheduled for publication on April 2nd. This is uncharacteristic behavior for Frylock to not respond to my emails, and thus the post was never published at FSF.
I doubt that this will turn out to be some elaborate hoax to promote Etiv, since FSF already agreed to publish an article well in advance of this news. We’ll keep you updated.
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