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Squeakity Squeak Aka Darryl S . Kabatoff Has Been Punched And Spent Around 15 Years In Psych Hospitals Broke His Mom's Heart

Dar Kabatoff's In Town
POSTED MAY 21, 2002 BY ANDY BAIO
Usenet has the tendency to provide a public forum for those who would normally be scribbling in a closet. For example, take Daryl “Shawn” Kabatoff. For the last few years, he’s methodically gathered “statistics” from various sources, ranging from local newspaper obituary pages to the food court of the Saskatoon Midtown Plaza mall. With all the raw data he’s collected, he’s attempting to prove daily that our full names are in “mathematical harmony” with our birthdays.

His rants normally focus on a single individual he’s met or read about, starting with calculations related to their birthdate and full names, blending in whatever other personal information about their family members, spouses, birthplace, and career he’s been able to glean. From there, it descends into a mix of numerology, religious zealotry, and personal torment. I’ve never seen anything like it.

With all the prime numbers, Fibonacci sequences and biblical references, it’s like reading the notebooks of Maximillian Cohen and John Nash combined. Unsurprisingly, several posts unfold to reveal a history of painful mental illness. If you have some time, take a look. I’ve detailed his posting history and a several sample posts below.

August 9, 2004: The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix published an article about Daryl and his encounter with one woman.

September 22, 2004: Does anyone have a photo of Kabatoff? If so, please e-mail me.

Usenet Posting History:

January 27, 1999 to July 5, 2000 as Cat...@home.com
December 9, 2000 to May 4, 2001 as s.kab...@sk.sympatico.ca
Oct 30, 2001 to Oct 31, 2001 as kaba...@the.link.ca
January 20, 2002 to April 17, 2002 as s_kab...@hotmail.com (original posts have been removed from Google Groups archive)
April 26, 2002 to Present as dar_ka...@hotmail.com
Selected Posts:

Tessa Lynne Smith

Dastageer Sakhizai and Helen Smith

Brett David Maki

Andrew Meredith Cotton

Kathryn Lee Hipperson

Amanda Dawn Newton

Mona Marie Etcheverry

Tony Peter Nuspl

Lisa Charlene McMillan

Grant Allyn Wood

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andy raad
May 22, 2002 at 6:20pm
scarier still is that saskatoon is my hometown, though not my current residence. and every single place he’s mentioned in his posts (most notably nervous harold’s and the roastary) were either places i’ve been (as it’s a small city of 200K) or hangouts, ie. the two places mentioned. chances are i could email some friends back home and find out if they know of him, they (my friends that is) being of the broadway-centred slacker ilk. myself, too, until i got out of there. eh, anyways. thought it odd to see all this.

midtown mall. i ate my meals there, whilst waiting several days in line for star wars episode one, at the theatre across the street.

matt
May 23, 2002 at 11:19am
Fascinating. It’s like he’s trying to take chaos and bind it into whatever rules he can find, religious, logical and otherwise. Numbers and math have a reliable pattern, something that can always be proven to true or false. People and religion do not.

It reminds me of Darren Aronofsky’s movie Pi. It’s the story of an paraniod genius who is trying to find a pattern in Pi. A group that takes interest in his work is convinced that the existence of Pi, a number whose existence can be proven but no quantified, is proof of the existence of God.

Kabatoff’s hunt for patterns in something as random as name selection is a way to reconcile his deeply logical thought process with his conflicting religious views.

Andy Baio
May 23, 2002 at 11:24am
Exactly. I probably shouldn’t have, but I e-mailed Daryl yesterday, asking him if he’d be willing to create a numerological analysis for me. I also asked him if he had seen either Pi or A Beautiful Mind, and what he thought of them. If he replies, I’ll be sure to post it.

Trisha Blondie
July 24, 2002 at 10:41pm
I baked many pumpkin pies for Shawn (he likes pumpkin pies). I rubbed pumpkin pie all over my breasts for him, and my breasts turned orange. I am a pumpkin for Shawn.

Andy Baio
July 25, 2002 at 7:10am
Um, that’s swell. So, you’re in love with him?

Trisha Blondie
July 25, 2002 at 2:49pm
Shawn once went to a funeral for a Jehovah Witness that shot himself and the lemon tarts were very bad, they were not only sour but were rubbery as well. Shawn said that the guy was some kind of Jehovah Witness prophet, he saw in advance that the lemon tarts at his funeral were to be very very bad, and so he shot himself. Shawn said that he never ate pumpkin pie at a funeral but would like to some day. Shawn likes pumpkin pie and so I have been practicing to make very good pumpkin pies.

Trisha Blondie
July 30, 2002 at 12:32am
Shawn said that the lemon tarts were sour, bitter and rubbery.

Todd Smith
December 26, 2002 at 11:00am
I don’t think this guy takes notes. I think he has Total Recall, and it has driven him insane…

Dr Claw
December 30, 2002 at 1:56am
Oh… I almost forgot…

I didnt spend thousands of dollars a day tormenting Daryl…

We got a deal on tormenting that fiscal year, it only came to about 37cents a day….

nospam
January 5, 2003 at 4:39am
Mr. Kabatoff attempts to portray himself as a victim, but in fact he is a violent predatory pedophile who is well known to his local law enforcement.

In his post to multiple newsgroups with the subject “Collecting Mail For The Coming Anti-Christ”, he encourages mothers to send him photos of their naked daughters. Mr Kabatoff explains, “I personally did not want photographs being mailed to (the coming Ant-Christ) that were of underage children unless the parent was signing consent.”

He is banned from virtually all the shopping malls in his community because he stalks young people and sexually harasses them. He has an extensive arrest record which includes sexual molestation charges. He’s been hospitalized in mental institutions several times because he likes to accost “nubile cuties.”

He writes about his contact with young girls in many posts. Search newsgroup archives for posts by him containing the word “nubile”. As part of his harrassment, he provides personal details in a public forum, such as the real names of real children, in these and other posts.

About one girl he met at a mall, he writes, “I wanted Callie in my bed or I wanted her and her sister dead.” http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Daryl+Shawn+Kabatoff+dead+or+in+my+bed& hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=asqm35%24tjq5j%241%40ID-136124.news.dfncis.de&rnu m=4

He not only curses children and prays for their death in his posts, he also enjoys attending the funerals of young people:

“And so, since 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…” http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Daryl+Shawn+Kabatoff+nubile+sex&hl=en&l r=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=LfXN8.63042%24R53.25142039%40twister.socal.rr. com&rnum=1

Many of his posts are sent to alt.teens.advice. However, he liberally spams, floods and crossposts his off-topic threatening and offensive missives to countless newsgroups.

Some people HAVE problems and some folks ARE problems. Don’t dismiss Mr. Kabatoff as a harmless nut. When he sends these posts to any newgroup, please help by reporting him to his ISP.

Thanks.

Mr. Somebody
April 10, 2003 at 11:09am
I knew of him when I was attending the University of Saskatchewan. He’d hang out in the Arts computer lab and all you’d see is screens of numbers racing by on his laptop. I have an original copy of his “Collecting Mail for the Coming Anti-Christ” pamphlet, and have seen him be hauled away by campus security on more than one occasion.

My friends and I refer to him as “Crazy Number Man”.

Gambol
May 19, 2003 at 2:22pm
I’ve been posting to (and about) Shawn for over two years with big gaps in between. He has seen Pi and didn’t like it and didn’t think it resembled him at all. (Wrong, it fits him to a tee) He doesn’t have total recall and has stated that he travels with a lap top to notate items. Also, he uses “cut n’ paste” a lot if you read all the way through his ramblings. He is anti-social as shown by his angry statements towards those who, by his own admission, have been kind (but not kind enough) to him. Still, he’s intelligent and seems to be able to “take a joke” on occassion. That’s where I came in.

"A subject of Dar's"
September 21, 2003 at 11:31pm
Wow, I was given some literature and some disks by this “crazy” (I’m trying not to judge here) fella when I was working in S’toon. I was kind to him over a cup of tea where I worked (he didn’t bother me). . . until the police asked for the stuff he gave me as evidence. I thought I was just being friendly to an odd (yet metaphysically-minded) nut.

Now I find my name posted on the internet. I didn’t have time to read anything he gave me but I feel nothing but pity for him. To draw so much from so little–I really had hardly any contact at all with him and he seemed quite normal. His mind must truly be on a different plane.