I’m assuming that instagram would be showing the email address via some sort of contact list integration, but otherwise, you’re right… this meme is BS (surprise surprise).
Linktree, real name somewhere in there, or any kind of mention of where they work, and you can find a surprising amount of things online.
TLDR: I tracked down some people in a private jet that woke me up and sent them angry emails before trying to sleep again.
As an example, I was awoken a few months ago by a very loud jet engine. The closest airport is many, many miles away and only for small aircraft. I have insomnia so I cherish every scrap of sleep I get. Being rudely awakened by screeching at 2 in the morning tends to make one feel a bit prickly, so I went to one of the many flight tracking websites, found the flight that flew over me, and that they were low enough that I could have hit them with my drone. Too low for residential areas.
So in addition to the FAA complaint, I used the publicly available information from the FAA to find the company that owns the small private jet.
Then googling them I found out it’s a small company, fairly high end aerospace stuff, and there are only a handful of people who would be using that jet (whose landing point was a privately owned strip less than 10 miles from their HQ) and got their email addresses. They actually had personal emails listed next to the company emails.
So using those emails I got some social medias, figured out there are three people who would have reason to take off from the nearby airport, sent them personal emails as well as CC the work emails for their entire “meet our team” page to request that the next time they feel the need to fly dengerously low over residential areas, do so at a reasonable hour.
Of course I got the standard auto responses but since I wasnt using my actual email, I didn’t stay long enough for the teams to start waking up and checking emails. I did get the standard reply from the FAA basically saying “we’ll look into it when we have time” and I don’t ever expect to hear about this incident again.
Now if I could find all that before the plane landed in north Carolina, imagine what someone who isn’t just sleep deprived and pissy, someone who is legitimately insane or wants to cause harm, could do.
I will readily admit most of the pictures of the team were of older folks, so not as tech savvy which I just figured from the personal emails and overall website layout. So hopefully most people aren’t like this and actually try to separate their professional things from personal things and try to make it more difficult to track them across platforms
I’m assuming that instagram would be showing the email address via some sort of contact list integration, but otherwise, you’re right… this meme is BS (surprise surprise).
Could also be someone he met on another platform or IRL, but a Linktree (featuring his email) in bio does seem most likely.
Linktree, real name somewhere in there, or any kind of mention of where they work, and you can find a surprising amount of things online.
TLDR: I tracked down some people in a private jet that woke me up and sent them angry emails before trying to sleep again.
As an example, I was awoken a few months ago by a very loud jet engine. The closest airport is many, many miles away and only for small aircraft. I have insomnia so I cherish every scrap of sleep I get. Being rudely awakened by screeching at 2 in the morning tends to make one feel a bit prickly, so I went to one of the many flight tracking websites, found the flight that flew over me, and that they were low enough that I could have hit them with my drone. Too low for residential areas.
So in addition to the FAA complaint, I used the publicly available information from the FAA to find the company that owns the small private jet.
Then googling them I found out it’s a small company, fairly high end aerospace stuff, and there are only a handful of people who would be using that jet (whose landing point was a privately owned strip less than 10 miles from their HQ) and got their email addresses. They actually had personal emails listed next to the company emails.
So using those emails I got some social medias, figured out there are three people who would have reason to take off from the nearby airport, sent them personal emails as well as CC the work emails for their entire “meet our team” page to request that the next time they feel the need to fly dengerously low over residential areas, do so at a reasonable hour.
Of course I got the standard auto responses but since I wasnt using my actual email, I didn’t stay long enough for the teams to start waking up and checking emails. I did get the standard reply from the FAA basically saying “we’ll look into it when we have time” and I don’t ever expect to hear about this incident again.
Now if I could find all that before the plane landed in north Carolina, imagine what someone who isn’t just sleep deprived and pissy, someone who is legitimately insane or wants to cause harm, could do.
I will readily admit most of the pictures of the team were of older folks, so not as tech savvy which I just figured from the personal emails and overall website layout. So hopefully most people aren’t like this and actually try to separate their professional things from personal things and try to make it more difficult to track them across platforms
Epic, I ‘member this story
Or his email is Tank.sinatra@gmail.com and it was a guess.