What happened to Dave?

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After I have figured out if Dave was really mad at me,

I panicked and called the police.

After a couple of minutes, I saw a strange post of mine. Well, I was not on StackExchange! It was written by Dave. But why would he log in my account and write his message as a post, instead of sending me another email?

Hello again, Patrick! I am sorry for what I did.
I was just so mad at you and wanted to make you struggle with some meaningless email. I just made random letters uppercase. Please do not take any messages from that mail.

Maybe we can still hang out, what do you say? Take your time to answer. I understand if you say no after that gibberish mail of mine.

I have some news about Daniel by the way. He called me last week. He was looking for a PhD position in MIT. I don't think he will never, ever get a position. He is lazy, you know. When I tell this to him, he gets angry. Maybe he will reason with me after a time. Considering that he has ups and downs sometimes, he probably cannot just take it easy right now.

Whatever. Now, I am going to rest. Drink some coffee and watch TV. Ah, by the way, my cellphone is broken. I dropped it. Therefore, it is off. If you want to hang out, just send me an e-mail.

Best,
Dave.

Should I

call the police back and

explain that everything was a misunderstanding?

Hint:

Hint is in the question itself. Why write as a post instead of sending an e-mail?

the biggest question for me is, how does he know your password?! :o — sjaak bakker, Jan 28 '16 at 10:02
@sjaakbakker He is a very close friend of mine, he must have figured out :p — padawan, Jan 28 '16 at 10:23
i see so many things, but none jump out as the certain truth. — sjaak bakker, Jan 28 '16 at 12:12
@sjaakbakker I will continue giving hints after a couple of hours. The second hint will lead you directly to the answer, try harder to solve it with the first hint :) — padawan, Jan 28 '16 at 12:22
I believe a post like that would get deleted very quickly pretty much anywhere on StackExchange. — GOTO 0, Jan 28 '16 at 23:18
@GOTO0 why would you think that? There are many sandboxes all over :) — padawan, Jan 28 '16 at 23:33

AeJey · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-28T12:34:56.347

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I think the secret message hidden in the post is

DEPOT UNDER CASINO

Explanation As Below.

In the edit mode, these words seems to be separated out

The words

did
email
please
out
take
understand
no
daniel
ever
reason
considering
and
sometimes
it
now
out

Then

Take the first letters

And it will form

DEPOT UNDER CASINO (DEPOTUNDERCASINO)

So I think

you should check the depot under the casino before calling the cops.

edited Jan 28 '16 at 12:34

answered Jan 28 '16 at 12:21

AeJey

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You got somewhere with the hints, mate :) – padawan Jan 28 '16 at 12:22
i am really curious how you got to this :) – sjaak bakker Jan 28 '16 at 12:26
:) I will try finding out the remaining – AeJey Jan 28 '16 at 12:26
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@sjaak I have updated my answer. Please check now. – AeJey Jan 28 '16 at 12:26
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ooo...that is really clever of @cagirici – manshu Jan 28 '16 at 12:27
do you check that mode for every question? – manshu Jan 28 '16 at 12:28
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Not really. I checked it because the hint was "Why write as a post instead of sending an e-mail" – AeJey Jan 28 '16 at 12:29
In stackexchange editor we can add hidden messages (messages that are not visible in the post, but only in the editor), and I was looking for it. Then I noticed this pattern. – AeJey Jan 28 '16 at 12:30
i still don't see the pattern, but good interpretation of the the hint – sjaak bakker Jan 28 '16 at 12:34
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In the edit mode, you can see that these words are singled out in separate lines from the rest of the words in the sentences. – AeJey Jan 28 '16 at 12:36
im pretty new here, I didn't know that mode, i was looking at the edits that were made. But now i see! very clever – sjaak bakker Jan 28 '16 at 12:42

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '16 at 11:33

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May be the kidnapper wants you to suspect Daniel in future, So MR.kidnapper asks Dave to logon your account and write a post , So you will believe that it is actually Dave an no one else

answered Jan 28 '16 at 11:33

Sayyed Abbas Rizvi

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