Well, I just got finished talking to Lance Stone. With some convincing from those of you who friended him on Facebook, he agreed to IM for a few minutes this evening.

He didn’t have a lot to say, but he did confirm that his father is not on a family vacation, as his automated message indicates. I’ve copied the transcript of the conversation here so that the rest of you can see what he said for yourselves.

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So Stone didn’t go on vacation. He did, however, get into a car with some official-sounding types, and his son hasn’t heard from him since…