Of all of the mail that we get, one of the most requested subjects we get is this to do an article on this guy: Col. Paul Broussard. We got this e-mail from “Anonymous”:
I included 2 photos of this Whacker’s POV decorated with Beau Coup decals. The third photo is of 2 of his “REACT Units” parked in front of his house trailer which displays a REACT sign in the window.
Here’s the background. This guy, Paul Broussard, who uses the title Colonel, is a complete Whacker. He lives down around Lafayette, Louisiana. He couldn’t get on the police department
and the firefighters don’t want anything to do with him. So he began impersonating a Security Guard. The local cops busted him a couple times sitting around in his whacked out car wearing a uniform he bought out of a catalog and even carrying pistols and shotguns. The State got involved when the local cops found that he wasn’t registered with the State as a Security Guard and he was served with a restraining order to stop passing himself off as a Rent-A-Cop.
He removed all the stickers from his car which said SECURITY but left the Search & Rescue and K-9 decals. Look close and you may see the prisoner cage in the back of one of his cars. Of course he left all the strobe lights and hide-a-ways installed.
Looking for some other way to live the Walter Mitty lifestyle he had grown accustomed to he found REACT. What a great racket. He could wear a police style uniform with REACT patches, have a reason for the antennas on his cars and more.
Soon he chartered a REACT Team in his area and started decorating his vehicles with REACT decals. Now he has the title of President and CEO of Lafayette REACT.
Not happy that REACT stands for Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams, he changed the “A” in his REACT to “ACTION”, because Whackers love plenty of ACTION. It even says so on his Yahell Profile and his crappy website
.
He then contacted other REACT Teams looking for equipment, GMRS Radios and repeaters, info on how to get a Ham Radio license and tower sections. REACT Teams neighboring his new group complained to the REACT International Board that this Colonels Whacker actions were disrupting established relationships they had cultivated with businesses, tower owners and donors who saw the Colonel and assumed he was part of those other Teams and that he represented them all. The REACT Board declined to act on the complaints.
So if you see someone driving a car like the ones in these photos don’t assume that just because they have a REACT ‘uniform’ on they represent all REACTers. This is just an extreme example.
Too bad the fag can’t even spell “Action correctly.
Latest News: started laf.chapter of r.e.a.c.t. radio emergency actiom communications team,,,501(c)non-profit
Not just that… there are at least 3 major spelling/grammar issues in his statement, “helpping those whom are in need when they need the most.”
Thank goodness he’s in Louisiana, saving lives with his CB. Without him, there would have been big loss of life with the recent hurricane. Oh, wait… never mind.
I sent this guy an email asking some questions, never got an answer. Figures……
More photos can be seen in the Public Safety Whackers forum.
OK, I know what REACT is, but what exactly does “R.E.A.C.T.” stand for? Is it really an acronym or just the name of the organization that had a purpose in the days before cellphones?
Both. REACT, http://www.reactintl.org/ , is an acronym for Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams and the name of the organization. The organization started in the 1960’s primarily to assist motorists by monitoring CB Ch 9. Since then they have evolved into an ARES/RACES type organization with most Teams using Ham and GMRS radio in place of CB. They have MOUs with ARRL, Salvation Army, Red Cross and National Weather Service and are registered with VOAD. Many ARES hams are also members of their local REACT Team and even ARRL President Jim Hayne is a REACTer.
Would it be totally out of line to hope that in his search for “action” that he got into NOLA and found more “action” than he could handle with his whacker-mobile?
The dude needs a SKYPORN sticker to round out the affiliations.
Two REACT vehicles in front of a trailer…
That is priceless.
Lenny
Mr Lahey! Someone took my Kenwood!
Don’t worry rand, i’ll call up the Reacters and they will bring in a shitticane of radio power for you!
Anyone else notice the contact took the title “Colonel” as part of his email? Total whack-a-doo.
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