Our friend HiddenHam referred us to a rather funny thread on eLightbars.org. Always a great source of comedic gold (nestled among an otherwise good forum), we of course pounced on this like a Ham on … well, a ham.
The thread starts out with a guy named bisho1p, who proves to out-whack the whackers:
- “I use my lights and my airhorn sparingly to get to an accident scene so that I can set up cones, flares, redirect traffic , or whatever needs to be done. I dont roll through town with lights flashing or anything like that. I drive with a sense of urgency, but I dont drive with my lights on, nor do I race through traffic.
I turn on my lights when I am close enough that I will not have to go through any more traffic lights to reach the scene. This establishes that I am responding to the scene, but doesnt make me look like a frivolous wacker or a hinderance to traffic.
Yes, I will go up on the median if all other possibilities of expeditiously reaching the scene have been exhausted. I have even gone into the lane of oncoming traffic because it was a two lane road in each direction, and no emergency personnel were on scene, and vehicles were overturned. I drove at about 5 mph, and yes, I used the air horn almost continuously in a rapid blasting type-tone. I was careful, and came to a stop if a car was approaching, to be sure the car was yielding to me. I have done this only 3 times in the past year. And it was because I was first on scene, and traffic was really backed up.
Now, this bisho1p guy seems like an intersting character. A quick search on Google confirms our suspicions that he’s an annoying cop wannabe, who thinks that being a member of REACT grants him special rights (like operating pre-emption systems, running red lights, driving dangerously, etc.) We found this post on realpolice.net, where he makes a pest of himself to local cops. There’s also this thread, that proves that he’s trying to buy a DIY infrared pre-emption kit.
He also like posting and joining EMT, police and emergency services forums – a sure sign of a whacker.
Here’s an artist’s rendering of bisho1p’s whacker mobile: notice the lights and antenna. It would also be running a red light if it were real (drawn by Andy L.):
More to come on this dashing young hero!
That is absolutely beautiful. Such expressive MS Paint work!
The smiley-face antenna ball just… says everything I could, but a picture’s worth a thousand words.
Aaaaahahaha!!! “Make Way!!”….. AAAAHAHAHAHHA!!! CLASSIC SHIT!! Great!!
Actually, Andy K. made the drawing. That vehicle is whacktastic. I bet it is not too far off from the real thing. Mr. bisho1p is constantly trying to sell lights, but I never see any takers. Maybe he should post his stuff on an ARES/RACES/SKYWARN forum. They seem to like amber over there.
May God help us all. I say we take up a collection to buy this guy a straightjacket.
I will give a free hamsexy bumper sticker to the first person that can provide a confirmed photo of Mr. bisho1p or his car.. and you gotta prove it’s him!
A true whacker
“first on scene” Hah! wonder what model scanner he is using to go ambulance chasing
Another idiot…you know, one of these days, I’m going to give one of these wackers my gun and shield, and let them do the job for one day. Any takers on how long an idiot like this would last?
Probably all day, Blockhead… they’d spend all day sitting in your cruiser staring at your badge on their chest to do anything dangerous…… (grin)
You know what…you’re right! LOL
“doooo DOOO” “Squad 51, Ventura Highway..Man in a Ravine..” *Randolph Mantooth*: “Squad 51, Roger.”
I guess too much TV is bad, eh? lol
This Nimrod clearly watched too much “Emergency”. And now serious people doing serious work are gonna suffer. sad.
If he gets an adrenaline rush some day when his scanner crackles to life, and goes Code 3 and kicks on the Preemption box and tips over a schoolbus or something..
I suspect the Play-Police phase of his life will abruptly end. One day too late.
UPDATE – Check out this auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=294&item=5768544534&rd=1
Turns out our old friend bisho1p is at it again. He is the one that asked the seller a question saying that, “I am a CERT member, and EMT so I really desperately need this to get to accident/haz-mat scenes quickly.” Luckily for everyone, he didn’t have any money and the guy wouldn’t trade toys with him. The guys on elightbars.org jumped all over this, and before you knew it threads were being deleted and bisho1p was telling people to f#(k off. Ah whacker drama, I love it.