Milton, Ontario (up there in Canada) had it’s annual hamfest recently. As usual, we had several people on the ground, reporting on all of the hamsexyness going on. Chuck Bravo sent us these photos of the event – enjoy.
A Van with a very rusty luggage rack and red lights…. don’t know if they flash, or just extentions of his brake lights.
These guys were the hit of the show. Not only did I get several e-mail regarding these nerds, they were also on the lips of everyone at the fest. A few of our contacts at the fest overheard people remarking “hey, did you check out the whackers?”. When you are ridiculed at a HAMFEST, you know you’ve probably got a problem. First of all, they’re all wearing identical cargo pants, like they were all cast members in some sort of gay militia film. One of them is wearing a very unconvincing “Toronto Fire” shirt, and yet another is wearing a white uniform shirt, very tight cargos and an Astro Saber II on his ass. A bunch of strutting, overweight, early-20 ham radio nerds were OBVIOUSLY not fooling anyone into thinking that they were actually firefighters, so one has to question: WHY?
A perrenial favourite at Canadian hamfests, strikingly without it’s enormously obscene yagi on the roof.
What is, and what will be.
The Hamdicapped Bus! Another favourite, and usual lurker of Canadian hamfests. We gotta get a shot of the guy who owns this. I’m envisioning overalls, and nothing else….
Yet another Hamsexy regular…
If any more photos of the Milton Hamfest exist, please send them to submissions@hamsexy.com. Until next time, leave the white blouse and cargopants at home.
Yup, I saw the EMS and TFS team wandering around and I felt much better knowing the emergency services were on hand to help out in any disaster that might strike.
A closer look revealed a Poor Man’s Astro Saber hanging off a duty belt which Toronto EMS doesn’t use and the wannabe alarm was raised.
Perhaps these guys looked up Hamfest in the dictionary and not finding any meaning, substituted Halloween. I’ll bet the costume stores figured they were just beating the October rush. Not much demand for Public Safety outfits at this time of the year.
hahahaha. awesome!
Looks like Mike with the saber to me.
Someone doesn’t know their pant types, that is clearly EMS Sexy, not FireFighter Sexy :p
Oh, and P.S.:
“Unconvincing”? That shirt was given to me by a firefighter in Toronto… and not “all” of us were wearing whacker pants… look again. I was wearing shorts and sandals. Any idiot who thought I was trying to pretend I was with Toronto fire is just that, an idiot.
Seriously, though: the only people I saw that made fun of us and our ‘costumes’ were people that were either:
1) whackers themselves (you know who you are);
2) missing teeth (or still had a full set that were varying shades of yellow and/or brown (and I wish I was exaggerating about that));
3) grossly overweight;
4) grossly lacking in the personal hygiene dep’t (there were no sticks of ham guard handed out, obviously); or
5) some combination of the above 4.
Even my wife commented at how whackerriffic we all looked. It was great.
Too bad I’m not gay. I think these guys are Whacker-Licious!
Those red lights appear to be magnet-mount towing lights for dragging trailers or broken down cars.