We got this pretty funny e-mail today…. It’s from some whacker we mentiond once back in March named “bish1op” or “1bishop” or something. Anyway, here’s his letter:
From: “[removed, although I’m not sure why we’re that nice…]”
Date: July 17, 2005 6:58:36 PM EDT
To:
Subject: Remove this ppage on your site immedately
I am the “bisho1p” in question. I iam sick of the
bullshit as most/if not all of this is untrue. I have
been verbally assaulted on your site, and elightbars.
This will not continue, or my lawyer will be
contacting you immediately, and suing you/your
organization for libel/slander/verbal
assault/misrepresentation/and anything else you are
already obviously guilty of. Just because one
elightbars member was pissed, does not give your
organization the authority to allow public slander of
my character without intervention.
See your webpage for the incident in question.
http://www.hamsexy.com/cms/?p=18
If this is not removed, my lawyer will be contacting
you and your organization, and I will see to it that
your organization never sees the light of day again.
Pissed as hell,
bisho1p
Now now now.. where to start. First of all, our first instinct was to laugh our asses off…. But after a hearty chuckle over this I contacted our lawyer (you can’t run a site like this without having a least a lawyer or two available to run questions by). After reading him the letter, we both had a laugh together. I don’t know why people badmouth lawyers, this dude’s great. Finally, after he regained his composure, his words were clear and he beseeched me with some advice that could only come from many years and hundreds of thousands of dollars of education: “Fuck him”.
So… fuck him we shall. There are a few pretty funny things in this letter that come to mind:
- “most/if not all of this is untrue” Oh really now. Which part of “I am a lying whacker” is untrue, then? The part where you’re a whacker or the part where you call yourself a liar?
- “This will not continue, or my lawyer will be contacting you immediately, and suing you/your organization for libel/slander/verbal assault/misrepresentation/and anything else you are already obviously guilty of.” This guy suffers from dellusions of grandeur. First of all, he was mentioned ONCE in an article dating back to MARCH. It’s currently the latter end of July. As well, I’m not sure how he expects to file a “libel” suit against us, since all we used to identify him was an internet handle – and “no lawyer worth his salt would ever touch anything like this” (according to our counsel). But, if you still feel to the need to do so, please have your lawyer draft a cease and desist order against us. But please make sure to have him send us a scan of it so I can post it on this site. And no, the page isn’t going anywhere.
- “Just because one elightbars member was pissed, does not give your organization the authority to allow public slander of my character without intervention.” Again, where is the libel? (Your lawyer needs to teach you the difference between “Slander” and “Libel”. We’re only working with the material you provided to us. And, btw… it was more than one elightbars member that wrote us, thanking us for putting a spotlight onto you. I can’t remember what they said, because… well.. it was a long time ago, and to be honest I didn’t know who the heck you were until I clicked on the link… and even then it took me a second to remember. Sorry, we deal with so many whackers, it’s easy to forget. I’m sure you’ll forgive us!
- “If this is not removed, my lawyer will be contacting you and your organization, and I will see to it that your organization never sees the light of day again.” Bwahahaha….. Lighten up, man!! Dig into your pack and give yourself some of that Epi, man (if you’re infact authorized to carry it). This line got the most laughs from everyone I’ve shown your letter to. We invite you to contact a lawyer. It’s your money, dude. We are quite confident in our case, as our only mention of you was your incomprehensible internet alias, and that’s certainly not enough to warrant a libel case large enough to ensure daylight doesn’t fall on our rosy cheeks again. I am rather puzzled as to why we’d never see the light of day. I mean, Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon, and he sees the sun on a regular basis. Are we going to to be sequestered into the world’s deepest underground courtroom? Maybe that’s it.
Anyhow.. as I said, feel free to hire a lawyer and pay a few hundred bucks to send us a cease and desist letter. And make sure it’s on a nice cream bond paper…. I don’t want it to clash with the others we hang on the wall.
Comments on this gentleman are always appreciated. but be careful as we’re treading on dangerous legal ground.
Oh, and by the way: The page you listed in your e-mail isn’t going anywhere. In fact, if you write us again, I’ll make it a permapost so everyone visiting the site will be able to read it.
Oh…. one more thing… if you had just politley e-mailed us, requestion the page to come down in a very nice manner, the page would be gone and we’d apologize for being a bother. You see? Maybe you’ll learn a lesson out of all of this: The squeaker whacker gets greased. Cheers!
How funny this should come up, I saw bisho1p’s post on elightbars the other day, and it reminded me of his whackerism the other day, so i decided to search it on hamsexy and came across the old article. Funny this should come up days later. I can’t believe it took him that long to find it. I’m sure now he’ll be checking in daily to watch us make fun of him. Man, being a whacker is one thing (im one) but proudly proclaiming running through traffic with whacker lights and airhorns, and trying to by pre emption is dumb. I can’t wait to see him come back and write more! yay hamsexy!
Wow. I, being unfamiliar with this guy as I am fairly new to this site, just went back and read up on this. I had no idea there were people ACTUALLY like this. I’m stunned.
OK, a couple of thoughts from a member of the Evil Bar:
1. People who threaten to have their lawyer contact you don’t generally have one. People with big nasty lawyers have the lawyers speak for them.
2. One of the threads regards Dude’s attempts to find the law about these Whacker-esque light bars. If he had a lawyer, perhaps he should have asked him. Hmmmm…
I won’t bother going down the road of how dangerous this guy must be, running against traffic with his lights flashing en route to hinder first responders — and don’t get me started on his legal liability for “redirecting traffic” without credentials or training. But, ultimately, this is really more sad than funny. I feel sorry for the guy. It’s kinda’ pathetic.
SMS
(A ham staying out of the way UNTIL called!)
Agreed, he’s claiming to have a lawyer, no way he does, i mean all we have is his INTERnuts HANDLE!
So is he sueing elightBARS? Bryan, look into it.
After reading, I also spoke to my own counsel (on retainer for business reasons) he echo’d everything your lawyer told you, he even offered to join the team for free.
I think I may have found a confirmed picture of the whacker-mobile this guy drives! A simple google for bisho1p and mercedes yielded this beauty:
300E Guru’s Car
Check out the gallery.
Please note the contact email. I have been trying all day to hack his password to add the “artist’s rendering” of his car from hamsexy.
So where is my hamsexy bumper sticker?
Your promise
Dave
Just to add to the above, he does his whacking in Richmond, VA. Not to mention that anyone who has access to the Motor Vehicle branch database can look up his plate from the photo.
Read the postings he has made in the benzforum too, especially the “I GOT HIT”. If he was doing any official business, I doubt he would be whining about the deductible….
Dave
The Mobile
http://www.benzworld.org/gallery/showlink.asp?parentid=35&catid=12280&subname=300E%20Guru%60s%20MB%201986%20300E
The Man
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/view-profile.asp?action=view&uid=14110
Internet is fun. Go Google!
This guy’s a frickin’ moron…guy is on the side of the road and gets hit by someone driving a commercial vehicle and the driver *doesn’t have a drivers license or insurance*.
Gee, how many employers do you know let unlicensed, uninsured drivers drive the company vehicle?
Do you think the commercial vehicle was stolen? Naw….
I do know that his birthday and on 11/18/2005 he will turn 20. I also know his real name, but will not post it here.
I do almost all of my “Weather Whacking” in Richmond VA, have been for the past 8 years, and I can say I’ve never seen this guy or his car (I’d think that a German Shitbox powering it’s way through traffic would stick out in my mind). His self-described behavior is deplorable and unacceptable. I think he is lying when he says that LE doesn’t care if he does what he does. Either the LEO that day didn’t feel like doing paperwork, or no one reported the against-traffic use of amber lights while blowing airhorns at passing motorists. Either way, I dont believe it’s condoned. See, if he were real, then REACT wouldn’t be mentioned. You see, REACT is dead here, has been for over a decade. I can tell you that I was a volly EMT for 6 years here, and If I was only allowed to use my red lights while sitting still at a call scene, then his use of equipment is definitely illegal. I use an amber strobe Vista at slow speeds or stopped in highly inclement weather in this area, but there is a huge difference. I have 4 emergency managers telling me it’s OK to do so. This guy is a whack-tard, and I’m glad that he was ratted out here (he might have tried to join my group…….GASP!!!). My initial impression about this site was wrong after all, you guys are great!!!
PS – The Opticom system in CVA has been attempted to be hacked by so many VRS and VFD guys it’s not even funny. It’s not gonna happen, so he would be wasting his cash on a MIRT/FRACS.
PPS – Can someone PLEASE find out what CERT team he’s supposedly with? I am a local CERT instructor, and I’m sure his EMC would love to hear all of this.
I’m sorry, my brain farted.
I just looked at the pix of his car again, and “WOW, that’s illegal as SHIT” was the first thing to pop into my mind. He runs taillight strobes (Illegal in VA), and a headlight Wig-Wag (Also Illegal in VA (VRS and VFD guys dont even get that one, they get popped all the time)).
I don’t know what he’s hearing on that Uniden BC350A scanner either. Everything here is on the 800MHz Trunked APCO P-25 Digital System.
“This will not continue…”
You are giving them plenty of material to write about.
I’d say it will continue.
As long as your Pathalogically-Stupid behaviour continues to provide entertainment value.
Hmmmn . . . several of the pictures are gone from his pic site . . . specially the ones pertaining to the illegal stuff (see second post before this one). Makes one wonder a bit. Maybe he’s learning? Oh well.
Bacon Fryer: Amen brother!!!
Bacon, knowing he was going to do that exactly, I saved all his old pictures. Send me a note if you want them to be posted somewhere. Funny….
Wow, can we say skeert?
I can tell you exactly why he took the pictures off…..
This is my e-mail that I had with him…
ME:You are funny!!! Please send another e-mail to the editor at hamsexy.com so we can all enjoy it!!! We all got a kick out of it…. Now please come talk to us some more!!
Just a word of caution…. Your registration has been given to the the Virginia State Police for illegal use of emergency lighting… Just thought I would pass it on to you… Someone mentioned it on hamsexy.com (Virginia Registration 674531), Displayed on a Blue 1986 Merceds Benz……… It maybe advisable to take it out before the Virginia State Police Come knocking on your door…..
BISHO1P: thats funny considering I sold it 6 months ago,
jackass.
Matter of fact, I gave your name and number to the
state police, and I am filing charges. This is
ridiculous, your behavior is bordering on assault, and
attack on character. I cannot believe that you are
stalking me.
ME#1: No one is stalking you!!! I wrote to you stating something that I had seen on a message board (Your first mistake)
#2: “My behavior is bordering on assault and attack on character”….. Hmmm.. I don’t recall ever stating anything that was a attack on your character.
#3: I’m sure that the State Police would get a kick out of your strobed out/wig-wag installs……………
#4: I think you should visit hamsexy.com and take a look….. You are embarassing yourself!!!
#5: You gave my number to the state police? That is really funny since my number is unlisted!!!
#6: Go pound sand….. See #4
#7: You are making yourself look bad…. Look in the mirror!!
#8: Having been in the Fire Department Community myself, it is people like you that give us all a bad name!!!
#9: I worked in a law enforcement agency. I know what harassment is and what I sent you was not harassment!!!
BISHO1PI apologize for being rude and unprofessional, I lost
my cool and shouldnt have. I am asking that the page
please be deleted if possible, as well as the post
with someone mentioning my birthday.
Apologetically,
bisho1p.
BISHO1PI apologize for being rude and unprofessional, I lost
my cool and shouldnt have. I am asking that the page
please be deleted if possible, as well as the post
with someone mentioning my birthday.
Apologetically,
bisho1p.
BISHOIPI apologize for being rude and unprofessional, I lost
my cool and shouldnt have. I am asking that the page
please be deleted if possible, as well as the post
with someone mentioning my birthday.
Apolgetically,
bisho1p.
***PLEASE NOTE THAT HE SENT ME THREE APOLOGETIC E-MAILS WITHIN A MINUTE OF EACH OTHER*** I think he has learned his lesson!!
Hahahahaaha!!! That’s gold, man!! File charges with the cops…… hahaha.. This guy’s a scream.
Nice work, 91004!! I’m glad you’re on our side…
B1shop, I guarontee in 20 years, when you look back at your whacker-filled universe of lights, strobes and antennae..you will cringe.
Not that that stuff isn’t cool, I’m a hardcore ex-whacker. In high school I was a Motorola and GE installer and did installs on DEA cars and whatnot. My personal Starsky & Hutchmobile was pimped with hidden 2 way and xenon.
I get it.
The problem is that thats about the only cool and glamorous part of arresting dangerous miscreants or shovelling torsos off the asphalt.
Those guys/gals dont give a shit too much about the lights or radio much anymore.
So if you wanna help people, aspire to the actual meat of the job, not the desert. Not the tv version.
Good Luck
Now thats what I’m talking about, Bacon.
Rule 101 of Storm Spotting, as written in our handbook, is……..”Be more concerned with reporting a rotating wall cloud, and less concerned with how cool your car looks lit up on the side of the road.”
A good lesson to learn is that no matter how cool the job looks, the actual work is about 4 times as hard as anyone thinks it is. It takes many hard lessons before reality sets in sometimes. I just hope bisho1p learns his before getting some tickets and getting kicked out of a rescue squad or two (there’s not that many more out here).
Take a tip from me. I spent ages 16 to 19 answering questions and getting wrote up by nervous white-shirted, gold-badged, eagle-pinned rescue chiefs because of chronic whackerism. Just stop it. It might seem hard, but it’s not really that difficult. Keep your scanner, listen to calls, resist the temptation to respond, rid yourself of your lights (****Or don’t use them without a good, and I mean GOOD damn reason****), and have fun with it.
73’s, or something like that.
(I’m not a ham)
The funny thing about all of this is that everything that has been posted by bisho1p is stuff that he has posted in a public forum at one time or another (including his birthdate). So really, he has no one to blame but himself. Hamsexy is just a clearing house for all of his whacktastic deeds.