PolicePosers.com

We got this email in June. As normal it came from someone we probably offended and they had to go digging for information to muddy us up with. The typical “you’re making stuff up” came up again along with some stuff we usually get in most of the hate mail we receive. We find it funny most of the hate mail we receive tells us how we are hateful and negative but the same mail tries to call us names, belittles what we do with insults, and tries to justify the actions of those we discuss on the site.

Pretty much, if you don’t like what we do, then quit reading the site and move on. Some people feel the need to send anonymous emails to get the last cowardly word in thinking it harms us. However at most we get a good chuckle on the forums and post it on the main page where people can see the types of people who get mad enough to send us stuff like this. Now for what you have been waiting for, this weeks presentation!

My name is Ray and I just ran across your site last week. While I can say there is a lot of effort, it comes off as nothing but a shrill attempt at an outburst of something you don’t like. Most of the wording and general attitude of the site sounds like it is made by a childlike mentality that is overly concerned for what others do. The flamboyance in your writing has me wondering what your mental capacity for real world social interaction might be. I may come off as insulting you but digress, you are the one who runs a web site devoted to demonizing a select few. Then you do not offering anyone the glimpse of what how perfect you are over those you demonize. I view your vain attempt as pathetic and it makes me wonder if you are what you hate so much deep inside your soul.

Your whacker page says it all. You go into details on personal observations as offering them up as fact on silver platters. I see the only type of person who would chow down at your wealth of knowledge is those who are equally as hateful of their inner demons as you are. Your web site as you call it is not much more on the subject of unbiased fact as Wikipedia is. Both of your sites tout how much you are for doing one thing while being an outlet for the editor’s and author’s life struggles others take as reading material. As another letter posted on your web site said so well, there are no such things as whackers as you describe them. The imposter problem you quote as an epidemic is a mere crime that has fewer cases than purse snatching and red neck incest in the Bible belt.

Since you are a coward who hides behind your domain name I decided to research you a little. I was about to but chose not to pay for an overnight background on you as I would rather frequent my funds to a hobo than find what rock you live under. What I could find on the internet shows a trend of cowardice, trolling, and general lack of social empathy to anyone. I also find people speak of your handle with great disgust and you are pretty much looked at with contempt in every circle I ventured into. Like a sniveling little coward, you never use your real name or give a face for those who you belittle to look into.

Looking over your web site I found a few who faced you. Donna Clark, whom owns a legitimate fire department and Eliot, a person who you robbed photos from to add to your album are the obvious ones. Both gave you a face to look in and you couldn’t even give them your first name in return. Yet, you call them out on the very issue that you hide, standing up to those who are wrong. If it were possible, I would buy them both a round to congratulate them on facing you and winning. They won against you because you backed down from each of them. You attempted to demonize them but failed at both. You basically posted an edited version of what they said, made your rebuttal while sounding smug, and never gave them the chance to counter-rebuttal you.

I could go on all day about your web site and the mentally challenged content it spews but I won’t. Your recent updates sound like the dying breath of a lost cause on your battlefield. Your recent content consists mainly of what your hate or what others hate about you. There are no facts or premise by which your web site will thrive. Unlike Hamsexy.com, you only propel hate and anger at your readers with no humor, insight, or even collegial generated information. Your topics are rehashed from a few months before and this does nothing to keep long term readers. If the whackers were such an epidemic then you would have material oozing out at the seams of your sources. Instead you interject person opinion and dislike into each story and plaster it on the front page of a poorly designed web site.

A true blog or media site usually tries to keep things fresh. You haven’t accomplished this from day one and will never do so. I predict you will be tired of hating through a narrow beam and will grow bored with the web site subject and move on. I hope and pray (actually I’m an atheist and prayer is for the feeble minded) that you don’t hurt others or demonize others in your next subject of hatred after you flushed policeposers.com down the toilet of self serving web sites.

This is the part where I bid farewell. I have called you faceless and a coward throughout this letter several times. Now you can do the same to me. Ray was a name I chose to start this letter off as a personal one to get your attention. I am not going to reveal who I am or what I am. This is for you to think about as you find something in this letter to get mad about and go throw a tantrum about on your chat board. I also expect to see this on the policeposers site as that is where you blow your steam from your meaningless life. Just take this letter and imaging the author as everyone you have wronged in the life of your web site. Also imagine it as every person you or some simple minded admirer of your site labeled a whacker who was never one. Lights have never killed or hurt anyone but hatred and anger have killed billions. What side are you on?

Policeposers, by it’s very nature and scope takes in volumes of hate mail.  For us, that’s a sign of affirmation.  Every ranting diatribe is proof we are doing our job and making those who feign authority uncomfortable and unaccepted.  Though the sources are varied, these authors all seem unified by their insecurity and need to trump-up trivialities for personal gain.

A few months ago, our servers began taking hits from a “Skywarn” forum devoted to discussing amateur storm chasing.  An individual there apparently read through to our site, was offended, and raised his grievance up the proverbial flagpole.  His battle cry stems from the fact we have devoted time to profiling those whom cling to the National Weather Service’s Skywarn program as rationale for playing flashing-light hero.  After scouring our photo album, he identified “at least five other members” of this Skywarn Online forum who’s vehicles had apparently been featured by us.  The perceived humiliation of having their sundry personal vehicles featured on our site was simply too much indignation for the amber-lighter community. There began the railing of the troops, and it brings us to the subject of this article.

The insurrection from the jilted Skywarners didn’t last long.  The attack thread was summarily closed from on the Skywarn Online forum with most rational folks asking ‘what’s the big deal?’ and moving on.  However, that didn’t satisfy at least one individual.  Soon our mailbox began taking in bellicose “threats” from a person who identified himself as Elliot Maines.

Elliot’s’ story began in that great cauldron of whacker material, the eLightbars (now The Lightbarn) forum.  A popular thread exists on that site which features images and tales of “whacker [and] screwed-up lighting.”  Without trepidation, Elliot himself posted a photo set of his own vehicle, an old Dodge Dakota replete with multiple flashing lights used presumably for “Skywarn” activities in Ohio.  An onslaught of posts ensued and he released an explanation that he “just like(s) lights in general, and…things just took off from there.”  The thread continues as he was lauded by brethren, in keeping with the atmosphere of that site.

http://www.lightbarn.com/bb/the-offical-whacker-screwed-up-lighting-thread-vt725-1225.html

The photos Elliot posted were hosted on the popular free site Photobucket.  In accordance with the explicit user agreement Elliot agreed to in posting photos on Photobucket, “Photobucket and/or other Users may copy, print or display publicly available Content outside of the Photobucket Services, including without limitation, via the Site or third party websites or applications.”  Therefore, they entered the public domain and any claim he had to such images is lost.

View the full Photobucket TOS: http://photobucket.com/terms

He didn’t like our denial to remove them and become more irrational:

After we attempted to broker an agreement to satisfy him, we began to see a disingenuous nature emerge.  Instead of having any sincere interest in discretion, he was actually playing us on the Skywarn Online forum.  While he sent us trumped-up threats, he was publicly threatening that we would be the supposed victim of cyber attacks to his internet friends.

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As a unilateral gesture of our good nature and due to the commotions started elsewhere over this subject, we removed the photo album that was Elliot’s point of contention.  Though we had no legal obligation to do so, it was done as a courtesy to Elliot.  However, he subsequently chose to threaten us and that will not be tolerated from anyone.

This was the rallying call heard recently on the Skywarnonline.com forums in a thread entitled- Skywarn members credibility could be risk. The call to arms was answered by several fellow storm spotters/chasers/foamers. They were upset over our posting of public domain obtained images showing various Skywarn members vehicles with various states of lighting obsessions. Within hours the thread was locked and then taken away to some hiding spot.

Contained in that thread was a plethora of complaining, whining, arm chair lawyering, and attempted investigations into policeposers creator’s personal history through the website host and domain. While none of those accomplished anything, it was funny how much effort people put into finding dirt on someone who questioned their motivation for lighting abuse. A common misconception of the whackers in society is that the creator runs this web site alone. Well, the website is coded by the creator and webmaster of policeposers, but the content is created and distributed by an advisory board or staff who work behind the scenes to bring to light the topics on the site. Want proof? Ask any staff member on our forums and they will repeat what we have said here.

Why are we posting this? Well, it’s simple, to illustrate the mentality of some people. The posted photos were found via reader submissions of the individual’s Photobucket.com accounts which are posted in the Public Domain-

“Photobucket.com Terms of Service
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6.1 Photobucket does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post on or through the Photobucket Services. By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content on or through the Photobucket Services, you hereby grant to Photobucket and other users a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content marked “private” will not be distributed outside the Photobucket Services. Photobucket and/or other Users may copy, print or display publicly available Content outside of the Photobucket Services, including without limitation, via the Site or third party websites or applications (for example, services allowing Users to order prints of Content or t-shirts and similar items containing Content).”

“People like me need to use lights to keep our head with our body, aka OUR SAFETY!  People like you don’t care a damn about safety and try to press your narrow-minded and shallow agenda on all of those who are dumb enough to listen.”

“…CERTIFIED TO HAVE LIGHTS!”

“I can be crude and vicious but low life scum like you sometimes need it to get it through your thick Neanderthal skull.  I hope SKYWARN fails to see a tornado in your town and it kills you so those who volunteer for the community can be safe from your anti-safety selfish ramblings. …While you are in your house getting drunk and beating on your wife, WE are out there helping the weather forecasters bring news to those who need it.”

“If you post this in anywhere, I will sue you for harassment so don’t get any funny ideas.”

“Policeposers.com Legal Disclaimer

6. Any emails to policeposers@gmailDOTcom/admin@policeposersDOTcom, intended for, or in reference to the policeposers.com website become part of the policeposers.com collection and can be used at the webmaster’s discretion.

“Did I sound crude, sure I did to make a point you will pay attention to.”

This is one of the emails we receive each week regarding the site. The thing different with this one is they can’t find anything to pick on so they go for the last resort, how much time is spent on PolicePosers.com. This is usually an attack angle by those who can’t find any dirt on our staff. Then they want to try to insult us on something that is easy for the email author to say without having to prove it. It gave us a good laugh and showed how desperate some are to downplay or insult our cause.

RE: OMG you guys aren’t serious?

Thanks for going to all that trouble to formulate & regularly update your website we (the rest of the virtual community) needed a really good laugh… must take a lot of your personal time to maintain, you seem to have that in abundance eh?

Your stand point on aftermarket vehicle fitments like driving lamps & bull/nudge bars is flawed… vehicles are built to a price point not an accessory cap!

Keep up the excellent use of your spare time at least it keeps you off the streets and out of trouble

We got this email a few weeks back via a personal email account. We are finding an increase of hate mail being sent to our personal email accounts instead of the official channels on the web site. People might be doing this in an effort to avoid us posting it publicly such as this email. As you can see from this email, we see another example with a combination of hate, anger, misconception, immature insults, and someone trying to justify their existence to us. As in the past and with this email, we don’t care but like the entertainment. Enjoy!

Hello sir,

You sir, have a good life. Keep in mind with your retoric that what goes around comes around and your hatred and slander will one day cost you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWotIwtWQo

This video was brought to our attention by one of our staff members. Basically this video was made by a person that goes by kgowen4444 or better yet, Kevin Gowen. He signed up on our forums awhile back and was moved to the restrictive group right away due to his background in amber light infatuation. He quickly signed up with a second account using false information to circumvent his previous restrictions. He was banned for doing this. His ride has been featured on Hamsexy.com and elightbars.org (now lightbarn.com) for it’s amber/clear Vision light bar and it’s wide collection of antennae.

Well, in response to this, Kevin supposedly created an account on Youtube.com under the user name “proudredneckwhacker” and posted the above video acting like a kid that was just grounded. While only elightbars.org was mentioned in the audio of the video, policeposers.com was mentioned in the video description. With the popularity increasing, Kevin removed the video from his alleged proudredneckwhacker account. Well, we saved a copy and now feature it above. Enjoy!