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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: James Blunt on January 13, 2008, 04:30:40 AM
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ELM MOTT, Texas - A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.
As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states' borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business.
When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy's trailer down.
This week, Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson and admitting he set the blaze.
"I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill anybody over an Internet fight," said John G. Anderson, 59, who suffered smoke inhalation while trying to put out the 2005 blaze that caused $50,000 in damage to his trailer and computer equipment.
The feud started when Anderson, who runs a haunted house near Waco, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After he blocked some people from his page because of insults and foul language, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him, he said.
Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Tavares, aka "PyroDice."
Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign.
Tavares obtained Anderson's real name and hometown from Anderson's Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House.
Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started driving. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Anderson and shoot his computer.
Instead, when he got to Elm Mott — after posting one last photo of a "Welcome to Texas" sign — Tavares threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Anderson's mobile home and lit a flare, authorities say.
Tavares' attorney, Susan Kelly Johnston, said his trip to the Waco area was a last-minute decision during a cross-country trip to visit his parents in Arizona. She said he never intended to hurt Anderson and did not think he was in the trailer when he set the fire.
James Pack, an investigator with the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, caught up with Tavares after talking to people in several states and Spain who had been involved in the online feud. Tavares' cell phone records showed he was in the Waco area at the time of the fire, Pack said.
Tavares told investigators that Anderson had spread computer viruses and insulted his online friends for too long, Pack said.
"He lost everything — all over an Internet squabble," the investigator said.
Tavares was discharged last year from the Navy, where he earned several medals — including the pistol expert and rifle expert medals — in his nine-year career, said Navy spokesman Mike McLellan.
Tavares would not let the feud go even at his sentencing. According to Pack, Tavares took cell-phone photos of Anderson in the courtroom while the judge was hearing another case. Authorities ordered the photos erased.
Anderson, an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam, said he continues to be harassed online, has been startled by people knocking on his window late at night and found bullet holes in a door to his business.
He said he is convinced the harassment is related to the Internet feud and plans to spend $30,000 on more fencing topped with barbed wire.
"Before this happened, the rule was: Nobody messes with the haunted house guy," Anderson said
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my attention span is too short to read that
can you summarize it in 2-3 sentences
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my attention span is too short to read that
can you summarize it in 2-3 sentences
A guy in the Navy drove 1300 miles to some nerd's trailer and burned it down because he photoshopped his picture. He got 7 years for it the nerd got $50,000 and plans on putting up a fence with barbed wire. That about sums it up.
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Yes Blunt you better not photoshop images of me; or I'll scratch the eyes out of your pretty avatar face. But, feel free to photoshop Bigbobs and Cameljockey. They'll have to pay a pretty penny, and get a permit for visitors visa, to come and burn down your trailer.
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Yes Blunt you better not photoshop images of me; or I'll scratch the eyes out of your pretty avatar face. But, feel free to photoshop Bigbobs and Cameljockey. They'll have to pay a pretty penny, and get a permit for visitors visa, to come and burn down your trailer.
I'm not the guy in the story.
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wow, it's the internet. I'd have calmed down during the drive.
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beware of vince goodrum
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Welcome to last year. Got any current news?
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Welcome to last year. Got any current news?
I expected more of an insightful post from dr. chimps :(
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I expected more of an insightful post from dr. chimps :(
Sorry, I guess I'm still tired. I'll try again. This article was posted last year, and the board came to a general concensus that if it ever happened around here, Squad would be the likely target. Dave then said he was shaking in his boots, etc. and to bring it on. Nothing happened. Pheww. Happy? :)
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Good thing Goatboy doesn't live in a trailer!
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so you're saying:
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Tavares burned the guy's trailer down.
Fucking trailer trash. I hope I'm not the only high achiever who uses internet forums.. I hope that you guys aren't all low class losers. On the internet I give you equal status, earn it guys.
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Sorry, I guess I'm still tired. I'll try again. This article was posted last year, and the board came to a general concensus that if it ever happened around here, Squad would be the likely target. Dave then said he was shaking in his boots, etc. and to bring it on. Nothing happened. Pheww. Happy? :)
I remembered an article like this and hoped it wasn't the exact one. OWNED. ;D Thank you... dr.
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Tavares burned the guy's trailer down.
Fucking trailer trash. I hope I'm not the only high achiever who uses internet forums.. I hope that you guys aren't all low class losers. On the internet I give you equal status, earn it guys.
Equal status ::) we're billionaires bitch. Get it together, you bum.
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Tavares burned the guy's trailer down.
Fucking trailer trash. I hope I'm not the only high achiever who uses internet forums.. I hope that you guys aren't all low class losers. On the internet I give you equal status, earn it guys.
Your house must be HUGE. Can we see a picture?
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Your house must be HUGE. Can we see a picture?
Don't tell me you live in a trailer and I upset you?
Seriously, guys who live in trailers and star as 'drunk man' in COPS need to come forward so I don't inadvertently take something they type seriously.
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Don't tell me you live in a trailer and I upset you?
Seriously, guys who live in trailers and star as 'drunk man' in COPS need to come forward so I don't inadvertently take something they type seriously.
F*cking hilarious!!! ;D
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hahahaha meltdown
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Don't tell me you live in a trailer and I upset you?
Seriously, guys who live in trailers and star as 'drunk man' in COPS need to come forward so I don't inadvertently take something they type seriously.
No, I just liked the part where you said that we should try to earn your respect. ;D I don't like trailer trash any more than you do.
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I think I took pictures of a couple of Welcome signs on my way to Fresno.
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hahahahahaha.
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I guess Derek Anthony would come to Ohio to "fight" with me... except he doesn't know where to exchange his US dollars for "Ohio money"...
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AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Burned the guy's trailer.
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AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Burned the guy's trailer.
hahahha, an you imagine this guy driving down the highway geeked up on ephedrine and thoughts of violence because his guy called him names on the internet, classic. ;D
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somebody will burn down the creepy fatboys trailer one day.
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Good thing Goatboy doesn't live in a trailer!
Good thing Goatboy isn't stupid enough to reveal his true identity! :D
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Now we know why JamieX4200 hasn't posted in a long time.
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hahahaha this is the actual guy whos trailer was burned. OWNED
(http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070726/070726_tavaresfire_hmed_2p.standard.jpg)
And this is the nutcase that did it.
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Mqhf552AewWKyM:http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070726/070726_tavares_bcol_2p.widec.jpg)
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my attention span is too short to read that
can you summarize it in 2-3 sentences
Goodrum drove 1300 miles to burn a person house down for calling him a quack on Getbig. As Goodrum lit the match he set himself on fire. When onlookers saw this stranger on fire it looked like they were going to save him. But, instead of water they all poured more gas on him. When paramedics arrived they found what one paramedic described as "a black lump of shit". Immediately everyone knew it had to be Vince Goodrum.
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hahahha, an you imagine this guy driving down the highway geeked up on ephedrine and thoughts of violence because his guy called him names on the internet, classic. ;D
Imagine it?? Dude I can only imagine the getbiggers(even Matt Duvall) driving all over Missouri looking for your house.
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haha i've gotten quite a few "i'll travel to your house to beat you up" threats over the years on getbig 8)
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hahahha, an you imagine this guy driving down the highway geeked up on ephedrine and thoughts of violence because his guy called him names on the internet, classic. ;D
Didn't this almost happen to you 1000000 times hahaha
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Didn't this almost happen to you 1000000 times hahaha
Iv had people PM me back in the day who were willing to sponsor my trip there and said they could have him located haha. Sheeesh glad i didnt do that. Id be in jail and you guys would all still be making fun of me....somebody DID locate Adonis and had his address ready for me or whever was going to do it...dont think anybody was dumb enough to go tho haha
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Iv had people PM me back in the day who were willing to sponsor my trip there and said they could have him located haha. Sheeesh glad i didnt do that. Id be in jail and you guys would all still be making fun of me....somebody DID locate Adonis and had his address ready for me or whever was going to do it...dont think anybody was dumb enough to go tho haha
hahahha, epic taking the internet way too seriously, i can just picture it now, "IS THIS WHERE SQUADFATHER TRAINS!!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GODDAMMIT YOU GO AND TELL HIM TOOPOWERFUL4U IS HERE AND I'M GONNA BEAT HIS ASS FOR DOUBTING MY POUNDAGE CLAIMS ON GETBIG.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
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hahahha, epic taking the internet way too seriously, i can just picture it now, "IS THIS WHERE SQUADFATHER TRAINS!!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GODDAMMIT YOU GO AND TELL HIM TOOPOWERFUL4U IS HERE AND I'M GONNA BEAT HIS ASS FOR DOUBTING MY POUNDAGE CLAIMS ON GETBIG.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA this was a long time ago. I think your name was still sarcasm or some shit. Hell yea that woulda been funny hahahahahaha. You know how many people came up to me and called me TooPowerful4u at the Arnold 2yrs ago? My coworkers were laughing their asses off the entire 3 days!
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hahahaha, "HELLO IS THIS ACME PRIVATE INVESTIGATION SERVICES? YES, MY NAME IS TOOPOWERFUL4U AND ME AND MY FRIENDS HUGE285, BIGGUNZ320 AND MATT DUVALL WANT TO SEE IF YOU CAN TRACK THE ADDRESS OF SQUADFATHER FROM GETBIG.COM, YOU SEE HE CALLED ME SKINNY AND DOUBTED MY LIFTS PLUS HE SAID THAT MY TRAINING PARTNER HAD SMALL ARMS AND HE EVEN DOUBTED THAT MATT DUVALL COULD SHOULDER PRESS 635 FOR 2 ON THE SMITH MACHINE, WE WANT HIM FOUND!!! WHAT DO YOU CHARGE???
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hahahha, epic taking the internet way too seriously, i can just picture it now, "IS THIS WHERE SQUADFATHER TRAINS!!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GODDAMMIT YOU GO AND TELL HIM TOOPOWERFUL4U IS HERE AND I'M GONNA BEAT HIS ASS FOR DOUBTING MY POUNDAGE CLAIMS ON GETBIG.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
The funniest part of this whole story is the guy posting pictures of each welcome to sign at every state to show the guy he was on his way.. hahahahaha
(http://p.vtourist.com/2345773-Welcome_to_Missouri-Missouri.jpg)
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The funniest part of this whole story is the guy posting pictures of each welcome to sign at every state to show the guy he was on his way.. hahahahaha
(http://p.vtourist.com/2345773-Welcome_to_Missouri-Missouri.jpg)
Yes lol that is funny as hell! Then he lobs a maltov cocktail at the guys trailer and burns it up. He should have filmed that for the guy to see LOL If anything the guy is not a quiter, he makes a plan and follows through with it.