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OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK VALUATION" is actually Brian L. McCarty, a pest on
rec.audio.marketplace, where he accuses innocent sellers of various
misdeeds. He appears to be a pathological liar, with unknown motivations.
McCarty is the owner of websites http://www.coralseastudios.com, and
http://www.worldjazz.com, both of which have used fraudulent advertising in
attempts to attract investors. Both have been unsuccessful. While
Worldjazz.com is still owned by McCarty, he does not currently use it to
promote a business interest.
McCarty is an American expatriate, originally from the Chicago area, then LA
where he worked as a sound mixer,
currently living in Cairns Australia, where he manages the Baskin-Robbins
ice cream franchise located at
Shop G6, 59 The Esplanade
Cairns QLD 4870
07 4051 4034
McCarty lives in the Coral Sands apartment complex at 65 Vasey Esplanade,
Trinity beach, a bit north of metropolitan Cairns.
Baskin-Robbins Australia may be contacted at
http://www.baskinrobbins.com.au/home/contactus.asp
Despite the satirically altered photography of Brian McCarty that has
circulated the Internet, Brian is neither trim nor fat. He is about 6'2",
220 lbs, with a modest middle-age paunch. He has a fairly large bone
structure, but is not muscular. From the front, his face is squarish, and
apparently flat, the nose small. However, in profile, he has significant
mandibular protrusion, ie., extension of the lower jaw, in a "wicked witch"
profile. His eye sockets are deep. His eye color is grey.
Brian's hair is straight, and silver gray, with no signs of recession beyond
teenage levels. His face appears devoid of hair. His smile is always
close-lipped, probably to hide the cross bite malocclusion that accompanies
mandibular protrusion. He appears to have an airway restriction, which gives
his voice a choked upward pitch. His shoulders are very rounded.
The general appearance of Brian strongly resembles that of someone with
Klinefelter's syndrome, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter's_syndrome,
when the affected individual has two X chromsomes. While many such
individuals have intelligence in the normal range, there is a high
incidence of psychosis. The individual is almost always sterile. The breast
cancer rate is the same as among females, but when cancer occurs, it tends
to spread more aggressively.
Brian is not simply a stay-at-home Internet addict; we know that for a
number of years, he has made a game of "counting coup", or "super-spy",
traveling great distances to be physically near a stranger. It was
interesting to observe Brian playing his game. His face becomes a mask with
a pasted-on-smile, and his eyes become fish-eyes. His demeanor is
nonthreatening. He may linger alone, then mingle in a clot of people who do
not know him, using this fictitious association as a disguise.
The paradox of Brian is that in the past he has been a reasonably competent
businessman, with a few sparks of inspiration, once demonstrated by the
websites http://www.worldjazz.com, and http://www.coralseastudios.com .
But his dark side, with which we are all familiar, is the compulsion to
defame strangers, damage their businesses, steal identities, and even
destroy whole cyber-communities. Back in 2001, I decided to do what I could
to blunt his influence. I thought that, perhaps, McCarty was simply one of
those rough-edged individuals who we have come to know for their loud mouths
and domineering personalities. I hoped that Mr. McCarty could be dissuaded
from his antisocial activities. Instead, several of us became targets of
McCarty, and were plaintiffs in a law enforcement investigation. But
Internet law was an infant, and prosecution was then declined by the U.S.
Attorney, District of Connecticut.
In the intervening years, it became apparent that McCarty was involved in a
number of dubious enterprises, which shared a common theme. There is a
Twilight Zone that separates the overtly criminal from the legal, and an
even more nebulous region of offenses that, while technically illegal, are
never prosecuted. McCarty is apparently fascinated by The Zone, and fills it
with his fantasies: scams, undetectable harassments, nonmonetary indentity
theft, and so forth. Some of the things he has tried have been incredibly
nervy, with the quality of a Hollywood movie script. But all have been
failures, fueled by mania, but ungrounded in reality.
Brian is extremely upset right now. The chickens have come home to roost.
His standard of living is about to decline rather precipitously. While
Brian may blame other people, he has only himself to blame. Good, honest,
people do not want to work with individuals like himself who inhabit The
Zone.
Bob Morein
Dresher, PA
(215) 646-4894