Speaker 1: So what do you do when you find a troll
Speaker 1: on the repeater? I have some ideas, Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: some ideas. I want to know what you guys think
Speaker 1: about this. I found a story on Reddit I want
Speaker 1: to share with you, So let's go. This video is
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Speaker 1: find stories like this and I'm like, I know what
Speaker 1: I would do, and I would do it all on camera.
Speaker 1: And I wonder what sort of response I would get
Speaker 1: if I were to actually find a person doing this
Speaker 1: in my area, And I wonder, I wonder what I
Speaker 1: wonder if I'd get sued. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've had to deal with a little bit of that
Speaker 1: in the past and kind of don't want to do
Speaker 1: it again. But I still think I would do this. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the Reddit article rant I just got my license.
Speaker 1: I don't even have a radio, but this kind of
Speaker 1: irked me. Now, this article is seven years old. At
Speaker 1: the time of this recording, I was digging around and
Speaker 1: Reddit trying to find some cool stories. I found a
Speaker 1: bunch of cool stories. This is one of the ones
Speaker 1: I found, and I think it's still applicable today because
Speaker 1: this still happens unfortunately. Okay, but here's what it says.
Speaker 1: I recently took my test and got my tech in
Speaker 1: General license the same day. I've always had a passing
Speaker 1: fascination with amateur radio and decided to take up the
Speaker 1: hobby with my dad. Now. One of the main reasons
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into the hobby is I've been
Speaker 1: hitting walls of toxicity on the Internet and just wanted
Speaker 1: to have some friendly conversation or even short conversations that
Speaker 1: consisted of no more than a call sign and the
Speaker 1: signal report. Okay, welcome to parks on the air with
Speaker 1: some random people. It sounded like fun. Most of what
Speaker 1: I have heard is that the mate radio community is
Speaker 1: a welcoming group and willing to help. A side note there,
Speaker 1: I'm impressed that you've heard that, and it's very true.
Speaker 1: It's very true because overall, most hams are welcoming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some curmudgeons, and most of those people hang
Speaker 1: out on on places like Reddit or qrz or Facebook
Speaker 1: and they just troll the crap out of you. Okay,
Speaker 1: most of the time, you're not going to find those
Speaker 1: idiots on the air most of the time. Okay, The
Speaker 1: problem is that, and I said this in another Reddit
Speaker 1: post that I commented on earlier today. The problem is
Speaker 1: that we, as humans, we would much rather watch a
Speaker 1: house burn down than a house being built. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is we're just We're drawn to chaos.
Speaker 1: We're drawn to chaos, We're drawn to stories of ill intent,
Speaker 1: We're drawn to stories about trolls. We'd much rather read
Speaker 1: stories about trolls and about people acting badly than we
Speaker 1: would about positive influences and positive aspects. Maybe that's what
Speaker 1: we should change about ourselves. The local clubs where I live,
Speaker 1: the subreddit all have proved that to be true. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you found a good local club. I'm still
Speaker 1: working on the club list of good clubs. I've fallen
Speaker 1: way behind on that, but that still is a project
Speaker 1: I'm working on. However, I've recently learned that there is
Speaker 1: a rogue operator in my area. I don't have a
Speaker 1: radio yet, but the local clubs talk about this guy
Speaker 1: like he's Voldemort. Truth be told, I've not ever seen
Speaker 1: any of the Harry Potter movies. I know who Voldemort is.
Speaker 1: But I don't really understand that reference it completely. But okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. He apparently goes by blue waffle, a
Speaker 1: term that is really disconcerting to hear people that are
Speaker 1: seventy plus say that back and forth. They don't even
Speaker 1: know the meaning of the word. If you don't, don't
Speaker 1: google it, stay a virgin. Okay. So I had to
Speaker 1: google it. I had to google it, okay, in a nutshell,
Speaker 1: and I didn't read very deep into it. In a nutshell,
Speaker 1: it is a completely fake, false, made up sexually transmitted disease.
Speaker 1: I was like, I read that. I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't need to know anymore. I don't need to know
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to do to you or how you're
Speaker 1: supposed to get it or anything like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but that's what it is. It's
Speaker 1: a completely false, made up std Moving on anyway, it
Speaker 1: would seem that this guy spouts racial garbage, actually swats
Speaker 1: people wow, and try to cause as much mayhem as
Speaker 1: he possibly can. He is always on the radio and
Speaker 1: has taken over the local ham traffic to the point
Speaker 1: where people just don't get on the radios. Here. I
Speaker 1: was told by the people traveling through the area that
Speaker 1: pretty much they don't communicate within a forty mile radius
Speaker 1: of where I live. I just wanted to get on
Speaker 1: the radio to escape the trolls. And of course my
Speaker 1: town has an amateur radio troll, which is just astounding
Speaker 1: to me. They have reported him over twenty times and
Speaker 1: haven't been able to get him to stop operating. I
Speaker 1: have some thoughts on that. I don't have any more
Speaker 1: details because I don't actually know what he is doing
Speaker 1: specifically outside the aforementioned actions. I just know that he
Speaker 1: is disruptive to the point that everyone speaks in hushed tones.
Speaker 1: The little information I have is gleaned over the course
Speaker 1: of four hour club meetings and whispers. I just want
Speaker 1: a place where people are nice. Is that dead? No,
Speaker 1: it's not, No, it's not dead. So this again, this
Speaker 1: was seven years ago. I hope you found a place
Speaker 1: you could enjoy amateur radio since then. If you see
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Speaker 1: could build. This is the best comment here. You could build.
Speaker 1: It's a whole hobby around finding this troll. Yes, operator
Speaker 1: by day, fox hunter by night. He'll need a cape
Speaker 1: spandex pants in a directional antenna. That's good, true, But
Speaker 1: what do you do when you find the troll? The
Speaker 1: oldp states that the person has been reported twenty times.
Speaker 1: I assume to the FCC. If the FCC won't do anything,
Speaker 1: then what are the alternatives? I'm asking because I hear
Speaker 1: about this kind of thing a lot these days, and
Speaker 1: that other trolls have been reported, yet nothing ever seems
Speaker 1: to happen to them. Has he threatened anyone? This guy's replying.
Speaker 1: If so, get a group of people together and to
Speaker 1: file a restraining file a restraining and protective order against him,
Speaker 1: usually free and quick procedure, in front of a judge.
Speaker 1: Almost always, they forbid contact with him, including electronic means.
Speaker 1: Then they call the cops every time he gets on
Speaker 1: the air. He can contest. He can contest restraining order,
Speaker 1: but that would mean showing up to court and having
Speaker 1: to explain to a judge why he's being a jackwagon
Speaker 1: on the air. I doubt he would do that, and
Speaker 1: he'd be really unhappy if the turned up every time
Speaker 1: he got on the air. Next, I would flood the
Speaker 1: FCC with complaints. Make a perform next to your elected representatives. Finally,
Speaker 1: I would consider getting at least twenty people together. This
Speaker 1: is probably okay, this is probably what I would want
Speaker 1: to do here, Okay, I would consider getting at least
Speaker 1: twenty people together, going by the guy's house and telling
Speaker 1: him that you're gonna kick his ass. Now, don't actually
Speaker 1: kick his ass. I'm against violence, okay, but telling him
Speaker 1: that he is about to get his ass kicked it
Speaker 1: isn't actually violence. He has a way of changing attitudes.
Speaker 1: Do not leave until the cops show up. If there
Speaker 1: hasn't been any violence or damage, the cops won't arrest
Speaker 1: any of you. They'll just ask you to leave. Leave
Speaker 1: and do whatever the cops want. Then the cops ask
Speaker 1: the guy why he has twenty angry people show up
Speaker 1: at his house. They won't arrest him or anything, but
Speaker 1: they will tell him not to be such a jackass.
Speaker 1: That can make a difference. Or call the local news company.
Speaker 1: Do you have a local small town paper that never
Speaker 1: talks about anything exciting except the next pie baking contest
Speaker 1: in town, call them, call the newspaper. Or maybe you
Speaker 1: contact a YouTuber that you might watch and has somewhat
Speaker 1: of a little bit of a salty attitude about people
Speaker 1: like this, because, let's face it, people like this just
Speaker 1: should not be tolerated. Okay. Now, I'm not calling for
Speaker 1: violence either. I agree with what this guy said, don't
Speaker 1: actually kick his ass. I'm not calling for violence. I'm
Speaker 1: against violence. Okay, But you know, we can put him
Speaker 1: on the air, and we can put him online, and
Speaker 1: we can put him on YouTube and say I'll take
Speaker 1: the YouTube video down as soon as you stop doing this.
Speaker 1: We could do that. I don't know. Let me tell
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Speaker 1: Radio two point zero sent you. My first thought was, now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to tell you
Speaker 1: to do this, okay, But strange enough, I'm scrolling down
Speaker 1: through the comments here and who do I see but
Speaker 1: Sterling in zero SCC. And again, this was seven years ago,
Speaker 1: and he says, boy, wouldn't it be a shame if
Speaker 1: something were to happen to his feed line? Because that
Speaker 1: was my first thought that that was Actually when I
Speaker 1: read this article the first time, I'm like, do you
Speaker 1: know where the guy is? Probably if you don't, if
Speaker 1: he's on the air that much and you haven't fox
Speaker 1: hunted him yet, that's a miss. That's a miss. You
Speaker 1: should know where this guy is. You should know where
Speaker 1: he is, which means you can call the newspapers, which
Speaker 1: means you can get a group of people to go
Speaker 1: over there. You can file a restraining order against him,
Speaker 1: you can do all these things. Again, not promoting violence
Speaker 1: or anything, but what a shame if something were to
Speaker 1: have into his feed line? Moving on, Yeah, the op
Speaker 1: states that the person has been reported twenty times. I
Speaker 1: assume the FCC. The FCC won't do anything, then what
Speaker 1: are the alternatives? Depends on what reporting was done. A
Speaker 1: bunch of hurt feeling reports aren't going to do anything
Speaker 1: or get anything accomplished. Actually, recordings, documented, dfing result, direction
Speaker 1: finding results, et cetera, have a chance to be acted on.
Speaker 1: That's what I That's what I would do. Now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm joking a little bit when I would say, you
Speaker 1: know what I would do is as on a YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: I would absolutely record what he's doing, put it up
Speaker 1: on a YouTube channel and send that to the FCC
Speaker 1: or the a double URL, you're a double L representative,
Speaker 1: get him involved. Okay, if this guy is such a menace, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that every part of this story
Speaker 1: was true. Okay, I'm going to assume that every part
Speaker 1: of this story was true. It would seem that the
Speaker 1: guy say, well, first of all, the first thing he
Speaker 1: says right here is he says it says right here.
Speaker 1: He is always on the radio and has taken over
Speaker 1: local traffic to the point where people just don't get
Speaker 1: on the air anymore. It would seem that he that
Speaker 1: this guy spouts racial garbage, actually swats people. Swatting people
Speaker 1: is illegal. Swatting people is illegal if he is actually
Speaker 1: swatting people. In other words, okay, if you don't know
Speaker 1: what swatting is, in a nutshell, what swatting is, and
Speaker 1: I know a ham radio guy that has happened to
Speaker 1: one time someone calls the police and makes up some story,
Speaker 1: some radical story to the point of getting squat called
Speaker 1: to this other person's address. So let's let's just say,
Speaker 1: for instance, this guy knows where the local Ham radio
Speaker 1: club meetings are. Okay, they're six pm on Monday nights.
Speaker 1: Let's just make something up. Okay, local Ham radio clubs
Speaker 1: are six pm on Monday night. So this guy called,
Speaker 1: this guy calls nine to one one at six fifteen
Speaker 1: on a Monday night and says he hears gunshots, people screaming,
Speaker 1: maybe a small explosion, and he just I hear this
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and he just makes up this total,
Speaker 1: completely lie of a story and gets the police called
Speaker 1: in a forceful manner, maybe with the squat team, depending
Speaker 1: on how big Batali you're living in. Over to this
Speaker 1: place where there's absolutely nothing going on at all. That's
Speaker 1: called That's what swatting is, basically, and that's illegal. If
Speaker 1: he's done that, Okay, he is, he's committed. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it's a felony. It's either a misdemeanor or a felony.
Speaker 1: It should be a felony. If it's not, it probably
Speaker 1: depends on the state. It's probably state driven. Okay, some
Speaker 1: states it may be a worse crime than others. But
Speaker 1: if he's actually swatted people that's illegal, and he can
Speaker 1: completely be arrested for that. So yeah, so that's what
Speaker 1: I do. You know, if he's spouting racial crap, tries
Speaker 1: to cause as much mayhem as he possibly can, he's
Speaker 1: on the radio all the time, it should be easy
Speaker 1: enough to direction find him, and it should be easy
Speaker 1: enough to get some recordings and put them on a
Speaker 1: YouTube channel of someone you like watching on YouTube. Who
Speaker 1: would that be? Who? Who could you email that footage too?
Speaker 1: And who is just you know, kind of sly enough
Speaker 1: and kind of like, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with this crap enough? Who do you think would
Speaker 1: do that? I'm just gonna pick someone off the top
Speaker 1: of my head and say, oh, you could probably send
Speaker 1: that to me and I'd put that I'd make a
Speaker 1: video about that. Yeah. Honestly, idiots like this give everyone
Speaker 1: a bad name. Okay, there's ways to stop him. The
Speaker 1: court of public opinion is a very powerful thing. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we should make up stuff. I think
Speaker 1: we should always tell the truth. Okay, always tell the truth,
Speaker 1: don't make up stories about him. Assuming again I said
Speaker 1: a minute ago, assuming this story is true, Assuming this
Speaker 1: guy is actually spouting racial slurs, and swatting people and
Speaker 1: doing all kinds of stuff. This was seven years ago.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's not doing this anymore. Hopefully this is an
Speaker 1: old story that's far gone and this guy got taken
Speaker 1: care of and he's not on the air anymore, and
Speaker 1: it's moved on. There's people using the ham radio repeaters
Speaker 1: in this area. He didn't really say where his area is,
Speaker 1: so hopefully this is not a thing anymore. But stuff
Speaker 1: like this does happen in various parts of the country,
Speaker 1: And if you wanted to send me some footage of it,
Speaker 1: it's possible. I'm gonna have to review it first, but
Speaker 1: it's possible we make a video about that and call
Speaker 1: that guy out and publicly shame him and just say
Speaker 1: this is your voice, bron. You can't deny it, okay.
Speaker 1: Put a comment below if you've ever heard of anything
Speaker 1: like this, if you're the person who wrote this story,
Speaker 1: or you know about this story because you're from the
Speaker 1: same area, I want to hear from you in the
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