{"id":18,"date":"2005-03-13T22:19:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T03:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-03-13T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T03:26:38","slug":"laughing-at-react-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Laughing at REACT again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend HiddenHam referred us to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elightbars.org\/mb\/thread_view.asp?threadid=13426&#038;parentid=13426&#038;forumid=0&#038;\">rather funny thread<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elightbars.org\">eLightbars.org<\/a>. Always a great source of comedic gold (nestled among an otherwise good forum),  we of course pounced on this like a Ham on &#8230; well, a ham. <\/p>\n<p>The thread starts out with a guy named <b>bisho1p<\/b>, who proves to out-whack the whackers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>&#8220;I use my lights and my airhorn sparingly to get to an accident scene so that I can set up cones, flares, redirect traffic , or whatever needs to be done. I dont roll through town with lights flashing or anything like that. I drive with a sense of urgency, but I dont drive with my lights on, nor do I race through traffic.\n<p>I turn on my lights when I am close enough that I will not have to go through any more traffic lights to reach the scene. This establishes that I am responding to the scene, but doesnt make me look like a frivolous wacker or a hinderance to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I will go up on the median if all other possibilities of expeditiously reaching the scene have been exhausted. I have even gone into the lane of oncoming traffic because it was a two lane road in each direction, and no emergency personnel were on scene, and vehicles were overturned. I drove at about 5 mph, and yes, I used the air horn almost continuously in a rapid blasting type-tone. I was careful, and came to a stop if a car was approaching, to be sure the car was yielding to me. I have done this only 3 times in the past year. And it was because I was first on scene, and traffic was really backed up.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, this bisho1p guy seems like an intersting character. A quick search on Google confirms our suspicions that he&#8217;s an annoying cop wannabe, who thinks that being a member of REACT grants him special rights (like operating pre-emption systems, running red lights, driving dangerously, etc.) We found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realpolice.net\/forums\/showthread.php?t=20723&#038;goto=nextnewest\">this post <\/a> on realpolice.net, where he makes a pest of himself to local cops.  There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elightbars.org\/mb\/thread_view.asp?threadid=13867&#038;parentid=13867&#038;forumid=153&#038;\">this thread<\/a>, that proves that he&#8217;s trying to buy a DIY infrared pre-emption kit. <\/p>\n<p>He also like posting and joining EMT, police and emergency services forums &#8211; a sure sign of a whacker. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s rendering of bisho1p&#8217;s whacker mobile: notice the lights and antenna. It would also be running a red light if it were real (drawn by Andy L.):<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/whack.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/center>Thanks for the great submission. We love pointing and laughing at the whackers. Remember, if you&#8217;ve got anything to add to this conversation, or to tell me what a jerk I am for making fun of this guy. leave a comment! Whack the whacker!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend HiddenHam referred us to a rather funny thread on eLightbars.org. Always a great source of comedic gold (nestled among an otherwise good forum), we of course pounced on this like a Ham on &#8230; well, a ham. 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