Buh bye.
That was Wendell's sole comment to Mr. HardAssets at 1:13 a.m. Central Time.
Why Kent didn't
> give him both barrels still mystifies me. However, some others got some ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT shots in and they were truly Grade "A" retorts. It was well worth the read on a Monday evening with a cold beer.
Shoot, I was waiting for you to unload with both brain cells... uhhhh... barrels. 😉 (Just kidding bud). As somebody said that sent me a private message, "Kent must be buried in that west Texas litigation or he'd be all over this guy". I just didn't have the juice to go at him via a message board, I should realized from the beginning that the beginning that he knew just enough to be dangerous, and he wasn't afraid to use it. blah on that.
Carl
Buh bye.
> That was Wendell's sole comment to Mr. HardAssets at 1:13 a.m. Central Time.
hahahahahahaha!!! I wonder if he's still getting notif's dinging his mailbox when people post a reply. I can only hope so and I hope it's driving him nutz.
Carl
Why Kent didn't
I think Kent had him pegged from the get go. Not worth the time, but I see it was fairly entertaining.
Yesterday I thought you were wrong, Mr.CBC. Today looking at the additional posts (which I have not read) and how many back and forth responses he has elicited from the room, I have changed my mind. Sorry for the peanuts I threw his way. But if he is, what a clever out of the box topic to rouse the natives with! Looking at it that way- as in a carefully planned campaign to spoof the room- he has our number and we are as predictable as Pavlov's dog. Doesn't reflect very well on us either.
pavlov's dog
> he has our number and we are as predictable as Pavlov's dog. Doesn't reflect very well on us either.
Surveyors are usually as predictable as Schrodinger's Cat.
Why Kent didn't
> I think Kent had him pegged from the get go.
or...maybe...just maybe....Kent IS Heisenberg...
>
> This guy is an UBER-TROLL and knows just enough to be dangerous. I ran his lot closure, and it's like 0.00001', not 0.10'. (my 'bolding')
That's what I got, and posted way down in the other thread.
pavlov's dog
I'm having trouble thinking the guy was a troll. His little bit of math even had perfect closure and he was not aware of it. He asked a too obscure of a question (in my humble opinion) for even a surveyor to think up. I believe he is a "builder type" exactly as he describes and (as with many of his types) thinks that surveying is a simple skill that anyone with trig or even acad experience can handle. He was too bent on this addressing the (non) misclosure in his "metes and bounds" description, and didn't even hear the advice that he concentrate on the "bounds" of the issue. I believe Kent gave him a great example of how his description should read.
I feel a little bad for him. He left here not understanding some of the real advice he got. I loved (need to look back who it was) that advice about ignoring the 0.1, always starting from the NW corner, and the errors to the multiple places behind the decimal. It was the first advice he acknowledged that he thought was great. FISH ON!...LOL
While it was a very enjoyable string of posts to read and he sure sounded like a troll, it was "Hardassets" second post that stopped me from replying. I believe he is just using the legal system by filing a lawsuit to cloud the title of the property and at least in the short run make the property unmarketable. In his own words:
Done right..I should be able to gain fee simple title to those areas which will not only prevent her from evicting me from my own house but will prevent her from ever selling it or borrowing against it.
I will still get screwed but ultimately she will have to settle with me or spend loads of money defending "her" house.
I don't need to and won't assist a client in a mater that I feel is unethical. Others may, and that's fine. I have never lost a nights sleep turning away work that I felt was unethical.
C'mon Carl
:good:
Granny had an earthy sense of humor.
B-)
I was the first to make unpleasant remarks to him in an unprofessional manner that started his retorts to myself and others. When he replied, I thought that he bunkered down and was going to monitor all comments with defensive comments to all that replied. His comments were trite and redundant.
It was an off the wall scenario that he presented and I thought that Kent gave him some very clever and interesting advice.
But Kent's "walking around in jockeys" comment was a classic. I really laughed out loud. Talk about AP being "open" 🙂
plus Jud giving a big thumbs up to a James Fleming reply was noteworthy.
It was entertaining on different levels.
pavlov's dog
OK, I relent, maybe he wasn't the "textbook" version of a troll, but he had a good portion of the makings of one.
He had a specific issue, gave a few details, but not really enough to form a great analysis and then was basically defensive and argumentative from nearly the beginning. If he wasn't a troll, he was a guy who thinks he knows more than he does, has a HUUUUUUGE A$$W!PE twang to himself, thinks little of the our profession and likes to fire heated salvos at people who do respect their profession and accompanying ones (legal and/or real estate).
But, I'm not gonna say that he's a TROLL any more.
😉
pavlov's dog
Sorry Carl,
You are absolutely correct about the guy. Please ignore my argumentation as to whether he was actually a troll or something called something else that means almost the same thing. I am equally offended by this guy.
"I don't need to and won't assist a client in a mater that I feel is unethical. Others may, and that's fine. I have never lost a nights sleep turning away work that I felt was unethical."
:good: :good: :good:
pavlov's dog
> Sorry Carl,
> You are absolutely correct about the guy. Please ignore my argumentation as to whether he was actually a troll or something called something else that means almost the same thing. I am equally offended by this guy.
It's all good. He's gone and not stirring the pot anymore. And I'm A-OK with that.
Why Kent didn't
You mean I shouldn't always start my metes and bounds at the Northwest corner per Alan?
Thanks, Wendell
for letting him go as long as it was entertaining or potentially informative, then doing the right thing at the right time.
this should be verifiable...
from his bragging post...
(even though he couldn't calculate the closure of a 4 sided figure?)
I even achieved a US patent on a design for a positioning system utilizing a spherical coordinate system rather than the Cartesian Coordinate System generally used on machinery worldwide.
TROLL with toad attitude
I had my suspicions from his first post. By the 3rd I knew what he was. Tried to draw him out to expose him, but he did a pretty fair job of that himself.
Personally, I think he was a vagrant that got free rent for taking care of the place until the landlord died. Now he wants to make a baseless claim for a part of the house under false claims (i.e. they were "partners").
The whole thing centered on the .1' 'gap' that never was. He made it up.
But, overall a rousing good bit of humour for most of it until he started getting personal & aggressive.
