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Ryan Trude aka Pitbullophis: Bad Guy!

Why fuel the fire?

I just read through this whole thread and the most apparent part was not how stupid the guy was but how much he enjoyed being the center of someone, anyones focus. I believe he was more than happy to trash his reputation and make himself look like an ass just because someone was actually emailing him. Even if the emails were automatically generated by a computer. It's the old any attention, even negative attention, is better than no attention. Obviously the guy does not have the character to build a decent reputation, he could not even fake it. He simply resorted to childishness and ate up everything you gave him. It was truly sad to read his replys and see such a pathetic individual. You should have refused to play his games because it only took one post from him to see he had no intention of making right his wrongs. The individual was worthless the female hogg island boa has far fewer neurological problems than PITBULLOPHIS. I like to see the BOI work but I hate to see respectable members dragged into a third grade argument. I think it would be far more damaging to him to just ignore him as it seems everyone else has for the rest of his life. When he said that his reptiles were only a hobby and not a job I knew he had no business keeping or selling any animals. True enthusiast know that reptiles are not just a hobby. The "hobby" of reptile keeping deals with living animals that rely on you for every aspect of their care. Reptiles become part of your life they are not just a hobby you put away in the garage when you are not actively participating. I hate when people like him make the rest of us look like a bunch of weird internet cons. It's because of people like him that everyone else has to be so careful and why the consumers fear they will be burned when they buy online reptiles. :(

Thomas Grass
Snake In the Grass Herpetoculture

"The reptile industry is too small to do bad business"
 
Thomas I agree with what you said, but the point of responding to him over and over was that it brought out the real person that Ryan was and it is there for all to see.

It was a good thing, because it exposed him to a lot of people now that will NOT sell, trade or buy from him.

I agree totally with what you said about him wanting the attention, but it got a lot of other people's attention as well. People that may of considered trading or buying from him.

Sometimes a thread has to drag on and on like that to get the end result, which was him being kicked off and a lot of people seeing what a liar he is.

He thought he was playing a mind game, (Sadly, he also thought he was winning) so we all played along and the end result was a silenced Ryan.

It's because of people like him that everyone else has to be so careful and why the consumers fear they will be burned when they buy online reptiles

Correct, and that is exactly what this thread achieved... there are a lot more people that will NOT get burned by Ryan.
 
Wow, what a great thread.
I spent my entire break reading this thread.

What I learned reading this thread.

In Ryan's Trude's world......if an animal gets sick and does not get worse......it is 100% healthy.

I wonder what he would call it if it actually got better? 200% healthy?

Adopt an animal. 2 weeks later decide you have work and too much school so go ahead and sell it. Yeah I was born yesterday. I never heard that routine before.

thanks for the entertainment ryan.
 
I'm a bit surprised

I guess I have not been keeping up on the evolution of this site lately as I didn't realize that fauna was now going to ban exceptionally stupid people.

I was very happy with the old status quo which allowed your average idiot all the rope to hang him/her self that they wanted. I always thought that free speach was enough of a resource to guarantee self-destruction without having to resort to any kind of censorship.

Additionally, there are very few people out there that are so completely mentally handicapped to be as funny as Ryan. I want to laugh some more. Can't we p-l-e-e-e-e-a-s-e let him back?
 
he should have to pay his own fines. why would you want to support someone who scames people? he adopted snakes then tryd to make a profit on them. and you want to support him. puts you in the same boat as him.
 
RULES

He should not be allowed back untill HE pays the fine. This thread was for exposing a liar, scammer and that was done... this is not just so you can get a laugh out of it.
 
Well, for the sake of more entertainment:

Following are copies of emails from Mr. Trude I have received:

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


What the hell does that mean? Now you're gonna try to extort 10 dollars out of me before I can even view your website, webmaster? That's not very fair. Now I can't even see my thread or defend myself, webmaster. please explain webmaster. I don't understand almighty webmaster.

My response:

From: fauna
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


I think it is pretty self explanatory. You are suspended from the site until you pay a $10 fine. Kind of like a traffic ticket sort of thing. You were warned multiple times about your language and you chose to ignore those warnings. Did you really think we were going to put up with it forever?

Fair? You think it is more fair for me to allow you to be abusive to all of the other members on my site by having to read your messages calling everyone morons and idiots? Sorry, I disagree. Actually it was one of my moderators who initiated this suspension, but I fully agree with his assessment that it was time to put the brakes on your actions.

Actually, I really don't care if you pay the fine or not. One of the beauties of this method I have instituted that the ban is completely optional based on your own decision. So it is now your choice to make whether you can get back on the site or not.

Please note that if you should re-register, as soon as it is discovered, all subsequent postings you make will be deleted along with your new registration.

I am making an effort to clean up the way people act on my site. You can either help with this process or be gone. Your choice.


----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


Well Ritchie, I can't even read what other people are saying about me. That was my only source of entertainment. Reading your precious website was my life. I'm sure you can relate. Just erase my account. Don't block my IP address from even viewing your site. Please Ritchie! I need my Fauna. What if a valued patron to your site (not a bad, bad person(shame on me) like myself) was at my house and wanted to access his account? I don't know a single real live person that has ever heard of Faunaclassifieds.com but what if Ritchie? Just what if? Is that fair? I don't think so. Don't persecute my computer. It did no wrong. It was me Ritchie. I'm sorry. Please forgive me almighty webmaster.


No response from me.


----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


Oh, Ritchie, just out of curiosity, how would I go about paying your little fine? Not that I have any plans of giving you 10 of my hard earned dollars but I didn't notice any way to pay. At least with traffic tickets it is stated plain and simple on the back how to make restitution for my awful crime. Aren't you a cop or something anyway? Or just a gung ho military boy that wants to be a cop? I remember dealing with you the last time you kicked me off your beloved website for spamming. (Which actually was a mistake) And thinking how much of a geek you seemed to be. You know, the kid that always got picked on in school by the cool kids so he went out and got himself some authority to get revenge? You that guy Ritchie?

And when I told him he could pay the $10 fine via [email protected],

From: fauna
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


You can pay the fine via Paypal to [email protected], if you so desire.


Here is his response:
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


Nah, I'll pass.
 
paying my fine was the best 10 bucks i ever spent, i hope he is being sarcastic about how he cant live with out fauna. are we are really supposed to belive a guy like this is married with children, this guy is lieing about every aspect from his personal life to the aninmals he is selling on here. i hope he has no way to opean a paypal account and pay the fine.
 
Re: I hope Kenny got some warning points too

pitbullophis said:
. That puts me at 15. A whole 85 more and then I'm banned from this pissy little website. But that's OK, cause if I cared to, all I gotta do is make up a new name and blow right bast the ingenius fullproof plan to stop bad people like myself.
Please Ritchie! I need my Fauna

wow those two quotes above sure do look real funny to me.
first he calls it a pissy little website. (Like most bad guys do)
Then he gets banned and starts crying about it.

and let me go on.

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: FaunaClassifieds Forums Warning Notification


Oh, Ritchie, just out of curiosity, how would I go about paying your little fine? Not that I have any plans of giving you 10 of my hard earned dollars but I didn't notice any way to pay. At least with traffic tickets it is stated plain and simple on the back how to make restitution for my awful crime. Aren't you a cop or something anyway? Or just a gung ho military boy that wants to be a cop? I remember dealing with you the last time you kicked me off your beloved website for spamming. (Which actually was a mistake) And thinking how much of a geek you seemed to be. You know, the kid that always got picked on in school by the cool kids so he went out and got himself some authority to get revenge? You that guy Ritchie?

1. I AM RITCHIE
2. This gung ho military MAN who wants to be a cop welcomes any little boy such as yourself to come over and prove your manliness or lack thereof. (OH looky I stoop just like everyone else and talk tough over the internet......oh gee I feel so macho. muy macho)
3. The webslave is RICH
4. I do not remember kicking you off this site. If I did....Well then you deserved it.
5. Yeah I am a geek. and who is begging to the geek? YOU
6. yeah I got picked on in elementary school. that is over 20 years ago. Do you feel better? do you feel like a real man yet? Do you feel huge? do you feel better? ( I swear, these kids, it is so easy to make them feel better about themselves)
 
dude wtf are you talking about

Self explanatory really but I will explain


1. I stated my name is Ritchie
2. He made some remarks about me being in the military. So I responded
3. I told him the webslave's name is RICH (we are two different individuals, ie 2 different people)
4. pretty self explanatory
5. Yes I am a geek. And I pointed out that he is begging to the geek. (which makes him lower than a geek)
6. The point was elementary school was over 20 years ago. I am 33 now. I do not think anyone would want to pick on me. Hence his arguement is null and void.


all the above came from his e-mail.
I ansewered them.

tought it was simple
 
I just wanted to bring up a little history regarding Ryan Trude now that my memory has been refreshed...

I remember dealing with you the last time you kicked me off your beloved website for spamming. (Which actually was a mistake)
Ryan was indeed banned from this site before. In may of last year, he posted a pyramid scam in about 30 different forums on this site

Firstly, banning him was no mistake, as he sorely deserved it. Secondly, the little liar's own admission tells us that his spamming the site was not a mistake...

What are you talking about? Think I'm funny? I think I was just posting something everyone's interested in. Making money. What does that have to do with being funny? Your website? EEEEwwwww, you're scary. I don't even know what you're talking about. Get alife. "You're" ####ing site sucks anyway. I love people that talk #### over the internet. #### you. Pussy.
 
What are you talking about? Think I'm funny? I think I was just posting something everyone's interested in. Making money. What does that have to do with being funny? Your website? EEEEwwwww, you're scary. I don't even know what you're talking about. Get alife. "You're" ####ing site sucks anyway. I love people that talk #### over the internet. #### you. Pussy.

Thanks Ken.
Now I know why he sounded familiar.
Even that e-mail or response looks familiar.

This site sucks.
pissy little website.

then whamo.....please please please I need my fauna.
 
Yep

What are you talking about? Think I'm funny? I think I was just posting something everyone's interested in. Making money. What does that have to do with being funny? Your website? EEEEwwwww, you're scary. I don't even know what you're talking about. Get alife. "You're" ####ing site sucks anyway. I love people that talk #### over the internet. #### you. Pussy.

One of the great things about the internet for little boys like ryan is that they can make statements like the one above and then have the luxuary of being able to hide behind a keyboard, like the snivelling little coward he is!

Of course he'd never dare show his face at a show and tell some of the people who he is... wouldn't be good for his health!
 
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