Great moments in Punkboard History part 1: The Dimmy Files [updated]
These posts are dedicated to legendary threads or events that have conspired on punkboard, since its present inception in November of 2005.
Now, lets talk about James V. O’Brien the third. Dimmy as he became affectionately known, is a HAM radio operator (callsign W4AMP). He somehow stumbled upon Eraza, which will be detailed in a future article. Quick refresher: the San Diego Punk Messageboard was hosted by Free Radio San Diego for quite awhile. Everything was good other than the random bannings, sandboxin’, and filtered words. The admin of the FRSD punkboard decided to code his own messageboard portal, because buying or leasing vBulletin is NOT PUNK. So, he made his own messageboard, which was wrought with problems. Quotes were screwy for quite a bit, oftentimes critical functions just didn’t work, you get the idea. The basic premise was that Eraza was to be ad-supported, but all advertising revenue was going to be donated to local charities. Good idea in theory, notsomuch in practice.
So, back to Dimmy O’Brien. Dimmy was a former sailor, as well as the operator of Eraza. They got along for quite awhile, then Eraza posters started noticing how dim godzilla/max tout was (Dimmy’s screennames). Dimmy got into quite a tizzy, and started leaving negative and anyonmous comments for posters. Posters bascially revolted, Eraza’s operator realized how much of a loose cannon he was, and he was banned.
Enter Dimmy’s reign of retard on punkboard. 3-22-06. I believe that was Dimmy’s first appearance, in downtownpunkchick’s I hate commercials thread. Notice how he’s pretty much ignored, and denies knowing who godzilla is…himself.
A week later and hes back, but this time he actually makes a thread. Max tout unveils the most wicked pwn ever…calling damnit a birdchest. What the hell? Of course he also accuses the board of being a bunch of liberal commie pinko drug dealers and users.
The lameness continues. Max tout is so annoying, certain hackerish types get involved and run background checks on his publically available FCC HAM licensing information, as seen here.
Websites are registered, Dimmy gets mad and sends Hosting4beer (punkboard’s benevelont host), a threatening (lol) email:
cyber stalking, rico statute, copyright infringement
Inbox X
from w4amp@bellsouth.net
to
date subject mailed-by
The owners and administrators of domain hosting4beer.com are actively engaged in civil and criminal violations against myself and my family. Some of the US Federal code being broken by your customers include Interstate Cyberstalking, RICO, and violation of several drug laws. This has been reported to the FBI and my local police already.
The following is from the Domains by Proxy TOS, located at http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx?prog_id=
Prohibitions: Domains By Proxy will not do business with you,
nor protect your identity, if you:
• Transmit spam, viruses or harmful computer programs;
• Violate the law or infringe a third party’s trademark or copyright;
• Engage in morally objectionable activities, including but not limited to those which are child pornographic, defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, racist, or otherwise objectionable.These are the following locations where copyrighted pictures of myself and family are illegally hosted on your servers:
http://www.tardfest.com/showthread.php?t=710
This URL was recently created for the sole harassment of myself and family:
http://www.dimmyobrien.com/
Meta tags from this site are :<html> <head> <title>Coming soon</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <meta name="keywords" content="James O. Brien III, James OBrien, James O'Brien, Jim O'Brien, Jim OBrien, James O'Brien cedarville, 110 Park Street Cedarville Georgia 30125, (770)748-9074, W4AMP, HAM radio operators, Bellsouth employees, Jim OBrien Bellsouth, godzilla, max tout, max_tout, godzilla troll, thepunkboard, eraza, own a troll, troll pwned, internet troll, usenet troll"> <img src="http://www.dimmyobrien.com/images/wall.JPG"> </body> </html> which contains my address and private phone number, this shows your customer's true motive and would be very easy for a judge and jury.
All the images were taken from my main web page without my express permission:
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=230170&ck=As clearly stated on the above page, images are copyrighted 2005,2006 by myself.
The violations of your customer are also in violation of Paulding 98CV1240, a standing Georgia court order. This order is enforcable both in civil and criminal court.
Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, I request all images owned by me are removed from your customers accounts. I also request that domains by proxy do everything in it’s power to stop the criminal activities of it’s customer lest a motion for criminal co-conspiracy be filed in US Court, Northern District.
James O’Brien
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Back to the background report: It ends up that James O’Brien has actually been convicted of Felony Stalking relating to the internet, prior to deciding to join Eraza and Punkboard. Good job Dimmy!
So, James O’Brien, as recently as April 2007, still stalks punkboard members
So now you know.
Update:
Mr. O’Brien drunk HAM’ing, selling drugs, felony convictions.
A little piece of James O’Brien’s criminal record
Before this post was written, Dimmy was consistently trolling PBN, including posting viewer’s full names, places of employment, and generally being a 46 year old douchebag to our readers. Being a thirty year old daytime bar patron is preferable compared to being a James O’Brien. You can see him (W4AMP) here on this page.
Comment by tony sperelli
lol thx for the update, c u on tpb dudez
Comment by some dude who likes blufoot
good subject. bad writing. you fail.
Comment by catdirt
Tenth grade education at best. It must be punk to be stupid. lol
Comment by lol u mad?
LOL U MAD DIMMY?
Comment by James O'Brien
Just so everyone knows, I take it in the ass and so does my father. That
is all.
Comment by poordanisbroke
http://www.thepunkboard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34650
begging for 80$ a month? how pathetic. your getting used, moron. wait until you get hit with some legal action. LOL douche