Drew Jacksich Wrote:
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> Just to make clear the reason I was booted from
> Toadorders. As it is (I assume) common knowledge
> of my vitriolic dislike of and total lack of
> respect for LOGGERHUGGER, my postings on that
> forum were looked upon with extreme disdain by
> fearless leader Kim Jon...I mean the Toad. This
> all dates back to October of 2008 and the final
> steam trips on the McCloud. LOGGERHUGGER was
> claiming his trip would be the last---it wasn't
> and he knew it. Somewhere around that time I
> started calling him "The Oracle From Bend" and
> point out his manipulation of the truth and
> extreme self inflated ego. Bang, all of a sudden
> my accoun was closed and I was given a $9.00
> credit for unused time. I later got a email from
> Toad telling me what I had to do to get back on
> his website. Essentially, I was to promise the
> ultimate of respect for the great MEH and I (along
> with $30.00 would be reinstated. My response
> contained a series of words starting with these
> letters F,O,A,and H.

I remember all of that stuff! And the reason I was kicked off is equally as ridiculous. The "master" over on that other web page posted a video that was, in my opinion, extremely dangerous and stupid. He got a new "toy" for his camera that allowed him to mount a video camera to his vehicle. So he took the thing up to the dirt road that runs along Cajon and the main line. He was "pacing" a UP freight from about 5 feet away. The train was to his left, and he was flying down this dirt road that was one-land in many places, with blind curves. Everybody was, as usual, praising him and saying how awesome it was. I was the lone voice that jumped in and said no, it's not awesome, and as a matter of fact it's damn dangerous. In the video, he almost had a head-on collision with a pickup truck that was coming from the opposite direction. They both had to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting each other. It would have been a disaster if they hit, because the train would have been involved as well. It was just a damn stupid thing to do. And I pointed out that there are "impressionable" people on that website who play,
Monkey see, Monkey do", and that some kid is going to go up there and try it and he'll get killed in the process (or kill someone else, or cause a train wreck, or trespass, or whatever). It was an all-around poor decision on his part, and I stated such. Next thing I knew, poof, I was gone.

There are some other weird things that happened which led up to that, such as me posting a link to a YouTube video of something that was pretty cool in a European train station. My post got deleted and I was "temporarily suspended" for doing that. I said what the hell is going on here? People post YouTube links all the time. That's when I got a run-around answer that still makes no sense (and people still post YouTube links today).

He also treats his paying customers very disrespectfully. Just recently, he made a huge posting about the "inside operations" of his website. As he was describing it, he made a comment that running Trainorders is like working in a mental hospital with patients, or like it was working at a zoo with wild animals. He was talking about YOU--the paying customer. He doesn't care about you, and he has no respect for you. He even sent me a message once that said, "You need counseling". Who in the hell is he to be saying something like that to me? I don't even know the guy. Anyway, my point is simply that, for those who think everything is just hunky-dory over there, it's because you haven't been picked on yet. Give it time---you will be. Until that day comes, you won't understand what many of us are saying. But one day out of the blue, BAM, he'll hit you with something---and then you'll get it.