# Small Town Mayor Steals From Dead Marine, Cheats Marine's Mother, Defies Courts. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098 "2006-05-02T14:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/61 "2006-05-02T23:53:51Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Meh, you’re probably right. Anyway, I’m going to bookmark this so I can refer to it the next time we have a discussion about how worthless so-called television journalism is. That would be an interesting thread. I mean use the same link and add some relevent content and you have a decent OP not like this worthless outrage of the day OP by Bosda. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/62 "2006-05-03T01:08:11Z")
So, am I the only one who read all of **Bosda** ’s posts in the bird flu thread in the voice of Walter Winchell? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/63 "2006-05-03T01:11:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Anyway, even if you were a veteran, **Bosda** ’s name as the threadstarter should have tipped you off that you weren’t going to like it. I don’t even know why the title should enter into it, unless you’re a former Marine or . Well, isn’t that the point? It’s just barely possible that if someone has annoying posting habits and someone calls them on it, maybe they’ll get a clue that they are not universally well-regarded on the boards. Maybe they’ll even cut back on the behavior. While if one says nothing (the famous “if you don’t like it, don’t read it” approach), the annoyance lingers. One thinks, “That seems like an interesting topic” and clicks, and, as the page renders, sees Bosda as the author, and thinks, “Crap, fooled again.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/64 "2006-05-03T02:23:25Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > One thinks, “That seems like an interesting topic” and clicks, and, as the page renders, sees Bosda as the author, and thinks, “Crap, fooled again.” But the OP’s name always appears under the thread title on the forum front page, so you’d know ahead of time anyway, wouldn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/65 "2006-05-03T02:26:53Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But the OP’s name always appears under the thread title on the forum front page, so you’d know ahead of time anyway, wouldn’t you? There you go again, using reason and logic. Haven’t you learn this has no place in the pit. Off to GQ with you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/66 "2006-05-03T02:27:00Z")
I don’t think anybody is suggesting that nothing be said. There are just more appropriate ways to call a person out. Threadshitting, as Kimstu put it, is nothing more than a hijack. Anybody actually interested in this thread topic winds up being unable to stoke up a discussion because it all becomes about the posters instead of the topic. Kaylasdad99 had an interesting point completely overwhelmed by the bickering, I’m sure other people who may have contributed to a discussion didn’t bother. A better way, the standard way, to call out a poster is to open up a Pit thread. Put his name in the title, make a case for his bad posting habits, and see where it goes. Who knows, maybe there are a dozen long time posters with Bosda on their mental ignore list, who won’t bother opening up one of his threads, and won’t contribute at all to this. To sum up, if you want to Pit somebody, just fucking Pit them already. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/67 "2006-05-03T12:24:20Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > So, am I the only one who read all of **Bosda** ’s posts in the bird flu thread in the voice of Walter Winchell? OK, _that_ was clever & original. 🙂🆒 And kind. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/68 "2006-05-03T14:29:38Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Revtim, I guess you failed to notice, this is the pit. People want to post shit, we can tell them how we feel about it. I was not really rude, just sort of tossed off a comment. Bosda is the one coming back like a flaming asshole. I am constantly astounded by people who are astounded by people expressing thier opinions, in the pit of all places. Imagine, a person posting a critical comment about something posted in the pit. Are you sure you were astounded, cause if you were, thats just…astounding. I enjoy Bosda’s threads. You’re being an oversensitive and, might I add, increasingly annoying fuckwit in this instance. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/69 "2006-05-03T14:38:12Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But the OP’s name always appears under the thread title on the forum front page, so you’d know ahead of time anyway, wouldn’t you? In considerably tinier lettering, yes. However, it’s not yet completely second-nature with me to check the thread’s originator to make sure they’re not a total wanker. And there’s always the tiny oft-dashed hope that \* one of these days \* Bosda (or posters of his ilk) will actually furnish an OP worth reading. Further, if you go to the index page, you only see the name of the most recent poster. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/70 "2006-05-06T01:17:22Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Wow. Why is this putz not in jail? Just in case no one else answered it . . . . becasue this is a civil matter, not a legal one. He didn’t steal the money, it was sent to him by the probate court. If he is really disobeying a court order to return the money, then the ante is upped a bit, but it’s up to the survivors to pursue this through the court system. People don’t get put in jail just becasue they do somehting unfair. It’s called “due process,” and he’s entitled to it, even if he IS an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098/71 "2006-05-06T01:18:55Z")
> [@Lizard](#): > > Just in case no one else answered it . . . . becasue this is a civil matter, not a legal one. He didn’t steal the money, it was sent to him by the probate court. If he is really disobeying a court order to return the money, then the ante is upped a bit, but it’s up to the survivors to pursue this through the court system. People don’t get put in jail just becasue they do somehting unfair. It’s called “due process,” and he’s entitled to it, even if he IS an asshole. Excuse me, I meant “becasue this is a civil matter, not a **criminal** one.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-town-mayor-steals-from-dead-marine-cheats-marines-mother-defies-courts/355098.md?page=3)