Paul Shooter has a new story on the paper's site. A bank robbery that happened yesterday.
If no-one saw Paul Shooter at the site, or if no-one saw him interview anyone involved, the question now is:
When was the last time a bank was robbed by a thin white man?
Coincidence that one is robbed now, after the arrival of Paul Shooter, who by all accounts is a poor man in desperate need of money.
I think Rip Dinkle better get on this RIGHT NOW!!
He is the only one who can take on Paul Shooter.

Rip Dinkle here on the scene. I have a copy of the day old news from The Wareham Slantedserver.  Here is the article by Paul Shooter, the invisible ninja.

Citizen's Bank robbed on Thursday
Paul Shooter
Posted: Friday, August 7, 2009 10:58 am

    A branch of Citizens Bank inside Stop & Shop of Cranberry Highway was robbed on Thursday by an unarmed suspect who fled in a waiting car.
    The amount taken from the bank is not being released at this time.
    The suspect, described as a white mail approximately 6 feet tall, approached the counter with a note demanding money, police said.
    Local law enforcement is not studying a surveillance video on the incident, which occurred at approximately 1 p.m.
    Anyone with any information should contact Wareham police at (508) 295-1473

Apparently the local law enforcement didn't see a need to study the surveillance? Are they using jedi skills? Perhaps Paul Shooter is trying to throw off the robbers by stating that local law enforcement is not studying the video? Wow, in another article on the same robbery:

Citizens Bank robbed
By Ruth Thompson
Thu Aug 06, 2009, 10:28 PM EDT

Wareham - Police are examining surveillance video that captured a robbery at the Citizens Bank in the Stop & Shop on Cranberry Highway Thursday afternoon.

According to police, a man entered the bank at approximately 1 p.m. and approached the teller counter with a note demanding money. He did not have a weapon.

Police said money was taken but could not comment on the amount.

There were no injuries reported.

Police said they are looking for a white male about 6 feet tall. They said he arrived in a car with another individual and left in a car with that individual.

Everything was caught on videotape, police said .

Detectives and law enforcement personnel are following up with witnesses who were in the store, as well as with the bank manager and a teller.

Anyone with any information on the robbery is urged to contact the Wareham Police Department.

We have a problem here! Paul Shooter says they aren't studying the videos, while seasoned journalist Ruth Thompson says they are? Who do we believe? This is now a quandry we need to fix!  Paul Shooter, would you care to comment?

This is Rip Dinkle, reporting live from ...well, live anyway.

Rip Dinkle...PLEASE...kick Paul Shooter's ass.

I just heard Rip Dinkle is taking a 12 hour vacation to Disney. He is flying there, using his super powers, and flying back in time for bed. He wanted me to mention he is glad he isn't paid in bagels!

"The suspect, described as a white mail approximately 6 feet tall, approached the counter with a note demanding money, police said. "

This sentence threw me for a loop..I was picturing a tall envelope.  I really was confused and then I figured it out.

"..Local law enforcement is not studying a surveillance video on the incident"

"Those Power Elite Bastards better stop pointing out my mistakes or I'm gonna throw poop at them."
                   
PShooter(not to be confused with Bobo's proofreader)

Last edited by PShooter (2009-08-08 00:53:47)

Befpre I head back down, I want to share another piece of news...Barney Frank seems like a great guy on the phone. He talks a bit fast for me, but we had a lovely chat today! He does agree the actions of some people in this town are deplorable!  Just a tidbit!

Paul Shooter, I'm going to find you and tickle you until you tell everyone you are really Harry Potter!

The festive Rip Dinkle......signing off !

OK SO NOW WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE PAUL SHOOTER IS A DOUBLE AGENT WORKING FOR SLAGER??????? IT WAS FUNNY AT FIRST BUT SLAGER REALLY NEEDS MENTAL HELP. PAUL SHOOTER ARRIVED AFTER CONSTANT CRITICISM OF SLAGER INTERVIEWING HIMSELF..... HOW CAN PAUL SHOOTER BE A CORRESPONDENT IF HE CANT INTERVIEW ANYONE BECAUSE IF HE DOES HE WOULD REVEAL HIS SECRET IDENTITY? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

SLAGER'S CRYSTAL BALL ABOUT HIS DISNEY VACATION:

"I WILL NEVER FORGET NICOLE SPLASHING IN THE POOL AND SAYING DISNEYWORLD IS THE MOST FUN PLACE GOD EVER INVENTED"

SHOULD HAVE READ:

I WILL NEVER FORGET WHEN I TOLD NICOLE TO GET OUT OF THE POOL AFTER 10 MINUTES BECAUSE I HAD TO ATTEND A LIVE CHAT WITH THE RAG FOLLOWERS. I THEN TOLD NICOLE TO GET READY BECAUSE WE HAVE TO GET TO THE AIRPORT , OUR 6 HOUR VACATION TO DISNEYWORLD IS OVER

Oh my God, Oh my God! Oh my God!  I read his explanation of Paul Shooter in the paper version today and I've literally been stuck in a 4 hour laughing coma...."We have an undercover man in the power elite!" BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA.....Oh my God, excuse me people, I need to clean myself up because literally, I peed (pshootered) all over myself for 4 hours straight of non-stop laughter.

Oh my God, Bobo.  I swear to God, I never thought I would thank you for anything, but thank you for this.  Really, thank you for Paul Shooter.  I'm sorry, I have to go laugh some more now....BAHHHHHH HA HA HAH AHA HAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Ham, I should be scolding you for reading the rag, but are you serious? We have a deadly spy in our midst?  What incredible recall this spy has--no not that kind of recall--I mean memory. He never needs to take a note, and yet he gets quotes and facts right word for word. He is a wonder spy. 


Ok, I think I'm going to see the spy v. spy cartoons showing up here before long. We may just be entering into a cold war in Wareham. KGB vs. CBW?

So, this is not a scold because, really, I could use a good laugh as we head into the weekend. So, I'll give you a pass today.


By the way--the Cape Verdean festival is tomorrow. Be on the lookout for a man wearing a trench coat, speaking into his shoe, and entering the cone of silence with a bag of salt water taffy. Have your cell phones handy to take a photo and reveal all here. Boris Shooter, we are not afraid.

Bobo, the Funny Farm called.  They read your explanation of Paul Shooter, and they went to work right away getting your rubber room ready.  They say let them know when you're all packed, and they'll send the men with the white lab coats and nets over with the paddy wagon to pick you up.

Oh, and they also said....."BAHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!"

OH MY GOD, oh my god, BAH HA HA HAH AH HA HA Oh my God, people, please sit down for this, "PAUL SHOOTER HAS WRITTEN A COLUMN ABOUT WHY HE IS PAUL SHOOTER!

BAHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....Oh god, oh god...I never thought it was possible to laugh non stop for 24 hours straight...Oh god please Bob please...just take a break, I can't keep laughing like this....BAHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

"For your information, jerkoffs..." BAHHH HA HA HA HA HAHA !!! Oh my God Bobo, please, Prozac...get some prozac, or don't because this is the funniest meltdown I've ever seen! 

BAHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

People, please....don't read the Paul Shooter column without strapping on some depends on yourself first.  If you pee (pshooter) yourself from uncontrollable fits of laughter, don't say you weren't warned.

BAHHHHHHH HA HA HA HAH AHAH A!

marny yes "For your information, jerkoffs, Paul Shooter was killed in a car crash. He was a friend of mine from college. None of you punks are half the man he was. I know why you are all so scared. You should be. I know all your dirty little secrets. I told Rob Slager most of them"

You might be onto something, Marny, I've been working on a theory that when the Barracuda jacket is on, he's Bobo, but when the jacket comes off, Paul Shooter comes out.

For your information, jerkoffs!  Hahaha

You know, "Paul Shooter" seems pretty damn violent, talking about how he thinks Bobo should "take a baseball bat to people's heads" but all kidding aside, this sentence right here is disgusting:

"I would have walked up to the stage and socked Bob Brady in the mouth for talking smack like that about me."

Let's get this straight, "Paul Shooter."  Bobo should "sock" a former selectman in the face because Bobo doesn't like what the former selectman is saying during a meeting that Bobo barged into when he told Bobo not to come?  It seems like if you barge into a meeting that you're not invited to and have been asked to leave from, you don't have a right to be unhappy about what people say about you, and certainly don't have the right to "sock them in the face."

I would say that Mr. Brady should get himself a lawyer, because that sounds like a threat, in my opinion.  I think that should be enough to justify banning Bobo from any future meetings.  Mr Brady should not have to let someone come into his future meetings that published that Mr. Brady should be "socked in the mouth" for speaking his mind - even if it was by "Paul Shooter" (Yeah, of course, Paul Shooter, yea right) Bobo let that be published on his website, and that's enough to ban him from future meetings.

Mr. Brady is owed an apology.  The only satisfactory apology is for Bobo to resign.

And Bobo, just for future reference, if you want to write like the cool younguns, "talking smack," hasn't been used since 1990, about a year after your barracuda went out of style.

(And I don't think people have said "socked" since 1950.)

Last edited by Hamatron5000 (2009-08-07 22:57:15)

I guess we were right. He sounds like a badass. I'm almost sorry I took his name. He actually makes some good points and sounds like he's in agreement with some of the views discussed here. Then he goes astray and sounds like he's on a quest to save the town from anarchy and mayhem(and somehow, allying himself with Bobo satisfies his quest). It sounds like Bobo's buttheads like to threaten alot. LM debated some dinks who threatened anyone who dared go to Bbrady's meeting by saying it would get ugly, etc.. And now badass Paul Shooter shooting his yapper.
I will say this. I don't think it's Bobo(at least this time). But that doesn't change my belief that Bobo has certainly interviewed himself before, and that's not just misleading, it's weird. Like when someone refers to themselves in the third person, just bizarre.

PShooter(not to be confused with Bobo's Badass)

Last edited by PShooter (2009-08-09 01:13:34)

I figured that if we all made enough Paul Shooter jokes, Bobo would start making himself look out of his freakin mind by trying to convince everyone Paul Shooter is real.

I'm patting myself on the back right now.  Change your name to Fiddle, Bobo, because we all just played you like one.

Last edited by Hamatron5000 (2009-08-08 01:05:01)

Some thoughts for and about Paul Shooter

First, I have no doubt Paul Shooter is a real person, not Slager. Not only is the writing style different but I don't see Slager as being creative and/or self-critical enough to construct such an alter identity.

I think he or she is the best thing that has happened to the other Wareham Observer.

I would like to see Paul Shooter post here. While there are over-the-top posts on this site there is mostly thoughtful debate. There's no way the message board on a paid Slager site mostly boycotted by those who post here will have the dialogue needed between opposing sides.

This site needs more people posting rational defenses of Slager and the BOS.

Nobody forces you to read posts you consider obnoxious.

If someone posts something like a Mapquest to someone's house call them on it.

However, don't turn around and write something like "If I was Rob Slager I’d take a baseball bat to their heads. He knows who a lot of them are. He has a lot more self-control than I do."

If Paul Shooter wants to remain anonymous that is obviously up to them. However I hope they realize that by doing so they loose considerable credibility, as do I by hiding behind a nickname.

In all modesty I think I'd gain credibility, at least with some, if I used my name and people checked me out. This might also be true for Paul Shooter.

In fact, here's an idea. Paul, fess up to who you are and I'll do the same.

I still say that Rip Dinkle can kick Paul Shooter's ass.
Without a baseball bat.
Paul Shooter is a punk. Big mouth. Ignorant. Coward. Running scared of life.
If he truly believes that his life is in danger, it would be time to fight or flight.
Look for Paul Shooter flying by at any time of the day.
His flight should begin now...mostly because Rip Dinkle is gong to kick his ass.

Look, anyone with a modicum of talent can write in a different voice---it's called FICTION which is what both ragboy and pshooter are good at. It's the facts that seem to present an insurmountable problem to these guys or guy as the case most likely is.

Don't waste your time over this issue. This is not the first time ragboy has tried to get everyone riled up by printing some sort of horse crap. We all knew this was coming. There were too many pshooter jokes on this site for pshooter/ragboy to not speak up. That is his/their problem. He doesn't know when to let the crap go.

MY ADVICE TO YOU ALL--ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL DAY--STOP BY THE CAPE VERDEAN FESTIVAL--FIRE UP THE BARBIE--GRAB A LONG TALL COOL ONE AND CELEBRATE THE DEMISE OF THE RAG--IT'S COUNTDOWN TIME.

Last edited by Molly (2009-08-08 10:26:33)

Let me make a suggestion. It's time to stop feeding the debate. Let's just enjoy the Paul Shooter jokes and if he's real, he's also completely full of it. He wants to make a difference, but uses a Pen name, he claims to know everyone's secrets, who cares?  He is angry and wants the Bagelmeister to take a bat to people, does anyone find that similar to steroid rage?  None of this makes sense or really matters. I quit worrying about physical threats or acts of violence when i was about 16.

Other than that, I really like Rip Dinkle, he DESERVES his own cartoon!

paul shooter has changed the bank robbery story now law enforcement IS looking at tapes...

Molly wrote:

There were too many pshooter jokes on this site for pshooter/ragboy to not speak up. That is his/their problem.

I don't know about the rest of you, but that was what I was hoping for all along.  We all knew he was a wack job.  Now everyone else knows too.  Thanks Bobo!  Cheers!

urneighbor wrote:

First, I have no doubt Paul Shooter is a real person, not Slager. Not only is the writing style different but I don't see Slager as being creative and/or self-critical enough to construct such an alter identity.

Sorry, urneighbor, there's a rather large hole in your observation. Yes the new editorial by shooter is in a different style, but all the previous stories are in exactly the same style writing as the ragman. So, the question is , why did the style change for the editorial?

So, should anyone want to put this entire matter to bed, I could offer a solution, file a complaint with the police. Here's my train (wreck) of through.

This was printed in the editorial: "If I was Rob Slager I’d take a baseball bat to their heads. He knows who a lot of them are."

Quite simply, Threats Have Been Made.
Anyone who is known by their real name here, at the CBW, at the Take Back Wareham meeting (Bill, Bob, Larry, Cara, etc.) all fall into the group who were threatened and could, as the law states, "fear for their personal safety" as a result of these threats.

The defense would be, the treats were not suggested, but rather in the context of, I said I would if I were in his place, not that "he should" but, and here's the big twist in the plot, if the ragman is indeed shooter, or, if those that fall into the group threatened feel there is a reasonable chance that the ragman is shooter, then until it is determined that the ragman is not shooter the victims of the threats could be reasonably distressed by the situation.

So, anyone who feels threatened could file a complaint with the local police regarding what they believe are threats made directly to them by the ragman, then the ragman would be legally obligated to prove that he did not write the editorial.

Quite simply put, if the ragman wrote, "If I was Rob Slager I’d take a baseball bat to their heads. He knows who a lot of them are." he is saying, "I plan on taking a baseball bat to their head" which is quite disturbing not to mention ilegal.

I wrote about Shooter (who I still don't think is Slager) on the other Shooter thread, and what I saw as evidence of some kind of paranoia.

I just noticed a question directed at me on the other thread as to whether I thought he could be dangerous.

The baseball bat comment was disturbing and seemed to go beyond hyperbole. Combine this with paranoid tendencies, and the statement that there is self-admitted dirt in Shooter's history, if that involves violence, I would be worried about his being dangerous.

Last edited by urneighbor (2009-08-09 08:34:40)

Marny, See above.

It is totally irresponsible if not illegal for Slager to allow someone to write something as a columnist on his site that may incite someone to violence.

It would be bad enough if if was an anonymous blog post, but this was a column. Shooter writes "But I asked Rob Slager if I could write this without him editing anything out. He said yes. He said I could write whatever I want as long as it is true."

First, a column includes opinion so the truth would only apply to things stated as facts. That's the minor point. What is most important here is that Slager IS the editor and HE has to be held accountable for a columnist who recommends not only violence, but a violent attack that could easily be lethal.

Last edited by urneighbor (2009-08-09 08:41:29)

It's okay to be a wack job as long as the wack isn't a blow to the head with a baseball bat (see posts just above).

This one line may be the worst thing Slager has ever published.

Again:

If I was Rob Slager I’d take a baseball bat to their heads. He knows who a lot of them are. He has a lot more self-control than I do.

Note that Shooter is also admitting a lack of self-control himself, perhaps a proclivity to violence. Who knows, maybe the dirt on him is that he has violence in his history.

It may or may not be true that Paul Shooter was a real person he knew in college, but shooter is also a name that suggests violence, and there were many other pen names he could have selected.

We know Slager supports someone else who was violent - George Coleman.

What is there with this guy?

Last edited by urneighbor (2009-08-09 08:48:42)

I think we may be talking more than a smack in the mouth. A baseball bat to the head is extreme, it is a threat to kill a person.

One has to assume that if Paul Shooter is attending these meetings, and if Slager has told him the identities of people he is particularly angry at, there's a potential Shooter may be deranged enough to think he'd being doing his friend a favor by taking a baseball bat to their head.

Even if the phrase is hyperbole, Shooter has already admitted to a lack of self-control, suggesting he may be violent and attempt a less than lethal attack.

As I wrote before, Slager assumes total responsibility for what Shooter wrote in his column.

If Slager worked for a reputable publication he'd be reprimanded if not fired for allowing a columnist to write this, and certainly the bosses would see that the columnist was fired.

Last edited by urneighbor (2009-08-09 09:16:51)