El Scott Harrell

MyRockingHorse.com is For Sale!

This great domain name, MyRockingHorse.com, is for sale!   
 
I purchased it for my Dad who was in the business of making beautiful wooden rocking horses for several years;  each were heirloom quality and will probably last several lifetimes, but the reality is that many businesses do not. This URL was highly indexed in search engines for a few years and still has inbound links from other active sites.  As a result, this site continues to receive unique traffic hits everyday without any marketing or SEO at all.  Additionally, I have always maintained meta tags for this site so that it would not be dropped off of the search engines completely.

This URL, MyRockingHorse.com, can be used for so many purposes especially in the realm of vintage toys and antiques; it harkens "Nostalgia!."

To someone who might  be interested in eventually needing a lot of traffic quickly, this means it will be extremely easy to attain great search engine placement again with this URL and with minimal effort!  If you are interested in purchasing this domain, please send me an email. At $500 this URL is a steal! 

First person to make payment arrangement gets the goods. I accept V/MC/AMEX/PayPal/Checks/MO

How to Become a Bounty Hunter in 9 Easy Steps.

Becoming a bounty hunter shouldn’t be all that hard right?  I mean I've boiled it down to 9 easy steps…

1.  Find a quality bounty hunter school or training

2.  Get licensed, if required.

3.  If you are unsure if licensing is required, look it up.

4.  Get the essential gear and support systems in place.

5.  Market your services.

6.  If successful, find and arrest the fugitive, then take him to jail.

7.  If successful, invoice and collect for services from client.

8.  Repeat steps 6 through 8 as often as necessary.

9.  Find more bounty hunter training and improve your skills.  Again, repeat as often as necessary.

Actually, I wish it were that easy but it is not- though not impossible as many would have you imagine.

Since I don’t know anything about you or your experience, I am going to assume that you are starting from scratch... no experience with the bail bond industry, skip tracing, taking people into custody, or finding a bounty hunter job.

With that in mind I am going to give you the best advice you will get in our industry:

Commit right now to becoming a lifelong student of the bail recovery tradecraft, which means finding a mentor, taking courses, reading books, research, and networking!  This is not just for the short-term… but also for as long as you intend to find fugitives for business or for pleasure.  I commit to at least 5 hours a week to learning more about some aspect of this business; improving my marketing skills, staying abreast of the changing climate of our industry, studying new methods of skip tracing, etc; each are extremely valuable topics to pursue.

Competency is developed from the study and practice of these skills.  Competency leads to success!

But as I said in my last blog post about bounty hunting, finding the right school is of paramount importance.  No other single decision made by someone wanting to learn to become a bounty hunter is so crucial!

And finding the right course can be tough!  You have to consider a lot of options and weed through the rip-off courses (and there are more than a few) to find a truly great bail recovery course.  Ask about the training director's validity and/or background... if they get offended or defensive, that would be a good sign to stay away.  Pick their brain a little- does what they have to say give you cause for concern or does something feel not quite right?  Walk away if something is wrong..

Regarding my validity and background?  Always great questions to ask... if you are dialed into the bail enforcement community or if you asked around on the newsgroups/boards, or read the various testimonials from our past bail enforcement students, I think that you would be able to answer that question positively for yourself.  I have personally launched the careers of many folks working in the industry today.

I could tell you that I am the real deal until I am blue in the face and you still wouldn't have to believe me.

This is certainly one of the reasons we put out our free introduction to bail enforcement course, you get a small taste of what we have to offer and it certainly adds to our credibility. Does anyone else put out as much free information as we do? No way!  If you haven't done so already, check it out first at:

http://www.bondforfeitures.com/introduction.htm

Our online bounty hunter course is the only state-approved Internet-based training program accepted in states like Texas, Tennessee, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, and Oklahoma for required private investigator continuing education.  More than likely it will be accepted in just a few moths in 3 additional states as well. This could not happen if our training program was a bunch of "hooey," it has to be scrutinized by too many people before it is approved. We've been offering our courses for 4 years now... way before the rush caused by the new TV shows and the websites that followed.

I hope that you will consider either our online training program or coming to one of our seminars!  I honestly think that our online program is the best deal:  it is $129.95, only a fraction of the cost of our $395 seminar but you get exactly the same information and certificates, you get to take your time going through the courses, it comes with some killer extras right now and even though you are studying by yourself- you are not alone in the process.  If you have a question or concern, simply shoot us an email or get on the phone and give us a call.  We'll do our best to tackle whatever is on your mind, which is my company's commitment to its client-students.

With the online course there is no travel or hotel expense either. 

Ultimately a variety of courses and/or books from a few reputable companies would be in your best interest- this is a complicated business and the "pros" all tend to approach the industry a little bit differently and none of us are able to cover everything 100%; it would not hurt to expose yourself to as much as you feel comfortable.

Lastly, I want to leave you with this- having dealt with thousands upon thousands of people asking the most frequent questions about getting started in bail enforcement I find that the one singular cause of frustration and eventual failure is that new people are too busy trying to reinvent the wheel rather than enlisting the help of an investigator who has been in the field a while or availing themselves of their training programs.

Give yourself a fighting chance and start with Step #1 rather than halfway down the list.  You'll be glad you did.

Bounty Hunting

I used to rail against the terms Bounty Hunter and Bounty Hunting because I have always felt that they carried with them an unprofessional stereotype; the reality is if you are in the business of bail enforcement or fugitive recovery for even more than a few moments you instantly realize that we have an image problem.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it must be a duck, right?

But we wonder out loud why...

To put this right out front (and at the risk of appearing to be hypocritical)- yes, I do run a website titled Be A Bounty Hunter.   Somewhere along the way I too gave in to the marketability and "sex appeal" that the popular search term bounty hunter commands; the term out-pulls in the search engines 5 to 1 over the more preferred bail enforcement agent.  Realize however, that I did so in order to reach a wider audience; to make a point and a profit.  Anyone who has read my bail enforcement training manual, Apprehending Bail Fugitives, knows that I promote training our clients in order to bring them around to our way of thinking.  A better trained bail bond investigator means fewer bond forfeitures for the bail bondsman, and therefore a more profitable business locally, but also a healthier industry nationally!

When a few colleagues goaded me into providing a contemporary and professional bail enforcement training program to compete with the ones that had existed at the time several years ago, I told myself that I would not use the term bounty hunter or bounty hunting simply because I desperately wanted to disassociate myself with the image of rogues and media hounds and old men playing dress-up.   I had seen one too many pictures of these scruffy guys in cowboy hats slingin' bandoleers full of ammunition and short barreled shotguns- slurring like they just rolled out of their local watering hole (and in reality most of them had). Then the Media Hound made it onto TV looking and acting more like a hopped-up WWF wrestler in full costume than his Shepherd of the Flock alter-ego in disguise.  Let's not forget the drugged out femme fatale on the big screen last year.  Even the so-called "neo-intellectuals" among us are perpetuating the image of a lone SWAT member wearing para-law enforcement style clothing and carrying an AR-15/M-16.

Instead, I had envisioned a more professional attitude towards bounty hunting training which would in turn more accurately reflect the modern day bounty hunter rather than the war-torn drunks telling unbelievable stories of too many manhunts over the course of a weekend.  A bail recovery course with carefully researched, in-depth training topics about all facets of the fugitive recovery industry including the actual concept of working within the scope of the law rather than trying to get around new bail laws was desperately needed.  Bounty hunters were going to jail and their employers were being sued because ignorance simply perpetuates ignorance, so I chose a less flashy term for my original website which I had hoped would appeal to the more professional bail agent- Bond Forfeitures.

Here we are 7 years later and we continue to evolve and do great work yet the landscape of bail enforcement continues to change even faster than anyone has expected; very little which applied as recent as 10 years ago is relevant today.  The days of kicking doors in by unlicensed thugs are drying up because citizens of the

United States

would not stand for it any longer.  The situation is only exacerbated by relentless media sharks starving for a sensational headline feeding frenzy and they have discovered that bail enforcers bleed best!

Modern bounty hunting requires that all bail agents tread lightly and conduct ourselves professionally if we are going to remain relevant and employed.

I appreciate all men and women who chase bail secured fugitives and bring them to justice, often times at their own personal risk- I blogged about that earlier- but I wish that we could come together into a cohesive group chasing a common voice and a united front.  For a bunch of self-proclaimed tough guys, this is an industry of uneasy egos and it seems that everyone is trying to thump their own chest loudest.  The noise that is created as a result, only serves to fractionalize our industry.  Quite frankly, the negativity and back-biting by some of the old timers (and the clueless newbie name-droppers) gets old... Yes, some of us are going to do better financially and professionally than others, some of us are going to make it and others will not; that's life and "Market Darwinism" at work.    

I hope to see a group of us- from the recognized bail bond professionals to the newest agents in the recovery business- join a common cause and work together toward understanding that training is paramount to professionalism and that the quality of the training received directly correlates to the quality of one's success as a bounty hunter, bail enforcement agent, bail fugitive investigator- whatever we ultimately choose to call ourselves.  Unethical training providers must be exposed for their fraud and deceit in order to protect the newest among us, if only to protect them until they get their feet under them and are savvy enough to understand the complex issues they face navigating their way through the start up.

We must form an association or better yet- revitalize an existing one that gives more to its members than it takes.  An association is a group of people who've come together for a common cause and the sum of that organization must be greater than its parts.  There is strength in numbers.

Glenn Canady, will you be my valentine?

Well Dear Reader, Mr. Canady and I are at it again.  "Will the saga ever end?" you ask.  I don't really think so for 2 reasons: the first being "karma" and the second being Google's permanent cache of crawled web pages. 

You see, I have given Mr. Canady more leeway than any other person with whom I have ever had intellectual property rights and trademark infringement conversations.  I think that is where I went wrong.  I should have never acquiesced to his emotional appeals- I let him sweet talk me into being a big ol' softy which, as Mr. Canady later points out, is certainly incongruous with the Clint Eastwood picture at the top of my blog and this whole "I'm the new sheriff out to hang him" thing he says I have going on.

OK, I will admit right up front though that despite reaching an uneasy truce with Glenn Canady prior to my original blog post and his Voodoo Hex of the Moment, the following all really started because I screwed up and forgot to disable the post from auto-posting at a later date.  "Mia culpa, mia culpa, mea maxima culpa."

Let's discuss Karma, briefly.  In Hindu belief, where the term originated, it is the idea that the good and evil a person does will return either in this life or in a later one; it's similar to the saying "what goes around, comes around". Karma can be either good or bad. What you do in this life will determine whether you are rewarded or punished.   

A couple of weeks ago Earl, from the television show My Name is Earl, said something to the effect that he would not be karma's bitch but in the end he found that he could not escape its reach. 

How ironic though that it would be search engine optimization that would eventually precipitate the following email thread, after all, hasn't Glenn Canady been described as a preeminent SE expert fallen from Google's grace?

Glenn Canady even states in his article The Ten commandments of Linking, "But you might just get banned on Google and that’s almost worse than going to hell!"  (Ouch!)

As you will see, I did warn Glenn that this would all become fodder for my blog ahead of time but undeterred, he has a point to make.  Hence you are here today Dear Reader, embroiled in a drama so compelling that even now, I find myself thinking of Glenn Canady wondering what will happen next.  I must write to him but only to cherish this moment and the feelings I have for him. 

Breathless anticipation... will he accept this valentine?  Will he be happy that I have created this heart-felt epistle if only to honor this man and the glory that is his name?

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From: Glenn Canady [mailto:glenn@glcventures.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:40 PM
To: lscottharrell@bellsouth.net
Subject: why?

Scott,

Why did you find it necessary to go on a rampage like this?
http://www.elscottharrell.com/

I thought we had worked things out like men.  I just don't understand why you had to to put all this time into something like this after you told me that everything was ok. 

Glenn

Glenn Canady
GLC Ventures Inc.

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Actually, for a brief moment I felt badly.  But I realized that he probably did not understand the entirety of the situation, so I explained my situation and threw in an extra heaping of wit.  I know that it's not much of a consolation to him but it was the best I had in me at the time:

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From: L. Scott Harrell [mailto:lscottharrell@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:54 AM
To: 'Glenn Canady'
Subject: RE: why?

I’ve been contemplating a response to your question, “Why?” and I was kind of vacillating between two replies:

A)  As the title of my blog would suggest- “Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”  How very appropriate.

Or…

B)  In the heyday of piracy, British colonies used to hang pirates, or those suspected of being one, from the gallows that lined the wharfs in what was more than likely a less than subtle warning to others, “Be a pirate… end up like this guy.”  Again, how very appropriate.

Then, I considered your use of the word “rampage” and chuckled- actually, this email exchange would be great material on my blog as a follow up too!  The post has very little in the way of anger or rage; from where I sit its really pretty funny.  I’m sorry that you do not see the satire there; a “voodoo hex” is funny and you should have been honored to receive one.  Instead, you are so sensitive that it almost pains me.  I’m not the cry baby here, Glenn.

In the end, the reason the post ended up on the blog boils down to a simple mistake, I wrote the blog entry while contemplating the sum of my experiences with you on Thursday evening and rather than posting it right away, I set the entry to publish the following Monday- intending to reconsider putting it up at all.  I got busy over the weekend and forgot about it.  Once I realized that it was up I thought I would just go ahead and leave it up.  It seemed to fit and I could really care less if you were going to be happy about it or not- its an accurate representation of the situation and how I feel about it. 

So what if I leave you swinging in the breeze?  I think of you as a bit of a pirate- hijacking mail servers to send pornography, spamming newsgroups, getting your website banned from Google for nefarious reasons, infringing on the intellectual property of others, etc, etc, in pursuit of dollars.

I received some life-changing (but very very good) news yesterday which has put me in a great mood today, so I am going to concede the post just so that I do not have to hear from you again or mess up this very good place I find myself. 

We really do not need to communicate with each other any longer; I would hate to have any additional material with which to work.

Warmest Regards,

L. Scott Harrell
CompassPoint Investigations
In Relentless Pursuit of your Success!
www.CompassPointPI.com
Ofc:  (877) 363-4887
Fax:  (877) 761-8264

Florida * Texas * Alabama * Mississippi * Tennessee
Texas PI # A-9853
Florida PI # A 2500251
Mississippi MPIA (1998)
Tennessee Act 40-11-401 Compliant

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I edited the post, shortened it considerably, and removed Mr. Canady's name entirely from the text of the post.  I was truly proud of myself though- because I had included this picture in the revised post.  It's an image of a pirate hanging in a manner I described to him.  Call it an inside joke; an intended jab in perpetuity and no one would be any the wiser.  Consider yourself fortunate Dear Reader, today you have been let in on this little secret and you too get to understand that which was originally only meant for Mr. Canady.

Sadly, I believed that again we had an accord and that the Gorilla Marketer would not have occasion to email me again- but apparently he just felt the need to reach out to me one more time.  Perhaps he was feeling lonely... or maybe he just needed to feel some more love from EL Scott Harrell, I'm not really sure but I've been told that I have this effect on people.

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From: Glenn Canady [mailto:glenn@glcventures.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:27 PM
To: L. Scott Harrell
Subject: Re: post

I thought you were going to take this down?

http://www.elscottharrell.com/2006/01/glenn_canady_ca.html

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Here is where the fun and irony came into it for me.  I Googled "Glenn Canady" (without quotes) and found that (as of this writing) my original blog post had actually made it all the way up to #10 and a first page search result as well! 

Either I am an SEO genius or someone at Google really has it out for this guy.  Little ol' me managed to hop-scotch 121,000 other search results for the self described king of search engine optimization in only 14 days.

How did I do it you might ask?  Well I can teach others about my own prowess in SEO but that is best left to another book I may write in the future.  You can read an article I wrote about writing for search engines in the meantime.  I am going to use this blog post and its search engine success as a case study in my forthcoming book- it will be an interesting read and maybe I'll have over 25,000 happy customers just like Mr. Canady!

Anyway.  I tried to explain to Glenn that I had changed the post (as described herein) but that I could not change the name of the file that my blog software assigned the original post; it happened to have his name embedded.  I certainly could not help the fact that Google had crawled and cached the post within 3 days of publishing it; it appeared that the lengthy chronicle that is "El Scott Harrell: Glenn Canady Called Me a Cry Baby- Now That's Funny" would live forever.

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From: L. Scott Harrell
To: 'Glenn Canady'
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: RE: post

The story as originally written has changed; the file name, 2006/01/glenn_canady_ca.html, is unfortunate and will not change.  Perhaps, you should read the post and you will notice that I removed your name completely from the “meat” of the article. 

Warmest Regards,

L. Scott Harrell
CompassPoint Investigations
In Relentless Pursuit of your Success!
www.CompassPointPI.com
Ofc:  (877) 363-4887
Fax:  (877) 761-8264

Florida * Texas * Alabama * Mississippi * Tennessee
Texas PI # A-9853
Florida PI # A 2500251
Mississippi MPIA (1998)
Tennessee Act 40-11-401 Compliant

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To which he has made his last reply more personal.  He obviously thinks that my blog should be titled "El Glenn Canady" and quite frankly I am writing so much about him right now I am beginning to think it should be too.  Alas, the truth is never a simple matter to report.

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From: Glenn Canady [mailto:glenn@glcventures.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:47 PM
To: L. Scott Harrell
Subject: Re: post

I don't understand why you have to make a big deal about the issue.  We resolved it, I apologized for calling you a cry baby and you told me that that you were going to remove it because you got some really great news that made you really happy.  That was the last thing you told me until I found out that you weren't being a man of your word because the story was still posted with my name all over it.

To just spread negativity after the issue was resolved serves no purpose. 

To put up a big picture of Clint Eastwood and act like you're the new sherrif in town to hang me for this incredibly heinous act is just a wee bit over the top.  It wasn't even a site that I owned - it was a site that my friend owned and I took care of it for him.

And it wasn't something that was done intentionally to harm your business, the information came from an RSS feed that was pulled into the site automatically.  Nobody found your material and posted it to harm you in any way.

If you can honestly justify harming my reputation permanently on the search engines for this incident after I handled it immediately and apologized to you then I guess that you're just different than I am.  If the roles were reversed and you had taken care of the situation and apologized for calling me a "crybaby" then I would have dropped the issue entirely.  I certainly would not put something on the web that would harm your reputation permanently.

Glenn

Glenn Canady
GLC Ventures Inc.

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Here's the part where I address Glenn directly since I am not going to e-mail him any longer:

I guess I am just different.  I am not harming you, Glenn- I am RESPONDING to you in the manner of my choosing.  I am speaking freely of a well defined set of facts.  Facts by their very definition are neither negative nor are they positive; they just are.  Negativity is the attribute that the reviewer of fact assigns them.  I am exercising my freedom of speech and I am reporting our entire communication which started as my concern over the violation of intellectual property rights.

My blog is a place where I decided that truth would prevail over falsehood waaaaay before you asserted yourself.  The truth is that you called me a name; I reported it and editorialized where I deemed appropriate so that any reasonable reader would be able to understand the basis for the discussion in its entirety.

I've decided to go ahead and repost the original article that started this drama simply because after reviewing the edited version I felt that it did not carry the full weight of the truth.  I did not want my readers to see your name in the page's URL and not understand what part you play in this story.

You exercised your freedom of speech when you called me a cry baby.  You exercised your freedom of choice when you chose to e-mail me, despite the fact that I had requested you not do so.  I did what I could to remove your name from the original post because I agreed to.  Unselfishly, I give you the unfettered ability to explain yourself and your side of the situation even now.

Yet your vanity would not let you leave this alone and again, you have found yourself to be the subject of another blog post.  The shame of this is that you actually believe that I even really cared about you or who you thought you were to begin with.  Instead you called me a name in a manner you thought would remain clandestine among your acquaintances.  Your true colors were laid bare.

I choose to make this conversation public because I have reached a point with you that I feel others now also need to review the facts and make their own judgments based upon our conversation.

Am I over the top?  Absolutely I am but... that is who I was before you came into my life and libeled me.  You did not know me, but to characterize me as a cry baby over a request to have my property removed from a website over which you obviously exert some control does constitute defamation.  If you want to talk about harming reputations let's discuss the legal definition of the term libel; a written defamation, to charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.

You might want to consider that... I am.  You obviously just don’t get it.  This isn’t about copyrights- they are only an adjunct to the story.  This is about you and my questions about your poor judgment in defaming me only when you thought it would remain your secret.  You used the phrase “like men.”  My father taught me that to be a man, one has to be plain dealing with others- you were not.  You were only polite when you had to be.  You got caught.

Refer back to the topic of my blog.  This is about truth and examination.

P.S. Clint was up long before you were ever mentioned in my blog and you spelled “sheriff” incorrectly.

Have a great Valentine's Day, everyone!

From the mail bag: I can't make this stuff up...

Every once in a while, I get an email through my bail enforcement training web site that absolutely floors me.  I received the following email this morning and blew bubbly Diet Mountain Dew through my nose and all over my LCD panel. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2006 7:01 AM
To: bondforfeitures
Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://beabountyhunter.com/contact.htm

Are you allowed to use tranquilizer guns on the people you are collecting on?

Jacob
Taz001387@[redacted].com
Columbus, Ohio

When I got through the initial jolt of the immediate mental image I had of darting bail fugitves and shipping them back to their bail bondsmen in wooden crates like the elicit import/export of animals, I had to ask myself, "Is this guy serious???"  I've come to the conclusion that Jacob is probably 10 years old if only for the fact that I am in denial.

Did you like that one, Dear Reader? OK... here's one more email I received a while ago- it is one of my very favorites:

-----Original Message-----
From: joey
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:47 PM
To: bondforfeitures
Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://beabountyhunter.com/contact.htm

i was woundering if a bounty hunter was able to use swords and weapons like them becuase i am a lot better with a katana which is a samurai sword then useing guns and stuff like them and i have found out that there is also a nonlethel katana known as a sakabatou a reverse bladed katana the sharp end is on the inside of the curve so when i hit the person it only stuns them so if you could tell me if they could use them or not i would really be thankful hope to here from you soon

joey
spudspd@[redacted].com
chapin sc

... and I get some really scary psycho email from unbalanced people as well:

-----Original Message-----
From: James
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:40 PM
To: bondforfeitures
Subject: Data posted to form 1 of http://beabountyhunter.com/contact.htm

I have a couple of questions about your training.  DO you do Undercover work or that TV show shit and basically be like cheaters or cops , or the real fuckin deal.  As an Honest statment I was a piece of shit that walked society and did some stupid shit never a feloney because I was good and never got caught.  Basically is what im asking is how do I apply for the job and what qualifications do I need.   If not for field I happen to be gifted in thinking just like the craziest mother fucker
out there

The reason for this is because the route I was taking being the avarge stupid kid to being the serious offender who soon or later was gonna live like a caged animal so I need to straightin my shit out. I reconnected to my Heavenly father not just my dad but OUR dad.  And reesablish amonst my family and friend shit love and turning my self around. And im much the happier person.  I see police techniques , Dawg the bounty hunter PI  and rent a pigs.  I want to get the SICK SICK
$&^%@$ (Really, why stop cussing now?) rapest and child molesors and drug deelers out of here Screw a Public Intox ,etc.. I wanna be someone who takes the Law as it should be seved..  ou rape someone , you should be aped of life , You molest a child... Put them in prison for 1 years and let Darwins theory take over .. "Killing is Natural selection) not saying its Humane but the world
isn't getting better and it wont et better.  People need to Fight now with head to head rather than paper maps and buttons.      

Please Email back if you have any questions or answer's for please Luvshck@[redacted].com is
my addy tanks for your time and best wishes on the success of criminals rotting and whipin with sand paper !!! :D

They always say that sometimes you have to fight evil with evil and I can get into any ring and let stake this out .. Ohh and by the way Under cover cops and stings..etc... and the FBI shit... really ins't working in any more and narc's arnt cutting it.  Why not send someone  who's expendable and who's volunteering the life for Humanity.  Honestly and Drug lords, killers, serial killers, rapist's all cansmell the training  a mile away.  But when evil seps in evil knows and opens up more than
any way imaginable. Give me a week on some of your suspects and let me meet them, with in a 5 day perioud I can tell you details about what there favorite toothpase and soap and toothpaste they use.   I FIT IN.
 
I dont expect anyone to take my mail serious think im some punk kid who thinks he's smarter than us or trying.  But im gonna put it like this.  Everything above I HAVE LIVED THROUGH HVE YOU ! >     I need help you need help and I can blow the water out of any of these little busts here and there.  Im talking denting 3/4 the world or Cocaine and herion of Drug lords to Peon's , to mafia on down.

James
luvshck@[redacted].com
Dayton. Oh

I get a lot weird mail actually... more than I'd care to admit; I have over 150 emails I have saved to my "Hilarious/Dangerous File" in MS Outlook.  Eventually I am going to compile these onto a CD and include some of the voice mails I have received as well and send them out to all of my bounty hunter training clients and bail enforcement industry peers this year for Christmas. 

Give the gift of laughter I always say.

PBUS Pounces on an Opportunity to Discredit Bounty Hunters

What is the business-world’s greatest blunder? 

Was it the single hull design employed in the building of the Titanic in a cost saving move?  Perhaps it was New Coke?  Then again, who can forget the precise business acumen of the Frenchies who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase for 3 cents an acre and the Native Americans who sold us Manhattan for a handful of blue beads and blankets?  Some people might even say buying and holding Enron stock was the most terrible business decision.

Well... how about the Professional Bail Agents of the United States (PBUS) inviting the Media Hound to their annual convention?

Yes, I would put that move among the most egregious errors in judgment ever committed in modern industry.  It is going to cost the association dearly- both in terms of the short term effects on convention attendance as well as long term losses due to an increase in member defections (in an already declining membership). 

I have empirical evidence to support this…

I was speaking to the Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents (TAPBA) today in Nashville, TN.  It was a standing-room-only event and the largest crowd wth whom I have ever had the opportunity to speak (400+ bail bondsmen and a few bail enforcement agents).  During my presentation on Advanced Skip Tracing Techniques and Apprehensions, I mentioned the importance of maintaining a low profile in order to preserve the element of surprise during an arrest.  Off the cuff, I made a comment that a certain media personality would have a difficult time being inconspicuous because of his appearance that was immediately met with an astounding groan from the audience (I did not need to mention him by name); I sensed that some of the audience member’s attitudes had shifted as well.

Everything else went fine and as planned.  So much for extemporaneous speaking.

During the following break, a bail bondsmen who has been in the business for over 24 years and VERY well respected in the TN bail community stomped up to me and said, “You know, they (PBUS) made a farce out of their organization by inviting the Media Hound to our annual conference for a photo opportunity.  I am NOT renewing my membership- that was the last straw as far as I am concerned!” 

(I wondered if they wouldn’t have to stand the media hound on a milk crate so that he wouldn’t appear too short to be in pictures with anyone over 5’10”)

Then "Avis," who was with me at the moment, agreed with the bondsman and echoed the same sentiments; he would not be attending the convention or renewing his membership as a result.  Furthermore, the vice president of one of the largest insurance (surety) agencies was disgusted as well. 

Wow… that was a pretty strong reaction, I thought, though I was vaguely more concerned about the crowd that was gathering around us.  They were restless.

A voice from the growing number of people, who were now straining to hear our conversation, said that PBUS had made a mockery of the industry by inviting the Media Hound.  He was obviously not in the minority either- these guys were genuinely pissed.  I can’t say that I didn’t understand where they were coming from; I was definitely disappointed when I read the convention schedule advertising that the Media Hound would be at the convention for a “grip and grin” too.  I had 10 or 15 bail bondsmen right there who felt strongly enough about this issue to seek me out and let me have a piece of their mind about just that.  (Whoa guys… you are preaching to the choir!) 

Take it up with PBUS. 
   
Before you get your panties in a wad, dear Media Hound Fan, you must accept the reality that a majority of bail bondsmen have a passionate distaste for your superhero.  Despite the evangelizing and the empathy he has for his clients on TV, he has not been good for the industry's image.  You see… bail bondsmen have never enjoyed a particularly savory or wholesome image and are often associated with being only one step removed from the people they get out of jail.  While that might have been the case 20 or 30 years ago, today they are constantly fighting a battle to restore public confidence in their important role within the American criminal justice system and improve the public’s overall opinion of the industry.  The Media Hound represents a visual step in the wrong direction. 

I have long suspected the leadership at the Professional Bail Agents of the United States of having an anti-bail enforcement agent agenda and I believe that this opportunity is EXACTLY what they needed to advance their cause.

The Media Hound’s very appearance (the mullet, tactical vest, leather arm bands, etc, etc) and grandiose behavior gives us all fits… but most especially the bail recovery agents.  And what better way to reinforce all of the negative stereotypes that the bounty hunter suffers in the minds of bail bondsmen than to parade this guy in front of several hundred of them!  Now THIS is “uber-sneaky James Bond kind of stuff” perpetrated by PBUS’ leadership to advance their cause against the independent recovery agent.   Disrupt… discredit… and destroy. 

In their overzealous pursuit to stamp us out, or perhaps just the overly simple excuse for an opportunity to bask in the light of the Media Hound’s television crew, PBUS’ leadership has lost their way and forgotten to account for the feelings (and activism) of their own membership.  Good luck with that.

I think I’ll have a New Coke; it goes down easier and wasn’t really all that bad after all. 

It’s late, I’m going to bed.