forty three year old punk ass kid
tommyA local dickhead can’t keep his foot off the gas and won’t stop for a red light, so he decides to ruin a police officer’s life. Gregory Hart thinks he is above the law, and that he can use spam email and websites to make someone’s life miserable.
Pasco County Deputy Sheriff Russell Hemmendinger arrested the loser for driving with a suspended license and resisting arrest. It looks like Hart went on an online rampage against Hemmendinger. His company, Database Engineers, set up a couple of websites to question Hemmendinger’s character - hemmendinger.net and hemmendinger.org. Someone also sent spam mail making accusations of pedophilia in the form of a question.
This creep also has a personal website - http://www.gregoryhart.net and his business is Database Engineers. Both of the webpages have contact info, in case you want to say “hi.”
Dude, if you refuse to follow the law, you are the jackass - not the cop doing his job. Assholes like you screw up the whole “freedom of speech” thing.
Oh, and learn how to drive.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
Like everyone else it seems these days, it’s not his fault you see. It’s the system. The corrupt cops are out to get this guy. Even though he’s nobody.
Come on Mr. Hart, sack up and pay your fine.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:56 am
Gregory Hart is our Asshole of the Week, for taking the act of being an Internet Asshole to a new art form. Congratulations Gregory!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Holy crap, what the hell is wrong with this guy (Hart, not the cop)? Someday fifty years from now (or right now, I don’t know), somebody is going to be teaching a course on abuse of speech and the internet, and this will be the case study they follow.
What a shame.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Never complain, never explain.
It’s pathetic and no one really cares when you do, anyway.
Although, Tommy, I don’t think anyone’s life is exactly ruined. People can’t ruin your life unless you let them and that would be giving this guy a lot of power.
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Barring a violent crime, using the strictest definition of “ruin your life”, you may be correct. However, the connotation of the phrase, making one’s life quite miserable, is certainly acheivable. We’re not talking simply about one’s self image, but potential employment issues, and impacts the ability to conduct daily affairs. Even mere allegations of pedophilia can carry quite dire consequences and incite an attitude of guilty until proven innocent. Being a pariah would ruin one’s life by most standards. Given the snail’s pace of law enforcement against most forms of stalking, until a perpetrator is stopped, the target’s life might well be considered ruined.
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I can’t believe no one has sympathy for the guy who got thrown in jail for speeding and running traffic lights. The guy who makes a living throwing innocent people in jail - that’s the asshole.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Review your nonsense trolling post, if he was speeding and running red lights he was not innocent.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
If someone breaks a law that doesn’t make any sense, they *are* innocent.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I believe that you are trolling, but for the sake of entertaining the notion for the moment, which definition of innocence are you basing your position?
1 a : freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil : BLAMELESSNESS b : CHASTITY c : freedom from legal guilt of a particular crime or offense d (1) : freedom from guile or cunning : SIMPLICITY (2) : lack of worldly experience or sophistication e : lack of knowledge :
IGNORANCE
I would assume that you are choosing number 1 which means that technically you might be correct, though the actions following the event would tend to discredit that the individual was unacquainted with evil. Because a law does not make sense to you, does not mean that the law itself is wrong. We have rules that ideally improve the quality of life for people as a whole. The disregard that some show for the laws that are in place and the difficulties those create already indicate that most people are not fit to self-regulate in the complete absence of rules.
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I’m not basing my comments on a dictionary definition. When someone does something that doesn’t hurt anyone else, they are “innocent” in my book. That’s my definition. K?
As for your comment that because a law does not make sense to me, does not mean that the law itself is wrong, that may be true. But if a law does not make sense to me, that does suggest that *I* consider the law to be unjust. That’s all I’m stating here. My opinion. You have yours, I have mine.
Cops like Hemmendinger should spend their lives doing something productive. If they did so maybe they wouldn’t face so much harassment. Sure, you might say, he’s only doing his job, but if our job requires us to infringe upon the rights of others then we should quit that job.
And yes, I think I have the right to drive my car faster than the speed limit, and yes, even to go through a red light if I can do so in a safe manner. I don’t believe it is “evil” to refuse to idle at an intersection when no other cars are coming just because some traffic light glows red. However, I *do* believe it is evil to put handcuffs on a person and throw them in a cage because they refuse to waste their time like all the good little citizens out there.
Anyway, if you think I’m trolling that is your right. I know I’m taking an unpopular position.
And no, I’m not saying that everything Hart did was right.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I’ve only heard one side of this story.
The first question I heard was this — why was he arrested in his driveway? Isn’t that a bit overkill? Did he speed there to BE arrested after he arrived? IF he was driving with a suspended license the cop DID have the option of merely writing him a ticket. I’ve only heard the mass-media version.
I don’t have some big hate on for cops — I just don’t think that hemmindinger is the only side of the story. I know cops and ex-cops I’d rather have around than rich internet guys and vice versa …
Respect for all opinions — I don’t think Hart should have gone after him ‘like that.’ Maybe it is or isn’t true. Maybe the cop could have NOT arrested the man in his driveway; after all, he was safely home … I dunno, I wasn’t there and it’s like one of those math problems where not enough info is available to answer.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Why are trolls always anonymous?
February 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
This issue is not what traffic violation Hart committed, rather, harassing someone for making an honest living. If, in fact, Hart is sending bogus emails for the purpose of stirring up trouble for the cop as retribution for the cop doing his job, then that is wrong. Hart should be ashamed of himself. There are other more legitimate avenues to voice frustration—I’m engaged in one right now. What Hart is doing is akin to a student slashing a teacher’s tires because a referral was written.
Look, I understand feeling angry and powerless when an authority figure is thought to have overstepped bounds. However, overreacting and behaving irrationally makes one far more culpable than the original confrontation.
If one feels threatened then drive to a public place. If one is mistreated then file a complaint with internal affairs. Do not act like a twelve-year old and throw a grown up tantrum, which can be very damaging.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
http://www.tbo.com/pasco/MGBTHJDGKYE.html
April 16th, 2008 at 1:37 am
What a shame, feel free to add Hart to
http://www.internetassholes.8m.com