Owning a Whelen...get a load of this..

[thunderbolt1003]

I am not gonna say anything else, unless if it's a response to a comment on here. I've been talking to Ian through Yahoo Messenger, everything is solved now. Plus it's an immature action to perform on here. Not the siren expert way.

[MattDean1003]

Nicholson is in Jackson County, halfway between Athens and Commerce.

First and foremost I apologize if I started an inferno by posting this on here. Secondly, I'm requesting the topic to be closed. It's gone too far.

[ver tum]

I completely understand why this discussion is going on, because of an experience I had a couple of months ago. If it was up to me, I wouldn't lock this topic, but that decision is up to the mods.

A couple of months ago, there was a guy on this board, who told me on the phone that he had a bunch of sirens. When I asked him for audio recordings and videos, I got nothing from him. At about the same time I found out for sure that he wasn't telling me the truth, he posted something on this board about the sirens he said he owned. Instead of posting a potentially contravertial topic about it here on the Board, I made a mod aware of the situation, and asked the mod what I should do. The guy who said he owned the sirens admitted that he lied to me, and he requested that his account here be deactivated.

I'm not posting this to say anything bad about Ian, but I'm just saying that I know how important someone's credibility is. Ian has claimed that he owns a bunch of sirens, and I do believe that he should post pictures and videos, so that this discussion can be put to rest.

[CABLEVision]

Before this thread gets locked; I want to get my word in.

There are several factors that contribute to my disbelief in him:

1. He's 17 and he claims to own a 9000 acre farm. That he claims to be "inherited by his grandfather." Wouldn't the grandfather give it to a more responsible adult? It just makes sense. It's possible that it happened, but highly unlikely.

2. He brings up owning a farm in almost every post. It's almost as if he wants us to think he's so great and special. Would you like a cookie Ian?

3. Have you noticed how many rare sirens that he claims to own. Including a gents and a hurricane. To send a gents over here would costs hundreds if not a thousand bucks. Plus no rare sirens that we know are missing, and the ones that are, have been scraped or sold to people like Archon . The Garland, Texas hurricanes weren't sold off to private collectors either, and that's really the only place you could have received hurricane's.

4. It's a big deal when one of us gets a model 5. Let alone, T-bolts, Hurricanes, Whelens, and etc. He has never posted any information on where he got them or how. If he had gotten all of these wouldn't be excited enough to post info on his sirens? Or questions like how to take them down?

5. Like a previous poster said, if he was a farmer, he would have to spend money on supplies. Not to mention the time it takes to upkeep all of these sirens. Bucket rentals, gas to drive there to get them. Plus what city takes a 17 year old that seriously?

6. I could go on all day of what I think about this. But the truth is; it's just to good to be true. We would have believed him if he had said he had just owned one or two, but this is pushing it. And I admit, it may be possible, but I HIGHLY doubt it. There just to many factors.