Robert Young fakes run across America

DENOUEMENT wrote:

Well, that was epic. I clicked on this link randomly days ago and read the barely comprehendible first posting. What drew me in eventually was not this run, but outrageous manipulation of internet media (Facebook, Wikipedia, etc).

Then the claims that "don't worry, we got this" by the Ulist guys. It wasn't just that LRC'ers weren't taking physical action, but were being called off the chase.

When Laz and crew first joined the case, most of us were a bit skeptical I believe. But Laz proved to be as wise and cagey as promised! It was exactly like the dad who catches his kid smoking and says "oh yeah? smoke this whole pack right in front of me if you think it's so cool!"

Good job, but sorry to see Rob in this light, he obviously has some talent for this.

he's more talented at exaggeration and fraud

As I posted several days ago, the uList trip was already scheduled the day before Asher's first post here (Markus is the man!) (People (laz and company) do have lives, and so it was scheduled to take off several days later ... as it did). Lets Run did not play a part in making that happen. But there was great value in Asher's discovery, and in various other LR findings; do doubt about it. All in all, it's an accomplishment many can feel good about. (I shouldn't say this but ... you can sign up for the uList and thereby see the evidence that this -- scheduling of the trip -- was the case.)

It's time for the prizes.

5th place goes to the LRC tech department for doing all the necessary R&D to nail every part of the cheating. Lots of work and no medal, but that's the way tech life is. You do the work, the bosses get the credit.

4th place was more difficult to settle on. The obvious candidate was the LRC trolling department. They are the de facto LRC bosses and decide what should be done (by screaming and insulting), evaluate every result/non-result (by screaming and insulting) and in general make the world go round (by screaming and insulting). However, this time there was also an outstanding individual troll who deserved 4th place, namely Fake Laz. So 4th place gets to be shared between these two and thus goes to "Fake Laz and the Letsrun trolls".

Bronze Medal goes to Markus for starting the whole thing and taking tons of flak and insults from a bunch of cheaters and their group of retarded Facebook friends. He also appeared to be something as unique as a smart, not self-aggrandizing and friendly ultra runner. Very rare indeed.

Silver Medal goes to Laz and the Hippies. Somebody gotta do the grunt work, and they did it. The LRC trolls had a tough job getting them out of their hammocks but in the end they did what was expected of them. They were never considered for the gold medal because of lack of pics and videos. Not documenting the cheater's bloody face plant is inexcusable.

And for Gold ... The Great Son of Letsrun.com, the fearless night warrior, the smartest sleuth of the Internet: ASHER DELMOTT!!!! Without him the cheater would be partying in Times Square by now.

As promised there will be a statue of the great Asher. We have decided that it will be put up in New York. We just have to tear down that French woman with a torch that currently occupies the location where the statue will be. Rojo has promised to fly in a world class sculptor as well as a construction team for the job.

All Hail Asher!

Lrc wins again wrote:

Funny how the geezers suddenly decided to get off their azzes once rojo mentioned he may go out there or he may send a Strava rep.

Suddenly, the geezers got real interested. Lol

I guess if we want to pull an investigation of the investigation we can... to develop timelines... but this post shows just how delusional some of you are. Your version of Rob Young is letsrun itself.

The "let's fly in a strava rep!" fart was one of rojo's many strange ideas that occurred after the ulist was already in motion. The geezer's got "real interested" back in mid-May. Many of the folks here still had no concept of what trying to run many miles many days in a row looks like as late as last week. Every day people were crying for an update on the mileage totals (which was managed by the ulist) and what was up with the geezers while simultaneously complaining about them and asking for boots.

But don't worry, those FOIA requests on the cameras will come through in a couple months.

occasionalUltra wrote:

As I posted several days ago, the uList trip was already scheduled the day before Asher's first post here (Markus is the man!) (People (laz and company) do have lives, and so it was scheduled to take off several days later ... as it did).

Idiot. Read Ray's update where he says that they didn't intend to go until later but changed their minds.

Are all ultra runners liars?

DENOUEMENT wrote:

Laz proved to be as wise and cagey as promised! It was exactly like the dad who catches his kid smoking and says "oh yeah? smoke this whole pack right in front of me if you think it's so cool!".

+1

occasionalUltra wrote:

As I posted several days ago, the uList trip was already scheduled the day before Asher's first post here (Markus is the man!) (People (laz and company) do have lives, and so it was scheduled to take off several days later ... as it did). Lets Run did not play a part in making that happen. But there was great value in Asher's discovery, and in various other LR findings; do doubt about it. All in all, it's an accomplishment many can feel good about. (I shouldn't say this but ... you can sign up for the uList and thereby see the evidence that this -- scheduling of the trip -- was the case.)

Yeah. Letsrun played a role and created a really good thread, but I don't know why anyone here is trying to downplay the role of the group that actually went out and kept track of Rob for several days while we all sat at our computers. While we were all complaining that we couldn't get "boots on the ground," the uList guys were on their way to intercept the traveling circus.

I humbly accept my fourth place prize, not for myself, but on behalf of the children.

If this thread has taught me nothing else, its that Rob Young robs the young.

Hoot Simmons wrote:

Gotta agree that lets runners did the heavy lifting, but the ulisters provided an assist.

The geezer crew would not have been out there if not for lets run. We put the squeeze on RY and the list to act.

You are as delusional as Rob's fans on Facebook. Laz from The Geezers got into his car, spent long hours on the road, had little sleep and shadowed Rob- He did ALL the heavy lifting, not Letsrun.

^ This x 10000

+1 let's hear it for Laz

But the geezer's trip was super-secret. How could it have been planned before it was planned?

Listen. I know he's one of your own and you wanted to bring him down. But sorry, LRC is the king of this type of thing. Once we get a hold of someone, we don't pansy around.

It went to a whole different level once it got here and we crowd-sourced it. We did in a scant few days what you guys had been sputtering to do for a month.

It's okay. It's like big brother coming to the rescue at the playground. Sometimes you just need a little muscle to bring someone down. We're the muscle. Just look back at our credentials and you'll see that this type of stuff is what we collectively do well. You should be feel fortunate that you were able to witness it firsthand.

You guys started it. We finished it. Fair enough?

wanter of evidence wrote:

Yeah. Letsrun played a role and created a really good thread, but I don't know why anyone here is trying to downplay the role of the group that actually went out and kept track of Rob for several days while we all sat at our computers. While we were all complaining that we couldn't get "boots on the ground," the uList guys were on their way to intercept the traveling circus.

Not only did they intercept the traveling circus, but they completely owned the traveling circus. Completely.

While giving RY the shirt off his back.

That's good stuff.

10 days folks. 10 freakin' days.

That's what it took for lets run to bring him to his knees.

Fake Laz wrote:

I humbly accept my fourth place prize, not for myself, but on behalf of the children.

By the way, I heard several times during this whole fiasco that Rob Young was doing this to raise awareness for three charities. After following this whole thing for the last few days, viewing Rob's website on several occasions, and visiting the guy's FB page a few times, I'm still not quite sure what three charities Rob was raising awareness for. Anyone know?

I mean, seems odd that the guy's main purpose is to raise awareness of charities, but he never seemed to get around to putting the names of said charities in any location that anyone would take note of them.

Jehosephat wrote:

Hoot Simmons wrote:

Gotta agree that lets runners did the heavy lifting, but the ulisters provided an assist.

The geezer crew would not have been out there if not for lets run. We put the squeeze on RY and the list to act.

The only boot you actually got on the ground (besides Asher, which counts for lots) was a dude who spied in a wal mart parking lot for two whole hours before getting bored and pedaling home.

The geezers were mobilizing before this group knew what was what.

Plus the 24-36 hour posts by rojo. Which, yeah.

Hey pal, if you'd ever been in the military you'd know that everyone has a role to play, from the lowest shit kicker to the man (and what could soon be woman) at the top. So STFU and go away, which you should have done days ago.

Fake Laz wrote:

I humbly accept my fourth place prize, not for myself, but on behalf of the children.

If this thread has taught me nothing else, its that Rob Young robs the young.

My favorite part of this thread. Inspired.

The details were secret maybe but the fact that they were going was not.

Yes, I get it. You guys are so very amazing. You do everything completely right.

"We". What exactly did you do? I'm betting that like most of this almost 300 page thread, you personally didn't do a lot. A few folks here did and that is an example of great crowdsourcing... kudos to those folks. But the vast majority of you need to put it back in your pants. You didn't do anything at all.

From what you've witnessed, you guys could learn a thing or two to improve your already amazing amazingness. But as you know everything, that probably won't happen.

But good job on getting that dude in the walmart parking lot until he got bored. Which took two whole hours.

For real, though: the crowdsourcing and information digging by those who actually did something was really good. Congrats to you. Maybe rojo will give you a little taste of the action. But I doubt it.

wanter of evidence wrote:

Yeah. Letsrun played a role and created a really good thread, but I don't know why anyone here is trying to downplay the role of the group that actually went out and kept track of Rob for several days while we all sat at our computers. While we were all complaining that we couldn't get "boots on the ground," the uList guys were on their way to intercept the traveling circus.

What's this bull crap? We were constantly told by that Natty dude that "a group is on their way", "maybe they're there now", blah blah. If he and others had shut up, or we had known how slow in the uptake ultra runners really are, there would have been boots on the ground much quicker.

It's also funny how a bunch of ultrarunners come over to our place and try and tell us that the real action was on their obscure hidden mailing list. Anyway, please go back to that list. Your slowness gives this great site a bad reputation.