Out of sheer boredom I dug up some old stuff about the Red Shetland buyout thing. It's far too much to quote, but the three FA journals by Roy Calbeck paints the picture pretty well. In order...
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/117773/ http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/149414/http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/150938/There exists the possibility that Groat simply
couldn't sell the rights as well along with his backstock, seeing that Richard Konkle is probably co-owner to the rights as well.
But enough of that. Now for some more wacky zaniness from the mind of the Groat...
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1651247/You know, I
could have believed it. Really. He could have hit
any model of car on the road, and I could have read it and have some empathy for him going through a terrible ordeal which cost him his job.
But NO. It had to be a Toyota PRIUS! You know, one of those ECONAZI FLAG BURNING PRIUS FREAKS! Just like the Prius driver who got him fined for idling his truck. He's even got people bashing Prius owners in that thread, too.
It's at the point that nothing the guy posts is believable. Maybe stuff like that really happened, or the sugar-in-the-gas-tank ordeals. But I can't bring myself to see it as anything else other than bullshit to suck sympathy by yanking on gut-emotion strings or to obscure real reasons why shit really happened.
Honestly, I've never met the guy. He could be an awesome person to know and hang out with. Looking at the video where he gets his hair cut off for charity says that he's an allright guy. But for all the shenanigans and bullshit that has surrounded him through the years...I dunno.
(Oh, and Hi to m_estrugo. Good to see you around, and Alice Otter is an awesome comic