An important message from a valued departing member - Scotty (Bigrig)

[Coldcomfort]

Scotty, if you are ever in the Alice, take it for granted that there is some cold beer in the fridge and some barbq food ready to go.....

[P4trol]

Never heard about the ban until now. Reading through the thread I was expecting to read extreme bad news about hard times - forced to sell the patrol, an injury/death, or even that he had a mental impairment and was buying a toyota.

Good luck Scotty!

[04OFF]

Ohhh Princess, i think im going to cry ! (ha-ha)



Bigrig, i don't really know whats gone on, but it seems the people you have upset don't know whats gone on, so its a bit confusing ?

Obviously you must have written some things that are somewhat out of character, and i can only assume these things have not quite fit into the guidelines of forum usage, ive not had the pleasure to read most of these said posts myself , due to them getting deleted before i get to see them (lol), but i can't understand you getting that fired up, not without some sort of stimulation from another party ?

While i don't condone any such behavior, id like to have read what you wrote, i kind of get a feeling you may have become frustrated at the changes the forum has gone through in recent times, perhaps you have just lashed out in frustration, espcially after seeing something you have put so much effort into, going a little off the rails ?

If that is true, ive seen changes here too, as im sure has anyone that has been a regular on here for a few years, and i can certainly say i know a few long time QLD members that will agree with me, when i say, we seem to be more and more moving away from the "all friends" family place i came to love here, and as the population grows, so it seems does the petty aggression.



Im not sure exactly whats happend, but most of the QLD people ive met and done many trips with, all seem to be appearing less and less on-line, QLD trips have gone from "thriving" to pretty much nothing, and im not quite sure why ?


Scotty, you always have my respect for what youve done for people met on this forum , and ive always believed it takes a "big" man to opologize, so that should be easy for you !






Anyway, i won't miss you at all.......

Cos ill see you in person real soon

[boots]

Very sad day indeed . I for one have been hoping scotty would emerge sooner rather than later and post again because he is top value. A huge loss to this forum

[rusty_nail]

Wow! Well I'm on the phone so I'll keep it short. I'm sorry to year Scotty has done something wrong and I know I'm not the biggest poster on the forum but not a day goes by where I don't sign in and see what's going on.

I don't know what Scotty did and I'm sorry to hear all has come to an end in this way.

I do know that Scotty, from the one time i met him, was an intelligent and very opinionated person, who only had the best interests at heart whenever he opened his mouth. I remember when him and Andy had a small argument at the meet up to fix Healy's car. He was very passionate about what ever he spoke about and wouldn't listen to anyone else's opinion if he believed himself to be right.

Now I know that some people would be offended by this, would think it was arrogant or a know it all but the lasting impression I got was that he CARED. and that's why he was so passionate about what he spoke about. I can't fault someone that cares hey, no matter how terrible their noggin is haha.

All the best to ya Scotty. I learned a lot from you, not only on here about nissans, but when I met u at Andy's about generosity and how a complete stranger can travel over 2000k's just to come get someone's car back on the road...

Thats about it guys.

Cheers

Rusty.

[Drew]

Wow. I have no idea where I've been, maybe I'm the next to have a breakdown and go buy a Toyota

As i said before, I have no idea what happened but that message says heaps about Scottys character. It takes real guts to stand up say what he said, something that we don't see that often nowadays.

Thanks mate.

[cgm]

Well that at least explains the big picture. I'd been away for a while and just in the last couple of weeks was thinking "where are the posts from Bigrig?" and went searching to try and find when he'd last posted.

It's a pity, coz I know many times when searching for things they'd come up in his posts. A lot of great knowledge and experience got shared with the forum, especially during some of his build process. This is one of those funny times where because I don't post a lot most of you don't really know me. I also can't attend anything because I'm a bit far away! But, because I tend to read a lot more than I post, I still kind of feel like I know a lot of you at least a bit. At least to the extent that you kind of know who has a specialty in what and who to look out for in technical answers, etc.

Regardless of what happened in the end or how it turns out in the future (maybe it's not final) Scotty's contributions I'm sure have been appreciated by many people. It is clear from all the responses there is a great respect for him.

So, Scotty, if you are reading, thanks for all your efforts and being willing to share. I'm sure there are many others like me that you've never met, who have still gained a lot from what you've put in here.

Thanks!

[2TROLLFAM]

Scotty - you have my number ... Stay in touch ok xXx




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[fracster]

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[Winnie]

Can I be blunt?

Sharp as a doorknob mate!