Reports Sparta : ATA VP Ryan Constanti crashed car during Grand week reported car stolen?

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  1. merlo

    merlo Mega Poster Forum Reporter

    I am hoping someone can get more information on this. Why would someone crash a car then report it stolen? It appears this was during the Grand or Aim Events at the WSRC.

    Another person posted the attached photo of news clipping. Why the the crash and then reporting it stolen?

    Who thinks this will be in the minutes?

    I report. You decide.
    merlo out.

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  2. BRAD DYSINGER

    BRAD DYSINGER The Philosophist Founding Member Member Trapshooting Hall of Fame Member State Hall of Fame

    A Fantastic Direction Indeed.
     
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  3. Al Peter

    Al Peter Active Member

    I have seen people do stuff like this, to avoid a DUI. The driver leaves the vehicle at the scene, then the next day, when they're sober, they report the vehicle as stolen...
     
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  4. nitrogetsome

    nitrogetsome Active Member Founding Member

    That is conduct unbecoming. To use one of the ATA'S great sayings along with disrupting the harmony of the shoot.... rules are for the not me.. but calling somebody a dumb f%%%. For shoot a malfunctioning gun Gets you 2 years 364 days...just saying
     
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  5. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Let’s ask wsrc brad what happened. I heard he knows all about it.
     
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  6. Gatorgun

    Gatorgun Active Member

    Article says he was evicted from the site? Which site? Camping site or the whole WSRC? Was a no trespass issued? That is a vague statement

    Charges for filing a false police report?
     
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  7. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Calling the all knowing wsrc brad. Didn’t you “hear” anything about this incident?
    You “heard” the kids were going back to that place.
    Nothing to say on this subject?
     
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  8. WSRC Brad

    WSRC Brad Active Member

    I have no comment or any other information other than what is in the above newspaper article. There are several here on this site or maybe yourself that are well versed on FOIA requests, try one of those.
     
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  9. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Thank you, I just made $20.00 on a bet that you would act like you didn't know anything or have anything to say about an INCIDENT WHERE YOU WORK. Really? You come on here to try start crap with what you "heard" about the SCTP kids going back to that hole and yet, NOW, when you know exactly what happened, or should anyway if you were any good at your job, you pull the dumb act?
    Right, got it.
     
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  10. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Wow, I should have thought of this earlier. So now that place is a target for car thieves. One would think the employees would know about that.
     
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  11. butterly

    butterly Mega Poster

    I can understand WSRC Brad keeping comments down. The perp is one of WSRC Brads indirect supervisors. He is on the EC.
     
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  12. Gatorgun

    Gatorgun Active Member

    Yikes! Good thing he was not drinking. winky wink.
    And if he was a pilot and did that crap? Wowser.
     
  13. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Either the guy was drinking, wrecked his car, and left the scene, or the place has trouble with car thieves.
    The silence from wsrc brad is deafening
     
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  14. BRAD DYSINGER

    BRAD DYSINGER The Philosophist Founding Member Member Trapshooting Hall of Fame Member State Hall of Fame

    Same shit, different decade.
     
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  15. Indyfireman

    Indyfireman Active Member

    Heard today he resigned. Probably was advised best route
     
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  16. Welther

    Welther Active Member

    Hi Indy...
    Where did you hear that?
    Even if he did was he punished by the ATA?
    I haven't heard of a resignation or punishment?
     
  17. Flyersarebest

    Flyersarebest Moderator Founding Member Forum Leader

    Dateline, September 2026, Sparta IL. The grave of the Grand American Tournament

    Well Ryan, you’re in a tough spot boy. We can’t say anything to help you. We know you won’t tell us if you were drinking and since you left the place the cops can’t prove it, but they got you on leaving the scene so you’re screwed on that one. Did the cops say anything to you about calling in a false report?

    Now, we’re here to tell you that, in our eyes , there’s only one thing you can do. Yep, you’re going to have to, as they say when someone F’s up, resign your position.
    What’s that? The answer to that question Ryan is no, you do not still get the gun.

    We’re still looking at what else, if anything, we are going to do. You MIGHT have been drinking. But you DEFINITELY lied about crashing your car. And THEN, you DEFINITELY lied to the police by calling in a stolen vehicle report. What? No Ryan, you don’t get to be president one day and get the gun.

    Ryan, do you know what “optics” means now a days? No?, Well, it means you LOOK like someone that screwed the pooch and then tried to get out of trouble by lying about what really happened.
    Man, WTF were you thinking? Yeah, we know you weren’t thinking.

    Look pal, we have enough bad press from all the shady crap we did with that HOF building and then Gipson and the office building and that LLC thing.
    Those people on that other site had a field day with that one. We thought they wouldn’t be around longer than thirty days and look how that turned out.

    Then this friggin state, that we really wish we never made a deal with, locked us out and the kids said they didn’t want to come back here. That cost us a lot. Did you see how many people shot the main event this year? We didn’t think it could get worse and son of a , it got worse. A pathetic sixteen hundred and seventy six.

    Then we landed hard on that guy that called out the moron with an unsafe gun. Yeah, we were still looking to toss him for any reason we could come up with after that BS with Sandy. Then we had the guy that shot himself in the foot. Talk about not safe. We don’t know what we’re going to do to him.

    Like we said Ryan, you’re in a tough spot. We expect the resignation letter by tomorrow.