Leonard Harville has sought legal counsel that has agreed to take me to court. Oh, I’m so scared.
On Saturday night, Leonard Harville YELLED THIS THREAT AT ME ON FACEBOOK…
YOU TALK ABOUT THE GAZETTE-VIRGINIAN GETTING BUSTED FOR PLAGIARISM AND POST MY PHOTO OF MATT CARTER ON YOUR PAGE ! WATCH WHAT YOU SAY ON HERE ! I HAVE SOUGHT LEGAL COUNSEL THAT HAS AGREED TO TAKE YOU TO COURT ! ASK CHARLES ROURKE WHAT IMPROPER COMMENTS CAN DO TO YOUR POCKETBOOK ! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !
You might say, “Bruce, how do you know he’s talking about you?” Come to think it, you’d be right. Leonard then had to YELL THIS IN THE NEXT COMMENT.
Leonard Harville: THIS IS FOR BRUCE HEDRICK !
I appreciate him MAKING THAT CLEAR!
Of course, he made that “threat” to me set to “Friends Only”, which meant that I couldn’t see it. In other words, he could have shouted it at a telephone pole and been as effective in getting it to me. Luckily, I have lots of friends who make sure I’m informed.
All right, I’m going to pretend that I’ve been served with this legal action for plagiarism. I have to say I’m going to pretend that, because plagiarism isn’t even recognized in any civil or criminal law. That would mean that whatever legal counsel that he has retained (trust me, he hasn’t) is practicing law at the Legal Hut in Guatemala (or some other country that sells bananas). By the way, Charles Roark (note the correct spelling) was sued for defamation by the Martinsville Commonwealth’s Attorney because he recklessly published false information. That’s got absolutely nothing to do with copyright law.
If Leonard has a real lawyer (again, he doesn’t), that lawyer should tell him that he has a potential legal action for copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.. The procedure for starting that legal action is to issue a claim of copyright with the owner of the website (that would be me). That demand would ask me to take the infringing item down. As the owner of the website, I would have to opportunity to issue a counter-claim and give a response to his demand. In case you’re wondering what my response will be, I’ll tell you now. “Blow it out your ass.”
Leonard would then have two choices. Either blow it out his ass or to commence ill-fated legal action against me. My defense will be “fair use based on parody”. By using the photo in an article that ridicules the original, I am allowed to use a fairly extensive use of the original material to conjure up the original. I’m quite confident that my use of his photo fits under that legal precedent. Right now, I’m using his original content (HIS THREAT HE YELLED AT ME) to parody him once more… and I’ll keep doing it.
In other words, good ol’ Leonard’s got nothin’ and no amount of CAPS LOCK will change that one damned bit. Now he does have a rabid group of supporters who always chime in with blind support to him, so let’s take a look at some of those…
Debbie Wyles Vernon: Bruce Hedrick is just ticked off cause he dont get the attention you do. Kinda hard to do that when your rear is at home and not on the scene…unless of course it’s a political event.
Sorry, Debbie. I do a lot of political coverage and I’m sorry that you don’t enjoy that. I’m a firm believe that car wrecks are usually crap and not-newsworthy. I do appreciate her reading SouthsideCentral and I’m flattered at her attention on my butt, though.
Cindy Turner: BRUCE HEADRICK BACK OFF!!!!
While I appreciate Cindy’s response in the Leonard CAPS LOCK style, I wish she’d spell my name correctly.
Cristy Smith: His page is wack!!! LOL He’s definitely a hater!!!!
Now that’s a useful comment. I’m considering changing my site description from “The only blog covering the SouthsideVA region… and more!” to “The only wack website about Southside VA that’s ran by a hater!!!!”
Joan Scearce Leonard: Why was Bruce fired from Star News?? Or does he think no one knows? He must not be much.
Now this is funny. Joan Leonard is one of my Facebook friends. All she’s got to do is ask me directly.
If I get any more of these Hatin-Ass Comments that are worth responding to, I’ll add them to this article.
Let’s recap: Leonard says he’s going to sue me. He’s not. If he tries to do a copyright claim against me, I’ll tell him to blow it out his ass. If he tries to sue me (again, he’s not), I’ll destroy him in court.
Leonard’s reckless “reporting” is going to hurt more people and some of those people will be his rabid followers. Sadly, the other ones won’t care. I’ll keep up the good fight here on SouthsideCentral.
If you have dirty laundry, take it somewhere else. While this is your blog, and you do have the right to say what you choose it serves no useful purpose and is detrimental to your overall objective.
Just my opinion.
Thanks. This isn’t dirty laundry to me because this guy has seriously hurt friends of mine and, others with his recklessness.
Thanks. This isn’t dirty laundry to me because this guy has seriously hurt friends of mine and others with his recklessness. Nobody else will call his actions out.
There’s a vast difference between exposing a public nuisance
and ranting about personal issues.
Bruce is just trying to shed a little light on the fact that this man is hurting his community.
Hopefully we can get him under a microscope enough that he will be forced to stop
or at the very least abide by a common standard of professionalism… to which he is currently incapable of.
I think this is sound advice.
If Mr. Harville could read what is exposed about him by many citizens here and if he knew what is reputation is outside of his small circle he would probably change his name or move to Mississippi.
Leonard fuels the fire and creates so much drama. No amount of posting bible verses and love quotes makes up for being a gossip hound and drama king. Maybe he could go out into the real world like the rest of us, and find a real job that actually makes a paycheck instead of being an ambulance chasing, police bashing hate-filled individual who stirs up mess on Facebook like a 13 year old school kid. I’m sure if he had an actual job, it would probably cut down on the hatred that is stirred up on his page. And for those that are not aware, spreading gossip and posting pictures on Facebook under the title of “Breaking News” is not a real, tax paying job.
If Leo nard is so smart he would know once a photo is posted on FB it is no longer private so anyone can use it! So he wants to sue Bruce for what he says. Well what does he think the people he hurts should do to him. Stand back and pat him on the back. Hey keys give him a metal for showing us wrecks of cars and license plates so friend can find out before family that their lived ones have wrecked . Maybe we can take his so call stories to a publisher and get them printed for him. He can upgrade his scooter to a car. We air he ain’t fooling us he has a car. His followers need to wise up!
Legal counsel would have advised him against posting anything else about the situation publicly. Leonard has really disappointed me with his distinctive and inappropriate style of citizen journalism recently.
I like you Bruce
Headrick, that is awesome, you should embrace it. Not sure who the not too important guy is, but he has been waterboarded with the Hateraide for sure.
Who is Leonard Harville?
I answered your question last time.
No you really didn’t. Never heard of this guy and seriously have no idea who he is or why you write about him.
” Right now, I’m using his original content (HIS THREAT HE YELLED AT ME) to parody him once more… and I’ll keep doing it.” –
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL – ALL IN CAPS LOCK!
Leonard is a waste of space and a nuisance to the community.
He endangers people by providing detailed information to where police checkpoints are.
He races to accident scenes to take bloody gruesome pictures of fatal wrecks and then races home to post them online before families can be told…much less grieve.
(and he admittedly does it solely for the recognition from his ‘friends’)
There’s a reason why REAL newspapers post stock photos of most fatal accidents… it’s called COMMON HUMAN DECENCY!
His lemming followers claim they are too busy to read, watch, or listen to real news….
but not too bust to scroll facebook all day looking for the next close up of brain matter and blood.
I heard he threatened to file charges against me for threatening to break his camera…. and I hope he does!
(HEY MR HARVILLE! I HEAR YOU ‘KNOW” A LOT ABOUT COMPUTERS…
MAYBE LEARN ABOUT CTL+ TO RESIZE YOUR TEXT SO YOU DONT HAVE TO YELL IN EVERY SINGLE COMMENT, fool)
Jeff, there you go. I couldn’t have said it better.
Oh, almost forgot…
he also thinks that Freedom of Speech only applies to himself….
Bravo, Donald. Especially the part about why most media uses stock photos. These are the things that people don’t think about while they’re too busy running their mouth and defending the other side.
Leonard needs to be careful. At one of those scenes a not so accommodating “freedom of speech” individual may punch him in his mouth for his “reporting”. Just saying…….
Since I’ve only lived in the area for 4 years and don’t know this Leonard person, I looked him up on FB. It didn’t take much more than a quick scroll through his pictures and timeline to understand the many criticisms. My impression is of a pathetic, attention-seeking sad sack who makes people notice him by being a voyeuristic vulture. What he provides isn’t news. It is tasteless goosenecking, and I suspect that his followers who post the standard supportive “praying” comments on his pictures would feel differently when he races to the scene of an accident involving one of their loved ones.
I JUST HAD TO LOL AT YOUR GIVING THIS LEONARD GUY FREE LEGAL ADVICE ON HOW TO SUE YOU. THAT ALONE IS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION, BRUCE. (CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW…..) 😉
You two should settle this beef in a cage…..
People should be able to write whatever they want to write. You either going to take the heat or not. I could care less what someone writes about me on the internet. I am like stand in line with the mess. I have plenty of blog sites that I can write whatever I want and garner the same amount of attention to someone else. The point is toughen up on all sides.
Exactly! That’s why I wrote this article.
I read your articles SouthsideCentral and I could go on all day about what I think about you. However, I have my own forum to debate the issue if I decide to give it any of my time. If I had a penny for everytime someone said something I did not like, I would be rich. Too many are caught up on winning battles and should concentrate more on the war. If I went to court or wherever and expected that I was going to win the very first time then I would be known as a quitter and not a fighter. However, to read a negative article about me, when there is enough positive articles about me. I have to give the audience the chance to make their own decision. This is the freedom of press. It is too many people trying to please everyone. Please yourself!
I’d be honored for you to write some viewpoint articles here on SouthsideCentral.
Sounds fine by me. You tell me how to send you the article to you and vice versa “Ill do the same with yours on mines!” Your viewers may not like it lol!
Leonard is nothing but a worthless peice of shit and i hope that he one day finds out that something has happened to his family or any friends (that he probably doesn’t have) via facebook. he needs to get a life and get off his fat ass.
I am going to file charges against him as soon as i leave my legit tax paying job for slander and harassment. best of luck to the sorry peice of shit.
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I think he’s a pedophile
He is one strange dude. I don’t think he is right in the head