Hat tip: Ablert
UPDATE: As of Wednesday morning, iPetitions has removed Nicky’s petition.
In typical fashion, Nicky started a petition on iPetitions for the purpose of … well, it’s not really clear. The best I can determine is that he wants CreateSpace to take him back. His tactic, however, runs along the lines of “I hate you, you suck, you did me wrong, and you need to give in to my demands.” Yeah, that’s guaranteed to work.
Note that the only person to sign the petition is Nicky himself.
My understanding is that Nicky managed to have the Care2Petition to get him booted off the internet for good removed. Perhaps it is, but I had a cached version with 29 signatures that I screen capped for posterity.
So he threatened, harassed, screamed until someone removed our petition, but his crap stays up? Karma needs to bitch slap Nicky hard and it needs to be done yesterday.
One thing you have to hand it to Nicky about — he’s definitely an optimist. Hope springs eternal and all the world’s a trampoline. He wants FIFTY THOUSAND signatures, no less. And he’s so sure he’ll get them he’s already fantasizing about binding them in a book (he’s probably already setting up a Kickstarter to help finance the cover design) and sending them to the sites that kicked him off. That’ll teach ’em! They’ll feel bad, then! Walter Ablert Mitty strikes again.
Reality can hammer at the door all it wants, it’s not getting in. No amount of failure ever sinks in with this guy. A dozen or more GoFundYourself campaigns never bring in a penny and that doesn’t even slow him down. And now he’s gonna find 50,000 people to co-sign on some crazy “CreateSpace put Martian devil-mice in my pants and Brian Keene is using my the first five digits of my Social Security Number to steal my vital fluids as I sleep in my perv-o mummy-sack!” notice. Yeah, I wanna be associated with some of that! Whar’s mah pen?!?
When he ends up getting, oh, let’s say SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than 50K signatures (like probably zero other than his own, and maybe Ben Dover and Phil McCrackin – those fellas will sign ANYthing!), will he finally face the fact that he has zero friends, no allies in his wrongheaded fight, and is a whackjob who needs to be taking anti-loonietoon pills with a funnel? Probably not. He’ll fail at this and then he’ll be out in some other cyber pumpkin patch next week, waiting for the Great Pumpkin again.
And is it really a good idea for a guy with multiple “this guy’s a lunatic” complaints against him to be bothering sheriff’s offices? He must read this site, because he hit the one in Pennsylvania up now. I’m sure they’re getting ready to bust in Brian Keene’s door just as soon as they get a warrant to search the house for the jars where he keeps Nicky’s thoughts or whatever. “Dear Policemen: Brian Keene stole my SOUL! Get him! And make him give me my nose back, too!”
And man is Nicky insulted by the idea that he flip burgers. Really, I don’t want him flipping burgers — I don’t trust him near anyone’s food, the idea’s horrifying — but it’s odd that he sees that as so demeaning. Being 40 and pretending to be a writer/journalist and claiming that CreateSpace is your “employer” – now THAT’S humiliating. Fact is, princess thinks he’s too good to work, but there seems to be no basis for that belief.
Sometimes I ALMOST feel sorry for him, because he’s so far off the rails and into the weeds. Then I go back and look at some of the stuff he’s done to people and get over it. I don’t think there’s much potential to salvage in this guy, but he should be getting therapy and trying, just for the sake of those around him. It’s way past pitiful, watching him flail about the same imaginary “crimes,” year after year after year.
If he worked for Createspace I must work for Microsoft because I use their software to write my stories. then If I print it out, I must change by bosses to Hewlett Packard and when I photocopy I must be working for Xerox. Where are all my paychecks?????
34 anniversaries, 34 birthdays, 34 Valentine’s Days, 34 Christmases, 31 Mother’s Days… since being married, I have no doubt spent enough at a certain jeweler to own stock in the company and most of its suppliers. Where are my dividends?!?!?!?!? Can I at least get an employee discount this holiday season?
I must work for google and wikipedia because I use them for the research for my short stories! And various movie and tv studios who sometimes provide inspiration for them!
And I must be the rightful king of England, because I’ve been there! And the German Kaiser, and the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, and Prime Minister of Canada and president of Mexico and Big Boss of the Bahamas and….
Oh and I must’ve been elected mayor of my town recently because I’ve been in the city hall and courthouse a few times!