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Woody Nelson Scam?

Witchlover said:
I was wrong when I said I was wrong.

If I read this right, Gaylord does indeed have what is called a "live service mark" on the word "Opry."

http://tess2.uspto.hgov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:clb3k.2.1

It's amazing the things you can learn on the Internet. I should've checked before I posted. My bad. :-[
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According to 15 U.S. Code Section 1127. A service mark is used to identify and distinguish a particular good from those manufactured by others. A service mark can be a word, name, symbol or device -- or a combination of these. It isn't a copyright. A service mark "is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product," according to the above named code.
 
Sheriff Andy said:
Steven/Woody must be reading these posts (guess he's got nothing else to do since his scamming days are on hold) as, for some reason, his site is playing Spanish music(?).
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I noticed he has a FB page for Radio El Chongo where the WSBX calls appear with a picture of a monkey.

Only one problem... a monkey is a "chango" and not a "chongo." "Chongo" means "stump" and is colloquially a cinnamon topped fried bread desert.

The FB page contains so many misuses of Spanish that I did not want to count them. It's filled with the kind of pseudoSpanish expressions that a drunk tourist in Tijuana might utter just prior to passing out.
 
everybody's always so down on Woody Nelson! Just relax, crack open a Corona and listen to El Chongo or Cowboy Bills Radio, you'll be fine.
 
Pebble said:
everybody's always so down on Woody Nelson! Just relax, crack open a Corona and listen to El Chongo or Cowboy Bills Radio, you'll be fine.
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Wassup, Woody?
 
I noticed he has a FB page for Radio El Chongo where the WSBX calls appear with a picture of a monkey.
Only one problem... a monkey is a "chango" and not a "chongo." "Chongo" means "stump" and is colloquially a cinnamon topped fried bread desert.
The FB page contains so many misuses of Spanish that I did not want to count them. It's filled with the kind of pseudoSpanish expressions that a drunk tourist in Tijuana might utter just prior to passing out.


It doesn't really matter as it appears he's living in his own world. And judging by what he posts, he gets pretty annoyed whenever someone intrudes with some truths.
Besides, the site maybe generates no more than 1-2 listeners. I read that one of the folks he's currently harassing made him an offer of $5 for the Cowboy Woody site. Seems a little generous....
 
Will this guy ever wake up and realized the mess he's in? Or is this how most spoiled kids react - let your parents (or Doreen Blood) take care of it.
Excerpt from an article in last Friday's Joplin Globe:

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x5...-unlikely-to-stop-phony-Internet-tornado-scam

Circuit Judge David Mouton issued the order against Steven Blood II and his company, Georgia Triangle Broadcasting, at the request of the Missouri attorney general’s office, but acknowledged the state court’s limits in issuing such an order.

Blood, who uses the Internet aliases of “Cowboy Bill” and “Woody Nelson,” first prompted legal action by Attorney General Chris Koster in July by falsely claiming on his three websites and on various Facebook pages to be helping tornado victims in Joplin and Tuscaloosa with the sale of “Storm Aid” T-shirts and by setting up benefit concerts in Missouri and Alabama and selling sponsorships for those concerts.

PayPal links on the websites allowed Blood to receive about $20,000 from donations or T-shirt sales by early July, without any of the money having been passed to tornado victims, according to court documents filed by the attorney general’s office on Wednesday.

In the meantime, Blood’s PayPal account remains active and all he would need to resume collecting donations and engaging in sales of merchandise would be to place a link on any of the various pages, according to court documents.

“Taken as a whole, it looks as though Defendant Steven W. Blood II is creating another set of websites, Facebook pages and other social media outlets and is poised to restart his scheme of creating and soliciting for fake charity concerts,” the court documents read.

From all appearances the Cowboy Bill's site has been shutdown - there's now a phone number for the "owner" to contact (Go Dadddy?). Shouldn't be a big change for Mr. Blood as it never produced any revenue outside of his scams.



[Link added by Radio-Info as a courtesy]
 
Someone is going to have to get this before a Federal Court before long. Either that or just drop the whole thing. As Judge Mouton himself observes, state courts cannot enforce an order outside the borders of their states without eliciting the cooperation of other states' courts - a time consuming proposition in a case like this. Trust me, Sheriff Andy, Woody is not losing any sleep over this new TRO. He probably thinks it just makes him appear more impressive in the world he inhabits.
 
A quick check of fcc.gov shows the FCC dismissed Woodrow/Dooreen Blood's STA application for silent station status on 8-14-2011.
So the countdown has already started as of 12-31-2010. If the station is not back on the air by 12-31-2011 then the license will be deleted. He can legally go back on the air with an AM version of a "Mister Microphone" and then apply for a STA to operate at less than full power - his request for silent station status was based on lack of "tower, transmitter, and ground system so I would guess he will not get full power operation restored by then.
Chongo just may be an apt discription of the WSBX facility. It sounds like a real "stump."
 
Does anyone know if the local press in Mr. Blood's town, Thomasville, has picked up on this story?
I'd imagine this would be a pretty interesting story for the locals since I'm quite sure he isn't exactly well liked ANYWHERE.
The more folks know about this scam artist, the better. Especially in light of his attempts at starting new websites to further his scamming ways.
 
In what county is the station property located? Thought it would be interesting to check on the property tax status. Found the residence listed with Thomas County. Ocholocknee is in Grady County, but there is nothing found using "WSBX," "Doreen Blood," "Steven Blood" or "Georgia Triangle Broadcasting." Computerized records frequently elude me, however: Either I go one mouse click too far, or I am one mouse click shy of the page I need.
 
I might suggest that Woody is part of this dialogue. Besides being crazy, he is also a narcissist. Typically when he participates, he is the one who posts the most. Just keep that in mind.

A number of folks are now working with towards working with Doreen. She has a legal residence in Glendale CA but is protected by some decent lawyers. If you have any information on Doreen, please post it here.

Thanks.
 
Witchlover said:
In what county is the station property located? Thought it would be interesting to check on the property tax status. Found the residence listed with Thomas County. Ocholocknee is in Grady County, but there is nothing found using "WSBX," "Doreen Blood," "Steven Blood" or "Georgia Triangle Broadcasting." Computerized records frequently elude me, however: Either I go one mouse click too far, or I am one mouse click shy of the page I need.
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The tower is in Thomas County. At the end of Breezy Pine Lane off of the Albany Highway/Georgia Highway 3. 2 miles north of the bypass.
 
Ah, yes, thank you.

http://qpublic7.qpublic.net/ga_display.php?county=ga_thomas&KEY=054++++140

The assessment was decreased by some $5,000 from the previous year, with the land itself assessed at $50,920; the entire property has an assessed value of $136,899. That's quite a bit less than half the purchase price paid for the station by Georgia Triangle Broadcasting, and probably quite a bit more than an investor would be willing to pay for the property once the license has been vacated. A pity that.
 
Rumor has it that WSBX is back on the air - or at least Ms. Blood has informed the FCC that it is back on. I have no idea if this is factual.....just passing along gossip.
Anyone down in the area heard WSBX makin' noise in the last week or two??
 
taylorengineer said:
Rumor has it that WSBX is back on the air - or at least Ms. Blood has informed the FCC that it is back on. I have no idea if this is factual.....just passing along gossip.
Anyone down in the area heard WSBX makin' noise in the last week or two??
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Pretty hard to believe as it would appear all Steven Blood seems to be doing is creating endless Facebook pages and posting non-stop. Believe me, IF WSBX was somehow back (was it ever on the air?) on the air, he'd be trumpeting it as the next best thing since sliced bread.
Besides, any spare dough Momma has will most certainly be going towards lawyers.
 
I have been thinking ... wouldn't they have been about the business of getting wsbx on the air as quickly as possible all along? With four months to go before the station will have been off the air for an entire year - with the possibility of the license being vacated if wsbx is not back in operation - it seems to me that if there hasn't been some preliminary work done, time will run out before they erect a tower, install a transmitter, put a new radial system in the ground, and get it all tested and fine tuned. Hey, Woody, the clock is running, pal. Get to it. You're burning time.
 
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