Robert Newcomb: Liar!

Folks, we’ve seen some dirty lowdown lies on some of the forums about our motorcycles, and you read my posts on the shenanigans of these mental misfits in the past (see, for example, my blog titled Venom, Viciousness, and Vituperation).  Today, though, the online disinhibited (read:  morons) hit a new low.   We recently boosted a Facebook post on the RX3.   It’s a good one.  I shot the photo we used in it…

When we boost a post on Facebook, people can post responses.  Most of the responses are very positive, and a large number of them are folks posting their friends’ names in the comments area to tell them about a great bike and a great deal.  The RX3 is out there, you and I have  accumulated tens of thousands of miles on our bikes, you are posting positive things about the bike and our company, and the reactions have been strongly positive.

We still get the occasional anti-China rant from the folks who don’t like China, and we get the occasional comment banging our direct-to-you sales model from the dealers and their shills, but that is noise level stuff and we can all see through it.   Today, though, the online hatred hit a new low.   Check out this Facebook comment and photo from a Robert Newcomb…

Robert Newcomb I just bought mine, but it set on fire when charging in the garage. Picture I took before I called 9-1-1. I have tried repeatedly to get through to customer service but they just leave me on hold ’til I hang up. No response to emails. Wtf?

Newcomb’s post is a bald-faced lie calculated to denigrate the bike and our company.   I know this for several reasons:

• We never heard of Robert Newcomb until he posted that ugly lie on Facebook.  He’s not a customer of ours.
• He never called, as his post claims.
• He never emailed, as his post claims.

I took the image this lying sack of suds (I’m keeping it clean here, folks) posted online and did a reverse Google image search on it, and what do you know, here it is in the original article…

MONITOR TOWNSHIP, MI — A Monitor Township man narrowly escaped an exploding garage which ended up spreading fire to his home.

At 6:38 p.m. Thursday, March 31, a man was working on his motorcycle inside his garage at 1213 E. Midland Road. When he went to put fuel in the bike, he dropped the can and spilled fuel across the floor, said Monitor Township Fire Department Lt. Brian Bladecki.

A furnace and hot water heater were in the garage, and they ignited the fuel’s fumes.

“He saw the flames come across the floor,” Bladecki said. “Just as he took off out the garage door, that’s when it blew up.”

The garage was composed of cement blocks, all of which were cracked by the explosion, Bladecki said.

“It was quite an explosion,” the lieutenant said.  

The fire spread to the man’s attached house and to a pickup parked next to the garage. A neighbor attached his wrecker to the truck and pulled it 20 to 30 feet away, though its motor and front end were already damaged by the blaze, Bladecki said.

Firefighters responded to battle the blaze. There ended up being heat, smoke, and water damage throughout the house. Bladecki said the house is considered a total loss, with the value estimated to be between $100,000 to $120,000.

The man was the lone occupant. He was a renter and did not have renter’s insurance, though the landlord did have insurance on the property, Bladecki said.

No one was injured. Firefighters cleared the scene at 9:27 p.m.

So, who is this Robert Newcomb, actually?  Beats the heck out of us…as I said, we never heard of him until today.   He’s not in Michigan (as was that poor guy who’s house actually caught on fire); Newcomb is up in northern California somewhere.   But if you want to know more about the background of a true troll, you can glean a little bit more by taking a peek at Newcomb’s Facebook page.

That’s it for now.   Newcomb, get back under your rock.   You’ve been outed.