worthless bastards

This will take a little bit of explaining.

Kinda starts back a few years, when my son was absolutely fascinated by trains. As a surprise, I resurrected an old hobby and started putting together a tabletop HO scale railroad in the basement. It was cool, we futzed with it for quite some time. He really liked playing with trains and was so excited to learn how to use the controllers. of course, he's outgrown it for the time being (he's all of ten- toy trains are for LITTLE kids) But in the process, I (re)-discovered that working on these little buildings and vehicles was quite soothing and stress relieving. Kind of a zen state.

Jump subject. The latest incarnation of Star Trek, Enterprise debuted. Being a big sci fi geek, I watched it quite a bit, and kind of grew to like the new ship. At one point, I wondered whether anyone had ever put out a kit of the ship, and went to the internets to see. eventually landed at a site called Starship Modeler, which a couople from Illinois put together in their spare time as kind of a clubhouse for geeks who play with toy spaceships. They had plenty of resources, including forums where we all got to know each other, compare notes, give advice, and so on. Grew to a pretty good size, apparently over 2500 members. I started working on spaceships rather than trains, and visit the site several times a week to see what's up.

well, this past week some ne'er do well with not enough consideration hacked into the forum database and locked out all the administrators, who were forced to take it all off line, and are considering not bringing it back, depending on several factors. I don't blame them; they were not doing it as a job, they were doing it in their spare time- nobody has enough of that, and the owners of the site had a new baby also.

So now, all these folks I met on these forums, I may never really talk to again- the community that had grown up around this goofy hobby has been destroyed. Because some geek with an attitude thought he was proving how cool he was by breaking into the site.

well, whoever it is (and I realize that there is practically zero chance that they will ever read this) has only proven how shallow and empty and free of common courtesy they are. I hope that the owners of the site have a way of tracking the jerks down and prosecute them. And even though I am a fuzzy thinking pacifistic Librul who gets queasy at the thought of hurting someone, I'd cheerfully kick this bastard's ass if I could find them.