This does not look good at all. I have no use for cheaters.
Yikes… no that doesn’t look good. When I first started watching the superimposed times were always faster and I thought it was the video compression. But then the times went both ways… favoring his guys and dis-favoring the competition.
Why do people do such stupid stuff? It never ceases to amaze me.
“Paul Hendrix has been a member of USPSA since 1988. He is a fixture in Area 6, and has RO’d countless major matches at the state, section, and area level. His apparent cheating casts the legitimacy of every single event he has officiated into doubt.”
Never shot a “serious” match, but every local one I’ve shot the guy running the timer showed it to me and the recorder. Seems like a relatively simple way to keep people honester.
On a more direct note: what a deuche. Any way for people to sue him and screw his life up royally??
That’s the only way I’ve seen it done. Although you can use a sundial to time me.
Most matches I have shot from local to sectional at least show it to the recorder. If I caught one of my ROs doing this I would definitely call them out on it and they would be banned from all future matches for LIFE as a competitor and as an RO.
The sheer scope of this guy’s impact is pretty staggering. We’re talking about perhaps decades of Boss Hogg, here, deliberately screwing over uncountable numbers of people, based solely upon whatever his personal metric for “I like you” happened to be, in a sport that’s not supposed to be subjectively scored (like gymnastics or figure skating).
I’m only in my 2nd season of USPSA, and only at the local level, and I’d love to dance at midnight to the light of a burning…him. Based on that, it’s hard to imagine the upper limits of how angry somebody directly affected by his actions must be.
Well that’s not OK.
Post 690 has an up-to-date list of people that he screwed over that can be proven with video. It’s a constantly evolving list as more people check their videos.
He RO’ed me on a stage at the recent VA/MD match where I placed in the top 10 for my division. I’m a shitty B class shooter, so that stage seemed like a strange fluke when I saw the final scores. Now I know he was just screwing over everyone else and that really ****ing pisses me off.
http://doodieproject.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/1758-huge-uspsa-cheating-scandal/?p=35772
The pitchforks need to come out. A blind man could literally understand the scope of this cheating by listening to the YouTube videos and using a stopwatch with a Braille readout or whatever the disabled would use. Instead, there are plenty of people on the Area 6 and Area 8 Facebook pages defending this guy with the typical “my baby didn’t do 'nuffin.” The head in the sand syndrome is deafening when people refuse to acknowledge facts.
A thorough investigation was conducted before this was brought public. Time compression/shot coach differences on stages where Paul Hendrix (PV Hendrix on Facebook and EnosForums) was not the RO were in the 1/100ths of a second. Using the same video, whenever he was the RO, there was a 1-3 second difference, with either time added to your score or taken away dependent on if you were friends and the overall length of the stage.
This man is a retired cop, was a reserve officer as of 2012 (current status unverified), and abused his position of authority within USPSA to commit fraud. Let’s not forget that prize tables were involved. I’d happily swear out a PC criminal complaint for fraud on this prick if I knew the elements in each state, the prizes involved/won, and had the video to back it up.
This scandal just broke in the public realm less than 48 hours ago so it will be interesting to see where it leads. I’m just a solitary due paying member to USPSA, but if the directors of this sport don’t crucify him in public after they have conducted their own investigation then I will quit and just shoot 3gun. This good 'ol boy crap doesn’t fly in the modern age of social media and $100 helmet cameras.
Full disclosure:
Before this thread I’d never heard of USPSA (I’ve heard of IDPA). I’ve never participated in a prize match, and I’m not a competitive shooter. My knowledge of this drama is limited to about an hour’s research of reading the links posted in the OP.
But I have been subjected to the “good 'ol boy” treatment because I’m young, educated, and don’t live in the sticks. I know for a fact that what 2501 said is the truth. These videos don’t lie, the evidence is just too great. Whole seconds added and subtracted to people’s time and yet the calibration videos are precise to within 00:00:03. (That’s a hundredth of a second). Even if this was due to slides slamming forward, accidents, misreading the timer, people farting, or whatever - they aren’t all happening exactly 2-3 whole seconds off the real time.
I hate seeing people jump on the internet crucifixion bandwagon, especially people like myself with no skin in the game and only one side of the story. But the evidence is damning and the shooting sports has always had a “good 'ol boy” problem. This guy needs to go away, never come back to any shooting sport event ever, and more importantly USPSA needs to make an example out of him.
If it were up to me, I’d love to see this retired LEO see what it’s like to be a defendant in the courtroom for both civil and criminal charges of fraud. Intent is hard to prove in a criminal fraud case, but he’d never survive a civil case. Seeing his fat retired pension get cut up every month to pay for his dishonesty would be good enough for me.
Troll#6 is a very eloquent profanity slinger, by the way.
It seems he was “spreading the time around” because he knew what was best for the collective.
FROM each according to their need, TO each according to their ability.
Funny, this theme keeps cropping up all over the place.
Not good.
Just to caveat, I will almost always give a LEO the benefit of the doubt in any situation. Most of the faux outrage producing videos involving LEOs do not represent the full timeline of events, and the people commenting simply have no understand regarding SCOTUS decisions on a law enforcement officer’s right to use force to defend himself while making an arrest.
The Paul Hendrix cheating scandal is not one of those cases. There is zero interaction between an RO and a shooter that takes place outside the confines of the timed course of fire that would effect the time portion of their score. The complete COFs are depicted in these videos, and Hendrix is clearly shown committing fraud of an unbelievable scale. I do not know the shooters that he helped, and I am not passing judgement on them at this time. For all I know they were unaware of Hendrix’s actions. But, I do know some of the shooters that he screwed over and they have every right to be livid.
Even if this man is not officially banned by the numerous sanctioned bodies running the various shooting sports, only a fool would be on his squad. I doubt he will cheat again if ever given the chance to RO (which would be a shame in and of itself) but I have no interest in spending my free time hanging around liars and cheaters; hopefully others feel the same and will refuse to squad with him.
Some of his defenders have passively accused myself and others of libel/slander. All I can say is ****ing bring it on. I would love to see Paul Hendrix forced to give a deposition; if he doesn’t come clean then we can add perjury to his list of offenses.
I’d like to see their evidence. He’s pretty well screwed himself along with everyone else by playing both sides of the fence. He’s going to need the Hillary Clinton defense… “I don’t recall” “What difference does it make?” in fact he might even need to have a beer with Obama to make this one go away.
Well… At least Lois Lerner can get a job in the Match homo realm after she collects her fat retirement and Bonus from the IRS gig! :sarcastic:
The bad thing for him too is that he could go on YouTube and claim his innocence. Which is what everyone expects these days. It’s the Court of Social Media. You get caught on Monday and you have to apologize or present your defense by Wednesday. His silence will be seen as further evidence. If he is guilty though he really should be banned from everything. Not welcome in any aspect of the gun industry. Ranges, shops, no FFL transfers except to sell his guns, forums, the works. He’s going to be the Edward Hale of the gun community.
Same here. If I am shooting really fast, you can time me with an hour glass.
I shoot the occasional club match with the USPSA guys locally and they are flabbergasted that this could happen. The cheater who manipulated the times would be lucky to leave most of the local clubs without bumps and bruises if he showed up. The guy needs to shut his pie hole and go away quietly.
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I find this whole situation appalling. No doubt the actual incidents of cheating are multitudes higher than those that have been uncovered. Not every match or stage is videotaped and furthermore the ones that are often get edited down to before the official time is called to reduce video size.
So if PH is banned for life (which I hope) what happens to everyone that qualified for higher classifications when he was the RO? Remove their current classification? Let it be and see?
Reducing someone’s time by by 2 seconds while simultaneously increasing the close competitions time by 2 seconds can effectively mean the difference between first and fifth place (or more) easily. How many dozens have won or not won a match because of this guy? How many charlies became alphas? What a mess.
Every match this guy RO’d is now in question. Every. Single. One. For over two decades.
If USPSA was a household sport like NBA/NHL/MLB, there would be congressional hearings about this.