If someone is terrorizing your neighborhood...

sometimes it’s alright to grab a stick and take a swing.

This is part of a post from the person behind the @BPGlobalPR account at that is driving an un-named oil company crazy. His name is Leroy Stick (not his real name - and you can imagine the reason why he does not use his real name)

You can read his post here

He explains his name as follows:
When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood. He made a habit of running around our block attacking anything he saw, biting my dad and my dogs basically whenever he had the chance. He chased me a few times, but I always escaped because I was/am an amazing tree climber.


Anyhoos, after Leroy’s second or third attack on my dogs, it became clear that the police and Leroy’s owner weren’t going to do anything to stop him, so my dad took matters into his own hands and came up with a brilliant invention: the Leroy stick.


The Leroy stick was, you guessed it, a stick. My dad carried an axe handle and I carried a plunger handle. My dad told me two things about carrying the Leroy stick. First, if Leroy came near me or the dogs, I should hit him. Second, if I hit Leroy with my stick, I would not get in trouble. Was it legal? Probably not. Was it right? It sure felt like it. We set the example and soon a lot of our neighbors started carrying Leroy sticks as well. Soon enough, Leroy and his owner saw everyone carrying sticks and Leroy didn’t run free anymore.

The point of this story is that if someone is terrorizing your neighborhood, sometimes it’s alright to grab a stick and take a swing. Social media, and in this particular case Twitter, has given average people like me the ability to use and invent all sorts of brand new sticks.


He started @BPGlobalPR, because the oil spill had been going on for almost a month and all BP had to offer were BS PR statements. No solutions, no urgency, no sincerity, no nothing.

He started off just making jokes at their expense with a few friends, but now it has turned into something of a movement.

Why has this caught on? I think it’s because people can smell the BS and sometimes laughing at it feels better than getting angry or depressed over it. At the very least, it’s a welcome break from that routine. The reason @BPGlobalPR continues to grow is because BP continues to spew their BS.

If you have a Twitter account follow http://twitter.com/BPGlobalPR