No Room At The Inn

Halburn Comes Back, Shows His Ass 

Involved In More Hotel Incidents

Mark Halburn came back to town this weekend either to complain about the Wave Pool or to visit his little boy. We think it was the latter.

But, while he was here he managed to be involved in two separate incidents at two separate hotels, sources tell PutnamEYES.com.

He arrived at the Comfort Inn in Cross Lanes on Friday needing a room. Unfortunately for him, that location has been closed for renovation since May 18.

When he was told this he became very belligerent. The clerk referred him to Huntington or Barboursville.

Halburn then got on the phone to Barboursville, a location he was familiar with since he had been there in the past.

On a previous visit,  he made a huge disturbance, was rather rude to other guests, etc. Typical Halburn behavior.

Unbeknownst to him, he was banned from that location after that.

Apparently though nobody told Halburn this because he called and asked for a room. When he was turned down he really flew off the handle. That's when the hilarity ensued.

What caused the brouhaha?

Halburn loves to make irrational demands.

First he started with something he desperately needs.

A job.

One that paid him $55,000.

And a corporate car.

And his own personal suite.

Loudly.

He was told in no uncertain terms that he wasn't getting anything.

He allegedly called Comfort Inn Corporate and started making threats. The threats allegedly involved threatening to blow up their corporate office and corporate cars and he also allegedly threatened the manager.

Halburn's mugshot is now posted at the check in counter in Barboursville. If he ever sets foot on the premises again he will be arrested.

Why this guy's not in jail right now is beyond us.

The unusual thing about this incident is that it didn't involve a pool this time.

You know, fatboy, if you come to town to visit your son, you might try to not act in a way where you have no place to stay. Enjoy your supervised visits, motherfucker. With behavior like this, you shouldn't get ANY visits at all. You're a danger to yourself and others. But especially to the little boy. He deserves better.

We're watching you Halburn.

Every time you come to town.

The all seeing eye never blinks

Halburn Sues Ex-Wife, Judge

Fatlock Strikes Again


In a complaint filed May 23 requesting a "Rite of Prohibition", Mark Halburn brings all his dirty laundry into the open. In an action that will bring formerly sealed Family Court matters into open Civil Court, Halburn alleges that he was treated unfairly in his divorce proceedings and proceeds to make scurrilous allegations against almost all parties in the matter.
As most of PutnamLIES.com's readers know, Halburn's second wife filed for divorce from him in November of 2011. The case was transferred to Kanawha County because Putnam Family Court Judge William Watkins previously represented Halburn's second wife and her mother in bankruptcies they filed in 1998, oddly enough, (or is it?) a month before she married Halburn.

Since then November he has been desperate to stay on her gravy train.
Most of this centers around the son. He has become the pawn in Halburn's power play. By putting the boy in the middle, Halburn shows that he doesn't care about his son. This is about winning to Halburn. If he gets something other people say he can't have, in his eyes he's won. Regardless of the consequences. Plus the more custody he gets, the less child support he will have to pay. And THAT'S the bottom line.

In February of this year Judge Michael Kelly ordered Halburn out of the house owned by his second wife and her mother. He also refused to allow Halburn to take the boy on out of state trips.
A wise move in our opinion. He probably figured that he would never return. Halburn was upset he wasn't able to spirit the boy out of state to a zoo or the beach. This prompted him to DEMAND that that the State build a zoo near Charleston, and, in the most insane request he has ever made, bring the Atlantic Ocean to Charleston.

In this complaint, Halburn denies two incidents in Atlanta and Charlotte where his second wife's attorney Henry Glass says Halburn was thrown off airplanes. We all know Halburn likes to parse words, so usually that means he removed himself before law enforcement showed up.
Halburn says he has never been in the Charlotte airport. Notice though he does not deny the incident at the Atlanta airport.


In addition, Halburn wants the Putnam County Circuit Court to vacate all of Kelly's orders, remove Kelly from case and the bench and be heavily financially sanctioned.
And Halburn lives up once again to his nickname "Handouts Halburn," when he asks the court to appoint a TAXPAYER FUNDED lawyer to represent him in the divorce case and any other related issues.
Halburn, who describes himself in the complaint as indigent, is the so-called publisher of PutnumLive.com, a hate blog he runs from a trailer in South Carolina, where he was forced to move after his second wife threw him out and PutnamLIES.com and the Trash Bloggers Alliance ran him out of West Virginia.

You had Joe Reeder for a lawyer, Halburn. What happened there? Did he kick you to the curb you as a client? Did he too no longer have the patience to put up with your insufferable complaining and inability to see the legal nuances in this case? Were you recalcitrant, obstructive, boorish, argumentative, insulting, and
unable to maintain common human relationships with him and his staff too?

Let us school you on Graves v Daughtery. Graves was arrested. In this case, you have not been. Yet. The paternity of your son is not in question. Your liberty is not at stake. YOU filed this action. You're not entitled to jack shit except the contempt of the residents of West Virginia.

Halburn even has the gall to demand that his second wife pay for the cost of him faxing the complaint to Putnam County from a bank in Conway,South Carolina. Apparently his trailer has no telephone.


And, even though he is not named in the suit, Halburn wants his second wife's attorney Henry Glass to pay him...

  
10 MILLION DOLLARS!


And then he throws in his old FOIA canard of actual reproduction costs because the County Clerk charges him $2.00 for a fax.

And reportedly Clerk Ronnie Matthews was "rather rude" to old Marky.

In a departure from his normal behavior, the complaint is drawn relatively coherently, lapsing into a baseless personal attack 3/4 of the way into the first charge, where Halburn says, "Judge Kelly has had numerous opportunities to correct his errors but is letting his hot-air balloon sized ego overrule his pin-sized brain. Judge Kelly has refused to recuse his sorry self from this case and has refused to step down from the bench as he is incompetent and an embarrassment to the legal profession."

There is no way in hell that Halburn wrote this complaint himself. He had assistance. Probably from his toady reporter buddy. Practicing law without a license is illegal. Does the WV Bar know about this?

We welcome this suit because like the brilliant attorney that attached Halburn's court ordered mental evaluation to a Motion to Dismiss, this will bring all of Halburn's irrational behavior into the public eye.

You fucked up again, fatboy, Your mouth just wrote a check your ass can't cash. You won't be able to tell only your side of the story now. This whole sordid story of you and your behavior is going to be put before the public. Which is a good thing. Sunlight is the best disinfectant for a cockroach like you.
You harassed Kelly on Topix for a month before your last hearing. Then, being the pussy that you are, you had them pull all the discussions.
None of this behavior helps your case.
Enjoy your quarterly supervised visits with your son, fats. Because that's where you're headed.

See the complaint here: "Rite of Prohibition"

Putnam Circuit Court Judge Phillip M. Stowers will hear the case and the case number is 12-C-163.

PutnamLIES.com will have continuing coverage of this story as it develops.

Edwards Ad Not Meant To Tell It All

It's The Economy, Halburn!



You may have seen it. The full-page ad that Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards signed on the back page of the Putnam Herald. It was designed to let people know about an upcoming health fair, the Run for the Wall, the Independence Day Celebration, a Senior Picnic, and the new sprayground.



South Carolina resident Mark Halburn is attacking Mayor Edwards for it.
This wasn't an ad touting Scott Edwards' accomplishments It was an ad listing what is going on in Hurricane.

Ah, political hit pieces. In Putnam County, no one does them better than Mark Hallburn.

Halburn asks who paid for the ad? Did Edwards? Did tax dollars pay for it? Was it tourism dollars?
We say who cares? This is something every municipality in the state does all the time. Letting residents know what's happening in their community is not nefarious or underhanded.
Of course, Halburn did what he always does. Filed a Freedom of Information Act request, via email and immediately started complaining that no one would give him what he wanted. Criminal charges, Mark A. Sorsaia, blah, blah, blah.
As usual, Halburn continues to sit on his hands, do nothing and whine and cry about it. At least your toady Jay Smith has the sack to take people to court when they don't comply with a FOIA, lippy.

Halburn never tells the whole story, he just makes up stories. So PutnamLIES.com set out to show you "the rest of the story" about what is happening in Hurricane.

It isn't pretty. But it's not the Mayor's fault.

Halburn says, "It's the economy, Scotty!"
You're goddamn right it is lardass.
Your liberal-progressive-socialist buddy Barack Obama can take the blame for that.
He took an economy that was in the ditch and managed to run it over a cliff.
In Hurricane, vacant store fronts stand where jobs and revenue should be produced. It's not hard to find those vacancies because they all occurred during the Obama depression.

Halburn starts his baseless tirade with, "The "crown jewel" of the Edwards Administration is the vacant A to Z Supermarket. After more than 50 years in business, the Edwards-supported Walmart killed off this Main Street landmark. The building still stands, as a testimony to Edwards' failed economic plan for Hurricane."



A to Z a crown jewel? More like a brown jewel.
What Halburn didn't tell you was that A to Z was shut down by the health department for being filthy, dirty and unsafe.

131 violations. 36 of them critical. Mold on the walls and ceiling tiles, improper food handling, dirty shelves, floor, coolers, and walls and leaking plumbing.
It's a miracle no one died of food poisoning. This wasn't something that happened overnight. A to Z suffered from years of neglect. It was well on its way out long before Walmart came to town. People voted with their wallets and put this shithole out of business. Scott Edwards had nothing to do with this store failing. They did it to themselves.

Then Fats starts in on another of his favorite targets. The Hurricane Marketplace.



Located next to Walmart, 6 of the 13 storefronts are vacant. During the Obama recession, Rocky Top Pizza and American Mattress have gone under. The Alltel-Verizon store moved to another location. Fat Patty's chose not to locate there down because it would have taken too much money to install a kitchen and prepare the space for a restaurant.

It's not Scott Edwards' job to solve the problems of poorly capitalized, poorly managed locally owned businesses.



Tricor built the Hurricane Marketplace. It's now their job to attract tenants. Maybe the rents they are charging are out of step with what tenants are willing to pay. Why aren't you harassing them, Hallburn? Maybe their corporate counsel has told you to leave them alone?

Then Mr. Bankrupt complains that Edwards opened a new business in Teays Valley instead of Hurricane.

Smart businessmen have to work harder in tough times. They do this by locating wherever they can maximize their profit. If this means out of the city limits where rents are cheaper, then we'd say it was a smart business move.

Halburn then accused Edwards of doing so to avoid paying Hurricane's Business and Occupancy taxes.

That's rich.
Halburn is always bitching about other people not paying their B&O taxes. Mark Halburn operated a business from Hurricane for 7 years and never paid ONE DIME of B&O taxes. In 2010 he claims to have made $22,000 from the tax dodge he calls PutnumLive.com. The amount of B&O tax he paid? ZERO.



Down the hill from Walmart is the former Saturn dealership. Edwards can't be blamed for Saturn folding nationwide. The Martin Outdoors RV dealership and Thrifty Car Sales that replaced that dealership only lasted a few months because of the economy. Edwards can't be blamed for for these businesses folding either. The economy killed both of these businesses. Edwards didn't mention this in his advertisement because it had nothing to do with what the ad was about.

Then Hallburn starts whining about where a Honda dealership was supposed to be built and says the Edwards administration continues to fail to get that project done.
We weren't aware that Edwards was going to build this. All along we thought that Sam Mitchell of Greensburg, Indiana was building that. Perhaps you should start harassing Mitchell about this one.

During the recession, Custom Carpets folded, Champion Windows moved in, and then closed its doors. You know what killed Champion Windows? "Advertising" on PutnumLive.com. Halburn's 29 readers seldom replace the windows on their trailers.

Halburn then complains about a vacant lot next to Walgreen's. It's not generating any business revenue.
THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S EMPTY, DUMB ASS! Scott Edwards doesn't own this property. 
What's he supposed to do? Jerk an old lady out of her car and scream at her? Oh, sorry. That's your job, meathead.

The economy continues to sputter. Stores are being shuttered left and right and more and more people are being thrown out of work. People who do have jobs are careful of their spending, with more of their money going for food and gasoline.
Consumer habits are changing. More people are buying online. Malls and shopping centers are suffering due to fewer people spending due to the reasons given above. They are also suffering because many shop owners can no longer afford to pay the rents charged. People are hurting. Unemployment is rising and nothing is getting better.
With a backdrop like that, it's no surprise that strip malls are not doing well. In fact, stores all over America are seeing reduced sales and are closing, not just in Hurricane.

Halburn prefers to place the blame on the Mayor of Hurricane, Scott Edwards.

And then we get to the crux of the biscuit, the point from which Halburn's vendetta springs. His second ex-wife's property.

"Just up the road are the Walmart neighbors that are still waiting for Edwards and his Putnam County Development Authority to purchase and redevelop."

 

Keep on waiting fat boy. It's not going to happen. You had your chance and you blew it.

"Edwards did make an offer on the blue house-for only $90,000. That's more than $50,000 less than what it appraised for before Walmart was constructed. Why the low-ball offer? Was he trying to take advantage of the Walmart neighbors after their quiet neighborhood was destroyed? You can ask Edwards."

We don't need to ask Edwards. We can look at your deposition.
Edwards did make a offer. The pre-Walmart appraisal plus 10%. About $160,000.
You were greedy and thought you could make more. You never even brought the offer to the actual property owner, your now second ex-wife.

Let's see. Which is greater? $160,000 or nothing at all? Because nothing is what you've got now.

The real question is, are you lying now or did you lie then?



Finally, he grabs a Google maps image showing the Honda vacant lot, the empty Saturn building, the vacant lot next to City National Bank, the house for sale next to it, and the vacant land beside St. Mary's and Willow Tree saying Edwards hasn't managed to get those projects developed either.

It's not the mayors job. 
Edwards didn't mention the following projects that came to town under his administration but we will. You want to assign blame, Halburn? We'll assign some credit.
The Hurricane Gateway, all the improvements at the City Park. Batting cages, the skate park, the new spray ground. Yeah we know it didn't open for spring break. Good thing too. Because IT WAS TOO FUCKING COLD.
City National Bank, Taco Bell, KFC, Arbys, Sheetz, Walgreens, Project Redskin,
renovated and built a little league stadium. The list goes on.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

Nobody cares what you say Halburn. You're not a West Virginian and you don't live here. The good thing is you're 400 miles away and every time you drive back here it increases the odds of you dying in a horrible flaming car wreck.

If Scott Edwards paved the streets with gold, you'd complain they weren't shiny enough.

Edwards Buys Van Outside Of Hurricane

When? OVER 5 YEARS AGO!
Out-Of-State Publisher Prints Another Deceptive Story




The Mayor of Hurricane, Scott D. Edwards has been regularly harassed by Mark Halburn for years. However, PutnamLIES.com has confirmed that Halburn's latest story is completely deceptive and misleading.

Halburn, who likes to lecture others on ethics and "doing the right thing" does not ever "practice what he preaches."

Hallburn writes, "Our camera took these pictures of one of Mayor Edwards' Netranom Communications vans parked outside his Virginia Street office. As you can see by the closup (sic), the Chevrolet Astro Van was not purchased at Hurricane Chevrolet. Instead, it was purchased at Joe Holland Chevrolet, in South Charleston. That means the City of Hurricane did not benefit from the revenue generated by this sale."

So what? The last time we looked, this is still America where consumers have the freedom to shop wherever they want and buy whatever they want. Just because he is the Mayor doesn't obligate him to only buying from Hurricane merchants.
Joe Holland pays West Virginia taxes. Maybe the salesman lives in Hurricane. We don't know. And frankly, we don't care. He can spend his money how he wants.



Edwards replied to Halburn,
"What I do at Netranom is none of your business, but, since you have nothing better to do, I have purchased many vehicles from Joe Holland Chevrolet for both business and personal use and will continue to do so as we have established a wonderful business relationship over the years. You should consider establishing good relationships with people and businesses instead of being an absolute a$$ to everyone you meet."

Mayor Edwards obviously made a business decision to buy elsewhere from a dealer where he has had a long time sales relationship, rather than with a dealership in Hurricane. Maybe he got a better deal. We don't know.
That's just being a smart businessman, unlike Halburn who, despite being 50 years old, has never held a full-time job for more than a year and filed for bankruptcy in 2004.

Halburn didn't buy a car from a Hurricane dealership either. Fords, Chryslers and Chevrolets are apparently beneath him.
He didn't even buy an American car, choosing instead to buy a cheap Korean sub-compact from a dealership in Huntington..

You know what the worst thing is about his story?
It's not even news.

PutnamLIES.com called Mayor Edwards this afternoon and asked him one question: Was the van pictured purchased recently?
Mayor Edwards replied, "Oh no, definitely not purchased recently. I bought it at least 5 or 6 years ago – maybe longer. The Astro Van has been discontinued for a while now."

As a matter of fact the Astro Van hasn't been made since 2005.

Hallburn is once again deceiving his 29 readers by reporting something that happened over five years ago like it happened yesterday.

Which brings us to the picture.

Let's look at the metadata embedded into the picture.



See where it says Date/time original? That's when the picture was actually taken.
What's that say?
That's right.
March 14 2010.
He took this picture OVER TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO!

Halburn claims his readers were clamoring to know why Edwards bought the van in another county. We claim this is just more harassment by Halburn to satisfy his childish vendetta against Edwards.

Halburn, who is not a West Virginia resident and publishes his hate blog PutnumLive.com from South Carolina, has apparently run out of news releases to plagiarize. He is now reporting non-stories that happened years ago and doesn't bother to inform his readers of that fact. This is what passes for news on PutnumLive.com.

You may recall that Halburn's second ex-wife recently divorced him and threw him out of her house. He was forced to flee the state due to PutnamLIES.com's exposure of his actions.

UPDATE:
In a effort to deflect criticism for his deceptive reporting, Halburn is claiming PutnamLIES.com manipulated the metadata from his picture. We stand by our reporting. We have altered nothing. The information is embedded in the pictures on his site.
On April 26th, Halburn added a second van picture claiming it was taken "a few weeks ago". Yeah, if you consider December 4, 2011 a few weeks ago. Once again it's an old picture. This one's only a 4 month old picture of a 6 year old van. Nice try, Halburn.
Just another reason why Mark Hallburn and PutnumLive.com have ZERO credibility!

Viva Las Vegas, Baby!

The editorial staff of PutnamEYES.com is attending a professional conference in Las Vegas this week. We'll be working late every night on many important matters.

As always, there will be no travel feature unless the pool isn't working.

Update:
Early morning environmental seminar.

I just adore a penthouse view.


"No "IFs" "ANDs' or...."
From last night's Women's Health seminar.


From the Chance and Probability seminar.

Police Called To Grace Drive

First on PutnamLIES.com...
Halburn Returns With A Vengeance

On Tuesday night, March 27, Hurricane police were called to the home of the second ex-wife of Mark Halburn.

Apparently Halburn had returned from the dumpster he sleeps in in South Carolina and showed up at her door and caused a scene.
Halburn is in the middle of a messy divorce. So messy in fact, that no judge in Putnam County will hear the case. It has been assigned to Judge Mike Kelly in Kanawha County.
Halburn was not taken into custody.

Obviously in the three weeks he has been in South Carolina he never found a job, or if he did he's already been fired from it, if he can take off at the beginning of a week and drive over 420 miles and 7 hours just to harass his second ex-wife.

We predict more of this type of behavior in the future.

This is not Halburn's first brush with the law. He has been arrested on numerous charges ranging from trespassing to felony strong arm robbery. He has escaped several more by fleeing the scene before he was taken into custody.

Halburn is a large obese man, and his court ordered mental evaluation suggests that he has the propensity for aggressive behavior and that any threats made by him should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately.PutnamLIES.com holds no animosity for his second ex-wife. Nobody wishes any harm or ill will to her or her son. The only time she needs to worry is when Mark Halburn is in town.
We know she was put in an extremely difficult position. We applaud her for doing the right thing and getting herself and her child away from this sociopath.
She and her son have our sympathy. We invite her to contact us and tell her story.

We warn his second ex-wife to keep her son away from this animal. He's exactly the type to take a child for visitation and disappear. He should see the child under supervised visitation only.
We also warn her that the most dangerous time for a woman going through a divorce is just before it becomes final.
So just keep it up fatboy. Just remember that West Virginia is a castle doctrine state.

Top 10 Reasons The Flood Insurance Story is Bullshit

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FEMA Requires Flood Insurance
Winfield Resident Bitches About Paying

Crusading out-of-state douchebag Mark Hallburn is
playing his tiny violin to accompany Winfield homeowner Kenneth T. "Buddy" Davidson's whining about being required to carry flood insurance for his home.

Halburn gets it wrong right from the start when he writes:
"As you can see from the Google Earth image, Davidson's home is down the Kanawha River from the locks, just east of Winfield High School."

Wrong again, lumpy. Davidson's house is UPSTREAM from the locks. A fact you might know if you actually lived in West Virginia.

I don’t know where to start with this one…I’ll just take ‘em in order with a Top 10 list.

1. The homeowner is a little less than 3 miles by river upstream of the Winfield Lock, 2.25 miles as the crow flies; not “a block”.





2. If you live near a lock, by definition you live near a river. Wouldn’t any sane person living near a river be concerned about flooding? It’s not like it’s never happened before in West Virginia.

3. The letter is from his lien holder, not FEMA. FEMA only requires flood insurance if you have a federally backed mortgage loan – if you own your home you are not required by the government to have flood insurance.

4. Taxpayers are subsidizing his loan, why can’t they protect their investment from risk in a high risk area?

5. Being that close to a river means the risk of flooding is high; probably higher than his risk of fire. Yet no one complains about paying for fire insurance.

6. Navigation structures DO NOT offer any flood reduction measures; they only maintain a pool for navigation.

7. If there were any flood storage at a lock (again, there isn’t) he is UPSTREAM of the lock where the water would be stored, INCREASING his risk of flooding.

8. When this property floods, you can be assured the homeowner would be demanding a federal bailout from the same FEMA he is complaining about.

9. When this house was bought, the flood risk was apparent to any casual observer. Crying to legitimate media apparently didn’t work so the owner is definitely trying an “alternative” source.

10. The Publisher only said that he called FEMA; more information is needed about where he called, what number, what time he called, etc., etc. He’s been known to make late night calls and act surprised and indignant that no one answered him.

Putnam County places the assessed value of "Buddy's" home at $85,440. Which means the appraised value is $142,400.



It took us all of 5 minutes to find this flood zone map. You could have gotten off your dead ass and done the same thing before buying the house, "Buddy".
Flood insurance on a home of that value is less than a hundred bucks a month.
If that extra C note is going to break you, you've got no business being in that house in the first place. Quit your whining and pay up, pal.

As for you, Halburn, you don't even live in West Virginia. Why should anyone care what you think?
When are you going to stop playing reporter and go away?