Shane Ryan; Australian phony
One of our fans from Australia, a Vietnam veteran, sent us this link to the story of Shane Ryan, a retiree from Melbourne who has convinced the British government of his derring-do. Aside from his claims of military service, he also makes stuff up about what happens to him around his home;
Back in 2004, Ryan was praised for saving the life of a neighbour when, just two weeks after leaving hospital after a “triple stroke”, he fought off two marauding rottweilers with his walking sticks, at his Ballarat property the previous January.
Based on a statutory declaration from his son, Paul, as well as letters from people who claim to have witnessed the incident, the Royal Humane Society of Australasia awarded Ryan a bravery medal.
And the RSPCA presented Ryan with a bravery certificate for protecting his own dog, Muffy, from the rottweilers in the same incident.
“I was still very weak from my third stroke,” he told those at the Government House awards ceremony.
“One arm was useless from the stroke, the other one was buggered from Cambodian shrapnel. It was 30 minutes of intense terror. My neighbour just froze, absolutely terrified.’’
According to the reporter, he had forged the witness statements, including his son’s signature to one. He did the same thing again, only this time he rescued a drowning man and he was awarded another medal, until after the fact, folks started investigating his supporting evidence.
But you should click over and read the whole story, it’s pretty funny, if you can’t tell by the picture of him.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Another one with a five or six head.
Just look at the size of that melon. They grows them big down under.
Maybe he’s an Australian version of what Jeff Foxworthy referred to as a “Waterhead” in one of his comedy routines? 😀 his stories sound like what some ShOrTbUsWiNdOwLiCkEr41 would come up with!
A new low-
Committing fraud to obtain a bravery certificate from the RSPCA.
What a dog…….
“He’s a would-be, if he could be.” We are going to have to use that expression here. I wonder if he is All Points Logistics material?
This guy was so successful at Stolen Valor he should be named “Obi-Wan DeArcee”. (smile)
Didn’t I see him in a Harry Potter movie? He must be English where bad dressing is compulsory.
Well, this is a new way to go about making oneself into a public fool.
Claiming he had three strokes (should be incapacitated) and fought of 2 Rotties with walking sticks? That is so thin, plastic wrap holds more water. He obviously knows nothing about walking sticks. I think he pulled a bernath here.
Take it easy on him. We would not want him to self-murder.
I could maybe see the three strokes – I know folks walking around who have had more. And I have seen some pretty stout walking sticks…generally for sale because unless you intentionally want to carry a club, the lighter the better. But 30 minutes fighting off the dogs? Seriously? Maybe Rhonda Rousey could keep fighting them a half an hour, but after any strokes, his endurance time is probably closer to thirty milliseconds.
He has a dog named Muffy.
LEGIT!
“Muffy” sounds like what some denizen of San Foo-foo would name their miniature poodle!!
“They are really ill people”, Like Transsexuals?
Wow, what a delusional bag o’ shit. In my opionion all posers should be sentenced to be stripped naked and made to walk at the rear of veterans day parades with “fraud” signs around their necks.
If you looked up “crazy uncle that lives in the attic” in the dictionary that dude’s picture would be next to the definition. He looks certifiably bat shit crazy. He’s still a stolen valor shitbird though.
But the question that well want to know… Can he read a gas (petrol) gauge?
Two Words:
1. Hair
2. Cut
Now hold on here a minute! One useless arm but walking sticks in the plural must mean a minimum of at least two. Does he mean he used nanchucks rather than walking sticks? Not more kung foo buffoonery! Seems like I remember him as the operator of the ferris wheel at Michael Jackson’s compound as reported by “Homo Are Us”. Reportedly he was fired because his secondary job included tucking Michael and kiddies in at night. On one particular evening he was caught copping a feel and terminated by an enraged jealous and possessive Jackson. In spite of all, he was awarded the Tucker of the Year by Jackson himself, to avoid a law suit.
Oh my dear LORD and Savior:
I just read the entire article!
Base on the point blank description from the good medical professionals cited, I know exactly what I suffer from!
Yes, I am the one who should have won the last “Golden Ticket” (for the Chocolate Factory for you too young to know)!
And because I didn’t …the rest is history!
Well, I did buckle down and read the article itself and came to the description of the Stolen Valor syndrome.
…described by US Professor Jay Martin in his 1988 book Who Am I This Time as a “fictive personality”, where a sufferer strives to replicate characters from literary, historical or mass-media fiction to “fill in” an empty space.
So, my peeps, there you have it. ‘Fictive personality’, for he, she or it, who has an empty space where his/her/its brain should be.
I have been enlightened.
Could someone please send a copy of that book to the VA’s psych’s? Oh, never mind.
I noticed that there was an Order of Saint Maurice medalion in his box of goodies………THAT award has to come out of Benning, if he didn’t steal it!
He lives in “The World of Commander McBrag”.