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Donnie Callaway remains in custody Phoenix AZ. Grand Jury Indictment

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  1. twinpalms

    twinpalms Karting

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    He's doing what he's always done. Looking for marks.
     
  2. rosskuhns

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    Huh, there are only two comments now, both vague and positive. I guess you can edit youtube comments on your videos? I assume you can close it to comments. HE must need some dosh to pay his attorneys, looking for that 'money up front' job.
     
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  3. twinpalms

    twinpalms Karting

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    Yes. He deletes anything that doesn't praise him on YouTube and Instagram.
     
  4. Etcetera

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    He definitely fits about 90% of that.

    The thing that strikes me is the lack of empathy or caring. The lack of understanding or awareness of his actions.

    Which i thought was a sociopathic trait.

    But... I'm a pre school drop out and a car dealer... So this is obviously on the opposite side of expertise. Although... I do come across all sorts of characters lol
     
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  6. Etcetera

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    Some of sociopathic traits are shared with NPD. Among these are lack of empathy and complete lack of morals.
     
  7. davemqv

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    The guy was walking around Ferrari Club concours in Pasadena last weekend. My friend and I watched him saunter through like he didn't have a care in the world. He's shameless. He was probably taking credit for restoring half the cars there. lol

    I'm sure he still doesn't have a BAR license, so no doubt he's working on all these new cars gratis, out of the kindness of his heart. Besides, taking money without a BAR license would be illegal, and we know Donnie would never do that! lol

    As for Leno, unlike Farrah he acknowledged that he got duped by Donnie and regretted the idea that anyone got taken as a result of seeing Donnie on his show. Not hard, and the classy thing to do.

    Guys like Donnie just go until the wheels fall off, then tell big stories in prison to make themselves look cool. I don't envy him.
     
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  8. turbo-joe

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    what please is a BAR license?
    when I translate it says liquor license and this has nothing to do with cars
     
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    California's Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) is the entity at the state level charged with overseeing auto repair businesses.
     
  10. twinpalms

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    Did anyone have the stones to call him out? In a world of Impalas, be a lion.
     
  11. rob lay

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    Donnie Callaway really is the Honey Badger of the Ferrari world. :D

     
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  12. davemqv

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    Well, once Donnie finishes with you, you need a drink, so I guess that adds up! Lol

    In this instance BAR stands for Bureau of Automotive Repair. They are the state agency in CA that licenses mechanics to work professionally, among other things.
     
  13. davemqv

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    I appreciate that you put out that interview, Scott. And I'm very sympathetic to the feelings behind the work you're doing around outing Donnie. I know we are on the same page as it relates to Donnie's (lack of) character and (lack of) worth as a human being and a mechanic, but we have this fundamental disagreement on how to deal with him. My attitude on Donnie remains the same. Any attention, even an attempt to humiliate him, just feeds his ego. It creates windmills for him to tilt at.

    He is a part of the narcissistic sociopath zeitgeist that seems to be currently gripping our country. In my opinion the only way to deal with people like that, be they deranged mechanics, tech "geniuses", or political figures, is to deprive them of oxygen. Berating Donnie publicly just creates another story for him to feed off of and twist to his favor. He's a loser. I don't want to give him the satisfaction.

    Were he ever to approach me, you can be sure I would certainly give him an honest representation of my feelings toward him. But I would literally not walk across the street of my own accord to p*ss on him were he on fire, let alone insult him or pick a fight with him.
     
  14. davemqv

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    Besides, I'm sure Donnie monitors these threads religiously. After all, they're about him! He's too narcissistic to resist. So I'm sure he knows exactly how we all feel about him. Lol
     
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  15. twinpalms

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    I deeply respect your opinion, Dave. Make no mistake, this isn't an act of retribution in the traditional sense, but rather an act of public service. I Googled him before we met with him and I couldn't find anything. Obviously I didn't look hard enough. Now, if nothing else, anyone who even passively researches him, it will be an automatic D.Q. Yes, he's managed to get some new customer cars in his pig sty in the desert, but like La Marr Fike said about Elvis, how do you save a man from himself.

    I don't believe in Karma. I AM Karma.
     
  16. TheMayor

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    Bingo. Class vs No Class.
     
  17. Ferraripilot

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    Doesn't Donnie have a bunch of MS-13 members hiding out in his shop and residence? I hate rumors.
     
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    Be careful I once had a jackass on this forum threaten me with legal action for making an obviously ridiculous tongue in cheek joke like this once. I definitely wouldn’t trust the likes of fat Donnie.
     
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  19. G55amg

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    I know my point of view is not popular here, but here it goes.
    Like I said before, I’m not here to proof Donnie’s innocence.
    But I can tell you, that I am happier with my car being at Donnie’s,
    I pull my car from Donnie’s place when he got arrested and took it to a shop recommended from someone here, and they were awful. Poor communication, charging me for thing that I didn’t approve or even thing that they didn’t do. And at the end they charged me a lot of money for a very poor job. I have already made a decision to take my car from that shop when Donnie got released so I give him another chance and it have not been nothing but transparent, keeping me informed by text and sending pictures of the progress. Yes I wish that thing will move faster but some things take time.
    One thing that I did find interesting is that the other shop will tell me about how horrible Donnie is, but they could not find one wrong thing with the work that he did on my car.
    And looking back I don’t remember they ever said any wrong with the other cars that he work on before either.
    “Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus in lapidem mittat”
     
  20. turbo-joe

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    what please has the other shop to do with donnie callaway? if they charge you too much it is a problem between you and them
     
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  21. twinpalms

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    No one can save you from yourself. If you want to willfully entrust your Ferrari to an unlicensed mechanic with a rap sheet a mile long, then that's on you. Good luck. You'll need it.
     
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  22. peterp

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    After clicking a couple YouTube videos in this thread, the pop-up YouTube alerts on my phone are now mostly for Donnie content.

    Glad to see that the algorithms for "content I want to see" are working perfectly :(:).
     
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  23. twinpalms

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    All false. He also claimed to grow up in Hawaii. He grew up lower middle class in Van Nuys.
     
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  24. F40/82

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    They ****ed up G55amg’s car charged him an obscene amount for work that was not proper, I’m talking two babies clanging hammers together levels of pure ignorance and he had to take it back to Donnie’s, it’s being fixed properly, humanity is a virus, you all look for the negatives overlooking any positive factor, bunch of masked pricks who can’t find there own flaws. “If you want it done do it yourself” - Jay Mother****ing Leno
     
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