Careercow Raymond Hoser / "Snakeman Australia" - Self-publishing fake scientist and a blight on the herpetological & taxonomic communities

[Yutyrannus]

Now this is my kind of autism. I've been passively following this guy's antics for a while but never saw the whistleblower bullshit, that's hilarious. I think this thread has potential even if it's relatively niche-- imo there isn't anything wrong with a "specialized" kind of cow.

Minor nitpick, but personally I'd add some more pictures and crop your phone screenshots.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Found these two Random things on him looking for a pirated version of his books

ADJUDICATION NO. 990 The Press Council has upheld in part a complaint by Raymond Hoser against The Herald Sun, Melbourne, over a lack of balance in its letters column, following the fatal shooting of two Melbourne policemen in August. Within two days of the shootings, Mr Hoser wrote to the paper, apparently on behalf of four bodies that he described as civil libertarian organisations - Whistleblowers A ustralia, W histleblow ers Netw ork Australia, Australians Against Corruption and the Victorian Taxi Drivers League. Mr Hoser's letter condemned the killings and expressed sympathies to the families and friends of the policemen. According to Mr Hoser "the letter was sent so soon after the shootings in order to pre-empt any negative and potential criticisms from persons who have previously complained about civil libertarians who allegedly are noisy and critical when police attack and/or shoot people, but are strangely quiet when police are shot at by criminals". The letter was not published. The Herald Sun said it did not consider the organisations on whose behalf Mr Hoser had written as representative of the civil liberties movement. His repeated resubmission of the letter over a ten-day period failed to change the paper's mind. During the weeks after the shootings however, The Herald Sun did publish at least five letters condemning the alleged silence of civil libertarians about violence against the police. None singled out any particular organisation for criticism, and the paper still found no reason to publish Mr Hoser's letter. Finally, over a month after the shootings, the paper received and published a letter from the Australian Civil Liberties Union similar in content to Mr Hoser's. The Press Council believes The Herald Sun was fully entitled to reach its own conclusions about the standing of the groups represented by Mr Hoser. The paper was under no obligation to accept at face value his assertion that they were representative of the civil liberties movement. However, the paper was clearly willing to publish several criticisms of civil libertarians soon after the killings, knowing that it had at least one correspondent who was vigorously advancing a different perspective. Timely

Raymond Hoser Mr NARDELLA (Melton) — In the past the former Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) revoked the licence of snake handler Mr Raymond Hoser. He has had a very long battle through the court system to get his licence back. The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision by DSE, and I call on the Minister for Environment and Climate Change to ensure that the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) now does everything in its power to help Mr Hoser and his company and staff to get working again as quickly as possible. I understand that DEPI is holding up his licence renewal, and this should not be delayed any further. The Minister for Environment and Climate Change also needs to work with his department on the costs order against the department for any compensation arising from the quashing of the DSE decision, and it should be implemented as quickly as possible.

Yeah, I don't know how much of his stuff made it onto the internet. I mostly know him from IRL stuff- books, magazine articles, newspaper mentions, etc. From a few quick searches, I couldn't find much online about his taxi drama- Maybe nothing really made it online at all? idk.

I can't remember the specifics, but I read some of his stuff- It was an entertaining read, but even to highschool-age me, it was pretty obvious he was a completely unreliable narrator. He wrote about himself like he was some cross between Crocodile Dundee, James Bond and Charles Bronson- Every woman that got in his cab was a 10/10 who was in mortal danger and ended up in his bed, and everytime he had some minor issue with Melbourne's taxi regulations (which are notoriously strict, to be fair- Uber had a bunch of problems just being loisenced to operate at all, in Melbourne), it ended up with some evil, corrupt bureaucrat sending hired goons to Hoser's house at 3 AM. He made life as a cab-driver sound like an off-brand 80s action movie.

Just from reading his books, it's hard to exactly how much of a lolcow he is, but he's definitely a huge drama-magnet, and a pretty oddball, entertaining guy. He reminds of a throwback to a certain kind of 70s/80s, self-aggrandizing Australian characters, like the "succulent Chinese meal" guy, or a wannabe Alby Mangles or something.

I'm trying to look into his court conviction and brief stint in jail as well.

Right now, from what I'm reading I can't really say I agree with the Aussie Courts ordering someone to be jailed & fined over what they said/wrote, on my Yankee free speech grounds.
But I want to know exactly what this absolute nutcase wrote that made the Aussie Courts so ass-blasted they hit him with a rarely-used law.

Now this is my kind of autism. I've been passively following this guy's antics for a while but never saw the whistleblower bullshit, that's hilarious. I think this thread has potential even if it's relatively niche-- imo there isn't anything wrong with a "specialized" kind of cow.

Yeah certainly isn't the first person to try and scoop taxonomic names or make up obnoxious species classifications. Wells, another Aussie, comes to mind, and I think we had a local guy here in the US South active 80's-2000's who tried to do the same shit.

What makes Hoser stand out is 1) that he's such a narcissist he names them after himself mostly, followed by friends and family, 2) his aggressive internet/social media presence demanding people use his self-published taxonomy, and 3) that he's got his hands in other insane cookie jars as well.

Minor nitpick, but personally I'd add some more pictures and crop your phone screenshots.

Added a few more, and I'm working on farming some more.
The first screen I grabbed was a re-post from a girl griping to a Rattlesnake group about how he's been budding his nose in and harassing turtle fans too

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

I am strangely interested in this thread. I feel like this guy has some potential but it's way out of my area of expertise.

 

[Android raptor]

Oh fuck, I've heard of this guy i think. Didnt he cut the venom glands out of snakes without anesthesia? Real horrorcow shit right there

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

I'm trying to look into his court conviction and brief stint in jail as well.

Right now, from what I'm reading I can't really say I agree with the Aussie Courts ordering someone to be jailed & fined over what they said/wrote, on my Yankee free speech grounds.
But I want to know exactly what this absolute nutcase wrote that made the Aussie Courts so ass-blasted they hit him with a rarely-used law.


Yeah certainly isn't the first person to try and scoop taxonomic names or make up obnoxious species classifications. Wells, another Aussie, comes to mind, and I think we had a local guy here in the US South active 80's-2000's who tried to do the same shit.

What makes Hoser stand out is 1) that he's such a narcissist he names them after himself mostly, followed by friends and family, 2) his aggressive internet/social media presence demanding people use his self-published taxonomy, and 3) that he's got his hands in other insane cookie jars as well.

Added a few more, and I'm working on farming some more.
The first screen I grabbed was a re-post from a girl griping to a Rattlesnake group about how he's been budding his nose in and harassing turtle fans too

Checking in. How has your digging progressed? I finally read through this thread and I'm definitely in agreement this dude deserves this thread. Debating on moving it as-is but it would be nice to have the last few sections you're working on fleshed out a bit if possible

Edit: Nah nvm. Let's just move it lol

 

[verygayFrogs]

Animal Control fucked me up so bad when I saw "Snakeman" I literally thought that we'd have another puppyfucker.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Checking in. How has your digging progressed? I finally read through this thread and I'm definitely in agreement this dude deserves this thread.

Unfortunately not well. Everything I can find is second-hand/hearsay or "I read his book and he said XYZ" but no transcripts of XYZ for myself.

Oh fuck, I've heard of this guy i think. Didnt he cut the venom glands out of snakes without anesthesia? Real horrorcow shit right there

I think he did use anesthesia.

But its still horrendously destructive and unfair to the snake.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Unfortunately not well. Everything I can find is second-hand/hearsay or "I read his book and he said XYZ" but no transcripts of XYZ for myself.


I think he did use anesthesia.

But its still horrendously destructive and unfair to the snake.

Sometimes posting hearsay is the only way to have a credible source step forward.

 

[Junkail]

His fixation on snakes, the extreme unawareness of his wrongdoings, and the fact that he doesn't learn from being tardwrangled by the government, does this guy actually have autism?

 

[nekrataal]

I remember this guy, I’m surprised he’s got a thread here but it’s not undeserved. If I remember correctly he’s one of the few people banned from viperkeeper’s group. People like him piss me off so much as someone who keeps hots. Anyone who has to remove the venom glands from a snake is worse than a troon.

His fixation on snakes, the extreme unawareness of his wrongdoings, and the fact that he doesn't learn from being tardwrangled by the government, does this guy actually have autism?

It wouldn’t surprise me, the people who gain infamy for either having the government step in or recklessly freehandling on social media are almost always dumb.

 

[Android raptor]

I think he did use anesthesia.

But its still horrendously destructive and unfair to the snake.

Yeah it's still mutilation and something I hear lots of snakes who endure it die from (the stress if nothing else, reptiles don't deal with stress well). Even the ones that survive can have all kinds of issues, including even issues digesting food since not only does venom kill prey it also starts to digest it for the snake. It's just as bad as cat declawing if not worse.

If you want to keep venomous snakes, you need to educate yourself and learn how to work with them properly and take needed precautions. It's fucked up to mutilate innocent animals because you want to show everyone how badass you are that you have and free handle a cobra or whatever.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

His fixation on snakes, the extreme unawareness of his wrongdoings, and the fact that he doesn't learn from being tardwrangled by the government, does this guy actually have autism?

He fixates on everything.

What is really sad of me is that while I know Raymond is an insane nut, megalomaniac and snake abuser, I don't agree the Aussie court's decision to jail the man for bad-mouthing them.
I really want to know WHAT he said to get the judge so ass-blasted to give the man criminal charges.

I also want to read his treatises on police corruption and taxi driver affairs WITHOUT having to pay the asshole to read them.

 

[Krale090]

He fixates on everything.

What is really sad of me is that while I know Raymond is an insane nut, megalomaniac and snake abuser, I don't agree the Aussie court's decision to jail the man for bad-mouthing them.
I really want to know WHAT he said to get the judge so ass-blasted to give the man criminal charges.

I also want to read his treatises on police corruption and taxi driver affairs WITHOUT having to pay the asshole to read them.

Hoser is a busy boy. He's big on kids reptile parties as well. See his site at Reptile Party. I never knew this kind of kid's entertainment was allowed. Do not know what happens if a snake and kid don't get on at birthday time.

 

[naught]

I wanted a Steve Irwin replacement.. but not like this....

I remember this guy; As well as the snake stuff, he had some autistic beef with Melbourne taxi regulators (or the taxi companys, or something), around the early 2000s. He was also a self-styled true crime author, during that true crime glut, after Chopper Reid's books got big. And he wrote about corruption in Victorian Police Force, when Vic police were in the public spotlight for a spree of shootings of unarmed people with psych problems, in the late 90s. (And, I have a vague memory of writing about ghost-hunting, or crypto-zoology or something? idk, I could be wrong about that) His name would pop up in all kinds of weird places, around the late 90s/early 200s.

Don't know if he thought he was some "gonzo journalist", or if he's just a drama queen, or if it was all an attempt at self-promotion, but he always seemed to get himself personally involved in whatever shitshow he was writing about, whether it was police corruption, or crime gangs, taxi industry drama, wildlife smuggling, etc.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/noble-park/nonfiction-books/taxi-taxi-2-indecent-exposures-by-raymond-hoser/1254243610

https://picclick.com.au/Victoria-Police-Corruption-1-2-by-Raymond-293627438322.html

Crypto-Zoology classic..