On Worcester Wonderland blogger, Claude Dorman, 38 Sever St., …
Written by admin on April 11th, 2012a few posts some of you Blogroll readers may have missed – R. T.
… Wonderland blogger plays the victim, but the truth is Claude Dorman (writing as Will WW on his Worcester Wonderland blog) has been harassing Worcester folks for years – pulling horrible, illegal cyber stunts. He’s been outed (by me and Paul C.) and now he’s raging. (Stormin’ Dorman is what the WPD call him) And YES Jeremy S. wanted a comment from Claude re: his WoMag story but ol’ Claude said nothing.
Here, from the WoMag article, is what Claude Dorman, the Worcester Wonderland blogger, has been up to these past several years.
But before, we get to the article, here is the pleasant little note Claude wrote to his Worcester Wonderland website readers (he has since deleted it from his blog – but we have the original pages):
– R. Tirella
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Got a Sneaky Feeking?
By Worcester Wonderland blogger Claude Dorman (aka Will WW), 38 Sever St. Worcester:
“There’s plenty of interesting information about the anonymity issue on the Electronic Frontier Foundation site.
“Seems some of you are quite surprised to find out that you’re being tracked when you visit Worcester Wonderland. Why? You all do it. Some even parade their stats like medals.
“Otta tell ya I’ve got some pretty snazzy software and scripts that yield tons of technical info on visitors – goes beyond simple logging scripts, even read serial numbers. Something pretty hard to mask. I even put Hot Flash Cookies on your drive. Really pesky critters. Can’t get rid of em easily. Some stuff goes deeper. But that’s top secret. Scary eh? Not really. Imagine what the US Gov uses? Now that’s really scary.
“… And please don’t go doing any meltdowns here, all your comments are stored, even if you think you deleted them yourself. They just might come back to haunt you. Wouldn’t be pretty for your precious reputations. I got some good ones from former blogging buddy aka Harry Tembenis, who did the meltdown of all meltdowns. Got all that recorded. Interesting reading.
“And then there’s Brendan Melican’s meltdown – a psychopath masquerading as a sociopath. Talk about vile. Whew! All his comments were recorded. Heck of a collection. Maybe I oughta post the really vile ones.
“Welcome to Wusta!”
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From the Womag piece on Worcester Wonderland blogger, Claude Dorman, (aka Will WW):
Claude Dorman, the Wonderland blooger who writes under Will WW:
… “By 2008 it had turned personal, the writer focusing on other bloggers, politicians and those both in the public and not-so-public realm. The blogger’s bio summed up the tone of many of his postings: “This is a blog about being amused and bemused with a city of 181,042 boring people with an exaggerated sense of self-worth. It’s really too bad they don’t have a sense of humor, it would make life bearable here.”
“I’ve just never encountered anybody who has that much interest in me,” says Paul Collyer, who found his personal life and business ventures – particularly his NOLA Festival – often the target of Will W.W.’s blog posts.
“It wasn’t just the content that riled up his targets (to the point where some, including Collyer, put out a “bounty” to unmask Will W.W.’s identity in 2011), but the anonymity of it.
” “Not content with writing about others on his own page, Will W.W. began posting insulting comments on other blogs.
“ … Tembenis, for instance, still smolders over an insulting Worcester Wonderland post that used images from an article about a Rutland horseback riding trail named in honor of his son, Elias, who died at seven years old. The post generated 22 comments, mostly derogatory towards Tembenis, and including this from Will W.W.: “Thankfully Mother Nature had the wisdom to prevent his kind from propagating.”
“That in essence shows how deranged this individual is. He posts outright lies about people and also slanders and libels, too, all in the name of being able to do so ‘anonymously,’” Tembenis adds.
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“Throughout the four and a half years of this, Will W.W. took the protection of his identity a step further than a fake name: he also scrambled his computer’s IP address – the line of numbers that can identify a computer’s location and Internet provider – making it difficult for even the most tech-savvy sleuths to figure out who or where he was.
” … Dorman, who changed his phone number after his ties to Worcester Wonderland came out, had no comment.
“Dorman has a history of targeting others anonymously, even appearing in a Worcester Magazine article in 2007 for ousting a rival member of a neighborhood association, Robert Bourassa, by using pseudonymous online threats and postings to attack his business and personal reputation (“Neighbor to Neighbor Disfavor: A grudge sparks a change of leadership in the Elm Park Association,” May 17, 2007).
” “The malicious, unwarranted and slanderous attacks on my business and personal reputation by Claude Dorman under the guise of various identities and the lies he has spread have devastated my contracting business, forcing me to close and putting me in a severe financial hardship,” Bourassa wrote in a letter to members of the Lincoln Estates – Elm Park Neighborhood Association before his final meeting. “As such, I can no longer afford to remain where I live.”
“Before stepping down, however, Bourassa filed a lawsuit against Dorman and his wife, Kunigunde Cigan, in February 2008, citing criminal harassment, stalking, attempted extortion, false use of names or organizations and violations of right to peace and privacy, among others.
” “Defendants have engaged in a now twenty month long campaign of harassment of Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s businesses,” read the complaint. “There is no question the course of action, no doubt the intent, no question the harm.”
“Elsewhere in the complaint, Bourassa provided claims that Dorman used various IP addresses to flag Bourassa’s web design and contractor business advertisements on Craigslist – 673 times for 164 ads – causing them all to be removed. He also charged Dorman for creating the elmparkneighbors.net website (to closely mimic the neighborhood association’s elmparkneighbors.org), where he posted Bourassa’s financial and personal information – some of it obtained, Bourassa charged, by intercepting his mail. Dorman used fake names to send harassing and threatening emails to Bourassa through the websites he managed and posted poor reviews of his businesses on websites and online forums.
” ” … Collyer says he and other targets of Will W.W. are entertaining the idea of a lawsuit, especially since there’s worn ground after Bourassa’s complaint.
“They’ve gone out of their way to hurt my festival,” says Collyer.
” “Dorman has really gone out of his way to financially hurt people,” Collyer says …
” … Collyer says he hasn’t crossed the same line that Dorman has.
“That thing [the alter ego Claude-Dorman website, which has since been taken down] has been up for four or five days,” he says, comparing that to four and half years of Worcester Wonderland.
” “It shows we are dealing with evil cats and one who has a history of this type of harassment going back years,” he adds. “This is no longer about opinion and discussion, it is about harassment against many.”
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Claude Dorman, Worcester Wonderland blogger aka “The Wizard of Claude”!
By Rosalie Tirella
Yesterday, after reading Claude’s Dorman’s blog, Worcester Wonderland, I thought: Court again!
But NOPE. There was no court date – just Dorman rehashing the court date of a few weeks ago. Claude, I guess, expected to see me and Paulie dragged off in chains that day. He didn’t. The judge dismissed the case.
So I have deleted yesterday’s blog post (unlike Claude who would a. keep it up and b. concoct even more lies – the guy is totally nutso!) to write a new post:
So now Claude Dorman has become the “Stormin’ Dorman” that the Worcester Police Department has laughed about. He is in meltdown mode and is playing out the court case he lost via his toxic blog, reframing the court events, lying about the proceedings and the people there so he can:
1. feel better about losing
2. whip up some sympathy for himself – a guy who has trashed the entire city, pissed half the city off … defamed EVERYONE he was a wee bit jealous of. People tell me has serious mental health issues.
Let’s just call him … “The Wizard of Claude”!
Last night I was texting Bill and I texted at one point: Claude thought he was Superman but we (Paulie, Harry, Bill and me) we were his Kryptonite!
A few minutes passed. Then my phone buzzes. It’s Bill with: “More like the Wizard of Claude. You were Dorothy and we were the straw man, the lion and the tin man.”
Ha!
Then another buzz from Bill: “Paul is the lion. Harry the tin man. I am the scare crow.”
Hilarious!
And so true. Here we were, the entire city really, wondering who was the almighty Wonderland? Could his magical web powers hurt us? Help us? Send us hurtling back to … Somerville or Green Island?
We – the lion, the tin man and Dorothy – went on our “little adventure” – did the work, the rersearch, suffered for our knowledge/enlightenment, had silly conversations ’round midnight …. THEN FINALLY! … We find The Wizard of Claude!
We have the magic name! Oh, my!
But who is this all powerful entity? Just old Claude Dorman, a crank who lives at 38 Sever St., right here in Worcester – a screwed-up 50-something who has salt and pepper hair and has a history of harassing and calling the police and hauling into court lots of Worcesterites.
The Wizard of Claude – just some middle-aged jamoke messing with his coumputer, some cheapo light machine – behind the big curtain of his security-camera covered home by Elm Park.
Where are my ruby slippers?
12
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Mr. Doorman is of fine German stock and his wife is an obedient, beer swilling frau and a kesser Vater.
But is there any truth to the rumor that they have lampshades made of human skin in their little house over there?
This komisch fellow seems to eine Latte haben for victimization, yet he goes after every one of his neighbors. Where is this feeling of isolation from?
Maybe taping their neighbors “scharf” them…
hmmm