To get the nickname "Bad", we're gonna need a checklist:
1) Be a controversial reality star. - Check.
2) Look like you're about to do something naughty permanently. - Check.
3) Be in the news often for crazy antics. - Check.
4) Associate with dodgy dudes. Check.
5) End your average party evening by being chucked out or being involved in a Barny. - Check
So far so good. I mean.. er. .. Bad.
So I've know the dude for about 2 years now. And I reckon I'll give you my spin on Brad outside of the normal press sensationalism.
I've grown up clearly understanding the difference between the naughty okes and the evil okes.
The Naughty oke will chuck a turd in a newspaper, set it on fire and lay it at your door before pressing the doorbell and running like hell.
You naturally open the door and stamp out the fire....
Not cool, but certainly not evil.
You get angry and shout down the road at the naughty bliksem who did it.
The evil guy is the one who hears you shouting, comes back and beats you into hospital.
Brad is the naughty guy. He's a lot of naughty, but in my short two years of knowing him, I have not seen the evil side.
What I have seen is a oke who is exceptionally loyal to his friends, a fearless entrepeneur who learns from his mistakes like the rest of us do, and a soft hearted fellow who would give the shirt off his back if it could help a friend out!
He's one of those guys that you hug hello. (He doesn't like it much cos it doesn't fit the macho persona and all but I hug him anyway..hahahaha).
I'm more of a mischievous oke (the softy version of naughty) so I generally duck before the party gets rowdy.
Brad is there HOPING the party might get rowdy!
So why is the oke always in the press for gunfighting, fist fighting and all other sorts of mayhem?
Well.. I figure his naughtiness comes from the fact that he was born about a hundred years too late!
Brad should have been born in the 1800's where he could have been the Sheriff of a town. or like those Marshalls in the cowboy flieks that go from outpost to outpost cleaning up the scum!
This is why he's in the security industry!
If you had to ask me who I would prefer as a Sheriff between goodie two shoes and Marshal Bad Brad, I can tell you now that ol' goodie two shoes would run at the first sign of a fight!
It's Brad's s nature to look for baddies... and if you're unlucky enough to fall into the baddies category that night, it's quickdraw time! Someones gonna come flying out those Saloon doors!
Obviously the tougher clients are gonna request a guy like Brad to be around and he's gonna be in the thick of things more often than the oke who bodyguards old lady pippin in Houghton. He wants to be in the thick of the action... Hence him being around them dodge dudes and all sorts in the media... He'll tell you devorce your two timing husband or wife without blinking! And then he'll be spoiling for a fight when the conequences arrive.
Innocent? Hell Naw... if he thinks you're an idiot, he'll push you until your true colors show. And then he'll add a few colors to your face..and his.. hahaha. go Brad!
(Always outnumbered, never out-gunned.)
Hell man, Clint Eastwood spits Tobacco on a dog and delivers a one liner before cleaning up a town. Them lawferls aren't supposed to be nice guys.
Heh! So ja, thats my buddy Brad in a nutshell. (I hope never a jail cell).
So lets revise the checklist for a cool buddy:
1) Got your back. - Check.
2) Not evil, just blerrie naughty. - check.
3) One of the coolest okes on the Planet - check!
4) Always great for a laugh. - check
:)
