Bounty Raised to $50,000.00!

Sometimes you just couldn’t ask for a better encounter, that was the case at this years SEMA show…..

Last year when I issued my $5000.00 challenge to Rual, the head engineer at RMR, while tv cameras were rolling, the RMR staff were a little gun shy at the CES show, held just a few months later. When I was spotted near their booth at CES in January, CEO and President Mike Churchman would quickly duck under the display leaving his staff to handle any questions.

So at this years SEMA, Mr. Churchman manned a booth for a new company that he just formed, KAT radar detectors and he never went close to the RMR booth.

On November 2nd I just finished off a great dinner at the top of the Stratosphere restaurant and was meeting with a few associates at a lounge on the casino floor. Don, who is the business rep for Cheetah USA nudged me and pointed to the bar. Standing there was my nemesis in the speed counter measure industry, Michael Churchman.

Mr. Churchman is the founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Radar, the main retailer of those radar scrambler devices you hear blabbed all over the radio and e-mailed to you in junk e-mails. I get countless phone calls and e-mails each day regarding these devices from customers that found out the hard way, that these devices just don’t work.

In 1998, when I started in this industry, I offered my first $5,000 challenge to anyone that could show me one of these products that worked.  

Now I had my chance to personally offer my challenge to the huckster himself!

After getting a glass of wine at the bar, Mr. Churchman walked directly toward me and my table. As he passed I said “Hi Mike”. At first he seemed surprised that someone would call out his name at a bar, but as he made eye contact the surprise seemly turned to shock.

I invited Mike to sit down and introduced him to other attendees at the table and made small talk. After a few minutes I then dropped the question that I have been waiting to ask Mike for over 8 years, why he wouldn’t take me up on my $5000.00 challenge.

He responded that my test was rigged and that it had to be performed by Carl Fors at Speed Measurement Laboratories. I responded that was not the case, that Carl Fors had no involvement in his challenge and that I would even let him hold the radar and laser guns, that all I asked that there would be an impartial party involved to judge the test.

At first Mike seemed taken aback and replied “Let me think about this” but then quickly responded, I don’t have anything to prove to you, just to my customers and they already know my product works, so no, your $5000.00 means nothing to me.

I then offered to raise the challenge to $50,000.00 and Mr. Churchman stated “I don’t care if you make it five million dollars” I have nothing to gain. I then responded by saying that potential customers would have something to gain, knowing that a product actually worked as advertised and that I would get off his back in seeing for the first time, an actual product that worked.

Mr. Churchman related that my challenge had no effect on his operation, other then perhaps losing a sale here and there. Even letters that I had written to DBL and Cabellas about him selling illegal jammers had no effect.

I then asked if I had no effect, why would he dispute my video right on the home page of his website. Mr. Churchman related that my video was all rigged and that you could tell that by looking at the lights on the detector, they were not on. Mike related that he had since removed my name from his homepage, and that I was just a footnote now, buried on the site.

Mr. Churchman was also asked why his products were removed from the Radio Shack stores and he related my actions had no effect what so ever, that his detectors were outselling the Radio Shack brand and only had a 2% return rate.

Since I personally raised the challenge to $50,000.00 to Michael Churchman, I have decided to let that offer stand. Here are the details if ANYONE can show me a passive radar jammer that works in scrambling the speed of a vehicle so equipped with such a device.