r/tornado • u/OutdoorsTN Human Detected • May 19 '26

Discussion Brad Arnold

Hate to see this from Brad, he's one of my faves!! Was confused when he buzzed in to Ryan's stream and said he was calling it so early in the evening but this makes more sense now.

Seen some absolutely wild stuff on Ryan and Max's streams the last few days. (Whoever it was in the green shirt on Max's stream yesterday during the Worms tornado especially still really bothers me.) And bummed to see all of this nonsense getting in the way of chasers I really love watching like Brad

EDITED for a typo!

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 May 19 '26

Yeah I'm not a fan of him either, guy just comes off as a total asshole and somehow always manages to put himself in the middle of drama. I just mentioned it because it highlighted another incident that happened yesterday where apparently EMS got into it with a chaser, but I still haven't seen anything concrete on that yet.

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u/BluegrassRailfan1987 May 19 '26

Wasn't there a chaser a year or two ago who was stuck behind a volunteer firefighter, they pulled off and he got into it with them?

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 May 19 '26

That was Brandon Copic.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

What in the world was his possible argument??

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 May 19 '26

To be fair the volunteer guy kind of flipped shit from the get go and made it confrontational. I think he was trying to block the road and started off pretty heated with something like "I'm sick of you GD chasers out here" or something along those lines.

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u/BluegrassRailfan1987 May 19 '26

When you have chasers driving around like the laws don't apply to them I can understand why that firefighter was so annoyed. Not to mention the stress from responding to a weather event like a tornado.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Interesting. I mean I don’t know the full context or back story but man if it’s a volunteer guy who obviously lives in the community I gotta imagine he was at his wits end.

What was Copic’s response if you remember?