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Ken Leighton is a lieing piece of crap, who needs to shut his mouth! I can not believe the unbelievable about of lies he is spreading about The Jumping Turtle. Ken Leighton runs the Royal Dive in Oceanside and is completely JEALOUS of the success of The Jumping Turtle and has been doing everything in his limited amount of "power" to put them out of business, hoping that by doing so, it will somehow suddenly make people go to his crappy DIVE bar, and that he will somehow magically start to be as successful as The Jumping Turtle has been. The Jumping Turtle doesn't have a single citation against them, and 99% of the calls to the San Marcos Police Department in the past few months, that have been placed in regards to The Jumping Turtle, have come from Mr. Ken Leighton himself! Ken has been calling over and over again, reporting such things as under age drinking, just for the sheriff to make a stop by the club and find NOTHING!!! Ken, just because you are a jealous piece of crap, it does NOT give you the right to write vicious articles about Mat Hall and Joe Troutman, and have them published for the rest of the county to have to suffer through your lies! Matt Hall and Joe Troutman are both very good, and honorable businessmen, UNLIKE yourself! The reason that calls to both Matt and Joe weren't returned when you "called" to get the "inside scoop" you so desperately wanted, in order to write more lies about them, is because they are smart enough to NOT TALK TO YOU!!! There has NEVER been any problem with under-age drinking at The Jumping Turtle, nor did Wanted Dead have to pay $700 for "extra security". Once again, Ken Leighton needs to stop making up stories and GET HIS FACTS STRAIGHT! Sulo King also hasn't worked for The Jumping Turtle in YEARS, and using him as bait against Joe and Matt is not only stupid, but a pathetic waste of time! Ken, you need to stop being so pathetically jealous of Joe Troutman and Matt Hall's success, and attacking their business, before someone turns around and does the exact same thing to you! You are an extremely UNPROFESSIONAL lieing piece of crap and should NOT work for the Reader! You need to resign your position and go back to the hell hole you crawled out of! You've pissed off one too many people with your BS and you need to be stopped! I personally can not wait til kharma comes back to kick your butt and your club gets shut down, all because you were a jealous piece of crap and attacked Joe and Matt. The Jumping Turtle is NOT going out of business! They are NOT losing their entertainment permit, nor are they losing their all-ages status. Ken Leighton is a lieing piece of crap and everyone deserves to know the truth! Do NOT believe a single word Mr. Leighton says, and please, DO NOT frequent his crappy club The Royal Dive. Psycohpathic liars don't deserve any support!
— May 14, 2009 12:56 a.m.

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