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LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« on: June 28, 2013, 05:42:10 PM »
A teen that made a sarcastic joke to online gamers is facing serious consequences.
I thought Tx had better sense then this.
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 05:58:04 PM »
First off, I don't care how oblivious you are about current events, you'd have to have been living under a rock for the past ten years to not know realized you shouldn't say something like that, and even then I'd question it.

Second, our country has gotten really really messed up when a kid who says something so thouroghly stupid can ruin his whole life. Teenagers say really stupid stuff. Teenagers do some really stupid stuff. Usually, they do this because they are teenagers and havn't yet gained the wisdom to be less stupid, and at the rate we are going, all this prosocution of just plain youthful stupid is going to have the net results of every teenager doing their college years behind bars.
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 06:16:41 PM »
1.  Yeah, it was stupid, but not worth what happened. 
2.  This the hippy liberal mecca of Austin, TX here.
3.  He hasn't been convicted at least, but why he is being held I have no idea.

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Authorities noted that recent school shootings like the one in Newtown, Connecticut have caused them to evaluate all potential threats seriously. Newtown was still fresh in their minds at the time of Carter’s arrest.



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Re: Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 06:24:20 PM »
If he's being held I suspect someone is being less than candid about his past. Or no one has any assets they will risk to bond him

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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 07:39:03 PM »
Sorry, while it should be obvious .... ??? ....  the guy was making a joke what he said was dumb.  Anyone who doesn't GET that these days we are VERY SENSITIVE about school shootings probably ought to be banned from the internets.
The reaction of the authorities was overboard as well, but we ought to expect that.

...Second, our country has gotten really really messed up when a kid who says something so thouroghly stupid can ruin his whole life. Teenagers say really stupid stuff. Teenagers do some really stupid stuff. Usually, they do this because they are teenagers and havn't yet gained the wisdom to be less stupid, and at the rate we are going, all this prosocution of just plain youthful stupid is going to have the net results of every teenager doing their college years behind bars.


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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 08:30:13 PM »
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a Canadian woman who saw the post looked up Carter’s Austin address, determined that it was near an elementary school, and called the police

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Isn't every address near an elementary school  ???  :facepalm:

Otherwise, all those little kids would be walking five miles through waist deep snow, up hill both ways  ;/
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 08:35:47 PM »
Isn't every address near an elementary school  ???  :facepalm:

Otherwise, all those little kids would be walking five miles through waist deep snow, up hill both ways  ;/

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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 09:39:01 PM »
Isn't every address near an elementary school  ???  :facepalm:

Otherwise, all those little kids would be walking five miles through waist deep snow, up hill both ways  ;/

back when unloaded open carry was legal in Cali - you couldn't be within 1000ft of a school, eliminating the entire city of SF except the beach.
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2013, 11:27:43 AM »
Stupid should hurt....but maybe not this much....
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2013, 02:19:17 PM »
Stupid should hurt....but maybe not this much....


There's plenty of stupid to go around here -- but only one person is getting hurt.
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2013, 09:47:04 PM »
Unintended consequences of a zero tolerance society.
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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2013, 11:28:27 PM »
Unintended consequences of a zero tolerance society.

I'm pretty sure that someone high up in the food chain DID intend it...

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Re: LOL JK equals months to years in jail
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2013, 01:24:11 AM »
How did some random Canadian woman even find out what his address was?
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