Texas Teen Jailed "LoL" by Canadan mother that went to FAR!

[Gecko]

It’s your friendly neighborhood Gecko here

So on The Dalily Caller I was reading about this article that a teenage boy that was called "Insane" to which he's reply was ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ then just after that reply's "lol" and "jk" as we all know is laughing out loud and Jokes or just kidding so. So a mother from Canada saw what was said and somehow found the teenage Jack Carter's address and done some online scouting and found schools in the area and called the police. He was soon after arrested and was put in jail. He celebrated he’s 19th birthday behind bars and could face up to 8 years in prison for making terrorist threats.

My thoughts are thus the word “Terrorist” means:

A person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism , to blow something up!

 

Jack clearly states “to shoot” so would this not mean attempted mass murder. What it sounds to me is America just wants to keep people afraid and use anything that could be resembled as anything like a terrorist act.

So this I guess should be a warning to all gamers if you feel your getting heated because of a troll or for whatever reason keep what you want to say to yourself as sometimes sarcasm can get you in to unessory trouble. Sarcasm is best left for verbal communication!

 

 

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[KakaoDj]

Well, i am glad i live in Norway, so i don't have to ever experience such bullshit

[Scia]

Honestly, I see how the system is overreacting here, but afterall it's the posters fault, if you are that retarded and post stuff like this you deserve to be locked up for a while.

[Emperor_Piehead]

I question my government sometimes.

[911^NEmeSis]

Wow that is a little off to be honest. But still, people shouldn't really go about saying such things.

[LifesCompanion]

Damn... crazy suburban mothers; I wonder how proud this mother is.... 

 

Hope Jack gets off and gets an apology or something [I think we can all agree that Jack Carter had said that in sarcasm, what I'm afraid is that some people are oblivious to this (i.e. this Canadian mother)] 

[Yoinkerman]

Honestly, it's not funny or something to joke about. Putting lol at the end doesn't mean anything.

That being said, things went straight out the Window when they didn't need to.

[sof006]

He should not be jailed for 8 years for writing a silly little comment on the internet. At the most he should get a slap on the wrists and blocked from facebook for about a month. There we go, now we don't need to jail someone for having a joke.

[DudeWazap]

I honestly think that they are all over reacting to a silly comment like his. What he said was bad but i see no reason to go to extreme measures like this. Also how is it that i live in Texas and I'm first hearing about this now? 

[atrash]

8 years just for that?dayumn..they should just fine him or asked to do some community service instead.now the gov have just created a monster who,while serving his 8 years in prison,will plot his revengeful act of retaliation and do the shooting for real.and that's how you create a terrorist,by pissing them off in the first place.

[Gecko]

He has yet to be charged so might not but that the maxamim he can be charged!

[Chevaishr]

i live in Trinidad, and if i said that i dont think anything would happen

[Deus Ragno]

He should not be jailed for 8 years for writing a silly little comment on the internet. At the most he should get a slap on the wrists and blocked from facebook for about a month. There we go, now we don't need to jail someone for having a joke.

[LAwLz]

Just putting "lol jk" at the end does not make it OK to say anything you want. 8 years is too extreme but "a slap on the wrist and no Facebook for a month" is not something a court sentence someone to... Community service for a little while would be enough.

[TygerStrype]

Wow, must of had a terrible lawyer.

 

Interesting read, yet not clear in my mind how this qualifies as "Tech: News and Reviews"

[Lays]

no reason to be saying crap like that in the first place, the cops/courts aren't going to go easy on things like that especially when they happen more often everyday it seems.

[Florimer]

Lol, people consider these things a bad taste in USA. Wonder how many heart attacks would be had in the russian portion of internet. We have some pretty harsh jokes around.

It seems like the chasm between saying and doing is greatly diminished over the seas.

I mean even totally acceptable memes like insanity wolf would make them drop some pant-bombs.

 

P.S. simply googling "terrorism jokes" gives great results for people who don't know how to go to jail for 8 years.

[Snickerzz]

More reasons to hate this hellhole. ._.

[mvitkun]

no reason to be saying crap like that in the first place, the cops/courts aren't going to go easy on things like that especially when they happen more often everyday it seems.

honestly I think that the person the cops should be worried about is that mother,she somehow tracked him down from his videogame username.

so who do you arrest,somebody who tracks a kid down through their IGN,IP,or by hacking the games database;or do you arrest a kid who said an obviously sarcastic comment.......

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EDIT:

I read up on it on a different website and supposedly he said it while talking about LoL,but it was said on FaceBook.

so the real question is,why didn't he have his account set to private?

or why did he have some random woman, with an inability to consider sarcasm, added on his FaceBook.

[orangecat]

Merica.

[Lays]

honestly I think that the person the cops should be worried about is that mother,she somehow tracked him down from his videogame username.

so who do you arrest,somebody who tracks a kid down through their IGN,IP,or by hacking the games database;or do you arrest a kid who said an obviously sarcastic comment.......

DO NOT CLICK UNLESS READY FOR MATURE CONTENT

 

 

Arresting either is somewhat dumb, but at the end of the day that stuff isn't funny anymore, IDK why people think it's acceptable to go and say that, and think a "JK" at the end erases the stupidity of it lol

[Hoppa]

That mother needs to read youtube comments so she can get an understanding of how serious internet talk is.

[codytappen]

Holy shit. This is completely disgusting. He said something in an online in game chat and is now in jail (possibly for 8 damned years)? This makes me doubt the American justice system more than I've ever done before, sure I wouldn't say that, but it was clearly intended as a way for this kid to defend himself from a rude remark (he was called a psycho). People are so devastated by some shootings that had to take out there frustration on a random barely 'adult' (You don't have full adult rights until you're 21) in some video game? What has this country come to?

 

Edit: Youtube video responding to everyone in this thread's comments.

http://youtu.be/aDg-9STmQcw

[mvitkun]

Out of pure curiosity why don't we know said "woman's" name?

 

anonymity my ass,he needs to face his accuser.

[Fenzee]

Things like that shouldn't be said no matter what.