Teenager arrested for Facebook post beaten up in prison - Polidicks

[QUOTE=TheMustacheHero;41330531]It really bothers me that a random Canadian woman can contact US police and have a citizen arrested for practicing free speech.[/QUOTE] Threats, even sarcastic ones, aren't covered under free speech by any means. What this kid did was actually illegal The punishment is hugely disproportionate to the crime though [editline]5th July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;41324699]Never mention you play LoL in jail, You'll get eaten up by the big boys.[/QUOTE] everyone in prison plays dota

By now, i would think the authorities would have realized that it was sarcasm, especially because people have basically been screaming to them that they are incompetent jackasses who arrested a kid who posed 0 threat to anybody. Wasn't there an article somewhere stating that he didn't even possess any weapons in his home?

[QUOTE=Parakon;41330707]that's the part that bothers you huh not how naive and paranoid the police involved were not how awfully they're treating this dude no, you're offended that people from other countries can report criminals in your own?? why do countries matter at all in this case? the fact that a couple posters are getting so distracted by a small detail such as "how dare someone from another country report my countrymen!!" rather than the huge fucking injustice your own is perpetrating is ridiculous. It doesn't matter in the slightest where shes from.[/QUOTE] "you're offended that people from other countries can report criminals in your own" he wasnt a fucking criminal and if someone from another country can report someone that didn't even do anything and get him sent to fucking prison then there's a problem

I'm honestly blown away that you ignored the first 3 lines where I clearly state I don't think he's a criminal. I didn't think I needed to hold your hand through my train of thought. I was saying it sets a bad precedent if you don't want anyone from another country reporting people in yours. [QUOTE=Zukriuchen;41331618] and if someone from another country can report someone that didn't even do anything and get him sent to fucking prison then there's a problem[/QUOTE] yeah, and it's with your own authority figures shitty police work, not the person who reported it. Please explain to me how having more people to report crimes is a bad thing??

[QUOTE=Parakon;41331853]Please explain to me how having more people to report crimes is a bad thing??[/QUOTE] I am totally amazed by how you ignored the rest of my post!!! do you need help reading it???

There should be an international internet threat day, where millions of people make a staggering number of grievous threats on the internet just to fuck with people who are clearly monitoring communications.

Just over a sarcastic comment, he gets 8 years. Fucking unbelievable and pathetic.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;41331979]I am totally amazed by how you ignored the rest of my post!!! do you need help reading it???[/QUOTE] I already addressed it, but i'll make it simpler to understand; How would an American reporting this to the police be any different? He'd still be in jail because of the idiotic authority figures involved. The lady being from another country makes [I]zero[/I] difference. I'm really not sure how much clearer I can make this

Everybody's a criminal nowadays.

Fuck I hope this poor kid doesn't get thrown in prison for something as trivial as this. It's such a waste of time and resources when there are far worse people committing ACTUAL crimes. Whoever reported this must feel like some kind of hero. Asshole potentially ruined this guys life over a fucking comment in a video game.

Imagine how it must feel to be the one who reported him. Knowing your butthurt might get a man sent to jail. Videogames are srs bsns.

Even if they put him in jail, the memories will always remain. It's unbelievable how this could happen, joking or not he shouldn't just have been handled like this, and almost facing so long of a time in prison. [QUOTE]"A witness to the conversation in Canada became worried nonetheless and alerted the authorities, who then arrested Carter and charged him with making a terroristic threat." [/QUOTE] Obviously he's joking, but if he wasn't for some godly unknown reason for example, he should be given mental help for these problems. This is ridiculous and very disappointing to hear.

[quote]Adding to NPR this week, the defendant’s father said his son has been “suffering quite a bit of abuse” and is “really sorry” for making what they say was a sarcastic comment.[/quote] lmao the kid is sorry in the same way an abused spouse is after they were beaten for not cooking dinner this is fucking disgusting

What a bunch of cunts, not even the internet is safe anymore it seems.

The more and more I see this story, the more and more it pisses me off. I realize that the U.S. can't fuck around when it comes to school shooting threats, and if you [I]absolutely[/I] need to punish the kid, put him on house arrest or give him some sort of a slap on the wrist. Keeping this kid in a federal prison because he said something stupid is like keeping a petty shoplifter or jaywalker on death row. The kid's already been moved four times and is being kept naked in solitary, which is probably even WORSE than getting the shit beaten out of him. I fully understand that we have to take caution when it comes to situations like this, but come [I]on,[/I] it's like common sense has completely fallen by the wayside.

This is goes to show that you better watch what you say on the internet or cunty mc cuntface will somehow tap into your PRIVATE conversation and report you as a terrorist. Yeah..this country won't last another decade at this rate.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41338000]lmao the kid is sorry in the same way an abused spouse is after they were beaten for not cooking dinner this is fucking disgusting[/QUOTE] He's sorry for being born in America.

You know it's kind of bullshit how we go out and defend said "freedom" only to see shit like this happen. I'm signing that petition.

[QUOTE=Thund3rdome;41316261]“Someone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head,’” he called, “to which he replied '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.’” In case someone was wondering what he wrote.[/QUOTE] You know, this could have been me. When I was in HS, someone said something similar and I responded with a sarcastic comment along those lines. I got taken by the police the next day. Was interrogated in the school office. They drove to my home and searched it. I had to get a psych eval. I was cleared because short of some social anxiety I was fine mentally. They tried to expel me, they targeted me for my radical beliefs and they presented that as evidence. I got a lawyer before they could expel me or try to press charges. The police knew when the school was over reacting, when the people were and refused to pursue criminal charges. The school was forced to back down because they fucked up on a few levels. but jesus, this could have been me.

[QUOTE=Cone;41316553]are we really going to condemn everyone who makes a sarcastic remark to eight years in jail just on the basis that they COULD have been serious about it[/QUOTE] 8 years will be served in a prison, not a jail American schools are completely ridiculous, and the number of over-sensitive softies that can't deal with ANYTHING are taking over the country

You guys just identify with the kid, maybe he should man up and fight back. For 19 years old he's a weakling.

[QUOTE=V3nom;41351760]The more and more I see this story, the more and more it pisses me off. I realize that the U.S. can't fuck around when it comes to school shooting threats, and if you [I]absolutely[/I] need to punish the kid, put him on house arrest or give him some sort of a slap on the wrist. Keeping this kid in a federal prison because he said something stupid is like keeping a petty shoplifter or jaywalker on death row. The kid's already been moved four times and is being kept naked in solitary, which is probably even WORSE than getting the shit beaten out of him. I fully understand that we have to take caution when it comes to situations like this, but come [I]on,[/I] it's like common sense has completely fallen by the wayside.[/QUOTE] The punishment should be the judge telling him he's an idiot who shouldn't do it again What the fuck happened to leniency for the inevitable stupid things teenagers will do, it's not like he has a huge habit of doing this [editline]7th July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=BrickMan300;41353548]You guys just identify with the kid, maybe he should man up and fight back. For 19 years old he's a weakling.[/QUOTE] Self-defense basically doesn't exist in prison If you do anything besides lay there and take it you end up in prison longer, and sometimes even then

i wish theyd make the name of the retarded fuck, who ruined this kids life, public.

[QUOTE=katbug;41316608]That canadian mum that reported him deserves to know the hell she put some random kid through, just because she's a crazy stalker. [editline]4th July 2013[/editline] the actual thing he said was on the League of Legends forums, not facebook I think.[/QUOTE] I doubt she expected this.

[QUOTE=plunger435;41358182]I doubt she expected this.[/QUOTE] well she damn well caused it.

Wait did he go to JAIL for an offensive facebook post? That's fucked up.

Once he has his trial, the us government will probably end up paying him a decent sum for unjust treatment.

I think Valve got a really good idea for their report system in Dota 2 now, though. :v:

[QUOTE=rsa1988;41316650]This is just to the point that that the judge should say that the time spent in prison is time served enough, that and to be beaten up like that is to be considered child endangerment. Come on this is an obvious over reaction that the police and the system has made and should be called out on it.[/QUOTE] That actually is not a good result for the kid. Since that goes on the record. What you want is for the judge to find him innocent. Carries the benefits of a) no record. b) potentially getting damages out of the state.

Death to this terrorist, maniac and heart-eating crazy! He deserves everything he's getting in that prison, the inmates are in every right to break his bones! Go USA!