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19y old faces 8 years prison for comment in LoL

adhal81adhal81 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 115 Bounty Hunter
edited July 2013 in Off Topic
Hey everyone, just wanted to bring awareness to this case because a 19y old is facing 8 years prison for a stupid comment made over LoL. While his comment may have been in bad taste, no one deserves to be imprisoned for 8y over a comment. If you can take the time to go to this link to read on the story and sign the petition to help free him it would be much appreciated, remember this could be you someday, we all have made stupid comments time to time.

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Thank you for your time.

*edit* Guess you can't link to a page trying to do good that doesn't ask for any money at all. If you google Justin Carter you should be able to find it though. Or PM me and I will send the link
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  • rishzothrishzoth Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 351 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    His "combat training" in LoL is going to come to good use in the prison yard when he gets shivved with a sharpened spoon.

  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    A clear case of action meeting consequence. Anonymity is not some magic shield that lets someone act however they like. Being on-line is not a form of protection.
  • bstbybstby Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 104 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    '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' which was followed by saying JK (just kidding) and LOL (laughing out loud).

    8 years? Really? LMAO. Only in America.
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  • dandare#8529 dandare
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    edited July 2013
    Well undoubtedly a freedom of word case...

    Following this example I would not be surprised to see nowadays 'Gore genre' games creators being arrested in near future and shut down due to possibility of them 'being actual psychos wanting to kill whole universe'.

    No further comment from me though.
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  • adhal81adhal81 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 115 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    bstby wrote: »
    8 years? Really? LMAO. Only in America.

    Sadly there are rapist, child molesters, killers getting less time. Not to mention throwing the freedom of speech out the window.
  • bstbybstby Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 104 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    adhal81 wrote: »
    Sadly there are rapist, child molesters, killers getting less time. Not to mention throwing the freedom of speech out the window.

    You actually did put what I wanted to say using the serious tone. It's all very sad, indeed.
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  • colonelwingcolonelwing Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    adhal81 wrote: »
    Hey everyone, just wanted to bring awareness to this case because a 19y old is facing 8 years prison for a stupid comment made over LoL. While his comment may have been in bad taste, no one deserves to be imprisoned for 8y over a comment. If you can take the time to go to this link to read on the story and sign the petition to help free him it would be much appreciated, remember this could be you someday, we all have made stupid comments time to time.

    <link removed>

    Thank you for your time.

    *edit* Guess you can't link to a page trying to do good that doesn't ask for any money at all. If you google Justin Carter you should be able to find it though. Or PM me and I will send the link



    I've read what he's posted on FB. Even if it's sarcasm, after what happened to those innocent children at Sandy Hook's, joking around about such a shocking topic isn't the smartest thing one could possibly do since the entire internet is being monitored anyway.


    But... 8 years seems a bit harsh. He should get slapped, but not imprisoned for 1/8 of his entire life just for being a moron.

  • riqitariqita Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 297 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    What I love is that the grammar creates an oxymoron.
    A heart cannot be still and also beating at the same time. Comma usage is important.
  • krahctkrahct Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    That is the most asinine thing I've ever read...ever. I cannot believe this kid is in prison, I"m mean sure he's a troubled kid, but 8 years in prison for something he said? Terrorism, holy cow, what is this world coming to. Next thing, parents are gonna start carrying guns and when someone looks in the direction of their kid their gonna open fire. Maybe it's time for an apocalypse, wipe the planet of our screwed up existence and hit the reset button.
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  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    krahct wrote: »
    That is the most asinine thing I've ever read...ever. I cannot believe this kid is in prison, I"m mean sure he's a troubled kid, but 8 years in prison for something he said? Terrorism, holy cow, what is this world coming to. Next thing, parents are gonna start carrying guns and when someone looks in the direction of their kid their gonna open fire. Maybe it's time for an apocalypse, wipe the planet of our screwed up existence and hit the reset button.

    Or you could move country?
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  • tcarncetcarnce Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 976 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    deserved what he suppose to get ;p more stuf , like so called predicting when all live on earth ends may be treated the same way if it was up to me.
    but ok, he already got bailed out, someone paid it, so he didn`t get what he deserved, but there`s should come more clear laws about it. so people know what they do isn`t that right.
  • derpaderpistderpaderpist Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I don't care about this kid .
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  • savagedeaconsavagedeacon Member Posts: 219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    The U.S.A. the homeland of the freedom of speech. Luckly for me I don't live in the U.S.A.
  • ladymythosladymythos Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 637 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    What you people forget is that while it was a stupid thing to say, he did end the comment with "j/k" and "lol". As in, it was just a joke. A disgusting joke, yes, but still just a joke. How is that different from all the stand-up comedians who play on racism and sexism? If you can get eight to ten years in prison for a single joke on FB, many people should be on death row. Not to mention the woman who reported this kid to the cops was Canadian, and she had to search for a while to be able to track down his address. To me, that sounds far crazier than a stupid kid making a bad joke.

    But hey, thats politics for you. I've seen a lot worse, sadly. Just come to Scandinavia. To give you an example:

    - Foreigners got caught smuggling far more drugs than anyone else in the history of this country - they got to stay.

    - Foreigner from the Middle-East hijacked a plane with an axe, then tried to crash it - he got to stay.

    - Middle-Eastern guy stabbed a bunch of strangers on the bus - he got to stay.


    - Ten year old Romanian girl with a heart-condition needed expert help to survive, and if she was sent home, she wouldn't get the help she needed - She was sent home to die.

    Ten years in prison for stupid joke? Sure, why not.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    In the midst of all this rage and hyperbole. I felt its fair to add some reality to all this.

    First off all. He hasn't even gone to trial yet. He faces 8 years, but that's only if convicted, AND the judge sets the maximum. Something that is going to be very difficult to do. He isn't even in jail anymore, awaiting trail, he got out on bail.

    Now we can argue weather his act was criminal enough to even be charged and held. But even at its worst, being charged does not make him a criminal or mean he will be convicted.

    Simply put, he did something stupid. And now has to pay the consequences for it. That being a trial and judgement by jury. That is hardly the same thing as the automatic 8 years in jail, the hyperbole would have you believe.
  • savagedeaconsavagedeacon Member Posts: 219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    The point is : there were no reason to arrest and have him to face a trial. The monstrousity of all this is that he has said kidding that he was going to do a massacre but he has done nothing. It is what in my country they call "questioning of sb's motives".

    It means that if you should say jokingly " I hope that the president falls from a horse on a cactus and he had to sit on a pillow for a week" you can be arrested for trying to cast the evil eye on the president because a D. A. could argue that if someone believe in the evil eye your "menace" is real.Exactly like if you jokingly say that you "are gonna kill somebody" if someone believe you your menace become "real" while it is so only in the fantasy world of that someone

    But you can have someone to face a trial for things that he has done not for things that you believe he could do for something that he said
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    savagedeacon wrote: »
    But you can have someone to face a trial for things that he has done not for things that you believe he could do for something that he said

    I agree, it is extreme. This is why I feel, he wont be convicted on this.

    That said, this is also a no win. Lets just suppose after he said all that, including the "just kidding". And nothing happened to him. Folks reported it, police investigated it, and nothing was done. And then lets suppose the next day, he acted on it. Do you honestly think, the public would be understanding to the police for finding nothing of merit?

    Welcome to the world of cover-ones-***. EVERYTHING now needs to be treated to the most extreme level simply because the one time you dont, and something horrible happens, the angry mob will want blood. Put simply, you can no longer do something horribly stupid and expect nothing will happen because of it.
  • rhoricrhoric Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Actually now a days you can't say stuff like that and not have something happen. So he said he was joking, but what if he really wasn't joking and actually turned around and did what he was going to say.
  • tcarncetcarnce Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 976 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    for anyone who thinks straight you can see this guy needs mental treatment.
    it`s material also for southpark if it was alowed to say all you want and then just lol and jk behind it.
    if they didn`t do it yet.

    someone here got 60 hours of forced labor for writing the royal family should be dead ;p hehehe
    so watch it epeners, you might have to sit in a corner after your big mouth ;p
  • savagedeaconsavagedeacon Member Posts: 219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    rhoric wrote: »
    Actually now a days you can't say stuff like that and not have something happen. So he said he was joking, but what if he really wasn't joking and actually turned around and did what he was going to say.
    Well then I fear that you have to borrow the uniform and weapons of Frank Castle and work overtime because just while I am writhing this post there are hundred of thousands of persons that say "something like that" and could "turn around and do what they said".

    Funny like the spokeperson of the Austin police said "that after recent events statements such as the one Justin made are taken seriously" but they don't take seriously the thousands of guys that own in their house an armory with whom they could start world war 3. Ah yes it is their constitutional "right" to own weapons...just like there is a constitutional right to the freedom of speech.

    Like the say"words don't take lives...weapons do".

    And the "recent events" that the spokeperson was speaking about were possible because none asked what Adam Peter Lanza (that was suffering of Asperger Syndrome btw) wanted to to do with the dozen of firearms the he owned.

    He did not tell on facebook or anywhere else what he was going to do.
  • tcarncetcarnce Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 976 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    savagedeacon wrote: »
    but they don't take seriously the thousands of guys that own in their house an armory with whom they could start world war 3

    warning, previous post contains kids talk.
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