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#1 | Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:50 am (Last edited: Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:52 am)

A Texas teenager who has been in jail since March faces an eight-year prison sentence because of a threatening joke he made while playing an online video game.

In February, Justin Carter was playing �League of Legends� � an online, multiplayer fantasy game � when another player wrote a comment calling him insane. Carter�s response, which he now deeply regrets, was intended as joke.

�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,� and the next two lines were lol and jk,� said Jack Carter, Justin�s father, in a statement to a local news channel.

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This kind of garbage makes my blood boil

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#2 | RE: Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:54 am

Well... dunno how I feel about this one.

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#3 | RE: Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:10 am

Are they going to jail the Tweeters who are watching the Zimmerman trial and said "IMA GO KILL A WHITE BOY"?

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"If people can�t trust not only the executive branch but also don�t trust Congress, and don�t trust federal judges, to make sure that we�re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we�re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013

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#4 | RE: Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:41 am

Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #2
Well... dunno how I feel about this one.

That's kinda scary, WTF

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#5 | RE: Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:49 am

Quote: Justme wrote in post #1
A Texas teenager who has been in jail since March faces an eight-year prison sentence because of a threatening joke he made while playing an online video game.

In February, Justin Carter was playing �League of Legends� � an online, multiplayer fantasy game � when another player wrote a comment calling him insane. Carter�s response, which he now deeply regrets, was intended as joke.

�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,� and the next two lines were lol and jk,� said Jack Carter, Justin�s father, in a statement to a local news channel.

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This kind of garbage makes my blood boil

Welp, how would have felt if the kid had said this, authorities did nothing, and the kid ended up going shooting for real?

That's the thing.

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#6 | RE: Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months datum

Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:59 am

Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #5

Welp, how would have felt if the kid had said this, authorities did nothing, and the kid ended up going shooting for real?

That's the thing.

I had to look up welp