Man sues chatroom pals: I was humiliated beyond what ‘no man could endure’
Our only hope, I guess, is that his endurance was pretty high.
Can I borrow that phrase for our next accounts meeting?
Uh-oh! I wonder if brightpenny has seen this.
well…
I think these guys did go a little too far, farther than most people we brand “stalkers” here at the SDMB tend to go. I think we’re clear here.
Jeebus. If this makes it past the laugh-out-of-court stage, then I expect, about 90% of us who have ever posted on the internet have grounds to sue somebody for something.
Crap, never mind. That’s what I get for not reading the whole story … and darn you Ethilrist for not posting that a couple of seconds sooner!
:: shakes pathetic little fist in the air ::
Ba-dum tish!
Yeah, I agree. I think the amount he’s asking for is ridiculous, never mind the fact that he’s suing at all, but I’d probably file a restraining order against the guy, even if photographing a house and putting it on the Internet is legal. It’s not just the Internet harassment, it’s the fact that it had real-world repercussions.
I think I know why friend Mr. Moto started this thread: he was temporarily unable to distinguish an internet blurb from his own life, or at least that artificial life, lived on an internet message board, which he is unable to distinguish from his own life. What I can’t understand is why he can’t separate SDMB poster Reeder, who has been absent for several months, from some bizarre chronology of events, which he has somehow conflated with his own life, related in the linked article. Since we’re already several degrees away from reality here, I’m willing to assume Mr. Moto has merely adopted a persona that satisfies some need that can be satisfied now that a troublesome adversary is gone. I don’t know, however, whether it is best to disabuse him of his delusion or to remind him of it; to suppress or encourage the idea that he may be better able to cope with the fact that the blue dragon, that illusory nemesis threatening his every plan and hope, is a threat only in his mind, and that he can leave the garage door open without endangering those nearest and dearest to him (if any). It isn’t Mr. Moto’s own endurance he needs to worry about, folks.
on the other hand, there’s the part in the article where the defendant claims that he didn’t drive to Ohio, and that the plantiff gave as good as he got (that wheelchair comment quoted earlier was the plantiff insulting the defendant, not the other way around.)
As I was reading the article, I scrolled down and thought the photo in the middle was going to be one of the guys involved in the lawsuit.
“Damn, he looks just like Saddam Hussien!”
“Oh, that is Saddam.”
The problem with fucking bugs is that you can’t even wrap them in duct tape.
non sequitir–or is it? Someone 'splain it, please?
To keep them from exploding of course.
To keep them from exploding when you fuck them-the tag line to the old joke “Why do you wrap a hamster in duct tape”
Would it be harassment if I posted a picture of Reeder’s house? 
