Retroactive death penalty for you!
Who wants to press the button?
That’s too good. We gotta make an example of him for that.
Drawn an quartered, or locked in a room with the barny song playing for 40 years?
What is the typical sentence for willful destruction of property? I honestly don’t know.
Why does it matter if he was really planning on shooting up the school? That is not an element of the crime of making a terroristic threat. He committed a crime (right after getting out of detention for another crime), and he was sentenced within the proper guidelines.
Apparently the short length of fun’s over and we’re stuck with the Two and a Half Miles of Dumb that follows.
Because if you take away the possibility of an actual shooting then you have a teenager who got sentenced to eight years in prison for making a phone call. Many people would consider that wrong: reasonable people, sane people, smart people, people that roll their eyes whenever you speak.
Of course he was, you halfwit. A judge can’t sentence anyone beyond the guidelines. We’re discussing whether eight years is an appropriate sentence not whether it’s a legal one.
Terroristic threat is usually prosecuted as a misdemeanor, and eight years on a third degree is pretty high for a 17 year old first-time felony offender. Maybe the kid had a shockingly bad juvenile record, maybe the judge just wanted to make an example of him, impossible to say without knowing more than what we’ve been told. Just to put it in perspective, though, eight years in this case doesn’t actually mean eight calander years. It’s not an assaultive (or “3g”) offense, so by Texas parole guidelines he’ll likely be paroled after he’s served around eleven months, back time included.
Were the threats you were able to dig up from events before or after Columbine, Virginia Tech, etc.?
I’m not arguing one way or another but I can see how post-Virginia Tech, etc., that judges may take a harder stance on these types of things.
MeanJoe
All of them were after Columbine, but a few of them were before VA Tech. They were Google News searches from 2006-2008.
Thanks for clarifying and providing the link
MeanJo
You don’t know what you’re talking about ! You need to be on the receiving end of these so call Prank calls. I hunt Prank Callers. To date I’ve had 4 arrested. One was 15 year old who not only threatened to kill people but also ordered thousands of dollars of different kinds of products under Trial Programs and had them shipped to unsuspecting people. These punks are causing the expenditure of untold thousands of dollars but are also causing people to experience physical damage. The Emotional and Psychological Stress of a repeated imminent death threat or exstencive property damage has caused many victims to experience physical and some… life threatening physical problems.
A male victim, 68 years old suffered a minor stroke because of a year of daily Prank calls. A male of 73 years old in the midwest has been prank called for 3years straight everyday. The males involved in the prank calls record peoples voices without their consent, which is a violation of U.S. Title 18: TeleCommunications and Wiretap Act as well as most State’s Laws on the same topic as the Federal Law and post them to YouTube and other Social forums. That alone..if nothing else makes them criminals. These males and, 99.9% of them are males…are really Emotional and Psychological Terrorists. I know of a businessman who…so called Prank Callers, cost his business at least $30,000 last year alone and I don’t have the current costs associated with his businesses loses this year but when I spoke to him 2 months ago he said he was barely hanging on and because of these punks have harrassed him for 2 straight years everyday, at 53 his business was on the verge of going out of business several times but was still just barely hang on from going out of business but only because he was now working 16-20 hour days 7 days a week to keep his business going. The ambulance has taken him out of his shop twice because of the stress levels associated with what these punks have caused in his life. Now let’s take you for instance. Let us hypothesize and say that you had a home phone number that you could not change, because hypothetically if you did change it you could not receive any more deliveries to your house.
How would you like that phone getting 50 to 100 phone calls a day with angry male voices threating to come over an kill you or blow your house up in the middle of the night or rape your mother or steal you auto. Do you think that would make you very angry and even afraid because you don’t know who these males are because they are anonymous? If you say it wouldn’t then you’re in denial or dillusional…or both !
All these posts are from young dumb immature males or …just dumb immature males
ThePrankBuster, you realize you’re replying to posts made about two years ago? Some of the members you’re talking to may not be here anymore.
Also, someone with your name talking about hunting pranksters? Heh, hopefully you’ll have more things and posts to make other then ones about pranks. 
Welcome to the SDMB.
Reported.
American terrorist? Does that mean the government can kill him with a Predator drone without a trial?
For top-posting, right? 
Well, aside from PrankBuster being a Real American Hero, I was kinda hoping the bump was for an update, i.e. the convicted kid released after serving two years.
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If this “kid” is 17 and already committing crimes like this, he should definitely be punished. I’m sure he won’t even serve the full sentence. The courts probably wanted to set an example. Plus, if he’s already been convicted of these two things, just imagine what else he’s done that isn’t known about. Just refer to CCR for how they handle things in Texas:
“If you’re ever in Houston, well you better do the right. You better not gamble, you better not fight. Or the sheriff will grab ya, and the boys will bring you down. The next thing you know boy, oh you’re prison bound!”
I’m gonna put this thread back to bed. If anyone has anything new to add about this case, then start a new thread and link to this one.
Lynn
For the Straight Dope