Bump this thread every time Loving Tounge does something really really stupid.

JackAssJim said:

I've always wound up with someone in her 30s, when I was younger and especially now. It's an intellectual compatibility issue.

Wrong thread.
 
Angel said:
Honestly, I doubt anything will happen. I think the chances are slim to none.

However, I do think it was irresponsible on both of their parts to both use/post the address in the first place and then to take it to the newsgroups as it was.

Yes, the chances are slim, but nowadays with all of the fucked up people using the internet, you just can't be too careful - and if something were to happen to the person living at that address, the both of them should be held fully responsible for it.
You might have a case against LT, since he was attempting to incite a crime. But that Warmachine would be in any way responsible for another person's criminal activity is absurd. If he had provided his own address in good faith, then you're saying he would be responsible for any crime perpetrated against himself. His posting of his address would have made the crime possible, but that doesn't make him culpable for the crime. It's like the idea that women who reveal too much cleavage are responsible for their own rapes. Criminals have to be held responsible for their crimes, and that such a simple fact eludes people these days is why the justice system is so fucked up. It's never the criminal's fault, because he was abused as a child, or didn't get the scholarship, or someone posted an address on the internet and he got angry.
It has nothing to do with 'self respect' and everything to do with anger/emotional reaction/mental instability.
We'd best tread lightly around them then, so as not to set them off.
A responsible adult wouldn't put some innocent, unknowing party at risk - no matter how small - over a stupid internet brawl.
What's an "internet brawl"? Bits flying around over optical cables? "Stupid" may be accurate, but "brawl" is giving it a bit too much credit, I think.

You don't even know whether the address is real or not. All you have is Warmachine's assertion that it's real. Someone in one of the newsgroups tried to locate it and said it isn't real.

For the sake of argument, let's say that Warmachine posted a real address and then let's say that that was irresponsible. Who the hell is "Warmachine"? Don't you realize how ridiculous this becomes? There's no way to stop any anonymous person from posting any random address at any time on Usenet and saying it's anything they want to say it is.

If you want to scold whomever is behind the Warmachine ID about it, then go ahead. Tell him he was irresponsible, and see what he says.

If you're genuinely concerned that someone in Plano, Texas has been put at risk, here, why don't you send a letter to "resident" at that address and warn them so they can take the necessary steps to protect themselves? That would be the responsible thing to do.
 
LovingTongue said:
Telling someone you hope if they have kids that they get murdered in cold blood isn't taking it into real life? That's just wishful thinking and you know it.

You know who took this into real life first, and it wasn't me.
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A practical joke perpetrated by an anonymous Internet user and a combination of improbable events. A practical joke leading to another user's collision with delusion, with obsession, with desperation. A small human drama played out on a server somewhere in San Diego, California, U.S.A., continent of North America, the Earth, and of course, the LT Zone.
 
Bump for LT telling people to quite whining so much in the crabgrass thread.
 
I think it's LT spawning season. Have you looked at Tortureds posts?

I think Laurels last ads ended up in "Moron Monthly". Who'd of thought so many morons had computers?

Ishmael
 
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