I'm in Deep Shit Now. :-( (2342 hits)
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Submitted by icarus (View user info) at 2007-11-17 19:12:30 EST
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844203/?GT1=10547
It's a classic story of MySpace romance. Teen girl meets teen boy, teen boy teen shuns girl, teen girl kills self, teen boy turns out to be teen girls playing prank, mother of teen girl lititates. Wait, what?
Tina Meier, mother of 13 year-old Megan (RIP), is not only seeking the prosecution of the teen girls, former friends of Megan, who set up the bogus Myspace account, but is "seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the internet."
I've got to say I'm on the fence on this one. True, the whole fake profile thing was not buddies. But it's not like Megan's estranged friends even pushed her to commit suicide -- something I've seen on this site often enough. Despite Megan's lack of years, and despite manic depression, ADHD, or whatever other psychobalone Meier's lawyers will throw into the circus, I call bullshit. The kid should be culpable for her own actions.
Yeah, I know. I'm a monster.
A kid's dead, and her grieving mother is looking to make sense of it. She sees herself as a moral crusader; a Patty Wetterling for teenage broads who commit sepuku over jilted romance. Her baby's dead and be damned if somebody else isn't going to take the blame. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHO'S GOING TO THINK OF THE CHILDREN ALREADY???!
The child-proofing of the internet is already sending shockwaves through online giants like MySpace, Friendster, and Yahoo, and it's only a matter of time until the shit trickles down to smaller fry like Ubersite. Someday, one of us (maybe me) will -2DIE'd one of the local whackjobs and they'll get distraught. They spent six hours on that post, and what's MORE, their doctor said they have ADHD, tourettes and irritable bowel syndrome. In a moment of Paxil and bad judgement, they disembowl themselves with an ice cream scoop. As they lie dying in a pool of their own blood and excrement, they have just enough time to fingerpaint one message before rigor mortis sets in; "ICARUS HATED MY POST. *WEEPS*"
Technically speaking, the word "die" was there, so I'll be in a deep pile of legal crap. There'll be a media circus, Bart will be forced the scrap the site, and after a celebrity-studded trial, I'll be fined $500k (I'll make $2M off a book deal and the talk circuit tour though, so it's all good). Billy Boyd will pay TTOM on the Lifetime miniseries. Susie Derkins will be played by Janeane Garofalo, my wife will be played by a cloned version of Molly Ringwald, and Rob Berg will, sadly, never be mentioned. BUT WHO PLAYS TTOM IS IRRELEVANT, REALLY. Because you should all be afraid. VERY afraid. The age of walking on egg shells has come.
Maybe.
Or maybe it will all just blow over and the status quo will prevail. I'm not sure really.
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-12-01 00:16:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-30 18:53:48 EST (#)
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Generally speaking, yes. There's like two, maybe three women on this site I have respect for. The rest are either whores or Jonnyx.
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Wow.
Submitted by TheDoctor (user info) at 2007-11-20 17:19:14 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-20 15:55:18 EST (#)
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Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2007-11-19 18:35:50 EST (#)
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"teen boy turns out to be teen girls playing prank,"
Actually, teen boy turned out to be another teen girl's MOM playing a prank.
While it may not be criminal behavior, a fucking adult with a teen daughter of her own sure doesn't get the Parent-of-the-Year award for tormenting her daughter's "ex-friend" via MySpace.
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That info came out the morning after I wrote this, and adds its own interesting spin.
Still, the fact that the parents are actually doing the talk show circuit, demanding "justice for Megan" is an embarassment. It would be like my coworker telling me I have a bug in my hair, and me leaping from a third story window in fear. They're not crusaders for some great, unsung cause. Their daughter wasn't killed by a drunk driver or taken by cancer. She just made a very tragic, and stupid, choice.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2007-11-19 18:35:50 EST (#)
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"teen boy turns out to be teen girls playing prank,"
Actually, teen boy turned out to be another teen girl's MOM playing a prank.
While it may not be criminal behavior, a fucking adult with a teen daughter of her own sure doesn't get the Parent-of-the-Year award for tormenting her daughter's "ex-friend" via MySpace.
Submitted by RageMode (user info) at 2007-11-19 18:00:25 EST (#)
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This kind of shit makes me sick.
Why kill yourself over some internet shit? If you're really crazy you're going to use the internet to find the person that pissed you off and then send 'em swimming. Fuck, use the internet the correct way people.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2007-11-19 08:59:09 EST (#)
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This is the voice of Drogo, sadly I cant come and comment at the moment as I am in the process of numbing my wrists with Ice so that it doesnt hurt as much when I draw the knife up them. If you would like to leave your name and number and possibly your email address I will be sure to try out contacting you from the beyond when i get there. Cheers and bye.
Oh if you could let my Mum & dad know that I love them that would be great. Bye again.
No I really am going to go now, so bye.
Bye.
I'm not chickining out or anything, honest I'm not.
Anyway off I go.
Could someone remember to feed the cats for me please?
By then........
Submitted by Respek (user info) at 2007-11-19 04:04:54 EST (#)
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I think you should kill yourself over this.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-11-19 02:07:46 EST (#)
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~OATHMEAL APPROVED~
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-11-18 23:54:32 EST (#)
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Fuck that.
THE ARGUMENT IS THE SAME NOW WITH THE INTERNET AS IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO WITH THE FUCKING TELEVISION AND BEFORE THAT WITH THE RADIO AND BEFORE THAT WITH THE GOD DAMNED CAVE PAINTINGS!!! IF PARENTS GAVE TWO SHITS ABOUT THEIR KIDS, THEY WOULD PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING ONLINE!!!!
No seriously, I know a very smart and excrutiatingly cute sixteen year old on myspace whose Mom is number one on her page. They go online together, they are responsible. If the little one feels threatened or gets a little too excited, her mother is a few feet away to give guiding ligitimate advice. That's the way it's been for years, as long as the little one has been online.
Miss thirteen-year-old-suicide's mom should blame herself. And yeah, her friends were cunts, that's life.
oh, and -2DIE. Just for old time's sake.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-11-18 11:52:05 EST (#)
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I fucking hate Sundays.
Submitted by OscarZAcosta (user info) at 2007-11-18 11:48:25 EST (#)
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Simon? Man I can hook you up with the Duke but Simon, Who the fucks Simon?
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-18 11:46:13 EST (#)
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Submitted by OscarZAcosta (user info) at 2007-11-18 11:18:03 EST (#)
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I have to go
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Hey Simon. Whassup?
Submitted by OscarZAcosta (user info) at 2007-11-18 11:18:03 EST (#)
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I have to go
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-11-18 10:59:56 EST (#)
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Billy Boyd. Well, it could have been worse I suppose.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-11-18 10:11:46 EST (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-11-18 00:59:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-11-18 00:28:24 EST (#)
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I haven't seen a yam around since i went by the name......
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Oh, bullshit!!! Yer not a yam, yer jes a big thweetie. . . :) :)
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-11-18 00:28:24 EST (#)
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I haven't seen a yam around since i went by the name......
Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2007-11-18 00:17:52 EST (#)
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From a natural selection point of view, I'm certain one could argue that teen suicide is an excellent way to prevent bad genes from entering the gene pool. Of course, I've never seen anything to say suicidal tendencies can be inherited, but if you do enough studies you'll get the results you want.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-11-17 23:04:26 EST (#)
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They didn't like it...
weeps*
This ice cream is so delicious.
Ice cream is the only one who loves me.
Nobody but ice cream understands me, especially not ICARUS!
Ice cream never judges me.
Ice cream wants me to live!
Ice cream would hug me when nobody else would, but it'd melt.
I don't want to live in a world where I can't hug ice cream.
Ice cream, you're going to help me not feel bad anymore.
YOU HEAR THAT ICARUS!
YOU DID THIS TO ME!
*scoops out intestines
Ohh no!
They'll never know why I did it.
Better write "Fuck you Icarus" with my blood.
I'm that serious.
*dies
Submitted by Kracka (user info) at 2007-11-17 22:40:19 EST (#)
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i wouldn't have cared if the other girls parents weren't involved. i would have to say they should have some kind of punishment
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-11-17 22:36:24 EST (#)
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The world is a very dangerous place.
The sooner they learn, the better.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-11-17 22:25:12 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/113207#2584364
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I'm torn. Too drinky to elaborate.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-11-17 22:03:22 EST (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:42:39 EST (#)
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Yet another fine case of natural selection at work...... erm,....I mean it's such a tragedy.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-17 21:38:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by Bovice (user info) at 2007-11-17 21:25:12 EST (#)
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The kid should be culpable for her own actions.
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Fuck you. I hope someone stabs themself at your house and sues your ass for millions.
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Crabbiness?? Irrationality?? Handle that makes one think of a cow?? VULGAR CONJUGATION OF A REFLEXIVE PRONOUN????! It can only be the spirit of a Myspace Suicide Girl come back from the grave to smite ubermuggles with her angst!!!
Submitted by DeMoNiC (user info) at 2007-11-17 21:38:46 EST (#)
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"They spent six hours on that post, and what's MORE, their doctor said they have ADHD, tourettes and irritable bowel syndrome. In a moment of Paxil and bad judgement, they disembowl themselves with an ice cream scoop."
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Lol. You monster you.
Submitted by Bovice (user info) at 2007-11-17 21:25:12 EST (#)
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The kid should be culpable for her own actions.
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Fuck you. I hope someone stabs themself at your house and sues your ass for millions.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-11-17 20:37:21 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by NintendoCzar (user info) at 2007-11-17 20:31:03 EST (#)
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The kicker:
A parent is the one that created the fake profile.
MySpace is nothing but trouble. I use it, but all it's been is bad news for me. People with no self-control/respect can really fuck up things on there.
Submitted by ShimishSmortion (user info) at 2007-11-17 20:30:20 EST (#)
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Fuck MySpace. One less loser obsessed with the greatest affront to mankind. Good post icarus.
Submitted by lechuza (user info) at 2007-11-17 20:03:37 EST (#)
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You have GOT to be kidding me...
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:56:38 EST (#)
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Internet harassment is no different from real-life harassment. It happens, and some people just can't handle it.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:42:39 EST (#)
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Yet another fine case of natural selection at work...... erm,....I mean it's such a tragedy.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:38:30 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:36:23 EST (#)
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Someday, one of us (maybe me) will -2DIE'd one of the local whackjobs and they'll get distraught. They spent six hours on that post, and what's MORE, their doctor said they have ADHD, tourettes and irritable bowel syndrome. In a moment of Paxil and bad judgement, they disembowl themselves with an ice cream scoop.
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You mean me, don't you? Say it. SAY IT.
Prick.
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I usually encourage your whackjobbery. If anyone around here pulled out their intestines with an ice cream scoop, though, I'd be surprised if it weren't you.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:36:23 EST (#)
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Someday, one of us (maybe me) will -2DIE'd one of the local whackjobs and they'll get distraught. They spent six hours on that post, and what's MORE, their doctor said they have ADHD, tourettes and irritable bowel syndrome. In a moment of Paxil and bad judgement, they disembowl themselves with an ice cream scoop.
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You mean me, don't you? Say it. SAY IT.
Prick.
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:21:30 EST (#)
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Megan was a furry.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:14:47 EST (#)
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Pfft, he IS Scottish. Shows what I know.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:14:46 EST (#)
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I don't buy it. Who would want to play such a mean prank?
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-11-17 19:13:49 EST (#)
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Yes, I know Billy Boyd is Irish.