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Mad Jack Thompson serves fake cease and desist to webcomic artist photo

Tipster Pablo sent an email in to us regarding an amusing, if somewhat sad new adventure in the chronicles of crazy Jack Thompson. Scott Johnson, the creator of My Extra Life, has been served an unofficial cease and desist from the office of Jack Thompson via his blog, following a photoshop contest involving ol' Jacko that the artist is currently running with his readers.

Scott assumed it was one of his audience pranking him, so the 'legal' warning was laughed off. "If you are the real Jack Thompson, then I should be getting a LEGAL cease and desist letter from you, not some anonymous comment in a blog post," Johnson answered. "So since I did not get that. And since I don’t think you are him at all, then the answer is no. Nice try though…made me giggle."

Thompson's retort was simple. He simply replied with "Ok, your mistake. Laugh your ass off." The man who is yet to outright deny accusations of his being a bisexual pedophile has resorted to cowardly threats on blogs, and according to further research from Scott, it's the real deal. Isn't that special? Johnson himself doesn't feel threatened, confident that Thompson can do nothing but threaten. He did, however, make the most perfect statement on the situation, and I can think of no better way to end the story than with Scott's own words:

Why would a person sit in front of a computer and search Technorati or other engines all day to see if people are saying your name? Why would a person care about a photoshop contest to the degree that they make threats to meet that care? Why would a Florida bar certified lawyer even bother with our stupid little mom and pop shop here? Why would that self same lawyer tell me to “laugh my ass off”, or post a comment in a blog, or any of these things and still expect people to consider him a professional in field of law?

Why indeed, Jack? Why indeed, you complete arsehammer.


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David Houghton 's Avatar
David Houghton at 09/23/2007 21:28
Please Jim. Please tell me you sent that e-mail. Even better, let's make it an official petition and get the world to sign it before delivering it to him.
HawtPawkitHero's Avatar
HawtPawkitHero at 09/23/2007 21:30
Signed.
JTHomeslice's Avatar
JTHomeslice at 09/23/2007 21:31
I'd sign it.
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Rogue Trooper at 09/23/2007 21:34
You would also have my John Hancock.
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KamikazeTutor at 09/23/2007 21:37
I hinted this thing days ago...
Oh well, I submitted my photoshop work and I'll posting it after the winner is decided, as a homage to the unique douche that Jack Thompson is. ^_^
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 09/23/2007 21:38
I'm planning on sending him an email soon actually, but it won't be that.
IceMax's Avatar
IceMax at 09/23/2007 21:45
what i miss?
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vexed alex at 09/23/2007 21:48
I think loosing a few sperm cells would do the man good. He's probably sexually deprived.
Corncobtacular's Avatar
Corncobtacular at 09/23/2007 21:49
OH SNAP!
Cacticus's Avatar
Cacticus at 09/23/2007 21:56
Florida bar certified? I thought he was disbarred. Or, at least in the process.
Joe Burling's Avatar
Joe Burling at 09/23/2007 22:00
Oh, Jack. You make me laugh so hard and often.

Also, Hancocks
BluFire's Avatar
BluFire at 09/23/2007 22:12
What the fuck is an arsehammer?
Reeper's Avatar
Reeper at 09/23/2007 22:14
Bastard still hasn't replied to my email I sent him a few days ago. I'll definitely be C-logging it once I get his damn reply.
KamikazeTutor's Avatar
KamikazeTutor at 09/23/2007 22:16
I might already have barnacles on his prostate.

thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 09/23/2007 22:24
seriously! such a fucking arsehammer!!!
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 09/23/2007 22:34
Owned
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 09/23/2007 22:34
This is nothing new really. Jack Thompson has done this to me as well over at GamePolitics.com. I post there fairly often and on time an impostor Jack Thompson was saying something and people were replying to that impostor. I simply let them know they were talking to a fake. Next thing I know, the real Jack Thompson is accusing me of being the impostor and saying if I didn't stop he'd be forced to take me to court. I didn't believe it was the real guy, but Dennis, owner of GamePolitics.com, had deleted all of the fake JT's post and left that one and so I asked if it was the real Jack Thompson and he said it looked that way.

Jack Thompson visits that site frequently as well and harass the people who post there and the owner, Dennis. He's said a lot of stupid things, as usual, and people tear his arguments apart left and right. But, 9 out of 10 times he never has the ball to respond to anyone who's made him look like a complete asshole...well, even more so than before anyway.

So, yeah, no one is safe from this man's legal threats. Hell, if I can be threatened with a suit for no reason, then he might do it to anyone else who's just a reader. Hell, someone on here might be next.
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drdentz at 09/23/2007 22:38
Jack Thompson is a joke.
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bluemeep at 09/23/2007 22:47
I've last so much damn faith in our legal system as I've grown up... The fact that this chode hasn't been disbarred yet isn't helping.
KamikazeTutor's Avatar
KamikazeTutor at 09/23/2007 22:52
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 09/23/2007 23:03
I'm not in the contest, but here's what I just made for the hell of it. Jack Thompson showing off one of his many passions outside of law.

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needsmoretits at 09/23/2007 23:18
I'm surprised nobody made a Jack_Thompson account and posted a threat yet.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 09/23/2007 23:48
It’s a sad state of affairs for Mr. Thompson and his antics when I am no longer surprised by any of the increasingly outrageous and ridiculous things he does.
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Mxyzptlk at 09/24/2007 00:05
Jack's problems are mental, not sexual. The guy is looney tunes, and clearly has been since he started comparing himself to Batman while trying to get 2 Live Crew and NWA records banned.
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Necros at 09/24/2007 00:19
He must have a huge ego for such a small mind.
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BahamutZero at 09/24/2007 00:37
This is Jack Thompson here. I DEMAND YOU CEASE AND DESIST USING MY IMAGE IN YOUR ARTICLE I SUE YOU ASS

LOVE JACK THOMPSON
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Fading Star at 09/24/2007 01:03
Poor Jack. He just continues to fall deeper. Just for the record, Jack is not and will never be like Batman.
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 09/24/2007 01:48
I find the Batman comparison funny actually. When you think about it, Jack Thompson is comparing himself to a grown man who dresses in a rubber suit and hangs around in a cave with a young boy. Hmmm...
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BenHaskett at 09/24/2007 03:02
Good Lord... You'd think Jack Thompson had a patent on vexatious litigation...
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dprime at 09/24/2007 04:22
This is Jack Thompson. D-Prime is a fake account I made to infiltrate this blog; I had a secret plan to become uber popular and then destroy gaming culure from the inside. It's not going so well, so now I'm going to SUE YOU. You're all SUED.
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wardrox at 09/24/2007 05:51
Hang on, has it been confirmed it's actually JT? Sorry to piss on the parade, but isn't it just an anonymous user?
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BS3 Owner at 09/24/2007 06:54
LOL @ Topic Picture's Caption!
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 09/24/2007 08:14
wardrox: I said in the report that Johnson confirmed it. Apparently all the personal info Thompson uses checked out.
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DannyBoy at 09/24/2007 08:33
@Mxyz:

A bunch of people over at Gamepolitics have been saying that Thompson likely has narcissist personality disorder. When you read more about npd, it explains pretty much everything that's wrong with him.
Velt's Avatar
Velt at 09/24/2007 09:08
Thnaks for posting it Mr. Sterling.
looking forward to your email to this jackass.
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skullivan at 09/24/2007 09:40
This guy is the ultimate videogame messageboard troll. He comes out and says outrageous shit that everyone knows is false, yet everybody feels the need to jump in and respond to the guy, giving him exactly what he wants. He pulls stunts like this because he knows every little thing he does is going to be reported all over.

He's the friggin' Paris Hilton of the videogame media world. No one wants to hear about the guy yet not a day goes by where there's not an article about him somewhere. For years this guy has been trying to get things banned, recalled, censored, whatever, and he hasn't been successful in anything. He has no pull in the government or the game industry and is now more concerned with his own celebrity than anything. Just let him wither away somewhere.
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 09/24/2007 10:08
I'm not fully convinced he has mental problems. I see a very bored, very insignificant little man who's craziness is born out of desperation to count for something in his previously unspectacular life. Sure, I refer to him as mad Jack, but I think his madness is a sign of a man who thinks he knows what he's doing, but in reality is too stupid to know when to quit.
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 09/24/2007 19:18
I think he's a hardcore gamer who simply is going too far to try to amuse everyone. Right?
GENACON's Avatar
GENACON at 10/01/2007 10:54
Scott Johnson, Man, Artist and Genius.

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