There should be technical terms for multiple levels of stupid, but for now I'll just make some up: if you have to gauge the actions of the guy in this story and your choices are A Little Slow, Stone Cold Stupid, Colossal Moron and Drooling Vegetable, it would fall somewhere between the third and the fourth. What happened here is that an eighteen year old Johnson County, Indiana resident decided to announce he was planning to hijack a plane. While playing World of Warcraft, no less.
The Indy Star reports that the teen was playing the game yesterday morning when he announced that he "was going to board a plane at 7:30 to Chicago and that (he) was going to try and kill as many Americans as possible". A facilitator from an online gaming center reported the kid after hearing him repeat himself a few times. When confronted, the teen at first said that someone hacked into his computer, then backpedaled and said he was just kidding around. How humbling it must be to have your e-penis so swiftly and suddenly confiscated!
A rep from Blizzard who had gone over the chat logs said they seemed very serious and not like a joke at all. In the meantime, the teen's computer has been seized by the FBI, who are looking further into the case. Charges could possibly be filed with the U.S. Attorney's office, but it hasn't gone that far yet. I bet he's not allowed to play WoW anymore. He ought to call this guy up for advice (I hear anal remote application is a cure-all).
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5:20 PM on 07.14.2009
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That's a fantastic line right there.
but not at all!
Where did the kids clothes go in that video, and why did he shove a remote in his ass?
Other limitations are various libel.
There are a lot of limitations to the First Amendment, and dumbasses don't know it until they are in jail.
I think so.
It's a kid, talking shit, trying to be funny. Sure, he's not funny, i mean there's nothing funny about your government organizing a false flag attack on it's own civilians in order to get support for a war they want, and that proves to be extremely profitable, but have no real reason.
This is a nice side effect of the US government killing it's own people in the name of Allah, they now get to arrest teens because of what they say on WoW. Police State Bonus!
Not only that, people will come to sites like this and laugh about how stupid the kid is, when really, he wasn't threatening, he wasn't conspiring, he clearly wasn't a terrorist (also known by the US establishment as "Freedom Fighters" when they're fighting against Russia, and financially supported by the US) he was trying to be funny.
Do you guys miss that little thing called freedom? I do.
Besides, with the current situation america is going through, as Aerofan said, you cant really get away with joking about this type of thing
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