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Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed for months

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A Texas teenager who has been in jail since March faces an eight-year prison sentence because of a threatening joke he made while playing an online video game.

In February, Justin Carter was playing ?League of Legends? ? an online, multiplayer fantasy game ? when another player wrote a comment calling him insane. Carter?s response, which he now deeply regrets, was intended as joke.

?He replied ?Oh yeah, I?m real messed up in the head, I?m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,? and the next two lines were lol and jk,? said Jack Carter, Justin?s father, in a statement to a local news channel.

The statements ?lol? and ?jk? ? meaning ?laughing out loud? and ?just kidding? ? indicate that Justin?s statement was entirely sarcastic, said his father.

But a Canadian woman who saw the post looked up Carter?s Austin address, determined that it was near an elementary school, and called the police. Carter was arrested one month later, and has been in jail ever since. He recently celebrated his 19th birthday behind bars.

Authorities charged him with making a terrorist threat. If convicted, he will face eight years in prison.

?These people are serious. They really want my son to go away to jail for a sarcastic comment that he made,? said the elder Carter.

Authorities noted that recent school shootings like the one in Newtown, Connecticut have caused them to evaluate all potential threats seriously. Newtown was still fresh in their minds at the time of Carter?s arrest.

?In light of recent situations, statements such as the one Justin made are taken seriously,? said an Austin police detective in a statement.

Carter?s father said his son didn?t follow the news at all.

?Justin was the kind of kid who didn?t read the newspaper,? said Jack Carter. ?He didn?t watch television. He wasn?t aware of current events. These kids, they don?t realize what they?re doing. They don?t understand the implications. They don?t understand.?

Carter?s parents have launched a change.org petition to convince Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot to release their son.

?Release Justin Carter from jail,? the petition reads. ?Too many teenagers are being arrested, jailed and having their lives forever altered because of anti-terrorism laws and investigations that impede their 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech.?

A hearing to review Carter?s case is scheduled for July 1.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/te...ed-for-months/

you have the right to free speech "until you try it"

Only in Amerika...











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Then there was the kid rapping about Boston and spent 30 jailed before charges were dropped. Gawker is usually good about finding these kind of stories. Covered both.

Stupid kid does stupid thing. News at 11.

Guess he will make sure he doesn't joke about bombs in an airport now too i'll bet.

Depends on where he did it. One deal if he did it while drinking beer with his friends or playing computer game. Have you ever heard what Counter Strike players say to each other during the game? They speak about planning terrorist attacks! Should they all be imprisoned? According to your logic they should.

Another deal if someone "is joking" about bombs in an airport on 911 phone. These two cases can't be even comparable. At least everywhere outside of the USA I guess.

Very strange that you can't see the simple things :2 cents:

I know and feel the kids pain. Be careful what you say on yahoo.:2 cents:

this is shit, if this is real, you live in world full of shit, and worst than nightmare!

And someone actually reported this to authorities? Whole thing is pathetic.

I have heard a lot of nasty stuff playing COD online, mostly racist comments, he probably pissed off the wrong person.

I blame the bitch that called the cops...

it wasn't, they listened :winkwink:

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Stop being subversive.
You have to understand that the price we pay for freedom is giving up our freedom.

that's some crazy shit

From what I first read about this kid,. he got into an argument with someone online and then made the statement. Sadly for him, he lived a few blocks from an elementary school and when the woman reported him, they had to take it seriously.

I think the case should be dropped and he should have his ass beat for it but other than that its a waste of time and money.

That's insane. It's stupid to type that, i'd never did that just because it's just stupid, but living in country where kids get shot it may affect the teen. Saying he doesnt care what they show on a tv won't serve any good, must say he did watch a lot of tv where they show and speak shooting kids a lot, was under influence ...

Yeah, the whole thing is ludicrous. :helpme

http://www.change.org/petitions/rele...ic-threat-laws

sign his shit, was 1300+ last week

just bitch and spread the word, you can get the charges dropped, they don't want attention on this

Bad dumb joke but its ridiculous to lock anyone up for saying anything besides threats, and even then.

Its Texas. 80% of their economy is based locking people up.

Never heard of the case but sounds right. You make a threat like that, even joking, and they take it serious. You can't yell fire while watching a movie either.

We shall all be perfect humans. If we are not, Big Brother will punish us.

Everyone that says "if you don't commit a crime, you don't have to worry" should be paying attention to cases like this. Every single one of us says and does things that we should not be saying or doing. At any time, any person can have the right stick up their ass, call the authorities and have us put in a similar predicament.

Drive on a highway at any given point in time. Almost everyone driving on the highway is committing a crime.

:thumbsup signed

there alot of fucked up shit going on nowdays :(

Perhaps for you and a few others here. Housewives and former marines think it's ok. How brainwashed the one must be to say that? :disgust

it's not brainwashing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible

:2 cents:

Yes this shit really happens here in the land that has the "land of the free" slogan and cherishes free speech. The thing people here have forgotten is common sense and how to use that chunk of grey meat inside their headbones.

I would expand on this but I'm afraid to.

Any little chance they get to do population control they are going for it. Things like this will just keep popping up until the people finally decide they have enough.

I thought it would have already happened. But now I'm convinced that until Rochard gets pissed off about the govt. that nothing is going to happen.

I'm beginning to realize that the is like a gauge for the countries apathy. I didn't realize that folks felt so nonchalant about the govt. taking away freedoms from people in the U.S.
But Rochard has shown me that people honestly don't give a damn and think everything is "ok" as long as it doesn't affect them personally at the moment.

Not attacking Rochard, just pointing out that his attitude towards these kinds of things is a good way to gauge the way that most people seem to feel about it.

And when the day comes that Rochard is raising hell about something...that is the day the govt. finally did it one too many times.

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dude me too!

NOT attacking Rochard.. but once we get him incensed, things will change.

Does anyone know if he is one of those for-profit prisons?

I thought there is some Web service which allows one to find out where exactly the particular person is imprisoned and who that prison belongs to. Perhaps somebody will shoot the URL here.

So, if the guy followed through and blew away a bunch of kids whose fault would it be?

By the way, he was 18 at the time, a fucking adult that should know better.

If your grandma had a dick she would be your grandad :2 cents:

Pretty much all jails and prison's here are for profit. If he is in a county jail awaiting trial which he most likely is then the county jail is being paid at the very minimum by the state to house him but likely by the Feds since this is considered "terrorism." People need to get a better understanding of how our "governmen's" work. It's a big misconception they are public assets when the reality is they are registered for profit corporations just like all the others. To take you deeper into that rabbit hole. My city for example can't qualify to accept visa and mastercard because they are essentially conducting illegal activities and in many cases fraud.

If he killed a bunch of people, it would have been his fault.

He's also being held for something he said. Something he said. Most of us say "I'm going to kill that guy" on a regular basis, which could absolutely be considered a threat.

"land of the free" as a slogan is like a supermarket having signs up everywhere telling customers it is the cheapest shop - say it enough times and nobody will check if it is the cheapest shop or not and just believe it is.

And all of GFY would be in an uproar that the cops should have known he was a threat.

So by your logic, everything is a joke until it becomes reality? :warning

He's being charged with communicating a threat, which he did - they aren't even denying that. Even though he probably did not realize that his 'joke' constituted a threat to the welfare of others, as the courts are fond of saying: ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Should he have his life irreparably changed due to his poor judgement? No. However, the courts obviously need to send a message that any sort of communicated threat, even in jest, is grounds for arrest. Saying "just kidding" afterward does not negate the wrong doing.

The article says this took place in February. I searched online but could not find a more exact date, but bear in mind that the Sandy Hook shooting had occurred on Dec 14th, approximately two months before. Hardly the emotional nor political climate to be making 'jokes' about killing innocent children.

Yeah, just like Zimmerman was not in any danger . . . yet.

:thumbsup Logic on GFY, it does exist.

There should be some kind of punishment as everyone knows talking about killing kids isn't the right thing to do nowadays.

shit..
it was a joke, he even said j/k etc..

don't mothers always joke about this?

is there a big brother hotline up yet?

At 18 years old he should have known better. But i guess we all make mistakes.

It's still crazy though to think of the people we have here preaching hate in the streets (against UK and USA), yet they get a police escort. Why ? In the event of people attacking the hate preachers.

You couldn't make it up...

I had to edit my post becasue i don't want to be arrested.

You kill stupidity by cutting it out like cancer, you sir, are cancer.

This is so fucked up, posters here on GFY will start to disappear

After umpteen school shootings in the USA, and Canada too for that matter, over the past 20-odd years or so, I guess the "lol, Just Kidding" get-out-of-jail-free card doesn't carry as much weight as it used to.

I'll say this though, everyone wants to bitch and moan about rights and stick up for this guy, but how much would one's perspective change if you had a kid of your own who went to that nearby school?

put another way, if someone had heard a similar "joke" back in the late 90's and reported it as this woman had, could Columbine have been prevented? Guess we'll never know.