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Man Sues Chat Room "Bud" for Insults

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by glynch, Jan 12, 2006.

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  1. glynch

    glynch Member

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    Everybody here thinks the D and D forum is rough. Even TJ has never threatened this. :p

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    http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0112/chatroom_suit_ctv.html

    Mike Marlowe fully admits that he sometimes gave George Gillespie a hard time in that AOL chatroom.

    But never in his wildest imagination did he expect to be sued in court for what he characterized as "razzing."

    "We gave him crap," said Marlowe, a 33-year-old welder in Fayette, Ala. "I'm not going to deny it. I teased him and he teased me back. He gave it back better than he ever got it."

    A generation ago, such petty personal beefs might have been settled with fists outside the corner bar, but now it's the Internet age — and Ohio resident George Gillespie instead filed a $25,000 lawsuit against two erstwhile cyber chums he met in the sprawling 900-room, mostly anonymous society that makes up AOL's chat universe.

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  2. Lil Pun

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    Dumb. People will sue over anything these days.
     
  3. MadMax

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    sir jackie chiles better watch himself. macbeth has already contacted me about retaining my services.

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  4. Master Baiter

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    I didn't know that T_J was an attorney named Theo? I guess Trader_Theo just doesn't have the same ring to it.
     
  5. RunninRaven

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    They should both be fined for using AOL. And then they should be fined further for trying to chat in AOL's chatrooms. Then, since I am making this all up, they should be forced to give the money to me for no particular reason.
     

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