Man sues chatroom buddies for "razzing!"

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  1. Dammit!

    Dammit! Member

    Apr 14, 2004
    Mickey Mouse Land
    Better watch out!

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    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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    Gotta love the www.drudgereport.com

    PS. I love all of you and think you are upstanding human beings.
     
  2. prk166

    prk166 BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 8, 2000
    Med City
    Sweet jesus, is the guys mom not around for him to go crying off to?
     
  3. Chicago1871

    Chicago1871 Member

    Apr 21, 2001
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    Is it possible that this guy was already suffering from "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it" before he joined the Romance - Older Men chatroom?
     
  4. Chicago1871

    Chicago1871 Member

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    [​IMG]
     
  5. michaec

    michaec Member

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    May 24, 2001
    Essex
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    How the hell did someone inflict "physical injury" on this bloke by teasing him in a chatroom? Or is there some strange peripheral that I am as yet unaware of? Actually, scratch that last question, I don't think I want to know.
     
  6. minorthreat

    minorthreat Member

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    How does a chat room lead to physical injury, exactly?
     
  7. bojendyk

    bojendyk New Member

    Jan 4, 2002
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  8. needs

    needs Member

    Jan 16, 2003
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    Beyond exploding heads, of course.
     
  9. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
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    Does this mean I have to be nicer to Karl and Bill Archer?
     
  10. Dammit!

    Dammit! Member

    Apr 14, 2004
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  11. Dan Loney

    Dan Loney BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 10, 2000
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    Ruh roh. I couldn't be more worried if they started suing people for masturbating first thing in the morning.

    (Too much information?)
     
  12. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

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  13. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
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    Beat me to it.
     
  14. Matrim55

    Matrim55 Member+

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    Back in the 1500s men never wondered about things like that.
     
  15. Chicago1871

    Chicago1871 Member

    Apr 21, 2001
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    You'd think Thomas Flannigan, being a lawyer and all, would have thought of this by now.
     
  16. ElJefe

    ElJefe Moderator
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    Feb 16, 1999
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  17. Crimen y Castigo

    May 18, 2004
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    I remember that -- that was hilarious.

    That cycling guy reminds me of Mr. Garrison.
     
  18. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
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  19. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
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    Way back in the day I remember Archer got carded for threatening to kill RichterBoy for the "razzing".
     
  20. Dan Loney

    Dan Loney BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 10, 2000
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    You know, I wasn't really laughing at hundreds of Muslims being trampled to death. I was laughing WITH them. There's a difference.
     
  21. MikeLastort2

    MikeLastort2 Member

    Mar 28, 2002
    Takoma Park, MD
    John Gobin Shaw sure seems like a stable and normal guy. :)
     
  22. Rostam

    Rostam Member

    Dec 11, 2005
    he is blaming his malfunctioning lil dick on the guy cuz he couldn't release his anger but to jerk off repeatedly.
     
  23. Rostam

    Rostam Member

    Dec 11, 2005
    he is blaming his malfunctioning lil dick on the guy cuz he couldn't release his anger but to jerk off repeatedly.
     
  24. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Y'know there's a lot of sense in the idea of not letting newbies post for a while or at least keeping them out of NSR.:rolleyes:
     
  25. Footer Phooter

    Jul 23, 2000
    Falls Church, VA
    Wonder what InThe Net has been up to?
     

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