Good. Throw the book at him. And if it turns out that he's involved in other cases in other states, hopefully they throw the book at him too. A loaded gun is not something to joke with, and the other threats he made are serious too.
Normally I would agree, rehabilitation is almost always better for society in the long run than punitive "revenge" style justice is but this is something else (assuming he is found guilty of course). Firstly he had the other crimes, harassment and intimidation but the Swatting incidents are far worse.Barbas said:I dunno. I suppose a lot of people are going to be shouting "Ha, good, fuck this guy!", but that's just not something I can take any joy out of. He might have ruined other people's lives and now he might have ruined his own, and he's not even twenty years old.
I know, and I agree that he should face punishment for what he did. He was selfish and stupid and if he didn't end up causing someone's death then he's been damn lucky. Better if he hadn't done the crime, obviously, but the idea of a 19 year old going to prison is still a sad one to me. I suppose the issue to me isn't the punishment itself but the prison system.J Tyran said:(Snip).
I got two years at his age, not the American prison system obviously but I managed to turn my life around after (if anything it was the main catalyst for it). He wasn't just stupid though, getting drunk and getting into a fight that goes to far is stupid (a couple of examples of the other young men I met). Showing off to your friends in your car and killing one of them in a crash is stupid. This was repeatedly reckless criminal behaviour with possibly lethal consequences, I would be more forgiving if he had done it once and then thought about it after but if the allegations are true he did it several times along with a bunch of other nasty behaviour.Barbas said:I know, and I agree that he should face punishment for what he did. He was selfish and stupid and if he didn't end up causing someone's death then he's been damn lucky. Better if he hadn't done the crime, obviously, but the idea of a 19 year old going to prison is still a sad one to me. I suppose the issue to me isn't the punishment itself but the prison system.J Tyran said:(Snip).
I'm not unsympathetic to those that get arrested, especially looking at the state of the American 'justice' system, even if they are scum of the earth people. But, at the end of the day, he not only swatted someone (which to be fair, provided no one got hurt I can't get on my soap box about, its an abhorrent act but not worth anywhere near 5 years) but he also coerced two people.Barbas said:Snip
I would suspect that it will turn into maybe two years of actual prison time with a few extra on parole.Zefar said:I suppose he isn't laughing anymore when the cops are knocking on his door.
As for 5 years. That seems to high imo. I'm sure people who have gotten others killed have gotten less. Or permanently disabled someone only getting like a year or two.
Looks more like DiCrapio to me.Rastien said:That's no squatter it's a young jack black!
Barbas said:Five years in prison. You knew enough about computers to hack into someone's console. You could have gotten a good job and made something of yourself and now, at the age of nineteen, you face spending five years in an American prison.
I dunno. I suppose a lot of people are going to be shouting "Ha, good, fuck this guy!", but that's just not something I can take any joy out of. He might have ruined other people's lives and now he might have ruined his own, and he's not even twenty years old.
Just like murder. Murdering Murders has built us a world of all man kind embracing each other with absolutely no knives involved!J Tyran said:I hope he gets jailed for each charge he gets convicted of and has to serve the sentences consecutively, hopefully after a few examples are made this will stop.
I could have sworn that falsifying a report to the police already was a felony.FalloutJack said:.
OT: Yeah, wasting the time of the SWAT Team and scaring the shit out of other gamers in the process should be a felony. You're basically sending your law enforcement off on a false alarm on purpose, diverting them from any time where they could actually be NEEDED. Put the son of a ***** away. If I ever have an emergency, I don't want the guys to be unavailable.
To be honest with the way kids and young adults behave nowadays I find myself with increasingly little sympathy. If you do an adult sized crime, you deserve adult sized crime. Especially when the motive is malicious and tied to things like deliberate intimidation.Carrots_macduff said:it depresses me when people are happy to see a kid go to jail, no matter what they did.
not saying he doesnt deserve it, but if you must send a 19 year old to prison, it should be done reluctantly, not with a smile on your face. plus, if you think its going to make him a better person, youre probably wrong.