Texas Teen Jailed for Joke

[Sean Hayden]

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.

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Can you believe he's being threatened with 8 years? Despite that not being likely, wth is he doing in jail at all?

[tattuchu]

“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..."

Well either their hearts are still, or they are beating. Which is it? I'd throw him in jail for comma abuse!

[Bella Fortuna]

I thought the same...

[Sean Hayden]

Both of you should be jailed for making light of so serious a problem.






Well someone would jail you for it anyway.

[Tero]

Too much fantasy isn't too healthy. And on line is just too removed from, you know....life.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh great! What next, rape jokes?

[mistermack]

This is a real precedent for Texas.
They will now be able to jail all of the actors, in any horror film shown in the lone brain-cell state.
I mean, they don't even say "only joking" or "lol" in the horror films, so how are texicans supposed to know that the zombies aren't going to eat them alive? It must be so confusing.

[Sean Hayden]

I see nobody wants to touch this. I don't either really. But there it is anyway, say something someone finds offensive or threatening and if the right people are involved you go to jail. I'd like to see someone talk about these people i.e. authorities and what makes them tick. They have to be aware of all the instances of similar speech across multiple mediums from all kinds of sources and yet they single this guy out. Is he more likely to do something horrible? I doubt it. I hope they didn't do this just because someone pointed him out to them. What if we ignore it? -yuck

mistermack - yep.

[Collector1337]

This "Canadian woman" is a fucking stupid cunt and she should face charges for wasting police time and government resources.

[klr]

This "Canadian woman" is a fucking stupid cunt and she should face charges for wasting police time and government resources.

If she's actually living in Canada, that's going to be rather difficult.

Anyway, it'ss the Texan authorities and their reaction that's the problem.

[HomerJay]

She's still fairly mental though, I wonder how near a school she found out he was?

Google maps, a virtual stalker's playground.

[Robert_S]

This "Canadian woman" is a fucking stupid cunt and she should face charges for wasting police time and government resources.

If she's actually living in Canada, that's going to be rather difficult.

Anyway, it's the Texan authorities and their reaction that's the problem.

Yep. They're the ones who have training and a salary. If they can't handle a spurious report, then someone should shoot up the station house and eat their still, yet somehow also beating, hearts.

LOL

Just kidding!!! What someone should should actually do is feed their souls to Cthulu.

[Collector1337]

This idiot and cunt of a women, as well as clowns like jonno and groper, are the epitome of what's wrong with the world and why it's going to such shit.

There should be penalties for being so reactionary.

[pErvinalia]

says the guy with the flag painted gun...

[Collector1337]

says the guy with the flag painted gun...

And who am I calling the police on and causing ridiculous and unnecessary problems for?

How am I wasting government resources and taxpayer dollars by being a scared, reactionary idiot? Not to mention, ruining another person's life for absolutely no reason.