aria
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Spike Spiegel said:In the last, unbelievable moment, I just got a call from the Police asking me to take the note down. Yes, I'm serious. He replied, quoting one of you that "choking the fuck out of her" was a threat. I explained to him that I took her name off, nobody here knew her, and what not, but he said it was a crime since she was threatened by it. And so, this thread comes to an end. A surprising start, and a crazy finish. Perhaps it's best that this thread gets deleted all together?
You can tell the "police" to back off because they got the law wrong in several areas -if they were even the police (hah!). What little law there is on message board threats doesn't even work here:
(1) First of all, for what you posted to be serious, it should be considered likely to create an iminent threat to the subject. But there's an added whammy:
(2) you didn't post the choking "threat" (which was clearly a joke), it was another member who has no idea who you or anyone involved is or where you all live. There's ZERO iminent threat (or any credible) threat. I dare them to prove otherwise. No basis. None.
Do they think we're all stupid teenagers here who would fear whatever bullshit they throw at us? It's hard enough to get a legal basis to stop harassing emails, let alone a message board posting. Heh, if you can wait a few months I'll have graduated and passed the bar... I'd be willing to make you my first client and defend you from whatever legal poppycock they try and throw at you
[I'm moving my additional editorial comments to a future post]