Man Sues Chatroom Pals

[OneFinger]

Found an interesting article today about a man who is using two other people over their cyber-stalking and harrassment. Here are a few excerpts from the article.

 

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."

 

...Gillespie, 53, claims that Marlowe and Bob Charpentier, a 52-year-old Oregon resident, insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called "Romance — Older Men" to the point where it inflicted "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it."

 

...Gillespie alleges that the duo intruded into his "private affairs." The complaint states that Marlowe actually drove from Alabama to Ohio to photograph the plaintiff's home, which he then posted on the Web. He also allegedly went to the courthouse in Medina to dig up personal dirt on Gillespie, which he then also disseminated over the Internet.

 

..."He just came in slamming on me, saying all kinds of derogatory crap: that I was a fat, bald, broke old man who sits around in a rusted wheelchair..."

 

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

 

Somehow I don't think this kind of activity is limited to AOL chatrooms.x(

 

Makes you think twice about on-line participation.

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder

[JesusNYC]

SHOULD I WORRY

 

SHOULD I BE WORRIED? }(

[OneFinger]

RE: SHOULD I WORRY

 

Not unless your last name is Marlowe or Gillespie. :7

 

So far you appear to stir things up but I doubt you're collecting personal data on others and posting it on the internet. That's where I think they crossed the line.

 

BTW, really love seeing you the Book of Daniel. Nice role.;-)

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder