Posted on 07/06/2009 1:18:15 PM PDT by Chet 99
CAMBRIDGE, Minn. (AP) — A 21-year-old woman faces felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her. The woman faces five felony counts including harassment. A criminal complaint said she told police she was "bored" and "wanted to have some fun."
The woman and a 20-year-old friend, also facing charges, allegedly called the older woman on Feb. 5 and said "I'm gonna kill you," "You're going to die" and "I'm watching you."
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She threatens to sick a pit bull on her a$$ too, I bet.
No harm, no foul. It’s just like an adult mother telling a 13 year old outcast “I never really loved you” (under the identity of a boy) and “the world would be better off without you” on myspace.
Gee anyone want to guess who this woman voted for in the last election?? Put the bong down and find a new hobby....But not calling 911 when the Mickey D’s doesn’t get your order of Chicken McNuggets right...
I missed that story. Do I want to know?
You gotta do these things right.
Amateurs will always screw it up.
Granny could have taken the phone off the hook, no?
I don’t know about Minnesota but California has anti-stalking laws. The definition includes threatening or intimidating phone calls multiple times in a day. There is harm here and the fact that you can’t see it suggests that perhaps you are also 20 and bored
Jerry: You hung up on my Nana?!
Elaine: I don’t know, maybe.
Jerry: You told Nana to drop dead?!
In a just world, the old lady would be a miser with a million bucks squirreled away secretly, and a freshly revised will that benefits the local cat rescue shelter.
Ha! Beat you by one second!
I believe that it is criminal, she made death threats.
It was also intended as a prank. There are some on FR (I am not among them) who think it would be harsh to charge the girls who “meant no serious harm”.
They take free speech too far. Perhaps the prosecutor in the Myspace mother case pursued the wrong charges but there was a conviction on the original case, overturned on appeal.
Not everything is protected free speech.
Libel, slander, treason, death threats, shouting fire in a crowded theater...
Even if the statement is merely “incitement” to wrong deeds in others, it may not be protected.
Ok, so the murder threat is a bit over the top. Otherwise, this is just too easy. Prank some one your age, child!
Ed McMahon may have been ready to call with her Publisher’s Clearing House prize money.
Befuddles the mind....how can anyone do this to an elderly person..no less grandma? Loving grand money over grand mama!
Pathetic slime scum!
If I were the parents of that little bitch. I would beat the you-know-what out of her.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284339/posts
Judge tentatively acquits woman in MySpace case [Lori Drew]
Guardian ^ | 07/02/09 | Linda Deutsch
A mother in the US pranked a girl her daughter knew. Pretended she was a boy, gained the girl’s trust over time, and then one day verbally beat her down and told her the world would be a better place without her.
The victim killed herself within an hour.
ROFL!
I know I was here LMAO.
Like minds.
Speaking of stalking crimes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285943/posts
Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Arrested
Foxnews ^ | 7/5/2009 | Staff
WASHINGTON - Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman.
How did they catch this criminal genius, caller ID?
I’ll bet she a dirty pit bull owner.
She doesn’t look like she’s having too much fun, now.
She had just found out from the cops that she could only make one phone call.
Nana: Oh, dear....
Lol. That episode was just on tonight.
You are too quick! You took away my thunder.
shaking little fist your way :)
Nah it wasn’t overturned on appeal. The judge decided to nullify the jury’s verdict. Happened in SF once in a dog mauling death. That was appealed ( the judge’s overturn) and the court decided the judge went too far and ordered a retrial.
Anyway that’s a nit pick. You are correct. Not all speech is protected. AND maybe even more important, no harm ho foul is fundamental anarchy
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