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'Star Wars Kid' sues, settles
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| 4/7/06
| Tu Thanh Ha
Posted on 04/07/2006 5:53:07 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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I can not believe that posting a truthful video - legally obtained - may cost one legal damages.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation... though perhaps not in Canada.
To: SteveMcKing
Lots of funny and well done remixes all over the net. IIRC, the kid got a some money and maybe a computer given to him right after the original video was released on the net.
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:59:40 PM PDT
by
WSGilcrest
(Mikey likes it!)
To: SteveMcKing
What a whiner. If he would have played it right, he might have been able to use his '15 minutes of fame' to pick up chicks!
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posted on
04/07/2006 5:59:40 PM PDT
by
CrawDaddyCA
(I ain't learning no friggin' Spanish!! This is America, you learn English!!)
To: SteveMcKing
Is that the actual video? That's a "teen" who needs emotional protection? I thought it would be a skinny little 13 year old.
Assuming that is the real video, then this is ridiculous. Although if everyone kept mocking him like they say (jumping up on tables and shouting Star Wars kid) then he might have had to switch schools. But otherwise, it's his video, no one else's fault that he's a dork. And dresses up in a goofy costume too! (assuming that's him in Post#1)
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:00:42 PM PDT
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: WSGilcrest
Perhaps there is an issue of whether the tape was "stolen"? I believe it was merely digitized.
Even if the school technically "owns" it, it's still public property for the use of those students.
To: SteveMcKing
"He said the situation left him feeling drained of energy, and that he let himself go and no longer lifted weights to keep fit."
Yep, that's a pic of someone who keeps himself fit!
How stupid - as though kids haven't been teased for as long as there have been kids. We moved a lot when I was a kid - about every year - and I was always the 'new kid'. Took a lot of insults, got in a lot of fights - and survived OK.
No one ever offered me several thousand dollars for my suffering, 'tho!
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:05:00 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
To: SteveMcKing
Life is tough, kid. Wear a helmet.
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:05:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
To: starbase
hehe... I think that goofy costume is his regular clothes.
"and poked at him"
LOL.
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:09:54 PM PDT
by
kenth
To: SteveMcKing
can you provide the link to the video?
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:10:03 PM PDT
by
David1
To: Mr Rogers
It's probably the therapist head-shrinkers who forced him to cry, rather than play cool over it.
Girls are REALLY going to hate him now.
He just pi$$ed away the best ever chance he had to get laid.
He was famous, not he's just an idiot.
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:11:39 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: David1
can you provide the link to the video? It's likely on Google, or a peer-to-peer client would surely find it.
(sorry, I don't have it.)
To: SteveMcKing
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:15:06 PM PDT
by
David1
To: SteveMcKing
Three years later, Mr. Raza and his parents this week reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of three former schoolmates they had sued for $351,000 in damages. Why the hell did these people SETTLE? There was no crime committed!
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:17:03 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Every man must be tempted, sometimes,to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.)
To: dfwgator
Life is tough, kid. Wear a helmet. Ain't that the truth.
When I was in school I was similarly stigmatized as "dinosaur man" because of my dorky interest in dinosaurs. Eventually I figured out that I need to:
1.) Shut up about the stupid dinosaurs
2.) Stop acting like a complete dork
3.) Beat up a few of my classmates
I did. They stopped. It was an important life lesson that the "Star Wars Kid" need to figure out.
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:18:48 PM PDT
by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: SteveMcKing
I guess its just not enough for a nerd anymore to take solace in the fact that the kids yelling "Star Wars Kid..." would be working for him some day like when I was getting made fun of (I was Ninja Turtle Kid).
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:18:52 PM PDT
by
SouthJrzReaganite18
(Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. -Optimus Prime)
To: SteveMcKing
Mr. Raza had become a worldwide object of ridicule when schoolmates put on the Internet a video of him clumsily pretending to be a Star Wars character. Clumsy, hell! The kid is a natural!
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:19:34 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: SteveMcKing
Rofl. What a poor schmuck. He let other people define him. If that were me, I would have embraced it. I'd be on letterman doing the thing. heh.
I've seen a number of "edits" to the video. The one where He does a move and passes gas had me laughing my ass off.
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posted on
04/07/2006 6:19:52 PM PDT
by
Malsua
To: SteveMcKing
If this kid had played his cards better, he could have become a celebrity and had a lot of fun with this incident. Living well is the best strategy -- better than lawsuits.
To: RandallFlagg
He just pi$$ed away the best ever chance he had to get laid.Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
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