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Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures
Associated Press ^ | 5/7/8 | JORDAN ROBERTSON

Posted on 05/07/2008 6:37:20 PM PDT by presidio9

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1 posted on 05/07/2008 6:37:20 PM PDT by presidio9
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Oh my. You can’t make this stuff up.


2 posted on 05/07/2008 6:42:48 PM PDT by Sawdring
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I had one of those graphics that I found on FR. It said something like “You deserve a seizure for your posts. I thought it was funny, but as I watched it after posting it, I thought...”Hm. That COULD actually cause someone to have a seizure...”

I don’t post it anymore.


3 posted on 05/07/2008 6:44:06 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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I hope they find the perps. I hope they punish them.


4 posted on 05/07/2008 6:44:48 PM PDT by kitkat (Over the Hill(ary))
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To: presidio9

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day.


5 posted on 05/07/2008 6:45:14 PM PDT by Junior_G
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I don’t see the humor at all. The hackers intention was to cause harm. There’s nothing funny about that.


6 posted on 05/07/2008 6:47:39 PM PDT by paltz
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To: presidio9

Some people would be greatly improved by stomping.


7 posted on 05/07/2008 6:50:22 PM PDT by dighton
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8 posted on 05/07/2008 6:51:12 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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lol!!


9 posted on 05/07/2008 6:54:00 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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I MUST be a very , very , very bad man.....because this is AWESOME!!!ROTFLMAO!!!!I know,I know;Karma will catch up with me ( where it has not already!) but I agree with an earlier poster who found this hilarious.


10 posted on 05/07/2008 6:58:00 PM PDT by gripper ("Does this mean we can hit back ,now?")
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To: gripper
Having a daughter that spent a week unconscious after going into status epilepticus and ended up with damage to her speech center, I don't find anything amusing about trying to induce seizures in people.
12 posted on 05/07/2008 7:01:16 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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I’m surprised people aren’t getting seizures from TV. The latest fad in TV editing is to show 20 scenes in 30 seconds. I change the channel.


13 posted on 05/07/2008 7:15:21 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: presidio9
This sounds like the thesis of the sci-fi book 'Snowcrash'.
14 posted on 05/07/2008 7:17:19 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Richard Kimball

I think people who find it funny just don’t realize the implications of a grand mal seizure, especially a long lasting severe one.

As I said, I thought the graphic was funny until I actually watched it for a few minutes. I asked the moderator to pull it.


15 posted on 05/07/2008 7:36:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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I MUST be a very , very , very bad man.....because this is AWESOME!!!ROTFLMAO!!!!

In theory this is sort of funny, due to the irony. In real life, this is exactly as funny as walking up to an old lady you don't know and punching her in the face.

16 posted on 05/07/2008 7:40:18 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Sawdring
My future daughter-in-law was visiting this morning and had a seizure. She suffers from Epilepsy. It was not a fun thing to witness - very scary! If I got my hands of these pieces of dirt, I'd end up in jail!
17 posted on 05/07/2008 8:03:10 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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Not funny to a parent of a child with seizures.

My daughter had seizures as a baby, but that was over 10 years ago. On October 1, she had a grand mal seizure. Scarriest thing I ever saw. My other daughter found her sister unconcious and seizing. She started turning blue, she threw up, she wet herself. She was out of it until the paramedics got to our house. I have no idea she was actually out, but I know it seemed like it too the paramedics forever to get to our house.

Now, we’re in seizure land. She had an abnormal EEG, and was put on anti-seizure medication. The first one made her crazy, and we had to deal with it for 3 months. The 2nd one had the potential to give her a life threatening rash (it didn’t).

Her speech was bad to begin with (due to a brain injury), but now it is worse. Her reading has been affected. It’s hard to get homework done.

It’s been awful.


18 posted on 05/07/2008 8:06:20 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: presidio9

Those hackers deserve the death penalty. PERIOD.


19 posted on 05/07/2008 8:15:06 PM PDT by piytar
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To: Junior_G

Funny? You are a true waste of skin. Kindly do the world a favor and FOAD.


20 posted on 05/07/2008 8:16:58 PM PDT by piytar
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