This is silly.
Posted on 03/21/2017 3:44:49 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A Texas grand jury has decided that a GIF can be just as deadly as a gun or knife.
The U.S Department of Justice and a Dallas grand jury issued indictments Monday against John Rayne Rivello, who is accused of intentionally tweeting a Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) animation designed to Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald in order to provoke an epileptic seizure.
The grand jury's indictment refers to the GIF as "a deadly weapon," along with a tweet, an "electronic device," and Rivello's hands.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
That rotten little SOB knew full well what he was doing.He knew it would induce a seizure and that the seizure could be fatal.So FU Kurt.
This is silly.
LOL, your pic looks like a drive-by shooting!
I've seen this several times and I never knew it was illegal...
We'll fix it so you understand WHO is *really* the boss. Living, breathing document, right..? Incrementally, patiently. We know the drill....
? Kurt claims to be the victim. I think the guy is kooky.
They want to be CA so bad it hurts. I think the rest of TX would sell them to CA if the price was right.
Kurt Eichenwald paid more than $2000 to a child porn website for “research”
And here is the kicker:
You know how the caught the perp?
He was anonymous, but later he felt bad and he ended up donating to a charity for Epilepsy. When you give funding, you electronically ID yourself, rigtht..?
He mentioned (anonymously) that he’d gone and done just that, and then Eichenwald had him:
He called the FBI and told them what to look for.
If instead he’d done it and also had NO REGRET, well then he’d had no punishment.
The guy got busted cuz HE HAD A HEART.
A good lesson for dealing with these people.
I thought they got him by the TWITTER account.
I guess you didn't read very far in the article: "The U.S Department of Justice and a Dallas grand jury issued indictments Monday..."
What is the old saying about getting a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.
I thought a GIF was some kind of super-powered Girl Friend.
I was simply guessing without reading the article. I am surprised it was in Dallas.
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