[codercpc]

After reading a lot of the IM's, and knowing how a teen's mind sometimes works, this is exactly what I figured happened. There has been no other indication from this guy's background that he is gay.

I could see my son and his friends sitting around thinking it would be funny to "egg on" the gay.

I am not passing judgment about it "falling into the wrong hands", but it does sound plausible. Straight guys in their late teens do think that homosexuality is funny, and whether we want them to or not, they do tease, or joke around about it. These kids probably thought it was their own private joke, but the motives of it getting into the wrong hands are up for discussion. Kids, at that age, do not think of the long term consequences of their fun play. Who knows, they were probably drinking, and decided to do something stupid.

[Lurking in Kansas]

I could see my son and his friends sitting around thinking it would be funny to "egg on" the gay.

Exactly, my son too, LOL. He's done stuff worst than this (not on this level, obviously). His principal and my wife were best friends because she was called so much, LOL!

[cynwoody]

After reading a lot of the IM's, and knowing how a teen's mind sometimes works, this is exactly what I figured happened. There has been no other indication from this guy's background that he is gay.

I could see my son and his friends sitting around thinking it would be funny to "egg on" the gay.

Exactly. When I was that age, that would have been high entertainment. And I'm sure, once they had the fruits of their entrapment in hand, they couldn't resist emailing them around to all their friends. And once you do that, you lose control of distribution ...

[reagandemocrat]

Did Edmund commit a 'hate crime'? heh.