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  • Man Burns Down Trailer in Online Feud

    07/26/2007 4:26:42 PM PDT · by BlackVeil · 39 replies · 809+ views
    Associated Press - via Version Central ^ | 26 July 2007 | By ANGELA K. BROWN
    ELM MOTT, Texas - A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson. As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states' borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business. When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy's trailer down. This week, Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading...
  • Man jailed in first web rage attack

    11/17/2006 4:10:29 AM PST · by Mrs Ivan · 7 replies · 245+ views
    The Daily Mail ^ | 17th November 2006
    A man was jailed at the Old Bailey today for Britain's first web rage attack on another internet user. Paul Gibbons, 47, traced John Jones, 43, after they exchanged insults in a chatroom. He was armed with a pickaxe handle and was with a man with a machete. Mr Jones, who had gone to the door of his home in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, with a knife, was disarmed and had his neck cut by Gibbons. Gibbons, unemployed, of Southwark, south London, was jailed for two-and-a half years for unlawful wounding. He pleaded guilty last month when the prosecution agreed not to...