Dont fuck about wit Harry Potter look a likes!
Ryan Walker snapped - shouting 'die, die' during his brutal attack - after two teenage girls said he looked like JK Rowling's boy wizard.
pickupthesoapious!
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 18:17, Reply)
Didn't work with your provocation defence...
'She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with'
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 19:18, Reply)
OK. Let's get this straight. Those ARE my words. But I was 5.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 20:11,
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The provocation defense would only have been available if he had killed one of them.
I know how shit it is to be bullied as a kid, but even maiming is pretty disproportionate.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 21:55, Reply)
killing is disproportionate also
so why have the provocation defence for one crime and not the other?
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:00, Reply)
Can't answer that.
One of the few universal truths is that the law does not always make sense.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:04, Reply)
the answer could be that the law changes haphazardly very very slowly
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:15, Reply)
Wonder how many times that had been said to him
And I also wonder if there are 2 bruised bullies who may think twice of doing it again...
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Mster Johnny Ekstrom, now that's a name, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 18:52,
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The normal sane reaction would be to take offence the first time it happens.
rather than bottle it up for years. Socio-paths don't seem to be able to do this and that's why they end up in prison and usually stay there for quite a long time.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 21:15,
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Yes and no.
That works as an adult. Any school kid knows shit gets worse if you show that it gets to you.
According to the story this guy was 19 so should be capable of dealing with it, but my experience dealing with students is that a lot of them are basically still kids whatever they and the law may think.
Having said that, I grew out of serious revenge planning by the time I was 15 and just concentrated on the long game. You never have to see them again once you are out after all.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:03, Reply)
bullying can happen repeatedly over several years - starting from a young age - by groups of people who may be more emotionally intelligent.
To ask why a bullied child doesn't hit back or do something is like not understanding why a child abused at home finds it so difficult to say 'no' or tell someone about it.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:14, Reply)
I'm relieved I'm not a sociopath - according to those descriptions.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:04, Reply)
