Possible Wrongful Death Suit of the Day [UPDATED]: Someone claiming to be the sister of a man who committed suicide following an altercation on Reddit is threatening to file a wrongful death suit against nine Reddit users, and the company may also be subpoenaed for information about another three individuals. But is the whole thing an elaborate hoax?
In March, 51-year-old Reddit user “Black Visions” — allegedly named “Jerry,” in real life — had been writing frequently on the site about depression and suicide. When he announced his final post on Reddit and also threatened suicide, several fellow users decided to egg him on.
“I just wanted to say that, before I check out… This is probably my last post with this account. I just can’t see any reason to continue this existence any more. Time to add another notch to the statistics.”
Then he got into it with several users who questioned the veracity of his post.
“No its not a sick joke, as soon as I get the right tool for the job I’ll happily blow my brains out. … it doesn’t get better, nothing changes. I’m done.”
He supposedly is the same man who jumped eight stories to his death about an hour later at the Doubletree in Tukwila, WA.
“He wrote an email to me a couple of hours before he died,” Reddit user “sisterofblackvisions,” who claims to be the man’s sister, Sandy, posted on the site. “In the email, Jerry said ‘I do not hate anyone. Why do they say I hate? I only hate myself. They say that if ended my life, that it would be 1 down and 30,000 to go. I feel very helpless.’”
Meanwhile, the Tukwila Police Department tells a different story. “The case detective and the victim’s family confirm that the victim in the Tukwila Doubletree suicide was not named Jerry,” said spokesman Mike Murphy. “We are not going to release his name until after the case is closed, probably in a few months.” Other identifying details did not match up, either.
[ibtimes / dailyintel]
Fucking nonsense; he would have killed himself anyways, regardless of reddit. Some stupid people should simply have their right to sue stripped.
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Can you imagine going to prison for 10 years for a crime you didn’t commit? This high school football star and NFL hopeful, who was wrongly jailed for rape, was finally exonerated after the woman who accused him admitted she lied.
[Brian Banks, 26,] spent more than five years in prison and another five on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor during yesterday’s hearing.
“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”
WHAT THE FUCK!
THIS PATHETIC CUNT RUINED HIS LIFE FOR NO REASON AND TOOK A 1.5 MILLION DOLLAR PAYOUT, THAT SHE NOW DOES NOT WANT TO PAY BACK.
Fucking wack; I want to know what happens to her now. What’s the approach to a situation like this?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4l93cHjzk1qf5y35o1_500.jpg)
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Salecia Johnson might have thrown the mother of all temper tantrums at a Georgia elementary school last Friday: The 6-year-old allegedly pushed fellow students, threw items off a teacher’s desk, tore material from the walls, tried to bite a doorknob, and tossed a small shelving unit (which struck the school’s principal in the leg). But when a police officer tried to calm Salecia down, she “pulled away and actively began resisting and fighting with me,” reported the cop — so, naturally, he handcuffed her and tossed her in the back of his squad car.
Salecia has since been released to her family — who, naturally, are pissed. The girl’s aunt, Candace Ruff, picked her up at the police station, where Ruff said Salecia was in a holding cell and complained about the steel handcuffs. “She said they were really tight. She said they really hurt her wrists,” Ruff said. “Call the police, is that the first step?”
Police defended the cuff-and-stuff, saying Salecia was “placed in handcuffs for her safety. When a person is put in handcuffs, it’s for their safety, it’s not a punishment.”
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This is all kinds of alright.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2osb4Uita1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
