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Mike Marlowe fully admits that he sometimes gave George Gillespie a hard time in that AOL chatroom.
But never in his wildest imagination did he expect to be sued in court for what he characterized as "razzing."
"We gave him crap," said Marlowe, a 33-year-old welder in Fayette, Ala. "I'm not going to deny it. I teased him and he teased me back. He gave it back better than he ever got it."
A generation ago, such petty personal beefs might have been settled with fists outside the corner bar, but now it's the Internet age � and Ohio resident George Gillespie instead filed a $25,000 lawsuit against two erstwhile cyber chums he met in the sprawling 900-room, mostly anonymous society that makes up AOL's chat universe.
Gillespie, 53, claims that Marlowe and Bob Charpentier, a 52-year-old Oregon resident, insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called "Romance � Older Men" to the point where it inflicted "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it."
The complaint, expected in court on Jan. 31 for a pretrial conference, also names AOL as a defendant for allowing the alleged harassment to take place.
Gillespie alleges that the duo intruded into his "private affairs." The complaint states that Marlowe actually drove from Alabama to Ohio to photograph the plaintiff's home, which he then posted on the Web. He also allegedly went to the courthouse in Medina to dig up personal dirt on Gillespie, which he then also disseminated over the Internet.
Just thought you guys who engage in flaming others might want a heads up......... Oh yeah.....source: http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0112/chatroom_suit_ctv.html
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It scares me not!
If someone does in fact pull off a successful lawsuit against me and takes me for everything I have....
Well let me see?
What would a new york lawyer do with one 1980 CJ-5 and a marlin 30/30??? Oh yea... and the entire published collection of John Wesley's works????
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Since we are all gentlemen we have no problem--right!
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I read that account, the guy alleges someone drove to Ohio and took photo's of his house. Now that gets into the "creepy-threatening" area, which is by the way, the reason the Ohio court can hear the case. Now this board is different than an "older men's dating" board, I hope anyhoo, but here you can bet everybody has a gun. I'm out on a limb here so help me out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> So stalking or cyber-stalking is unwise.
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Comming from the gun hating weenies at AOL/time warner you have to question the validity of it. Sounds more than a bit carried away. Winning and collecting are another matter.
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Well, it's creepy, I'll give it that.
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I read that account, the guy alleges someone drove to Ohio and took photo's of his house. Now that gets into the "creepy-threatening" area, which is by the way, the reason the Ohio court can hear the case.
. Right on. A few jokes, even in very bad taste, are quite different from stalking. Jim
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insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called "Romance � Older Men" to the point where it inflicted "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it. This shows the case should be thrown out .... "romance - older men" chat room???? a reasonable man would not be in that chat. Therefore he must be an unreasonable man .... Case dismissed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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I thought that The Hunters Campfire was romance for older men...........
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Shame on you MB, just cause you're playing bump and grind with Dave and Bill's cousin, you get to poke fun at us old guys! (Course I'd do the same if'n I was in your shoes)
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Sounds like what you'd get if you crossed the campfire with Brokeback Mountain....
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Sounds like what you'd get if you crossed the campfire with Brokeback Mountain.... That sounds libelous...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
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So, sue me!
Oops, just kidding!
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I'm a big fan of the courtesy flush.
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Don't know why the guy didn't shut off his computer or go somewhere else.Crying foul when he gave as good as he got is just SAD.But it's scary though if you ask me.
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VA or Steve_NO, I tried to get over that last comment by the Bonzi Master, but it just struck too deep.
How much you boys figure that's worth? (grin)
And oh yeah, there was some kids in school what said some nasties to me, maybe some of them have made some money, while I've been stuck here in abject poverty due to their cruel taunts!
BTW, if either of you come back with some lame excuse like "We're too busy practicing real law to mess with this."
Well a statement like that could put me off my oats, you may be hearing from my lawyer! (grin)
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I think it was the posting of the photos of his house on the net, that's the "I know where you live" threat.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man�s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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1akhunter, Im a lawyer, I'll take your case. My fee? UP FRONT, and enough to retire on because I would be run out of the practice of law. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
War Damn Eagle!
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i say we beat him up <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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I gotta come up with money up front that I don't have?
And it looks like I may be getting the bejeezus whomped outa me too?
Yep just another day, a piece down the road from Paradise!
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