Felony For Refreshing a Web Page?

therandomw writes "An 18 year-old boy was recently arrested in Ohio for telling fellow students to refresh the schools web page in order to slow down the server. He is being charged with a felony and is currently being held in jail. According to Canton City Prosecutor Frank Forchione 'This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes, and we're just trying to find ways to solve them.'"

Comments

What joke?

[va3atc]

The dude clearly was wanting to disrupt the schools website
Asking folks in an Internet chat room to help crash his high school's computer

My personal website gets charged strictly for bandwidth and storage. If someone had a grudge against me and did this it would COST rather then just slow it down.

Re:must be more zero tolerance

[Alex P Keaton in da]

Wow, that makes you sound SO intellergent and interlectuall!!!! I mean, thats great, how you see that there is some open land, and then make a joke about Rednecks!!! That really shows your wit!!! I live about half an hour away from there in a suburb of Akron. I mean, that's sooooo funny. It makes you sound sooooo smart and cosmopolitan to insult semi-rural places!!!!!!!

Re:must be more zero tolerance

[trewornan]

Home:

Jeff Wendorf
1602 Cornerstone St SW
Hartville, OH 44632-8913
(330) 877-0468

CHILD ABUSE!!!!

[Conor Turton]

I've just looked at the school dinners menu. NO BLOODY WONDER AMERICAN KIDS ARE FAT. Jesus, you could get charged with Child Abuse in some countries for feeding that crap.

It started to get that way in the UK but fortunately, we've seen the error of our ways and changed.