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4chan Gives 90-Year-Old Vet a Great Birthday
Hugh Pickens writes "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on Facebook had 3,956 'likes' and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members 'were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes' and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. 'They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.'"
Massively honoring a WWII veteran is supposed to be done on November 11. This is Labor Day weekend in the USA right now. Please, next time attribute your time off to do stupid things to the right source.
They're still a bunch of basement dwelling pedophiles and people who took V for Vendetta way, way too seriously.
Does he have a website we can show the Slashdot Effect to?
I'm helping to close 4chan and bringing legal action against moot. Basically I've been documenting the massive amounts of CP that is posted on this site. I time how long the threads remain active after they are reported (sometimes hours) and I log how many CP topics are posted in a day. My case is simple. 4chan has mods and its easy to solve the CP problem but moot doesn't want to because CP is a BIG part of the appeal of this place. So I'm creating an overwhelming body of evidence to take to the FBI and the State Attorney General's Office. (Moot and I live in the same state. So I can SUE him. Which I'm going to do.) My plan is to ruin him utterly. I really hope the case destroys his life. He fucking deserves it for all the CP he's allowed to be spread through this web site. 4chan is the largest distributor of CP on the web. Fuck you moot, fuck you 4chan. See you in court faggot.
The only thing shameless here is the lack of a certain something between your legs that prevents you from groing up.
Remind me how WW2 was about the USA being attacked in their homeland?
Disregard that, i suck OVER 9000! cocks.
Shouldn't that be 'pull the sharpie out of your ass?'
And ruined the peoples lives because they get the same perverse pleasure out of making other beings suffer as their target. 4chan is too often just a circle-jerk of cowards using its anonymity to engage in the harassment of people for amusement.