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Vancouver Area Teen Sentenced To 16 Months For Swatting
An anonymous reader writes: A 17-year-old from the Vancouver area in Canada has been sentenced to 16 months in youth custody and 8 months under supervision in the community after pleading guilty to 23 charges including criminal harassment, public mischief, extortion and uttering threats. The teenager was responsible for a number of swatting calls across the United States and Canada — mostly of female gamers. The judge told him, "It appears that when real life became too hard you retreated into the online world and became increasingly socially isolated. While you may think you enjoyed greater success in the online world, that success was an illusion. You were left with severely limited social skills and a significant educational deficit."
"Hello, 911?"
Here we go again!
What have you got against Linus Torvalds?
I work for nVidia.
16 months in prison will help him improve his social skills no end.
level-headed judge, making him completely ineligible for appointment to a higher court.
Article says
[J]udge Patricia Janzen [...] noted a psychiatric and psychological assessment that she said
Also this is Canada, our Supreme Court has been handing out reasonable decisions recently so the poor government is wondering what went wrong.
Sentence him to live 16 months in Quebec.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
due to inflation we use quarters these days
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