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So, i'd like to get the full details of this seemingly outrageous situation. After somewhat extensively searching, I've never found what he actually said; only paraphrasing, etc.

That's the difference between an obvious joke and... something different. Not that it justifies the situation entirely (or maybe at all), but would perhaps explain the reaction. Consider a similar poster who did an AMA on reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1hl4gi/ive_been_raided...

After reading the actual transcript (http://pastebin.com/Ldtj6mhx), many Redditor's sided with the police.

So - not to take the side of the incarceration, but I certainly find it odd that I can't find the actual FB threat / comments (yet?).

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I believe the exact details are all here; he typed (in the fairly popular MMO `League of Legends`):

Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts.

lol

In response to someone calling him "insane." In that context it's pretty clear this was a sarcastic response.

Anyone who has ever played video games even pseudo seriously knows that comment is just scraping the bottom of the barrel. So much worse shit is said daily in games like WoW/CS/League/anything competitive. It's mind boggling that someone took his comment this seriously.

I hope he sues whoever he has to sue and lives out the rest of his life in absolute comfort.

I'd be paranoid forever online because of this. Spending this much time in jail at such a young age for such a mundane comment is... I don't even know.

It has never occurred to you that what's really wrong here is that such comments are ever, under any circumstances mundane, normal and to be expected?

It's been reported that it was in runescape. Some kid told him to kill himself and his response was not only would he kill himself, he'd take a kindergarten with him columbine style.

I'm not sure if I'd actually say it was a joke rather than him just lashing out, but I highly doubt he was even remotly serious and disagree with him being held on that alone.

Obviously I accept I don't know all the facts of the case but I wouldn't be suprised if it really was that stupid. We've had similar cases in the UK.

We can't jail him for that grossly inappropriate comma, can we?

Yeah, this article seems to be missing a lot. According to a piece on the Today show, he also said:

I think I’ma shoot up a kindergarten. And watch the blood of the innocent rain down. And eat the beating heart of one of them.

Hard to make a judgment about any of this without the full context. But being held without trial is definitely a heinous misstep of justice.

http://www.today.com/news/teen-charged-held-months-over-terr...

> After reading the actual transcript (http://pastebin.com/Ldtj6mhx), many Redditor's sided with the police.

Well, my conclusion then is that many redditors are absolute mouth-breathing fucking retards. This transcript is dripping with obvious sarcasm and hyperbole. Anyone who can't see it should kill themselves.

This npr article seems to quote the facebook post verbatim:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...

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