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[cleolinda]

Okay, it's been so widely linked that I assume you've all heard the story about the girl who got assaulted (read: kicked in the face with a steel-toed boot) at Convergence in New Orleans, and is asking for help finding the guy. Turns out he was a friend (or "friend," after having done this) and basically your bog-standard jealous drunken psychotic

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[all_ephemera]

What concerns me is the rampant vigilantism that's going on in this case - the police are involved and what SHOULD be happening is people keep an eye out and if they see him to contact the police. There's a distrubingly real chance that someone else will find him and take it upon themselves to enact a little hometown justice and then THEY'RE going to go to jail. People shouldn't kid themselves that "no one would convict someone for kicking this kids ass" because they will. Or - worst case scenario, this kid Will goes free because he gets a gifted and talented defense lawyer who can use this hooplah to get the trial repeatedly thrown out because the jury pool is tainted.

I hope this kid gets caught, prosecuted and thrown in jail, and I hope the girl recovers. I also hope that people can rein in their emotional responses and be able to act like mature adult. Threatening to cut this kids balls off does no one any good except his lawyers.

[cleolinda]

Yeah--by "running into him" I mean "so we can call the police and tell them where he is." The next entry I post, I am definitely mentioning the not-so-much-with-the-vigilantism thing.

[all_ephemera]

I hope you didn't think I was implicating you in the call for the surgical removal of his testicles thing. *grin* You're usually the voice of at-least-some-sanity. :)

[cleolinda]

No, but I can definitely see how I might want to clarify that point for others. : )

[lylassandra]

Like the absolute last thing you need is getting dragged into this by association, what with all the other stuff you have to deal with.

That said... I'm thinking that giving him an all-expenses-paid trip to international waters in a leaky rowboat with scorpions sounds like fun.