View Full Version : Man fakes his own beheading...fools media for a day.
ZarathosNY
08-07-2004, 05:18 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=1&u=/ap/20040807/ap_on_re_us/american_beheaded_hoax
bignick
08-07-2004, 06:28 PM
Can they arrest him for anything?
Moxio
08-07-2004, 06:31 PM
I didn't even hear of this, and I'm usually on the ball with these.
I wonder what they're gonna do to him.
mousin
08-07-2004, 06:36 PM
um, really cut off his head.
Duo_Maxwell
08-07-2004, 06:38 PM
What an asshole, I say they chopper him into Iraq and drop him into a hot zone with militants, fighting, and death all over and then see how real he finds it.
Nothing really can be done to him, I've been watching FNC all day and heard all about it.
magilacudy
08-07-2004, 07:02 PM
If it comes down to it, he could say he was just exercising his right to free speech, which I think is BS in this situation. I agree with Duo_Max, that the government should do something about this smart-ass punk.
RedvsBlue
08-07-2004, 08:16 PM
Its in poor taste but there really isn't any crime committed. Nothing happened until that craptastic network Al-Jazeera got their hands on the video. That fucking station just loves stories of us Americans being killed.
Kaijufan
08-07-2004, 08:18 PM
This makes me think of the episode of the Simpsons when Homer fakes his death to get out of picking up garbage.
epobirs
08-07-2004, 08:22 PM
Basically all that can be done is to publicize what an idiot he is. That he suggest this was to draw attention to failed political campaign says a lot about San Francisco but at least his campaign did fail. OTOH, he quite young. Once he's become a mature lunatic his chances of winning office in that town should improve.
Duo_Maxwell
08-07-2004, 08:31 PM
If this guy got elected for any kind of policital position near me, I'd move away ASAP. And yeah unfortuneately no legal action can be taken against him, so short of maybe someone's family filing a fruitless lawsuit or something he can't really be touched.
Xevious
08-07-2004, 09:35 PM
He's got balls...I give him that. Obviously he is a little unconventional to be voted for office.
Graystone
08-07-2004, 10:46 PM
he is an ass
thingsfallnapart
08-07-2004, 10:52 PM
man you guys all attack him like hes the worst person on the planet. he does have points you know. the longer you stay fighting in a battle you cant win, the more people who dont have to die, end up dieing because we need to feed our egos.
i know both sides of the war and all their opinions.
the stupid man listens to a story and sticks to one side and defends it with his life.
the wise man hears both sides and understands,
tholly
08-07-2004, 10:58 PM
well, that was a pretty stupid thing for someone to do, but, he did nothing illegal
ElfAngel7
08-08-2004, 05:11 PM
it may have been dumb, but he got a point across that he may not have thought of; that the media reports first and asks questions later. Think about the other beheadings. They were reported first and confirmed later.
Gothic Walrus
08-08-2004, 05:52 PM
it may have been dumb, but he got a point across that he may not have thought of; that the media reports first and asks questions later. Think about the other beheadings. They were reported first and confirmed later.
Beyond that, he also managed to prove just how easily these videos can be faked. Remember the Marine who was supposedly beheaded and then turned up alive and perfectly fine a week or so later?
Personally, I think that the guy is an insensitive jerk, but he didn't do anything illegal. Offensive and in poor taste, arguably, but not illegal.
FunkMachineX
08-08-2004, 06:13 PM
I think its pretty damn hilarious.
He proved a point that stuff can easily be faked, and this could accually help us eventually. He didn't do anything illegal. If he had just made a violent movie that people thought was real, thats not illegal.