Internet troll jailed after mocking deaths of teenagers.
An internet troll who posted videos and messages mocking the deaths of teenagers, including a girl hit by a train, has been jailed.
Sean Duffy, 25, targeted Facebook tribute pages and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead and their families.
Among his victims was Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
The day after Natasha's death in February, Duffy posted comments including "I fell asleep on the track lolz" on the Facebook tribute page created by her brother James, 17.
Four days later he created a YouTube video called "Tasha the Tank Engine" featuring her face superimposed on to the front of the fictional engine.
Duffy, who is unemployed and did not know any of his victims, pleaded guilty to two counts of sending malicious communications relating to Natasha.
He asked for three other cases of Facebook trolling – posting offensive messages on the internet – to be taken into consideration when he appeared before magistrates in Reading, Berkshire.
Jailing him for 18 weeks, the chair of the bench, Paul Warren, told him: "You have caused untold distress to already grieving friends and family.
"The offences are so serious only a custodial sentence could be justified."
Chicago, Illinois. The most commonly cited Ugly Law is that of the "City of Chicago Ordinance, 1911" which is often unsourced. However, the Chicago Municipal Code, sec. 36034 did include an ordinance that provided:
No person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object or improper person to be allowed in or on the public ways or other public places in this city, or shall therein or thereon expose himself to public view, under a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.
I wouldn't be surprised to find it's mainly someone who doesn't have the confidence to post on the forums, but desperately need to have an involvement of some kind.
No idea, I can see from skipping through the thread it became a little heated, now I see Ambrose's profile has gone. I just hope he's just hidden his profile. Too many good members gone from here recently as it is.
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Not from Mayo but this photo was taken there...lovely place...
RE: WHERE ARE THEY NOW
Rusty Knight aka RobertC bowed out in a blaze of ignominious glory.