\Your "Internets" scare and confuse me

The lawyer sounds like a guy who basically does legal shakedowns. He'd strong arm people into settling or haul them into the court with nuisance suits. The kind where the judge knows you're full of shiat, but you have enough of a legal premise the judge can't summarily bounce your ass out of his courtroom. The lawyer likely thought he was hot shiat and the master of "getting people".

Now though he's on the internet and we don't do impartial rule of the law here all that often.

GooberMcFly: Call me a cynic, but I bet they're all in cahoots. The publicity they're both getting for this is unbelievable and there's no way that lawyer is a real person.

I even bet that the Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation don't see a penny of the donated money.

/cynic

I was wondering that as well. A lawyer whose name was the same as dead, rotting meat seemed a little too convenient

rohar: Carth: The lawyer might be an Evil Genius take the case and demand 20,000 knowing the Inman could counter sue and he'd make tons during the case.

It'll never make it out of discovery. If there is a case, any competent lawyer for the defense will request the web logs which will be delivered and proof of the offending content will be there for the world to see. Judge drops case.

OR

It gets to discovery, logs are requested and the idiot lawyer figures out the gig is up and drops the case.

Hell, there are enough sites on the net that show what a page looked like on a given day to prove that what he said in the original letter was true, and truth is the ultimate defense.

Didn't read the thread, but WTF? How does a site that steals his work sue him? I mean, what were the damages? It's like me burning down your house, and then sending you the bill for the gallon of gas? Well, not exactly like that, but the point being, the damaged party is being sued by the party that profited off of him. What farking balls!



Lawyer's mom comes off as a nasty whore

Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

For what it's worth, I've met the lawyer in person. He does indeed exist. He practices law in Southern Oregon, and was involved in the sex.com domain squabble years ago.

I can't believe there are still lawyers who don't understand the Pandora's Box called the internet.

doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

Okay, you caught me. They call me Cream of Wheat. The Oatmeal is a good friend of mine.

/Goodbye, gruel world!

doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

0/10
Shiatty troll is shiatty. You can do better.

pizen: Has the guy from Ocean Marketing offered to help him do damage control, yet?

Please add my subscription to your newletter on marketing and internet strategery.

Who doesn't love a guy trying to shut down a cancer charity fundraiser?

doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

Look! It's the FunnyJunk Admin!

Now that is some funny junk!

unlikely: What an ass.

What is wrong with ass? Every man is a crack addict in one form or another.

I can only imagine the amount of reverse internet protocol navigation that is occurring at the lawyer's office right now. The general internet population has carried out a fundamental miscalculation in regards to insulting this man. Tearfully, with much hair pulling, I besiege you: leave this man to himself.

Almet: Sofa King Smart: funnyjunk is to the Oatmeal what
Dino M. Zaffina is to the Southern California Darts Association

Middle initial removed for teh lulz.

Hey now...have some


/shamelessly hotlinked

pizen: Has the guy from Ocean Marketing offered to help him do damage control, yet?

Good question. Those two should definitely team up. One problem, though: That level of concentrated stupidity could, in theory, cause the formation of a Black Hole of Derp, destroying the internet in the process.

Still another day of more press for two unknown websites from this event. They have scored big. And apparently are getting the public to pay the legal costs for this? Genius.

Hope he likes pizza.

spentmiles: I can only imagine the amount of reverse internet protocol navigation that is occurring at the lawyer's office right now. The general internet population has carried out a fundamental miscalculation in regards to insulting this man. Tearfully, with much hair pulling, I besiege beseach you: leave this man to himself.

FTFY.

\pet peave

Can we buy him a gym membership 26 miles from hid office?

LOL@ Charles Carreon
"I'm completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat - I've never really seen it before"

He don't know the internet very well, do he?

There's a big difference between "mob mentality" and "there is unanimous agreement that you're an a**hole."

davidphogan: I can't believe there are still lawyers who don't understand the Pandora's Box called the internet.

Why not? They often grow into politicians that still don't comprehend it.

If you don't append "cyber" to it, it doesn't even register on their radar.

RIP the Funky Bunch



/hot

GooberMcFly: ...there's no way that lawyer is a real person.

You've never dealt with a lawyer, ever? I give you 100-to-1 odds that he, and his threat, are real, AND that he truly believes he's doing everyone a favor by just asking for $20K and being "willing to negotiate".

Seriously, this doesn't even rate a 1 on the scale of "things lawyers do for money."

CheekyMonkey: \pet peave

Well, if you insist.

Snarcasm: Can we buy him a gym membership 26 miles from hid office?

in which country?

http://www.hidglobal.com/about/about.php?subcat_id=15

Snarfangel: doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

Okay, you caught me. They call me Cream of Wheat. The Oatmeal is a good friend of mine.

/Goodbye, gruel world!

No point in responding - you're just providing grist for his mill.

"I'm a colossal douche, and I find it unbelievable that people would treat me with any sort of disrespect."

jso2897: Snarfangel: doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

Okay, you caught me. They call me Cream of Wheat. The Oatmeal is a good friend of mine.

/Goodbye, gruel world!

No point in responding - you're just providing grist for his mill.

This is my bran of humor.

I wonder how many lawyers FunnyJunk had to go through before they found one willing to take the case?

beseach

CheekyMonkey: spentmiles: I can only imagine the amount of reverse internet protocol navigation that is occurring at the lawyer's office right now. The general internet population has carried out a fundamental miscalculation in regards to insulting this man. Tearfully, with much hair pulling, I besiege beseach beaseache you: leave this man to himself.

FTFY.

\pet peave

FTFY

/e is silent
//pet peav

Masterstuff: beseach

CheekyMonkey: spentmiles: I can only imagine the amount of reverse internet protocol navigation that is occurring at the lawyer's office right now. The general internet population has carried out a fundamental miscalculation in regards to insulting this man. Tearfully, with much hair pulling, I besiege beseach beaseache you: leave this man to himself.

FTFY.

\pet peave

FTFY

/e is silent
//pet peav

You two are really getting me peeved.

birchman: jso2897: Snarfangel: doubled99: Oh good! More white knighting of some "humor" website. Which Farker runs it?

Okay, you caught me. They call me Cream of Wheat. The Oatmeal is a good friend of mine.

/Goodbye, gruel world!

No point in responding - you're just providing grist for his mill.

This is my bran of humor.

We better watch out before we piss off the "serious" posters. These kinds of corny puns tend to go against their grain.

Marcus Aurelius: slayer199: So the attorney has doubled down his douchebaggery by trying to stop the fundraiser. This will not end well.

Wait until 4chan hears about this. It's like the man is deliberately trying to ruin his own life.

I'm making popcorn.

davidphogan: I can't believe there are still lawyers who don't understand the Pandora's Box called the internet.

Yeah... he's getting a ton of publicity, and his chosen target, which he formerly considered to be a broke web comic (thus the low $20K extortion amount) has suddenly come into control of a big block of ready cash. Plus, he gets to play the victim! He's probably wetting himself with excitement.

Oh, but I'm sure his conscience is really bugging him about the whole thing, and his poor secretary must be having to delete a ton of incoming spam. Poor guy.

antidisestablishmentarianism: This lawyer must not be familiar with how the internet works.

Or he doesn't have a 14 year old son.

Popehat has weighed in. If they end up taking the case, if it actually goes anywhere, that lawyer is going to find himself hilariously outgunned in a hurry.

birchman: "I'm a colossal douche lawyer, and I find it unbelievable that people would treat me with any sort of disrespect."

LasersHurt: Are we at the point where nobody can be positive about anything without it being "White Knighting"? Is it just terribly gauche to like things, or be positive?

Seriously. It's one of those phrases that has gotten out of control. Defend anything, even if your actions are a direct reflection of your own moral compass, and someone who disagrees with you will start shouting "WHITE KNIGHTING WHITE KNIGHTING."

Sort of like how "trolling" now just means being an idiot. "Lol just trollin dude." No. That word is not a catch-all excuse for acting like an asshole. And neither does it apply to any argument that someone who disagrees with you might make.

SkunkWerks: Masterstuff: beseach

CheekyMonkey: spentmiles: I can only imagine the amount of reverse internet protocol navigation that is occurring at the lawyer's office right now. The general internet population has carried out a fundamental miscalculation in regards to insulting this man. Tearfully, with much hair pulling, I besiege beseach beaseache you: leave this man to himself.

FTFY.

\pet peave

FTFY

/e is silent
//pet peav

You two are really getting me peeved.

Good. I hope you Rotsky in Hell.