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		Two girls who stabbed a friend to impress Slenderman found competent. At stabbing, that is. Also to stand trial. At telling real life apart from fiction, not so much (cnn.com)		124
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ferretman

2014-12-19 4:15:39 PM

There's two girls who won't be having a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year.

Snarfangel

2014-12-19 4:21:39 PM

Slenderman has the silliest superpower.

Except for teenaged girls who want to be slender, I guess.

kbronsito

2014-12-19 4:50:14 PM

he's right behind me, isn't he?

fusillade762

2014-12-19 5:21:21 PM

Morgan Geyser

They should have known she was just waiting to blow.

SilentStrider

2014-12-19 5:33:35 PM

kbronsito: [mynerdobsessions.files.wordpress.com image 500x280]

he's right behind me, isn't he?

welp, there's what I came here to say.

lindalouwho

2014-12-19 5:40:28 PM

Finding psychopaths competent?
I'm ok with this. If you can stab someone 16 times in an attempted murder you're having fun, and that's a special kind of broken. This sounds like depraved roleplay.

/heaven help us

slayer199

2014-12-19 5:54:30 PM

That's really Something Awful.

Anayalator

2014-12-19 7:04:39 PM

I like my defendants like I like my women.

Enemabag Jones

2014-12-19 7:05:19 PM

You mean to say that just following order from slenderman isn't a good legal defense?

ObscureNameHere

2014-12-19 7:06:47 PM

slayer199: That's really Something Awful.

What you did there: we see it.

Zarquon's Flat Tire

2014-12-19 7:07:14 PM

Anayalator: I like my defendants like I like my women.

Fit to stand trial?

meat0918

2014-12-19 7:07:40 PM

This is relevant

//Beware moral panic...

ban_sidhe

2014-12-19 7:11:59 PM

FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

cynicalminion

2014-12-19 7:13:52 PM

SilentStrider: kbronsito: [mynerdobsessions.files.wordpress.com image 500x280]

he's right behind me, isn't he?

welp, there's what I came here to say.

also:

/beer
//cheese
///serial killers, cuz slashies come in threes.

cynicalminion

2014-12-19 7:15:30 PM

ban_sidhe: FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

no, if this was the middle ages they'd be burned at the stake as witches.

abhorrent1

2014-12-19 7:17:17 PM

Are they hot?

/reported

4seasons85!

2014-12-19 7:18:30 PM

How does this work in a trial? They were found incompetent at one point. Could they plead an insanity defense now and present the fact that they were found incompetent before as evidence? I am curious how this process works.

ban_sidhe

2014-12-19 7:18:36 PM

cynicalminion: ban_sidhe: FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

no, if this was the middle ages they'd be burned at the stake as witches.

Only if they floated.

PaulRB

2014-12-19 7:18:59 PM

ban_sidhe: Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

Apparently, since they believe in superstitious nonsense, they'd fit right in. For that matter, so do most of the religious types that populate our world. Of course, if they actually had to live like they did back in the "Middle Ages", they'd probably quickly trade their religious/superstitious beliefs for heat, air conditioning, modern medicine, modern food, electricity, cell phones, running water, need I go on?

Smackledorfer

2014-12-19 7:20:00 PM

If crazy children cannot be fixed and returned to society than let's just kill them outright. It seems more humane.

GnuUzir

2014-12-19 7:21:30 PM

kbronsito:

he's right behind me, isn't he?

No I am in front of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG_Nm9Iw7tI

insertsnarkyusername

2014-12-19 7:22:21 PM

Do we ever charge children as juveniles any more in high profile cases? I'm sure some kids go into juvenile court but it seems that if the case makes national news they are always charged as adults.

ParadoxDice

2014-12-19 7:23:19 PM

ban_sidhe: cynicalminion: ban_sidhe: FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

no, if this was the middle ages they'd be burned at the stake as witches.

Only if they floated.

They ALL float down here. They ALL float. And when you're down here, you'll float too!

/no idea who or what Slenderman is.

noitsnot

2014-12-19 7:24:33 PM

cynicalminion: SilentStrider: kbronsito: [mynerdobsessions.files.wordpress.com image 500x280]

he's right behind me, isn't he?

welp, there's what I came here to say.

[img.fark.net image 700x393]

also:

[img.fark.net image 500x375]

/beer
//cheese
///serial killers, cuz slashies come in threes.

Wisconsin is always "WINE CHEESE FIREWORKS".

That's what the signs said as you crossed over.

At least - back in the day...

WINE CHEESE FIREWORKS

Just what you need on the way to see Boston at Alpine Valley

Dragonflew

2014-12-19 7:28:07 PM

ban_sidhe: Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

OK, I'll be that guy.

I have no problem with it. They tried to stab a girl to death, they didn't just steal a car for a joyride.

And Wisconsin has not had the death penalty since they became civilised in the mid-1800s.

Zarquon's Flat Tire

2014-12-19 7:28:56 PM

insertsnarkyusername: Do we ever charge children as juveniles any more in high profile cases? I'm sure some kids go into juvenile court but it seems that if the case makes national news they are always charged as adults.

Well if nothing serious enough to get a juvenile tried as an adult went down why would it be a high-profile case?

Snarfangel

2014-12-19 7:29:15 PM

noitsnot: cynicalminion: SilentStrider: kbronsito: [mynerdobsessions.files.wordpress.com image 500x280]

he's right behind me, isn't he?

welp, there's what I came here to say.

[img.fark.net image 700x393]

also:

[img.fark.net image 500x375]

/beer
//cheese
///serial killers, cuz slashies come in threes.

Wisconsin is always "WINE CHEESE FIREWORKS".

That's what the signs said as you crossed over.

At least - back in the day...

WINE CHEESE FIREWORKS

Just what you need on the way to see Boston at Alpine Valley

I can see cheese, and understand fireworks, but wine? Wisconsin really isn't on my radar for that, but I'm willing to try!

StatelyGreekAutomaton

2014-12-19 7:31:23 PM

No, the girl who was stabbed would be burned. What sort of witchcraft do you need to not die after something like that?

SenorBenedict

2014-12-19 7:31:46 PM

I'd say kill these two idiots clearly they have the brain power of your average pewdiepie fan and we should stop that shiat from breeding.

Never before has something invented by Something Awful gone on to create such harm.

Shaggy_C

2014-12-19 7:32:00 PM

If they were competent at stabbing, wouldn't their victim have died?

Ziabatsu

2014-12-19 7:32:17 PM

I'm still waiting for the case where they charge kids who distribute dirty pictures of themselves, as adults.

cynicalminion

2014-12-19 7:32:33 PM

that's on the way IN... they don't tell you once you've seen a Tommy Bartlett billboard, you're not getting out again... i was talking about our EXPORTS...

thismomentinblackhistory

2014-12-19 7:33:11 PM

Anayalator: I like my defendants like I like my women.

Thirteen years old?

ArcadianRefugee

2014-12-19 7:34:35 PM

Fark is known as "Fark".

/it's technically correct, which is the best kind of correct

fanbladesaresharp

2014-12-19 7:34:48 PM

Anayalator: I like my defendants like I like my women.

Young and do whatever the internet tells them to do?

MemeSlave

2014-12-19 7:41:41 PM

Are they hot?

Arkanaut

2014-12-19 7:42:52 PM

From what I heard on the morning news, the judge said that by declaring herself incompetent, she has demonstrated that she is competent. That is literally what Catch-22 was, almost verbatim.

RatMaster999

2014-12-19 7:44:28 PM

Perfect timing.

I'm putting together a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game to celebrate the end of the semester. Cthuletide. I'm having them investigate the disappearance of a mutual friend, who ran afoul of a cult while investigating (he's a reporter) Black-Eyed Kids and Slenderman as an aspect of Nyarlathotep.

Random Internet Persona

2014-12-19 7:48:04 PM

fanbladesaresharp: Anayalator: I like my defendants like I like my women.

Young and do whatever the internet tells them to do?

If that's true, can you blame him?

Uh, of legal age, I mean.

/reported

thatboyoverthere

2014-12-19 7:49:45 PM

Actually the real witch hunts didn't start until the Italian Renaissance. You were much more likely to be burned for believing in witches as the Catholic Church said they didn't exist so you're a heretic.

thatboyoverthere

2014-12-19 7:51:42 PM

RatMaster999: Perfect timing.

I'm putting together a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game to celebrate the end of the semester. Cthuletide. I'm having them investigate the disappearance of a mutual friend, who ran afoul of a cult while investigating (he's a reporter) Black-Eyed Kids and Slenderman as an aspect of Nyarlathotep.

Man Nyarlathotep would get a couple of 12 year olds to murder their friend. He's the only Elder God that you could honestly call evil. He's a complete dick and loves every second of it.

adamatari

2014-12-19 7:54:57 PM

Charging 12 and 13 year olds as adults is farking barbaric. We're talking about kids who don't understand the consequences of their actions - we're going to give them life sentences?

If I were king, nobody under the age of majority would be legally chargeable in adult courts. Juvenile courts can hand out fitting punishments just fine.

whither_apophis

2014-12-19 7:56:01 PM

Now it's time to shed blood for the God of Justice.

Yogimus

2014-12-19 7:56:23 PM

adamatari: Charging 12 and 13 year olds as adults is farking barbaric. We're talking about kids who don't understand the consequences of their actions - we're going to give them life sentences?

If I were king, nobody under the age of majority would be legally chargeable in adult courts. Juvenile courts can hand out fitting punishments just fine.

Some pieces of shiat need to be slam dunked over the toiletbowl rim.

LazarusLong42

2014-12-19 7:56:34 PM

ArcadianRefugee: ban_sidhe: FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Fark is known as "Fark".

/it's technically correct, which is the best kind of correct

Tweedledee and Tweedledum might want to talk with you.

Last Man on Earth

2014-12-19 7:57:20 PM

Taking those out of order. Yeah, the whole "adult crime, adult time" thing is complete BS for a whole host of reasons I won't go into, it COMPLETELY ignores everything that we know about neurological development, and it desperately needs to farking stop. We've already banned the death penalty for minors, and federal courts can no longer sentence them to life in prison, but it's still totally unreasonable to try them as adults.

As to their competence, that's actually fair. To be considered competent, they have to (depending on jurisdiction) either understand what it was they're accused of doing, or understand that society considers it wrong to do what they're accused of. Most jurisdictions use the first one. They knew they stabbed someone to death, so that first test is satisfied. The second one's always trickier to prove, but can probably be demonstrated here.

Naked under my clothes

2014-12-19 7:58:04 PM

FTFY

cynicalminion

2014-12-19 7:58:13 PM

StatelyGreekAutomaton: cynicalminion: ban_sidhe: FTA: "The girls were allegedly trying to please Slenderman, a horror story meme the girls had encountered on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki."

No. It's not "known as" Creepypasta Wiki. That's the name of the site. That's kind of like saying that Fark is "known as" Fark.

Apart from that annoyance, they're being a) found competent to stand trial and b) charged as adults? WTF. Is this the farking Middle Ages?

no, if this was the middle ages they'd be burned at the stake as witches.

No, the girl who was stabbed would be burned. What sort of witchcraft do you need to not die after something like that?

Okay, fine, they ALL would've been burned.

WRONGLY, but they WOULD'VE...

and i'm REALLY REALLY not okay with contemplating the other potential meaning...

"why did you think killing your classmate was a good thing to do?"
"did your classmate tell you she wanted to die?"
"did you ever recieve permission to kill her?"
"so you knew what you were doing was wrong?"
"and you did it anyway?"
"case closed your honor"

symptomoftheuniverse

2014-12-19 7:58:37 PM

Anayalator: I like my defendants like I like my women.

Scared and in handcuffs?

cynicalminion

2014-12-19 7:59:47 PM

bull "shiat", it's only known as "fark" because what we WANT to say gets filtered...

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