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07-27-2007, 05:06 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | INSANE Internet Feud I had to post this - it was on my homepage yesterday - I thought I'd heard it all - but this really does go WAY beyond Internet Obesession - Did no one show this guy how to shut OFF his computer before he went ballistic ???? All I can say is the minute I see someone posting a STATE Welcome Sign - I'm callin the cops on you ! LOL - Man crosses U.S. to violently settle Internet feud By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press ELM MOTT, Texas — A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson. As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states' borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business. When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy's trailer down. This week, Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson and admitting he set the blaze. "I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill anybody over an Internet fight," said John G. Anderson, 59, who suffered smoke inhalation while trying to put out the 2005 blaze that caused $50,000 in damage to his trailer and computer equipment. The feud started when Anderson, who runs a haunted house near Waco, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After he blocked some people from his page because of insults and foul language, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him, he said. Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Tavares, aka "PyroDice." Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign. Tavares obtained Anderson's real name and hometown from Anderson's Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House. Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started driving. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Anderson and shoot his computer. Instead, when he got to Elm Mott — after posting one last photo of a "Welcome to Texas" sign — Tavares threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Anderson's mobile home and lit a flare, authorities say. Tavares' attorney, Susan Kelly Johnston, said his trip to the Waco area was a last-minute decision during a cross-country trip to visit his parents in Arizona. She said he never intended to hurt Anderson and did not think he was in the trailer when he set the fire. James Pack, an investigator with the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, caught up with Tavares after talking to people in several states and Spain who had been involved in the online feud. Tavares' cell phone records showed he was in the Waco area at the time of the fire, Pack said. Tavares told investigators that Anderson had spread computer viruses and insulted his online friends for too long, Pack said. "He lost everything — all over an Internet squabble," the investigator said. Tavares was discharged last year from the Navy, where he earned several medals — including the pistol expert and rifle expert medals — in his nine-year career, said Navy spokesman Mike McLellan. Tavares would not let the feud go even at his sentencing. According to Pack, Tavares took cell-phone photos of Anderson in the courtroom while the judge was hearing another case. Authorities ordered the photos erased. Anderson, an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam, said he continues to be harassed online, has been startled by people knocking on his window late at night and found bullet holes in a door to his business. He said he is convinced the harassment is related to the Internet feud and plans to spend $30,000 on more fencing topped with barbed wire. "Before this happened, the rule was: Nobody messes with the haunted house guy," Anderson said. |
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07-27-2007, 05:12 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | That's INSANE. Man, if someone got their trailer burned down for calling someone a nerd, I'm in trouble.
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07-27-2007, 05:17 PM | #3 |
Mommy's Little Boo Boo Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virgina
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| That just goes to show you not to pick a fight with strangers! What a nutso I read this earlier too and it just blows my mind!!
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07-27-2007, 05:18 PM | #4 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | LOL Megan - can you believe it ?? AND the fool took pictures and posted them as he traveled to Texas ? I loved what his attorney said. Is it part of passing the bar that you have to be a really big liar ? Can she really believe what she said in his defense ? |
07-27-2007, 05:20 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | why didn't he just turn the computer OFF ? Go to another site ? It's not like that site they were on was the only one on the net ...man it takes all kinds doesn't it ? |
07-27-2007, 05:34 PM | #6 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| I must say Tavares is one determined little fella......when he has a job to do it GETS done.......I bet he'd be a handy fella to have around the house....I wonder if he does home repairs....
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07-27-2007, 05:36 PM | #7 |
My Angels Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Colorful Colorado
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| Are you thinking about interviewing him for the job? Just dont get mad and call him a nerd.........LOL |
07-27-2007, 05:40 PM | #8 |
My Angels Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Colorful Colorado
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| Oh I mean, I wasnt teasing you, please dont take offense I am really sorry..I dont know what got into me. I really need to keep my comments to myself from now on. If I have anything bad to say I will come and sit by you......(and whisper it in your ear so no one gets mad and tries to catch me on fire.) |
07-27-2007, 05:41 PM | #9 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| LOL!!!....He appears to be a little touchy on that topic....
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07-27-2007, 05:43 PM | #10 |
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07-27-2007, 09:14 PM | #11 |
Mojo, LilyGrace & Me Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cuddling with my babies<3
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| What are people thinking? It is sooo scary!
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07-27-2007, 09:31 PM | #12 |
I love my lil wolf! ;) Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Washington
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