Star Wars Kid settles out of court

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Poor bastard.

[Alex]

Poor kid, but he doesn't deserve any money.

[Gemini Cricket]

But will iSm and zappp sue for their ridicule? I mean those voices didn't even sound like them.

[Ghoulish Delight]

A certain LoT poster better have a good lawyer

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Poor kid, but he doesn't deserve any money.

Eh, unsure about how I feel about the settlement (especially since we don't know what the kid settled for) but apparently this kid was not good at handling what happened to him.

If he was smart he could have faced this head on, pulled the talk show circuit, and perhaps even made a buck or two before his 15 minutes faded out. I think he may have dealt with it better that way.

Wuss.

[tracilicious]

I think he deserves the money as much as anyone in these types of lawsuits. 76 million people were laughing at him (and it was damn funny) for something he didn't give consent to be posted. I just feel bad that the jerks parents are probably going to have to pay for it.

CP, that might have been the smarter way, but I think what the kid wants is anonymity. My question is why the heck did he even make a video?

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

CP, that might have been the smarter way, but I think what the kid wants is anonymity. My question is why the heck did he even make a video?

Why does anyone do a video? At least one they don't want to show up on the internet. Countless, not of the work friendly kind, are prime examples. I feel for the kid, but I do confess, I laughed myself silly when I saw it. If 76 million people are at home watching the video on their pc and laughing, does it really make a sound? As stated above, it was the peer pressure that got him. I agree with CP, he could have rode this an appearence on Jay Leno and made some bucks for college.

[Tito's Kitten]

What I still want to know is he had to figure that this video he made could be potentially embarrassing. So why would he leave it on a shelf in the school's media department?? If I ever made a total dork out of myself on TAPE you better believe that I would be holding on to that tape for dear life and there would be no way that anyone would find it.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

I think he deserves the money as much as anyone in these types of lawsuits.

Which is none.

He made a tape of himself and then left it on a shelf in the AV room at school. He is just as responsible for its dissemination as everybody else. If embarrassment by your peers in school were grounds of financial compensation then we'd all leave high school very rich.

For me there was that time in seventh grade when I was wearing a white pair of jeans and spilled some catsup on my lap. Just a spot but it was enough to produce torment from pretty much the entire school.

If I were his parents I wouldn't have sued I'd have told him to toughen up. But then I snickered at the image of a pedopsychiatrist so what do I know.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

An Alex Stroup non-Mojo "Me Too" Post