“Jason Barry was charged with making a terroristic threat at his arraignment yesterday in Staten Island Criminal Court,” The Post reports. “Barry told police he was only joking when he typed the note under a friend’s father’s name on Monday and left it on the screen at the store at the Staten Island Mall.”
The Post reports, “The boy left the store, and someone at Apple discovered the note and called police.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well, that joke certainly bombed.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
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@auramac:
LOL!!
terrorist |ˈterərist|
noun
a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
terroristic |ˌterəˈristik| adjective
Sorry, but this is complete bullshit. He is 17 and he was joking around. OK, not a very funny joke, but he is quite clearly not a terrorist.
Lesson learned. If your trying to be funny, at least do something genuinly funny. Instead he was just being an idiot.
Wow, he now knows what a “Bomb” of a joke it was. Though it was only ment for fun!??? He will now see how ones life will blow apart into so many pieces that even being shackled to a virus infected Microsoft OS will not bother him! Well not too much, anyway.
I’m sure that “Tired of retards” was the likely culprit.
Sounds like your typical, off-the-shelf loon lefty that needs a diaper change.
Sounds to me like there’s a village somewhere that’s missing it’s idiot!
Let’s not charge him as a terrorist. Can we just escort him to a darkened alley and let nature take its course?
Amateur. Check out what a friend of mine did back in the day…
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=3679
Bet his father didn’t think it was funny.
Grounded for a year, no car and no money….
Actually he got charged with terrorism because further along in the note we threatened to convert Macs into PC’s….
just my $0.02
@chrissyone
That is just weird. Including the way he passed on. I’m sorry about your loss, though. Must have been an interesing guy!
All this time I’ve assumed that teens know every thing and are the smartest people in the world, cause that’s what they tell us. Send him to Gitmo.
Jamie
Terroristic threat is the governments way of saying you caused feelings of potential bodily or great bodily harm in a individual through words or a verbal expression. It’s been used for many years to convict people over stated or written bomb threats.
Whatever ever happened to freedom of speech? Time to grow up and stop being so precious. OMG some idiot typed some rubbish on a computer-> lets not TOTALLY overreact…Off to gitmo with him. Sad.
Freedom of speech is limited in areas like, you can’t shout FIRE in a crowded theater. Making a bomb threat in a borough of NYC is well, you know, a bad idea.
@kenc
bad idea, of course, but seriously, how seriously scarry-assed lame would you have to be to take it so seriously? Usually people who are going to vaporize themselves and others tend to do it, not publisize it, particularly not in an apple store by typing it into a computer. It’s the idiocy of youth and should be treated as such. Instead, overreact, ruin the kid’s life forever and turn him into a criminal and a card carrying member of ‘lets hate society and everything it stands for’ and then set him loose in a totally fearful society with no prospects and full of resentment. Talk about upgrading a person into a potential murderer. Good one!
@Brulek, freedom of speech? Are you THAT ignorant?
@Jamie, can you read? The moron in question was charged with “making a terroristic threat”, not being an actual terrorist (subtle distinction, I know) so your dictionary of definition of “terrorist” has little relevance here.
By your logic, if I pointed my Glock at your head and said, “Boom!”, then said, “Oh, I was just joking”, you’d be perfectly fine with that, right? Obviously, I’m not a terrorist and I wasn’t really guilty of making a threat because I was just joking, right?
@ecrabbm,
terroristic |ˌterəˈristik| adjective
Learn to read before shooting your mouth off and confirming your idiocy.
My comment remains valid.
@ecrabbm,
terroristic |ˌterəˈristik| adjective
Learn to read before shooting your mouth off and confirming your idiocy.
My comment remains valid.
@Jamie
Uh. not as far as the actual law is concerned, it doesn’t. There is a GIANT distinction in the law between behaving “terroristic” and actually being a “terrorist”.
We don’t use the word terrorist any more they are enemy combatants. Jeez people.
“Uh. not as far as the actual law is concerned…”
Thank you for proving my point with your rebuttal. Moron.
while i agree that this was stupid and clearly points out the pussification of America, i ask the forum this one simple question…What if it hadn’t been a threat, a store clerk simply closed the app and ignored it and a bomb did blow up, killing a mess of people?
again, i agree with most folks here that this was a stupid prank, but then again, i never imagined you could bring down an airliner with a box cutter either. crazy times my friends, crazy times.
@ecrabbm
obviously my sarcasm was lost on you. It is the lowest form of wit and you missed it…obviously you’re not on the same plane…