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[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love everything about this paragraph.

Griest told police he had fallen on the television and that his wife had tried to catch him but ended up getting a cut on her neck. When Griest fell, the television broke and he got a cut on his finger. Griest told officers that he called police because the incident was "going to turn into a domestic" as his wife's drunk boyfriend was allegedly going to stop the house the following day to assault him, Hornberger wrote in the affidavit.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"his wife's drunk boyfriend"

This has to be satire.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

i thought that too, but it appears to be a real news site...
i still find it hard to believe that reality has come this close to being a made-up shitpost...
but maybe, the fortnight playing convicted pedophile actually called the police because his wife's boyfriend might beat him up...
im pretty sure this means the universe will be collapsing in on itself pretty soon...

[–] Melkath@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago

As a gamer, I was going to come in with an edgy "that's what you get" joke, but with this added info... I'm doubling down on a "that's what you get" joke.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The whole story just gets weirder every sentence.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I didn't beleive it would but it did

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The article started with Mt Carmel, so that's just a regular Tuesday. Shit goes down on Mount Carmel.

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Written by AI, maybe?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Police charged Griest with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges.

Wtf? Cops just slap terrorism charges on every chance they get, huh?

Don't get me wrong, the guy is a piece of shit, but terrorism? That's not what happened here and they know it!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Terroristic threats" is a ridiculously common charge against school age children. Dozens of 10 year olds are charged with it every month in Texas

Based on an analysis of district juvenile justice referral data we received from Brownsville ISD, the district police made 3,102 student arrests over a period of roughly two and half years from May 2021 to November 2023. That’s 135 arrests per month in the school year. Fifty-nine percent of those arrests were for felony changes.

Of those arrests, 3.5 percent were for elementary school-aged children. From the beginning of the prior school year to November 3 this year, there have been 76 arrests of students 10 to 11 years old. Charges for terroristic threats accounted for 20 percent of those arrests. Most, 66 percent, were felony charges. There were no charges for aggravated assault for this age group.

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The devil must be so, so proud of Texas right now.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Right? What a heaping pile of shit that state is

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck! Fucking bastards! 🤬

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

I know! Who’d’ve thought there were so many terrorists in 6th grade.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

first they made terrorism the biggest problem in the world, declared war on it, made tons of draconian laws against it... and then they changed what the word means.
btw, check out the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes it "terrorism" to work at a job with livestock and then secretly film the abuse other people do to them.
in some states, that is "legally" terrorism.
(its illegally, but good luck appealing that when you're in a guantanamo style blacksite somewhere, being force fed rectally)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'd call it Orwellian, but that's more fucked up than anything Orwell ever imagined! 🤬

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

She did the world a service. If only more people would be willing to step up and cut off the wifi when someone starts playing Fortnite

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Or add the Fortnite servers IP to their Pihole 😇

"Sorry, Fortnite servers don't work at home", and suddenly my younger cousins are a lot less thrilled to visit me for Christmas. 😂

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I support these grinch-like activities 😂

[–] superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Heated gamer moment

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

Sad

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Modernists: confused why this happened

Postmodernist: of course this happened, the videogame is more real to them than the human is