Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal 173
First time accepted submitter Guy From V writes "Charles Carreon, zany lawyer and poster-child for the Streisand Effect (sorry Babs) for his lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Mattew Innman last year in his original role as legal counsel for Funnyjunk, as reported by ArsTechnica, seems to have finally called it quits. In other news, the River Styx has reportedly dropped below 32 degrees Fahrenheit."
Forbes (Score:5, Insightful)
The Forbes site linked to in TFS is quite funny. There's a hilarious article on why insider trading is a good thing. In some ways it out-onions the onion.
Re:Impressive... (Score:4, Insightful)
Bear in mind, he's a lawyer. His job involves selling an argument and he's rarely concerned with who's actually in the right. This is just rhetoric.
I'm hesitant to dismiss him as insincere just because of the sheer, utter, insanity (from the perspective of, say, a value-rational human being who wants to make money by being a lawyer) of his behavior in pretty much all aspects of the case beyond the first opening shot or two (where he might actually have been writing demand letters for a client, just a day on the job).
A good con-man knows when to skip town(which was a hell of a long time ago in this case, there were plenty of situations where he could have just backed down and let the internet's almost-nonexistent attention span solve the problem for him; but instead he doubled down on the crazy). It's possible that Carreon is just a bad con-man; but that level of not knowing when to skip town reeks of a true believer.
Charles Carreon (Score:5, Insightful)
Charles Carreon. You're a fucking asshole.
Re:Quite the Buddhist there... (Score:4, Insightful)
We need a second party to counter the Democrats, but the Republicans are too far gone for that role.
Re:Too bad (Score:4, Insightful)
I just registered "rapeutated.com".
Re:Quite the Buddhist there... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sorry for the horrible analogy:
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Re:Unanswered questions in your post. (Score:0, Insightful)
And they're wrong to think that? Care to explain why?
You know what you convinced me mob justice is always the way to go. Sane and cool heads always win there right? /sarcasm
What the lawyer dude did was top shelf dickery, no doubt about it. However, the 'internet' also joined in, *and* the guy from the oatmeal did as well as the leader.
Show me at what point dickery was not used? Show me at what point someone 'did the right thing' and did not act like a dick? Yes I am serious. What he did was no better than the dude in a mob who shouts 'get him' and the mob runs him over with a truck. He may have done it in a humorous way (I laughed). But it was still wrong. Even the nice things such as donating money was not a way of doing the right thing. It was just a way of being a bigger dick.
Think on this. What if you somehow pissed off the dude from the oatmeal? Would you be up for a good round of his mob justice? Who would be able to do anything else in their life without that blot showing up? Remember the internet has a LONG memory...
I use this as an example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey
That family was convicted and tried in the world of the mob. Yet that family is owed 1 big freeking apology. Mob justice is usually not a good way to do things. It has a heavy price. I only use this as an example of bad mob justice. In this case the dude played with the bull. When you do that you get the horns. What he did was 100% wrong. But what happened afterwards was not exactly a bed of roses and everyone being all happy and doing the right thing. It was a basketfull of dickery all around.
Make no mistake about it. This was a dick waving contest. The lawyer lost to the forest of them.
Also as SD will not let me reply too often as AC I am not the same dude. I am someone who thinks mob justice is not a way we should run our society. I sat back at watched it with humor and horror at the same time.
I know what I am saying is not exactly popular. It just seemed wrong on all counts to me. It reminds me of two kids fighting over a toy then wanting me to take sides. When all I want them to do is not fight at all...
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