Man Burns Down Trailer in Online Feud
ELM MOTT, Texas (July 26) - 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.
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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.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Burn, Baby, Burn...
This week is proving to be an orgy of insane news. From AOL News.
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2 comments:
If you would have seen the state welcome signs in his photos, wouldn't you have called the police to tell them some nut was coming to burn down your home?
That's sort of what I thought. I mean it's not like there wasn't plenty of time to prepare yourself. But maybe the arson victim was just a little too comfortable in thinking no one would "mess with the haunted house guy."
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