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Title: Creator of Kony Viral Video Detained for Public Masturbation
Post by: Raffine on March 16, 2012, 09:40:20 PM
Most self-descriptive thread title since 'Darth Vader plays the Bagpipes while Riding an Unicycle'. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/jason-russell-arrested-invisible-children-kony_n_1354455.html)



Title: Re: Creator of Kony Viral Video Detained for Public Masturbation
Post by: bob on March 17, 2012, 11:35:04 AM
what drives someone to do that in public?


Title: Re: Creator of Kony Viral Video Detained for Public Masturbation
Post by: AndyC on March 17, 2012, 12:38:10 PM
Nice how a statement from one witness that he might have been masturbating is enough to make that the headline. It's barely mentioned, except that it was suggested by a witness who wasn't sure about it, and nobody could confirm it. What passes for journalism these days is a disgrace.


Title: Re: Creator of Kony Viral Video Detained for Public Masturbation
Post by: The Gravekeeper on March 17, 2012, 01:14:09 PM
You gotta love misleading headlines. I've already seen people jumping to the conclusion that he was arrested and charged for public masturbation, when all that seems to happen is that for whatever reason (alcohol isn't confirmed) he stripped down to his underwear and started punching the sidewalk and disrupting traffic, then someone called the police and said that they saw a naked man who might be masturbating outside. Then the cops took him to a medical facility of some sort for evalutation (he was dehydrated, exhausted and malnourished when the police arrived) and aren't charging him with anything.

It sounds like he had a mental breakdown. It's always sad when that happens, but it's particularly unfortunate that it happened out in public. And of course people will use this to say that Kony 2012 is bad (honestly, if you're going to criticize it, criticize it based on what it does rather than on something that one of its heads has done that has nothing to do with it).


Title: Re: Creator of Kony Viral Video Detained for Public Masturbation
Post by: Frank81 on March 17, 2012, 10:44:06 PM
Well, I should have known if Stars are praising some guy for a documentary he must be a psychotic. It doesn't surprise me.