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Good, these are the types of guys that go "It's just a prank bro" or "It's a social experiment" except it isn't. It's just you being an inconsiderate jerk.
yeah, the kind that sets you on fire, shoots your wife and sells your children to Epstein, then goes "it's just a prank bro".
There's tons of light-hearted, harmless pranks out there. A good laugh where everyone goes away a little bit happier.
This guy and his ilk on the other hand intentionally antagonise people to the point where they feel the need to defend themselves. Just because someone is out and about in public doesn't mean they're a free target for you to be shitty with them. Everyone has - or at least should have - the right to be unbothered in public by leeches like him.
People should also have the right to fight back with extreme prejudice if these morons lay hands on them first.
100% - but I meant the self defense part when they haven't actually touched you, just gotten to the point where their actions can constitute harassment.
The defence would be that they felt their lives were being threatened by the persistent harrassment.
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Mf was so annoying they sent him to the gulag
If they do a prisoner exchange with North Korea anytime in the near future, they should send this guy to them. Just because. Maybe it will teach the arrogant US citizens to behave better in other countries.
Note, I'm not saying that about the US citizens that are considerate human beings.
As a prank.
Exactly. It's just the natural consequences of a social experiment.
"I know for a fact that I'm not going to go to jail. Not one day in jail. I'm going to laugh my ass off when all these motherf***ers are saying I'm going for 30 years, 20 years, five years, 10 years. I'm not even going to do one day, bro. They'll give me a fine and say, 'Don't come back to Korea.' You're the one that's going to look so dumb when I don't get any jailtime or anything. Bro, I'm going to laugh like a f**king villain.
amazing.
Now that he's convicted, an interesting question might be "is there enough evidence to convict him in other countries who have extradition treaties with South Korea?"...
I have limited sympathy for people who make their living by bothering people.
Probably, but that's generally not done. He's been convicted and after he serves his sentence he'll be deported, which means he probably won't be given a visa to enter any other country.
Japan probably won't do anything more. I believe he has an entry ban for some time here (probably 5 years from whenever he was gone), but I don't recall the exact details.
This guy is like a reverse hostage. Countries will threaten to release him if they don't get what they want.
It's an SCP. The containment procedure is to livestream his location at all times and make it legal for everyone to beat him up.
Used to frequent a streaming site for telestreaming robots. I remember the owner getting excited when Ice Poseidon contacted them because of his popularity, thinking it would help traffic. Community warned her it was playing with napalm. She invited him anyway. It only attracted a shitload of griefers, incels and filth that never fully went away after he quickly became bored and left. Site was never the same.
This piece of shit was somehow even more annoying so you love to see it.
The great tragedy is that S Korea commuted his 3 year potential sentence to just 6 months.
Appeal is still possible and likely. But yea I agree, it's a crazy low sentence
For a nonviolent crime?
Punitive justice isn't justice. In the case a short sentence is appropriate. He's punished for 6 months and then barred from the country. How would the cost of 3 years of imprisonment benefit South Korean citizens? Seems like an unnecessary cost.
My opinion would change if it was a violent crime.
And don't misinterpret me. I don't like the guy at all, I just dislike governments and unnecessarily long prison sentences more
Keep in mind, it's only 6 months. Hollow victory.
Spending 6 months of your life in prison is not insignificant. Incarceration is a serious punishment.
He has to register as a sex offender when he eventually gets deported to the US... lmfao
So you're saying he has a future career in government?
Nope. The orange man only like pink people.
Dude's like all you hate about social media craze and tourist's exceptionalism in one person. Find out part may seem sweet at last, but he is a mere symptom waiting for reproduction unless there are enough barriers in place he won't be able to fall through. Barriers in not taking him behind the bars alone or at all, but educating, demotivating, ostracizing and deplatforming.
Just cut his balls off and send him up North.
I don't think north Korea would keep him as prisoner. Unlike Otto Warmbier he has no fans or sympathy from anyone, so no Western politician would gain anything from negotiating his release with North Korea.
Apparently he kissed a statue of a woman that was built as a memorial to all the south Korean women that were raped by the Japanese during their colonial rule. In case anyone was wondering what he did to end up in jail.
I'm willing to bet he knew exactly what that statue was a memorial for.
"and performing lap dances on said statue" per the linked article
fuuuuk this guy
too bad it wasn't where they cane you for stupid shit
I would watch that video
I know this would be cruel and unusual but live stream him the entire time and donate proceeds to relevant charities.
This made my day. He thought he was untouchable and now is in a forced labor camp for 6 months.
Dude is just one of the worst humans.
Forced labor camps in South Korea is just a legal term.
https://www.corrections.go.kr/corrections_eng/1905/subview.do
They're not cracking rocks with sledgehammers in the desert.
Serial killers in the same prison might say that it is against the Geneva convention to have a person like him in the same cell block.
Labour camp is exactly what he needs
That has to be one of the more punchable faces I have seen. And I do not advocate violence. But he might be n exception.
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