Comments on: FunnyJunk's bewildered lawyer: "I'm completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat"

By: Gibbitt Rhys-Jones

Gibbitt Rhys-Jones — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:32:00 +0000

It seems to be back now, 4 days later. Maybe waiting for the storm to blow over?

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:17:00 +0000

“It’s a testimony to the power of smart people to fool themselves that Carreon can clearly see the ugliness of “mob psychology,” but not the ugliness of legal intimidation.”

No, it’s a lesson how acting like complete douche can come back and bite you, in this day and age. You old guys will probably never figure it out, until you decide to act on your stupid, corrupt, greedy thoughts. Case in point.

By: Noah Callaway

Noah Callaway — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:39:00 +0000

I just want everyone reading your comment to remember: You probably _are_ legally barred from shitting all over somebody. Please do not shit on other people.

By: Won Word

Won Word — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:09:00 +0000

Scenes I’d like to see:

Matthew Inman: I’m going to write a figure on this piece of paper. It’s not quite as large as the last one, but I think you’ll find it fair. [Draws a giant zero.]

Carreon [to Funnyjunk owner]: I think we should take it.

By: Won Word

Won Word — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Why not both? :)

By: Chris Sherlock

Chris Sherlock — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:54:00 +0000

About as bad as the fact that FunnyJunk doesn’t have a designated agent for DMCA takedown requests… what was that about competent legal counsel again?

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:51:00 +0000

He was taught in law school that intimidation is SOP. Each side postures, preens and tries to intimidate the other. After many billable hours have been rung up, negotiations ensue, and profit! In a standard situation, he would have been bought off with a settlement. Here, legal assbaggery meets widespread ridicule.

Couldn’t happen to a better guy.

By: jambon

jambon — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:36:00 +0000

Suck it up assclown

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:08:00 +0000

Yikes. I was pretty creeped out at that comment for a moment, until I recalled the scene with the minstrel.

“The lion ripped his balls off, then the boar did all the rest.”

By: jimh

jimh — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Your tongue or your hands?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:59:00 +0000

I see that he’s gotten a rating of 1.2 out of 10 for that one.

By: HandmaidenOfEris

HandmaidenOfEris — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:11:00 +0000

I like how in this blog on his site, the first thing he has to say about SOPA supporters in Hollywood is “big liberals that they are.” Somehow, it makes his just desserts all the sweeter. http://www.charlescarreon.com/charles-carreon-internet-lawyer-blog/i-can-haz-good-internetz-pleaz/2012/01/23/

By: Gilgongo

Gilgongo — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Reading Carreon’s blog, I somehow doubt he’s at all naive about the way the Internet works:

http://www.charlescarreon.com/category/charles-carreon-internet-lawyer-blog/

Which makes me think he doth protest too much. Something else is up.

By: Vnend

Vnend — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Wow. So, he is completely unfamiliar with the concept of taking a case to the court of public opinion? Really?

When he is done with his current adventure, perhaps a good next step would be to consider suing his law school. Then again, he would have to prove that they actually failed to teach him, as opposed to him simply forgetting it or missing class those days…

By: Simeon Beresford

Simeon Beresford — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:08:00 +0000

nods that was the intended interpretation, but that there is an alternative interpretation is the fail. shrug an over long sentence best broken into two or parsed to New Yorker standards. now those guys really know where the comma is.

By: smallteam

smallteam — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:57:00 +0000

The contact page was just an HTML form. The Internet remembers!
http://web.archive.org/web/20100728184144/http://www.charlescarreon.com/contact/

By: Dan Allard

Dan Allard — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

IMNSHO, being oblivious to one’s own hypocritical nature is just par for the course for human beings – one doesn’t need to be a class-A powertripping jackass to be oblivious to one’s own actions.

I think scav is right that it’s basically the dunning-krueger effect in action.

By: sla29970

sla29970 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:55:00 +0000

It is a cognitive error to allow that this is actually about anyone’s mother.

By: Shabadoo Zubzub

Shabadoo Zubzub — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:53:00 +0000

Inman tweeted that the picture is meant to be the mother of FJ’s admin, not the lawyer.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Politicians are in many ways indistinguishable from lawyers; in fact, large numbers of them actually are lawyers. Between the two groups, they encompass a hugely disproportionate share of the worst people in the world, as even a casual glance will verify. Let’s face it, the most awful serial killers are nothing compared to governments. It takes a government (and a ton of lawyers!) to kill tens of millions of people.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:20:00 +0000

You are referring to criminal defense lawyers, and much as I despise the criminal justice system this is not the time to have that discussion. This guys belongs to a different breed of scum who use the legal system as a weapon (rather than a way to mediate disputes) to allow their clients to profit undeservedly. Sometimes there are no clients, just the lawyers profitting.

Several years ago there was a law firm that went up and down Main Street suing every restaurant for labor violations. They had no proof, no documentation, not even any employee names Their strategy was to immediately offer to settle the suit for ten thousand dollars, and most of the restaurant owners accepted this because it would cost twenty five thousand or or more to even begin to raise a defense. That is basically a protection racket that both the predatory accusers and the victims own defending lawyers are participating in and enriching themselves with.

The current scumbag under discussion falls into a similar category, as do patent trolls, many sexual harassment lawyers, and more. It has become specialized, like doctors, except that the intent is to injure rather than to heal. Our society is drowning in it.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:21:00 +0000

>Does our society have another “respectable” profession as two-faced as being a lawyer?

I see by using the term “respectable” you’ve chosen to pre-emptively neutralise all those posts about politicians.

By: opendna

opendna — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Carreon, an attorney, wrote a letter demanding compensation for “defamation per se”, an action for which truth is an absolute defense, in response to statements which were entirely correct.

Your interpretation is probably the most charitable one available.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:27:00 +0000

No, into the bathroom mirror.

By: Russ Nelson

Russ Nelson — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Lawyers behave this way because even guilty idiots deserve representation in a court of law.

By: thixotropic

thixotropic — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Since he doesn’t understand the internet, he probably doesn’t get that we *all* see what he said and all have our own opinions about it. We don’t need no marshals.

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Well, not exactly win-win, if the content belongs to you and you want to monetize it but some jerk is showing it off for free.

By: RedShirt77

RedShirt77 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:40:00 +0000

Never underestimate the power of fear of the mob. Hard to sue everyone on the Internet.

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:32:00 +0000

“Man, we sure have generated a lot of bad publicity with our demand letter to that cartoonist. I wonder how we can possibly make ourselves look any better. I know! Let’s be dicks to animals and cancer patients! That will make people see the rightness of our cause, and surely not instigate any more hate mail.”

By: Chip

Chip — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:26:00 +0000

I’m perfectly OK with people calling lawyers like this directly. Filing nuisance lawsuits may be technically legal, but it is objectively immoral. Some people think that just because they can be a dick, that means they should be a dick. They need to learn that dickish behavior has consequences. Just because you are not legally barred from shitting all over somebody does not mean that it is a socially acceptable thing to do. Lawyers like this cockbag ruin peoples lives in exchange for money. That is reprehensible, and they need to be taught not to act like that.