Comments on: FunnyJunk's lawyer vows revenge on The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Oh, haha. This guy is awesome – in totally shitty way.

By: Heather Acton

Heather Acton — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:08:00 +0000

The Moral? Don’t be a douche.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:00:00 +0000

From hurting myself by reading part of the filing, the “hacking” was someone put in for a password change, and he got the email and blocked it from happening.
It is AMAZING how widely one can stretch the definition of “hacking”.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:47:00 +0000

He probably didn’t delete the install.php file, so many people don’t, even though it asks you to.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Inman’s hired a *competent* lawyer…

::fixed::

By: SJD

SJD — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Whether he had evidence or not, it’s irrelevant. Oatmeal has a duty to prevent Internet from overreacting. In 1932, tugboat operator…

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Yes it is a terrible thing when a lawyer sends a demand letter with a twisted concept of the law demanding payment, then continues to pursue it when the evidence clearly doesn’t support the case.

Where have I seen this before…. Ohai marc.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:22:00 +0000

And (to cite TwilightNewsSite below) any lawyer who calls himself ‘carrion’ needs to be given a prize.

By: claytantor

claytantor — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:02:00 +0000

my *forced* meme on Carreon. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pr3iu/

By: Chris Recouvreur

Chris Recouvreur — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:57:00 +0000

http://censoriousdouchebag.wordpress.com – Charles Carreon’s fake blog

By: KBert

KBert — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:26:00 +0000

Fake Santa Clause…
Cyber-vandalism…
Walt Disney lynch mobs…
OMFG, nuclear holocaust!?

By: Ken At Popehat

Ken At Popehat — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Update: Carreon has now sued The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo (the donation platform), AND THE CHARITIES. http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/

By: Ultan

Ultan — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:27:00 +0000

As Mr. McElroy, commenting on the Forbes article, notes, Carreon has already had his license to practice suspended once for 60 days (plus 2 years suspended sentence) for practicing law without a license in Canada and failing to keep customer funds in trust. Here's the bar association link.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:56:00 +0000

Thankfully, the trophy is more of a topological phenomenon than a literal trophy...

By: psulli

psulli — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I’m mildly interested and distressed to wonder what the trophy for Internet Asshole Of The Week would look like.

By: s2redux

s2redux — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:47:00 +0000

Inman's hired a lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani. Here's his response to Carreon.

By: Hakan Koseoglu

Hakan Koseoglu — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:44:00 +0000

Unfortunately the UK courts still can be involved. The libel tourism is pretty much hated here but it makes money for the lawyers so it still goes on.

By: Jay Sanchez

Jay Sanchez — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Procrastinating? protracting?

By: JD929

JD929 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:15:00 +0000

Carreon’s practice should have been toast already, given his history of quixotic lawsuit attempts. Maybe he’s offering a service at a very discounted price, or FJ wasn’t paying attention when choosing a lawyer.

By: UrbanUndead

UrbanUndead — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:37:00 +0000

But… But… Come hurr and love meeee!!

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:42:00 +0000

> “your criticism led to my site being hacked and me getting death threats!” is now the cry of nearly every person who becomes the internet’s asshole-of-the-week

If you poke a bear with a stick, it will tear your arms off and nobody will feel sorry for you, because anybody dumb enough to go poking at bears doesn’t deserve to have arms. In a lot of ways, the internet is like a bear. Don’t poke it, dummy.

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:26:00 +0000

The seven thoughts you can’t say on television?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:07:00 +0000

It’s not even millions, it was 20,000 for the extortion fee he was offering. Which means even if he got half of that (unlikely!) from whoever hired him, he’s putting his reputation on the line for 10k. Or really that he lost his reputation for an attempt at 10k, hoping that it would just be paid because lawyers and threats are super scary! (it’s been working for the RIAA right? That genie got put back in the bottle and the music industry got saved because of the threat letters right?).

The guy’s rep is basically trashed now, thanks to his unfortunately not really greedy enough attempt at shaking down a moderately successful website cartoonist with a poorly conceived letter and amazing lack of comprehension about how the internet basically exists.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:50:00 +0000

“Walk away. Just walk away, and live.”

When Lord Humongous can provide better advice than your lawyer, it’s time for a new lawyer….

By: Casey Ray

Casey Ray — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Slippery slope there for sure.

In the states we have pretty weak libel laws, so it’s a good thing Inman is here.

If he’d been in Britain he might have a serious problem.

Not saying FJ’s case would have any merit there either, but over there they’d take two or three years to sort that out.

We smell bullshit right away here.

By: Casey Ray

Casey Ray — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:25:00 +0000

More like a cheesy ’80s movie. You know the good guy is going to come out on top, but he’ll walk through hell to do it.

And then the lawyer gets tossed out the window of a fifty story skyscraper.

By: Casey Ray

Casey Ray — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:22:00 +0000

I only know The Oatmeal because one of my favorite bloggers tends to post his stuff sometimes.

By: Summer Seale

Summer Seale — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:08:00 +0000

Nah, there are no words here at BoingBoing, merely thoughts.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:05:00 +0000

So Carreon has gone on the record to state his intention of committing barratry? A misdemeanour in California *and* Washington? This will not end well.

By: Ken At Popehat

Ken At Popehat — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:00:00 +0000

It’s not clear at all that California law applies. The reason I talked about California law in that paragraph is because in the quote that preceded it Mr. Carreon talked about combing through California statutes. Plus, I understand that he’s admitted in California.