A Twitter troll called @jimmyob88 sent a series of vile, taunting messages to professional boxer @woodhousecurtis, calling him lots of rotten names. Woodhouse tweeted back that he'd found out the Internet Tough Guy's home address and was headed over to his house "for a brew." After a series of "I'm getting closer" tweets, the troll had a change of heart and tweeted, "Didnt think you would be bothered thought you would take them as a joke" and "i am in the wrong i accept that." Apparently, it ended there. (via Techdirt)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    It’s kind of sad to me that it ended there. On the one hand it’s good that the troll backed down, but I think any internet troll should be confronted in person so he can understand that he’s not attacking a screen name; he’s attacking another living person. 

    And of course I think the boxer should be allowed to pick the beer, and the troll should have to buy it.

    • Donald Petersen

      I wouldn’t change a thing.  Mr Troll is now widely twitterfamous for being both trollish and too chickenshit to stand behind his words.  I imagine his friends won’t let him forget this anytime soon.

      • Gerald Mander

        One change: I’d out the troll’s identity, if I could. As it stands, he can still hide behind anonymity, the secret to troll success.

    • http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

      I recommend “The End of History” at $~875 a bottle retail!

  • http://www.fieldsovgravity.com/ Garymon

     @jimmyob88 , the boxer is in the house. The tweets are coming from the house!

  • Brainspore

    Weird, the troll’s latest tweets look like something written by a human head being forcibly slammed against a keyboard.

  • GawainLavers

    That’ll teach him!  He’ll only go after teenage girls from now on.

  • stumo

    Coming over for a brew = a cup of tea, not a beer, I’d have thought.

    • Jerril

       Brew or brewski is a common American slang term for beer. Beer is brewed :)

      • stumo

         And https://twitter.com/woodhousecurtis/status/311143002825453568/photo/1 looks like a UK roadsign (and other sources show he’s English) – he was going over for a cup of tea. Possibly a biscuit.

        • GawainLavers

          Yeah, but do you call a cup of tea a “brew”?  My Britlish is rusty, but that’s a new one on me.

          • stumo

             http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/blog/category/making-a-proper-brew/

            Although I feel we may be getting sidetracked from the main issue here, which is

            [Nelson] HAAA-haa!

          • angstrom

            Yes, a cup of tea is a brew. You brew tea. The American usage is much less used here. I have never, ever called a beer “brew”

          • GawainLavers

            Well shit.  No wonder that was a crappy pick-up line.

          • morcheeba

            Bob and Doug were Canadian, but they didn’t change the name for the US market. I think it may be a more Northeastern slang.
            http://codecrackx15.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/strange-brew-original.jpg

          • Gilbert Wham

             Pint, aye. Brew, no.

  • http://twitter.com/MoonpieNobot Moonpie Nobot

    Remember kids, violence, or the threat of it, solves everything. :/

    • morcheeba

      Or is it that this troll didn’t like sunshine? There’s no way the boxer would have physically assaulted the troll; I think the threat of losing anonymity was much more than the threat of violence.

    • http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

       well… threat of beer in this case.

    • Boris Bartlog

      Yeah, I’m not really getting the love for the boxer’s side of this story, here. Taking jackassery on the internet so seriously that you end up making implied physical threats? Not cool.

      • EvilSpirit

        Yeah, you big bully! What’s the idea, picking on that little bully like that?

      • DevinC

        I thought about that, but now I think there was no implied physical threat.  Just being a boxer and confronting someone isn’t a physical threat, or else he’d be guilty of assault every time he got in an argument.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      And service guarantees citizenship.

      Would you like to know more?

  • Nash Rambler

    From now on, I’m only tweet-slandering the deceased.

  • TacoChuck

    Why would he back down? The boxer is going to drive over to commit a premeditated felony?

    Dude, kick my ass, I need the money.

    • Stooge

      There’s no such thing as a rich corpse.

      • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
        • Stooge

          At the risk of offending deities so implausible that no-one has believed in them for several millennia, yes.

  • http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

    While it’s always nice to see an asshole get what they deserve, at what point does this become ‘threatening behavior’? The legal definition is “the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury”, which would probably cover this.

    • mccrum

      If I were the boxer I’d go ahead and take the court rap.  First offense isn’t going to lead to jail time, cash at most.  

      Totally worth it to know someone had to go on public record as being afraid of bodily injury because they were a jackass.

    • Gilbert Wham

       A good lawyer would make mincemeat of any accusation. He merely wanted to come over for a quiet cup of tea, and discuss the matter sensibly, like adults.

  • James Kelley

    So how did he manage to find the troll’s home address?

    • Gilbert Wham

      Offered a grand to anyone who’d dox him, far as I can tell. Maltego’s fun, if you wanna find people like, but it’s difficult to enter the commands for transforms with gloves on…

  • Alan Olsen

    It would have been even better if the boxer’s nickname was “The Viper”.

    (Yes I know that joke is obscure.)

    • Gilbert Wham

      I got it ;)

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Is there a child in the English-speaking world who hasn’t told that joke?

      • Donald Petersen

        I must admit, I haven’t heard that one in a long, long time.

        And now I am reminded that I haven’t been a child in a long, long time.

      • Gilbert Wham

        Was the Tiny Tim album I heard it on first.

  • http://twitter.com/sodiumlights Sodium

    I have no time for trolls of any type, but I really wish I could understand why this is getting so much positive press.

    Yes, he said he was going over “for a brew” but he also promised that “we” would give the guy “a pasting”. Which would be “beating the shit out of”. That’s a threat of violence and premeditation from a guy who has spent a significant amount of time specifically training himself to hurt people as much as possible with his fists.

    He turned up on this troll’s doorstep with nothing but some random person’s word that it was the right address. Fancy having him appearing on your doorstep?

    • http://twitter.com/megrar meg gandy

      i would love to have a brew with a boxer.

    • James Kelley

      I’d say if you don’t want to get your teeth kicked in, don’t troll people.

      • EvilSpirit

        At least when a *boxer* hurts people for pure sport, they generally consented.

        • James Kelley

          It sounds like the troll was practically begging for it.

          • EvilSpirit

            Edited to emphasize the word “boxer,” which was the distinction I intended.

          • James Kelley

            I understood your statement as it was intended, but felt that the troll had welcomed the response.  

            If you don’t want a boxer coming to your home to kick the shit out of you, then don’t publicly taunt him.

  • RElgin

    This is way funny; I can imagine the tweets “I’m halfway there; just stopped the car to tweet this~ wouldnt want to kill anyone while tweeting”

    Safety first. ^_^