Star Wars Kid sues classmates

[Ming Yue]

I copied this from an article in Wired:

Many of you will be familiar with the "Star Wars Kid" video. For those who aren't, it was a home video of a Canadian teenager apparently pretending he was a Jedi, waving a stick and doing his own sound effects. It was not a particularly pretty piece of footage, and obviously wasn't intended for public consumption.

The video, after being uploaded to the net by the teenager's classmates, made rapid progress around the world. An edited version, featuring light-saber effects and a musical backing, shortly followed.

Ghyslain was so teased about the video, he dropped out of school and finished the semester at a children's psychiatric ward, according to a lawsuit filed in the Raza's hometown of Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

According to the suit, "Ghyslain had to endure, and still endures today, harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large." He "will be under psychiatric care for an indefinite amount of time."


For more information, see the Wired News article.

---apparently i'm naive, but i felt pretty sure he was involved in the release of that video.

[chen zhen]

The next Columbine incident will arrive soon..

[sakko]

This poor kid has 0 self esteem... he's funny as hell, he should just roll with it

[TonyM.]

I laughed at Cindi Lauper's ridiculous dancing in her videos. (the worst I've ever seen barring a six year olds tantrums) sheeesh!
Can't wait for the law suit.
P.S. I'm now rethinking my anti ritalin position.

[red5angel]

first of all, going to a psychiatric ward for some teasing is lame, of course he does live ina socialist country...

second of all, I still don't get why that video was such a big deal. Some kid being a kid was all I saw. Fukk if I went crazy everytime someone laughed at me as a kid then maybe I should go psycho. Instead I learned kungfu so I could reap my revenge.

[Ming Yue]

Red 5, there's a difference between being teased by kids at your school and being recognized and ridiculed wherever you go. All the kids in his town rail him, all the time. He could probably leave the country and still have people recognize him from that video. It crosses the line from teasing to slander and defamation, regardless of his age. He didn't consent to publish that video, nor did his parents.

if being teased at school was enough to warrant suing someone, I bet we'd all be able to cook up quite a class action suit.


I laughed at the video too, and I also saw it as a kid being a kid, I actually kind of dug his bravado.

[red5angel]

all I am saying Ming Yue is I blame canada.

[Oso]

Sheila(Kyle's mom):Times have changed,
our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents they just wan't to **** and curse

Mrs. Marsh: Should we blame the government? Ms. Cartman: Or blame society?

Boys fathers: Or should
we blame the images on TV?


Sheila(Kyle's mom):
No,blame Canada, blame Canada
With all thier beedy little eyes have packed thier heads so full of lies, blame Canada, blame Canada,
we need to form a full assault its canadas fault

Mrs. Marshon't blame me for my son Stan he saw the darn cartoon and now hes of to join the klan

Ms. Cartman: And my boy Eric once had my picture on his shelf but now when I see him he tells me to **** myself

Shelia: Well? Blame Canada, blame Canada, it seems that everythings gone wrong since Canada came along, blame
Canada, blame Canada
Copy shop attendent:They're not even a real country
anyway

Mrs. McCormic!
k:
My son could have been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbeque
Crowd: Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed
him to expire

Sheila: Heck no, blame Canada, blame Canada, with all their hockey hollabaloo

Ms. Cartman: And that ***** Ann Murray too Everyone: Blame Canada, shame on Canada, for the smut we must stuff the
trash we must stash the laughter and **** must all be undone we must blame them the cause of fuss before
somebody thinks of blaming us

[Oso]

I tol ya'll it were wrong to be makin fun o dat kid

ule be sorre when he pres'dent o' de world.

[Ming Yue]

lol I was waiting for the "I told you so"...

what did you do, eat a jamaican witchdoctor for lunch?



Red5
well as long as we're pointing the finger at another country, that's ok. I also think Global warming is canada's fault.

[red5angel]

agreed. Canada = Global Warming

[Evad]

Geez imagine what else that poor kid would have endured had he also been a Shaolin-Do Student!?

[David Jamieson]

The kid was interviewed by waxy.org and made no intimations that he was harrassed in school or elsewhere.

He (Ghyslain) also stated that he thought some of the redos of his film were "pretty cool". IN particular he like the star wars light sabre additions and the matrix version as well.

By the way, Ghyslain was pulled form school by his parents and it was his parents who initiated the lawsuit.

Methinks the parents were more humiliated than Ghyslain. Ghyslain got a free iPod delivered to him for being so cool about the vid release and he also received approximately 2000$ worth of future shop vouchers!

To bad those adults just don't have the sense of self-deprecating humour that ghyslain has. Just shows how petty people can be, and greedy as well. I think his folks just want to cash in on this for some chest puffing grief they have had to withstand.

grrr- stupid.

cheers

[PHILBERT]

I read an article on this a few months back about the lawsuit, and to be honest, his friends tried to keep the computer he got. Ya see, $5000 was raised to buy him some IBook or something, and after the money got raised, his friends tried to get it shipped to one of them and not him. So even then his "friends" were being selfish little turds. I hope he wins, I hope he gets the $250,000 and those little snots have to pay up. They had no right what-so-ever to take his video and put it online and I'm glad they are being sued up the wazoo.

[Mr Punch]

Good for the kid, tho it sounds more like the parents being money-grabbing weasels. Kid's probably got more fortitude than them, esp if he doesn't really give a monkey's.

It was **** funny tho!