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Dear Switched commenters: please think twice before verbally bashing someone online! We have to imagine that there are more people out there like 25-year-old Breana Greathouse, who traveled over 200 miles with a gun in her hand to kill someone who was mean to her on the Internet.Breana (which we've also seen spelled "Briana") was apprehended on Wednesday morning in Ottumwa, Iowa after coming all the way from Kansas City, Missouri to allegedly kill a man named Forrest Jamison, because "she believed that he made derogatory postings about her on the Internet," according to a statement by Ottumwa police. She's currently being held in jail on a $35,000 cash bond, although her mother Susan Greathouse -- who was also arrested for calling and harassing Jamison -- posted bond yesterday.
No one's sure where these postings were published, or what they said, but we've seen the dark hearts of Web commenters before, and we're pretty sure it wasn't "omg ur so adorbz." (We did manage to find Jamison's MySpace page, as well as a possibly unrelated but highly suspicious series of postings against "Breanna Greathouse" and about someone named "Forrest Jamison" on the Underground Hip Hop Forums. The angry sentiment and timing seem to fit, but we can't be sure.)
The irony, as Gawker points out, is that everyone's just going to hop straight to the comment boards to say something horrible about Greathouse. But don't do it! We're not condoning her actions in the slightest, but cyberbullying is out of control. PEOPLE, PLEASE BE NICE! Thank you, and have a wonderful day.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentswgp516Oct 1st 2010 5:19PM
@(Unverified)
HAHA, not anymore. She's now a felon!
trbgdOct 1st 2010 4:34PM
where is the FCC..........they really need to monitor the internet
sgentilejrOct 1st 2010 5:19PM
She is not alone___millions of people are playing the Game of Life without a full deck of cards. Her mother reacting poorly is to be expected, since insanity runs in families.
Look at the nut case in NJ who killed himself recently because his gay encounter was caught on tape and posted online. Sane people do not kill themselves over something like that. There are millions of gay male and gay female videos, sex videos online and his was just one in a million like videos___nothing even noteworthy or special.
anonOct 1st 2010 6:15PM
internet is srs business
JTOct 1st 2010 7:06PM
Did it say what trailer park she came from? I hope her tubes are tied.
zmg88Oct 1st 2010 7:25PM
Wow...I guess I better not say anything.
JonOct 1st 2010 7:52PM
They left one important fact out of this article. How did the cops know she was driving 200 miles with a gun to kill this guy?
BruceOct 1st 2010 7:54PM
The young man from New Jersey who committed suicide and who is referred to by a commentor as a "nut case" was too immature for such a relationship, and not necessarily mentally deranged as suggested by the Poster. Had the young man posessed the wisdom of maturity, he would have remained relatively calm and contacted an attorney immediately to file suit against the perpetrators for having invaded his privacy with the intent to demean his character and expose him to ridicule. Believe me, there are THOUSANDS of attorneys in the Northeast alone who would have immediately seized (and who will still do so if given the opportunity) the opportunity to represent the young man, even pro bono, in such lawsuit for the publicity alone, let alone for a percentage of a possibly huge cash award from the Court for such damages!! The above comment describing the young man, who by all accounts from those who knew him was a decent person, as a "nut case" is further evidence of such damage to his good name and reputation. Of course that option to file such a lawsuit, which would undoubtedly result in a landmark decision regarding such bullying and demeaning behavior on the part of the perpetrators, is still available to the young man's family. Hopefully they will choose that avenue and file suit to produce such decision to help reduce and hopefully eliminate a significant amount of such belittling intolerance, which has become much too prevalent in the U.S.!
tdu1vmeOct 1st 2010 7:56PM
Testing.
frankberanOct 6th 2010 1:14PM
Breana Greathole is so stupid she can't even spell her own first name correctly. Try spell check or Tina,Trina or Katrina moron.
Eroded FallacyOct 6th 2010 1:03PM
Wow this is getting crazy. I guess some people just take things to the heart way too much.
hshamdasOct 7th 2010 10:53AM
Two wrongs don't make a right. This woman was unstable and allowed a loser to impact her. Quit using Cyber bullying to blame everything on other mean spirited low life losers. If you are offended don't respond at all and they'll have nothing else to do. Now she's paying for a crime at his expense. What an idiot!
FAR602Oct 7th 2010 3:56PM
crazy breezy! I got somethin for ya!
yooyOct 8th 2010 2:10PM
@(Unverified) Ottumwa, Iowa ! OMG, What would Radar O'Reilly say ? "Ottumwa, Iowa, I hardly know ye." ?
KhalithOct 18th 2010 8:41PM
This whole "cyberbullying" stuff is not out of hand at all. It's the internet, it is a dark place filled with trolls, jerks, and various sexual deviants. Get thicker skin or go away.