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05-09-2009, 02:09 AM
Many of you have been aware of the story regarding 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby, the teenager "supposedly" having his Constitutional rights violated by the Feds and the Patriot Act. Well now the FACTS concerning the details of Ashton's activities and arrest are now coming out, after all the public outcry for his release, and it doesn't look good for young Ashton OR his mother. Seems his mother was NOT only aware of her son's activities but is NOW trying to poo poo off her son's ILLEGAL and DANGEROUS activities as FUNNY!! Of course this WASN'T the picture she tried to paint when going public and arousing the public's anger over her son's alledged ABUSE by the Feds. We also know now that Ashton was charging and getting PAID for his "funny pranks" as well.
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*Mom Outraged by Son's Arrest Reportedly Knew of His Web Stardom for Phone Threats*
When a North Carolina woman accused the federal government last week of abusing the Patriot Act to imprison her teenage son for allegedly making bomb threats, the mother's allegation caused quite an uproar, including calls to free 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby.
But a new report by Wired News suggests that, not only was the teenager an online superstar in rogue tech communities for his prank phone calls, but his mother may have known all along that the boy was conspiring with others to make bomb threats.
Lundeby, known online as "Tyrone," allegedly had progressed into selling his services as a threatmaker, charging schoolchildren from across the country $5 apiece to place threatening, Internet-based phone calls that would cause administrators to shut down their schools, Wired News reports.
"*I heard the prank phone calls he made," his mother, Annette Lundeby, said in the Wired report. "They were really funny prank calls."*
On top of that, the U.S. Attorney's office handling the case says her story about abuse of the Patriot Act was false.
On March 5, FBI agents took Ashton Lundeby into custody at his Oxford, N.C., home and placed him in a federal juvenile facility in Indiana, where he remains on charges he made bomb threats against Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and other schools. . .
Ashton Lundeby was charged under a long-standing law against making threats, and "this charge is unrelated to the Patriot Act," the statement says.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519570,00.html
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This article includes videos of young Ashton in action, which I did not take the time to see as I'm still mulling over the statement "there is NO cure for Stupidity" or maybe "Stupid only begets Stupidity."
I hope they throw the book at this kid AND his mother!! Just think of the tax dollars wasted and all the resources misapportioned and pulled from REAL emergencies to address this kid's income-producing hobby and this mother's POOR sense of humor!!
More... (http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?t=242313&goto=newpost)
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*Mom Outraged by Son's Arrest Reportedly Knew of His Web Stardom for Phone Threats*
When a North Carolina woman accused the federal government last week of abusing the Patriot Act to imprison her teenage son for allegedly making bomb threats, the mother's allegation caused quite an uproar, including calls to free 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby.
But a new report by Wired News suggests that, not only was the teenager an online superstar in rogue tech communities for his prank phone calls, but his mother may have known all along that the boy was conspiring with others to make bomb threats.
Lundeby, known online as "Tyrone," allegedly had progressed into selling his services as a threatmaker, charging schoolchildren from across the country $5 apiece to place threatening, Internet-based phone calls that would cause administrators to shut down their schools, Wired News reports.
"*I heard the prank phone calls he made," his mother, Annette Lundeby, said in the Wired report. "They were really funny prank calls."*
On top of that, the U.S. Attorney's office handling the case says her story about abuse of the Patriot Act was false.
On March 5, FBI agents took Ashton Lundeby into custody at his Oxford, N.C., home and placed him in a federal juvenile facility in Indiana, where he remains on charges he made bomb threats against Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and other schools. . .
Ashton Lundeby was charged under a long-standing law against making threats, and "this charge is unrelated to the Patriot Act," the statement says.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519570,00.html
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This article includes videos of young Ashton in action, which I did not take the time to see as I'm still mulling over the statement "there is NO cure for Stupidity" or maybe "Stupid only begets Stupidity."
I hope they throw the book at this kid AND his mother!! Just think of the tax dollars wasted and all the resources misapportioned and pulled from REAL emergencies to address this kid's income-producing hobby and this mother's POOR sense of humor!!
More... (http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?t=242313&goto=newpost)