Nov 2 2010Facebook Troll Gets 18 Weeks In Slammer
An unemployed British troll who primarily attacked on Facebook has been sentenced to jail time for his harassment. No word on how trolls are treated in the clink, but I'm hoping poorly. And not just because I hate trolls, but you know the biggest goat from Three Billy Goats Gruff -- the one that tosses that little green freak off the bridge? That was me.
...36-year-old Colm Coss has been jailed for 18 weeks after trolling Facebook memorial sites and posting "abusive messages." He was charged after sending letters to neighbors containing his address, photos of himself and bragging about being a troll.
Coss, who lives in Manchester, apparently liked to create fake Facebook accounts and mess with people on tribute sites for the late British reality star Jade Goody and John Paul Massey, a kid who had been mauled to death by a dog. Mess how? Well, apparently Coss liked to tell his new Facebook friends that he'd had sex with Goody and Massey's corpses.Which is, don't get me wrong, totally gross and weird, but... did the Brits really make it illegal? Ha, duh, it's the U.K., of course they did. The Communications Act of 2003 outlaws "sending malicious communications that [are] grossly offensive."
WOW. It takes a real sicko to pull something like that. Also, apparently a lot of time, which explains why guy couldn't have a job. Did I say couldn't? I meant he got fired from being a forest ranger for having sex with trees. "I Colm Coss the bark makes my wienie feel good." BOOM -- CONSIDER YOURSELF TROLLED, AMATEUR!
Man Thrown in Jail for Trolling Facebook Pages [gawker]
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Picture (Illustration of Three Billy Goats Gruff)
Thanks to mikoboy, who doesn't troll as much as he gnomes. I don't even know what that means but you better not do it on Geekologie.
Reader Comments
1. naas - November 2, 2010 2:57 PM
troll justice served
2. catch22 - November 2, 2010 2:57 PM
good... leave him there to rot
3. Woll - November 2, 2010 2:58 PM
Trolling shouldn't be illegal, I mean it's stupid, yes, but it shouldn't be illegal.
4. gizmoduck - November 2, 2010 2:59 PM
lol...
Nerds
5. ShabbyOrange - November 2, 2010 3:16 PM
Good olde Uk.
6. algae_girl - November 2, 2010 3:18 PM
Hate to be the wrong kind of geek here, but could you cite your illustration?
7. Jas - November 2, 2010 3:22 PM
I dunno... doing something like this is REALLY bad form....
so bad it's worth jail time! I guess persistently doing it, and creating new accounts for it makes it a long term, pattern etc and perhaps he is a risk to the public's "mental/emotional" safety...
Just a guess...
8. McFeely Smackup - November 2, 2010 3:23 PM
"sending malicious communications that [are] grossly offensive."
uh...ok. That pretty much describes 90% of the internet.
@6, it seems to be an illustration of the "Three Billy Goats Gruff" fairy tale, although artist unknown.
9. Jas - November 2, 2010 3:24 PM
I DO wonder what gnoming would be.... any thoughts???
10. Dman - November 2, 2010 3:39 PM
Really soon the bullys at school yards across america will be put in jail. Where does it end?
11. Dishy - November 2, 2010 3:42 PM
I once tried to be a troll but ended up an internet faerie. What the puck?
12. FDSY - November 2, 2010 3:49 PM
Jailers be jailin'
13. Dishy - November 2, 2010 3:56 PM
I'm not a troll, more of a bigfoot. Except not my foot, another part of my anatomy.
14. heinrich1138 - November 2, 2010 4:10 PM
Isn't saying "british troll" redundant?
15. Storm - November 2, 2010 4:37 PM
The UK has a lot of bullsh*t laws like this one. The US does too but this is just retarded.
16. WFDT - November 2, 2010 4:44 PM
No one makes hooligans like the British. They still own the world in this regard.
17. DrNecropolis - November 2, 2010 4:55 PM
Bah, Necrophilia is hardly offensive. Underage-necrophilic-bestiality-bondage, now we're starting to get offensive!
18. naas - November 2, 2010 5:03 PM
munging is offensive
19. Shelbon - November 2, 2010 5:04 PM
I hate the word troll has come to have this meaning.
20. kevkev - November 2, 2010 5:29 PM
lawl at bad troll bein a bad troll, he prolly used his real name/other info, like a noob troll does, and if you dont like the term troll TAKE IT BACK LIKE IM TAKING BACK CRACKHEAD yah is ein cack in my head
21. brian - November 2, 2010 5:41 PM
TROLLLLL IN THE DUNGEON TROLLLLL IN THE DUNGEON
22. ElectricMonkey - November 2, 2010 5:41 PM
So what if he really did have sex with them corpses? Then he wouldn'tbe a troll, right? Just a proud necrophile with an internet connection that's all, way to make such a fuzz about it.
23. Chundermutton - November 2, 2010 7:11 PM
Neither this nor the original bbc report say what he was jailed for - it's implied that it was for trollin', but it could be unrelated.
24. Happitec - November 2, 2010 7:12 PM
Owned. Going to jail and getting ass raped isn't much of a reward for being a dickhead on the internet.
Hope it was worth it.
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26. tardislego - November 2, 2010 10:41 PM
does that mean they can finally arrest that Phelps guy (not the swimmer) and his crazy church
27. b(^-^b) - November 3, 2010 12:49 AM
I will now compose a tribute song to this poor fellow. Similar to Sublime's - Date Rape.
28. fly - November 3, 2010 2:58 AM
OH, JUST NIKE... SO HOT , SO CHEAP, COME ON , COME ON
29. Drum - November 3, 2010 6:50 AM
Meh, he deserved it. There's trolling and then there's going out your way to mock somebody because their kid has died. Hope he gets a kicking in jail.
30. F-Obomma - November 3, 2010 8:18 AM
wow, you can go to jail for sending an offensive message? But you can avoid recall or impeachment when you push through a disastrous health care bill that over 70% of the public was adamantly against?
31. spoons - November 3, 2010 9:29 AM
So retarded. Typical UK what a disgusting country. I hope a heap of people go on trolling rampages now. How are they gonna lock up half of the Internets if they do. Idiots.
32. David - November 3, 2010 1:17 PM
Bad troll, bad troll. What you going to do when they come for you?!
33. ciao - November 3, 2010 2:43 PM
I wonder if they had tried banning his IP address, prior to locking the fella up? For a person who would sit at the desk all day at home, they're not likely to take the imitative to use another computer.
It seems like a fitting punishment, and can be used as an example for other trolls.
34. Sen'jin - November 3, 2010 5:20 PM
Does anyone know what a troll is? I know trolls aren't real
35. ghost - November 4, 2010 2:39 AM
This is flaming, not trolling.
Trolling is subtle, an apparently innocent question or statement. A tiny spark that lights the touchpaper.
This is frank abuse
36. Anonymous - November 4, 2010 6:39 AM
I guess someone called the cyber police.
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38. Rock N Troll - November 5, 2010 11:36 AM
I had sex with their corpses as well.
39. trollette - November 8, 2010 2:58 PM
@26
Phelps and his Westoboro Baptist church members are actually banned from entering the UK for "fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence"
Thank you Wikipedia.
40. plastic - December 30, 2010 2:22 PM
@39
wikipedia tells lies half of the time child