RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| star wars kid's parents file lawsuit against kids that showed no remorse |
 When
I first saw the video tape of that fat kid that is now known world
wide as "that star wars kid"
I didn't even think it was that funny.
Fat kid, alone in the television/radio department with a camera taping
himself fighting imaginary Jedi with his double-bladed light saber
disguised as a broom stick.
Ok, who hasn't done that?
But now that I found out that his parents are suing the classmates that posted the mpeg video online and claiming that the kid's in psychiatric care over the humiliation over it all…now I think it is hilarious.
Does that make me a bad guy?
The parents of Ghyslain Raza aka "Star
War Kid" are suing four classmates for what they say was
maliciously turning their son into "an
object of mockery".
They say that they have message board conversations complete with
misspellings, bad grammar and cyber-style acronyms, which they intend
to use as evidence that the boys that posted the video on the internet
lacked remorse.
The way I see it, the video of this kid jumping around Jedi sword
fighting with his broomstick has been downloaded millions of times
from several web sites for a reason.
It wasn't because millions of people hate their fat kid.
It was because the video was funny.
Not so much to me at first but I was a little slow to come around.
Plus he did it. No one put a gun to his head and made him make that
film.
It's not like these kids walked up to his house and caught him in the backyard fighting Sith and then secretly filmed him. That would be different.
His parents are acting like someone filmed their kid jacking off on
the dog or something.
Stories about this film were reported on web site's and in newspapers all over the world from the New York Times to the New Zealand Herald.
I want to know why this kid didn't turn his 15 mins of fame into something
he could've profited from. If he would've just laughed it off, accepted
that he had Lou he could be doing his little Jedi broomstick bit on
a Nickelodeon commercial right now and getting paid for it.
I showed it to 300 lbs. Jesus last night and he was wiping away the
tears from his eyes he was laughing so hard.
And that was before I told him the story about the parents suing the
class mate's families.
 I was debating whether or not I should include the original mpeg file with this article but then I started thinking, I don't want these parents suing me too.
So instead I'll just include a screen caption or two.
And for the record, its not to give this kid any more grief. It's
just because when possible I like to include cool photos with my articles.
(Smile)
Ghyslain "will be under psychiatric
care for an indefinite amount of time," the statement
of claim says.
This is where they lose me. His parents claim that he was so widely
mocked at his private high school that he dropped out.
Damn, kid lighten up.
Sure, you have Lou. You act like this is the first time you've been
teased.
Just looking at him, this isn't new territory for this kid.
"The stigma of mental illness can generate
social prejudices having severe consequences" on the young
man, including making it more difficult for him to enroll in the school
of his choice or get a job, or even forcing him to change his name,
the document added. "Ghyslain had to endure, and still endures today, harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large," it said.
The Razas are seeking $225,000 in damages from the parents of four teenagers: Michaël Caron, François Labarre, Jérôme Laflamme and Jean-Michel Rheault.
The parents should be seeking a percentage of the profits. If those
kids were smart they would've sold this video.
What still kills me is the "they lacked
remorse" part. So what?
I've said this before and I'll say it again. Kids nowadays just seem
to be pussy. I was teased growing up. Most people were. Sure, I didn't
like it. I'm not saying being called skinny, toothpick, Gandhi or
any of the multitudes of other unimaginative things they used to call
me was the highlight of my day but I damn sure wasn't popping Prozac
because of it.
I wasn't loading up my father's shotgun to bring to school and kill
my classmates either.
Should I be proud of that? I didn't know I was accomplishing some
amazing feat of human resolve by just saying, "this sucks and
moving on with my life".
How the hell do we manage to send people into combat during war if
people are going crazy over being embarrassed.
While the video of Ghyslain's battle to the death with the forces of justice throughout the universe generated some funny Internet comments I felt that should've been expected. What wasn't expected was that some people felt bad for the kid and started raising money for him online. One group collected more than $3,000 (U.S.), for his fat ass and used it to buy Star War kid an Apple iPod.
Shit I wish when those girls caught me and my friends climbing in a garbage dumpster, in broad daylight, to pull out a 50 gallon fish tank that someone had thrown away, I wish someone would have taped that and I could've gotten an Apple iPod out of it.
Do I wish we all lived in a world where no one ever got teased?
Sure.
But then so would go all the best jokes. |
