The Star Wars Kid

[thaiboxerken]

This site rocks!

http://www.jedimaster.net/

[Attrayant]

So that's what happened to Jedi Knight.

[Crossdress]

ha ha I can't get enough of that crazy thing.

[Crossdress]

i can't seem to find that latest version.

[Crossdress]

i I see I found it. I want to make my own.

[thrombus29]

Now I feel sorry for the poor bastard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3095385.stm

[thaiboxerken]

I don't. If that fat kid can't laugh at himself, that's his problem. No laws were broken here.

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
I don't. If that fat kid can't laugh at himself, that's his problem. No laws were broken here.
I'm not sure about that; if the video was stolen and used without his consent there may indeed be laws broken.

[malaka]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
I don't. If that fat kid can't laugh at himself, that's his problem. No laws were broken here.

When I originally saw this, I laughed, forwarded it on to my friends...and felt bad for the kid.

Not his friends, not his school, not his town, not the U.S., but the world is laughing at, not with him. No fat, 15 year old kid can handle that.

[thaiboxerken]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin

I'm not sure about that; if the video was stolen and used without his consent there may indeed be laws broken.

It seems to me that it was a tape they found, not stole. Does one really need permission to air a publicly found tape?

[thaiboxerken]

Originally posted by malaka


When I originally saw this, I laughed, forwarded it on to my friends...and felt bad for the kid.

Not his friends, not his school, not his town, not the U.S., but the world is laughing at, not with him. No fat, 15 year old kid can handle that.

LOL. None at all, eh? Yea, the world is laughing at him.. But, they are also signing a petition to try and get him a cameo on the next Star Wars movie.

What does being fat have to do with this anyway??

If it were me, I'd be a little embarrassed at first, then I'd enjoy the fame. Heck, the kid could probably be on talk shows now.

[Voob]

It would be awesome if George Lucas gave him a cameo in the next Star Wars movie--preferably in a scene that made him look cool.

Alas, it will never happen.--Hey, the movie's probably already done anyway.

I'm glad no one made any videos of my broomstick Kiss concerts in front of the mirror.

[Leif Roar]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken

It seems to me that it was a tape they found, not stole. Does one really need permission to air a publicly found tape?

Yes, you do. For one thing, a publicly found tape doesn't belong to the finder and for another the creator of the video has copyright to the work.

[malaka]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
But, they are also signing a petition to try and get him a cameo on the next Star Wars movie.

I, too, think that would be great. However, it does not undo damage done.

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
What does being fat have to do with this anyway??

Nothing. Except you used the same word:

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
If that fat kid can't laugh at himself, that's his problem.

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
If it were me, I'd be a little embarrassed at first, then I'd enjoy the fame.

I take it you're not a 15 year old kid in middle/high school.

[thaiboxerken]

Originally posted by Leif Roar


Yes, you do. For one thing, a publicly found tape doesn't belong to the finder and for another the creator of the video has copyright to the work.

The kid didn't buy the tape, did he? The kid didn't purposely tape himself. The tape was an accidently recorded thing. It seems to me that the kids that put the video on the internet actually always owned the tape. But, that's all legal talk. I don't think that the kids did anything wrong.

[thaiboxerken]

I, too, think that would be great. However, it does not undo damage done.

The only damage done is by the kids own perceptions. If he can't take a joke, too bad.


I take it you're not a 15 year old kid in middle/high school.

Nope, but I was at one time. I have no sympathy for "victims" of this caliber. Sticks and stones.

[RSLancastr]

Originally posted by thaiboxerken
The kid didn't purposely tape himself. The tape was an accidently recorded thing.Where did you hear/read this? Everything I've read is to the contrary.

[thaiboxerken]

Yep, looks like I was wrong about the nature of the recording. I still don't think that the kid and his parents have been wronged enough for them to file a law suit.

[Sundog]

A little off-topic but funny:

When I was in L.A. in the mid-Eighties, my band was booked to play all winter in Waikiki, a story I've related before.

The part of the story I never told was that our bass player couldn't make it (his wife said "no" - loser! :D ) so we had to find a replacement in a big hurry.

We couldn't be picky; we auditioned a half-dozen in one day and picked one because he knew most of the music. We didn't realize that we had let a very strange person into our little circle.

He insisted that everyone call him Luke Skywalker, his "stage name". He looked, acted and talked like a complete hick. He was a Star Wars FANATIC, and could be trusted to turn any conversation around to that subject.

Just a few things I remember about him:

He was a right-wing nutcase that thought we should pre-emptively nuke the Soviet Union. He even had a song he kept playing for us called "First Strike".

He would tell us stories from his childhood that all had the same theme: terrible retribution for those who crossed him in any way. One of my favorites was that he put a kid in the hospital by hitting him in the head with a brick. The kid had teased him or something.

The FIRST thing he did in Hawaii was hire a hooker to be his "girlfriend". This absolutely cracked us all up because here he was PAYING for a borderline-pretty girl when the streets and beaches were literally FULL of beautiful, bored women. (The girl had enough of him and left him after a while.)

I had just bought my first computer: a Timex-Sinclair Z-80 if anyone remembers it. He wanted to check it out, and I let him; he raved about how cool it was. When I looked at his "program" it was all comment lines.

Remember the old puzzle that goes "If a brick weighs five pounds plus half its total weight, what does the brick weigh?" I won't spoil the answer if this is a new one for you, but he INSISTED that the answer was 7 1/2 pounds and that all of us didn't have enough math for him to explain why. Apparently more than my calculus was required to follow his reasoning.

That was the summer that Dragon's Lair appeared; remember? He could be found at almost any hour of the day pumping all his money into that game. We estimate he spent hundreds on it. Yes, we were being well paid, but still.

This guy is who I picture every time I hear a story like this.