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    Do you have "Web Rage?"

    For the first time a man was charged and convicted of "web rage." This is like road rage, but on the internet. I guess people really get mad! Well, this guy took it to the next level.

    [IMGL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/11/17/uwebrage.jpg[/IMGL]The first person to be charged with a "web rage" attack was jailed for two and a half years today.

    Tempers flared after Paul Gibbons, 47, and John Jones, 43, exchanged insults in an Internet chatroom, an Old Bailey judge was told.

    After tracing Mr Jones to his home address in Clacton, Gibbons armed himself with a pickaxe handle and, accompanied by a man with a machete, travelled 70 miles to the Essex seaside town in December 2005.

    When they arrived, Mr Jones, whose girlfriend and three children were in the house, opened the door holding a knife for protection.

    A fight broke out in which Mr Jones was disarmed and then beaten with the pickaxe handle and cut with his own knife.

    Full story here.

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    That is freakin' SCARY! People need to take some Valiums instead of flying off the handle, no pun intended.

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    That is scary...Thanks Ed
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    That's hysterical actually ;) That should atleast teach one of them to be careful how they talk to people. Too many people think that because it's "online" that they say and do whatever they want...


    This should be a good lesson towards the fact that the are some psychos out there....so just because it's not "face-to-face"....be mindful of how you treat others....

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    Aren't humans supposed to be symmetrical?

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    Guess there is truth to the old saying "YOUR WORDS CAN COME BACK TO HAUNT YA." In this case literally as he got attacked with his own knife and a pickaxe.

    p.s. Sad things even come to this in the first place. I would like to know what the content of the argument was.

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