Web suicide watchers tough to prosecute

[ABC]

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A. Randall Haas, a criminal lawyer in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., believes that state law gives prosecutors plenty of room to charge someone with manslaughter in cases where someone allegedly "assists" a person with suicide or a death occurs because of someone's negligence. F

So if any of you were on the bodybuilding forum watching when this guy did his thing, you may be going to jail!

[dsuave624]

That's going to be hard to prove. How do they know that you were in front of the screen when I happened and didn't just leave the page up?

Now, if they were actively posting, egging him on, then they probably have a case.

[jiggy]

THat is so stupid. No one thought that guy was going to kill himself. We all would have done the same damn thing.

[Nismom]

Apparently, he had made ckaims before and, obviously, didn't carry them out, so how would they know he would this time? Attention whores are annoying. Like the stupid emo kid at Disneyland yesterday in his brown suit and tie and fedora. WTF is wrong with you people?!?!?

[Serg Zone]

It's quite amazing how the family of the guy was "unaware" that he attempted to commit suicide numerous times. Same with the guy @ Virginia Tech. The relatives float in the clouds and think everything's perfect until shit hits the fan. So they find somebody to blame. Someone had to be wrong. I don't care if they decide to prosecute or not, but if they do and they fail, the judge ought to quadruple their court fines and multiply by 10 so that someone learns that being a depressed shitbag who pushes his gloomy thoughts about suicide onto everyone else, whether they want it or not, carries consequences.