Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Informative)
Check out this recent lawsuit [justia.com] and its defendents:
George W Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Condeleza Rice, Donald H Rumsfeld, John W Snow, Unknown Authors, Carlos M Gutierrez, Michael O Leavitt, Elaine Chao, Stephen L Johnson, Margaret Spellings, Samuel W Bodman, Norman Y Mineta, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Hoffa, www.GOOGLE.com, Benedict, XVI, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jerry West, www.ACCUWEATHER.com, Usama Bin Laden, William Gates, Hugo Chavez, John Deere, Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, Island Def Jam Music Group, Roc-A Fella Records, Shawn Carter, Queen of England, Jo Anne B Barnhart, Steven Spielberg, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc, Japan's Nikkei Stock Exchange, Gambino, Three Mile Island, Kofi Annaan, Tony Danza, Islamic Republic of Iran, Don King Productions Inc, Paris Hilton, Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witness, Jose Padilla, University of Miami, Geico Insurance, Vienna Convention, Matt Drudge, Marion Blakey, Consulate General of Nigeria, The Salvation Army, Jewish State of "Israel", John E Potter, Soledad O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, Magna Carta, Tsunami victims, Alan Greenspan, American Red Cross, Mark Emerson, Jessica Alba, Sirius Satellite Radio, Charles Moose, Dalai Lama, Houston Chronicle, Al Qaeda Islamic Army, Fruit of A-Loom, American Civil Liberties Union, Out-Back Steakhouse, Donald J Trump, Chris Berman, Vatican, The, Shawn John Combs, Michael Brown, Vincent K McMahon, Taliban, The, Richard M Daley, Meals on Wheels, John Grisham, Columbine High School, Ariel Sharon, United Parcel Service, Tara Reid, Black Entertainment Television Inc, Saddam Hussein, Jewish Workers, Brad Pitt, Jack Welch, Elizabeth Smart, George E Pataki, Charlie Sheen, Surgeon General, The, Vladimir Putin, Oliver North, George Orwell, www.ASKJEEVES.com, Sean O'Keefe, Various Buddhist Monks, www.SECUREDPARTY.com, I Lewis Libby, Warren Buffett, Sierra Club, John D Negroponte, Christina Applegate, Jewish Mossad, National Vanguard Books, Air and Space Museum, Christopher Reeves, Gale A Norton, Halliburton Company, Kellogg Brown & Root, John Walsh, Mein Kampf, City of Crawford Texas, John P Abizaid, Venus Williams, www.DEFCON.org, John Dudas, Medieval Times, International Trade Commission, Anna Nichole Smith, United States Marine Corps, William F Buckley, Denny's, Brotherhood of the Snake, Larry King, Charles E Schumer, Rastafarian Natives, Spencer Abraham, Rollingstone Magazine, Monogram Bank of Georgia, Grace Jones, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, Planet Hollywood, Joseph H Boardman, Marshall Bruce Mathers, III, Uliminati,Founder Adam Weishaupt, The Apollo Theater, David W Anderson, Assistant Secretary For Indian Affairs, Jason Society, Wu Tang Clan, Wu-Wear Inc, Philip Purcell, CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Nordic Gods, Presidental Emergency Operation Center, Screen Actors Guild Inc, R James Nicholson, New York Stock Exchange Inc, The Da Vinci Code, Moorish Science Temple of America, Sears Tower, Mike Tyson, Native American Fish Society, Holocaust Survivors, Byzantine Republic Army, Dennis Hopper, Mt. Rushmore, Barbara Walters, First Presbyterian Church, Gordan R Sullivan, Yellow Cab Company, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, Michael Savage, Dennis Hastert, Green Bay's Lambeau Field, Slobodan Milosevic, Pizza Hut, King James Bible, Scott Peterson, Department of Housing and Urban Affiars, Smithsonian Institute, Robert C Bonner, Ming Dynasty, Ray Nagin, Barry Bonds, Thomas J Ridge, Jenna Bush, Gangs in Hong Kong, United Methodist Church, European Union, Porter Goss, Harrah's Las Vegas Inc, Grand Wizard of Ku Klux Klan, General Motors, Christopher Cox, Proctor & Gamble, Jewish Synagogue's, www.ebay.com, Knights of Malta, A
Re:Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I always thought Al Jazeera and Bumble Bee Tuna were connected somehow.
Finally, proof.
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Most people forget that important little "Home Depot" bridge between the two...
Common mistake. Don't beat yourself up about it.
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Uliminati
The secreter, shadowier even more scarier elite wing of the Illuminati? Maybe this guy is on to something! Or just on something.
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He's suing inanimate objects and fictional characters? Good luck with that!
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There's a journalist/reporter (CNN? NBC? Can't remember) named Miles O'Brien.
I saw him on the news a few times. Always good for a laugh.
Does GWB count as fictional or inanimate?
Re:Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Funny)
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Lawyers don't play the Kevin Bacon game anymore, they play the 1 degree of separation to Jonathan Lee Riches game.
Re:Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Except for Christina Applegate, Bob Barker, Green Bay's Lambeau Field, and Denny's I agree it is frivolous. I've been after those bums for years. I'm not sure what "Jewish Mossad" is though. Is there a "Hindu Mossad"?
His list of defendants reads like it was generated by the same program that generates spam.
Re:Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure what "Jewish Mossad" is though. Is there a "Hindu Mossad"?
Yes, there is. They are not as good at intelligence, but their song and dance routines are legendary.
check out the last order in this case (Score:5, Informative)
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Poor judge who has to deal with it and waste time on actually writing a full motion to dismiss the case [justia.com], including references to supreme court cases explaining what is delusional and what's not. A fun read nonetheless :).
Re:Please Don't Give This Man Attention! (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently he doesn't realize that when google lawbot indexes this, it is gonna toss out all these random keywords, right?
Or is there some secret message in there somewhere?
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You say "attention whore", I say "insane". (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, the guy is delusional. Insane. A nutter. Crazy. Over the rainbow. Bars in the window. Truly gone fishing. Out to lunch.
He's apeshit mad, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of his tree, psycho, he's round the bend, a schizo, a screwball, he has a screw loose, silly, touched, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, wacky.
(yes, much was copied and pasted from thesaurus.com)
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"Seriously, the guy is delusional. Insane. A nutter. Crazy. Over the rainbow. Bars in the window. Truly gone fishing. Out to lunch.
He's apeshit mad, barmy, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of his tree, psycho, he's round the bend, a schizo, a screwball, he has a screw loose, silly, t
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He might have a little trouble getting Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party into court, oh and Three Mile Island might be tricky, as would the Vienna Convention, Magna Carta, Tsunami victims, Jewish Workers, Various Buddhist Monks, Mein Kampf, Rastafarian Natives, Uliminati Founder Adam Weishaupt, Nordic Gods, The Da Vinci Code, Byzantine Republic Army, Mt. Rushmore, King James Bible, Ming Dynasty, Gangs in Hong Kong, Statue of Liberty, Geneva Convention, The World Court Hague, Yale Skull and Bones, City
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He must be lonely in prison.
Maybe we can arrange for him to get a new friend...
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I wonder if he could be transferred to an Alaska prison...
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I wonder if he could be transferred to an Alaska prison...
Nah. Just put him in a cell with an ex-lawyer from Florida.
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I wonder if he could be transferred to an Alaska prison...
Nah. Just put him in a cell with an ex-lawyer from Florida.
That would be classified as cruel and unusual punishment...
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Norse Gods! (Score:2)
Please tell me how I can find the part about the Norse Gods in some legal finding computer thingy !!
This has got to be infinitely quotable....
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Ok, I didn't find that but I did find his other law suit,
George Steinbrenner made me Surrender my Mind [thesmokinggun.com], in which
he says that he committed wire fraud with Steinbrenner's sons, and used the proceeds to finance A-Rod's contract purchase,
and:
Steinbrenner loves him, and calles him cake boy, sweet cheeks, and Jonny Choo Choo,
made him eat a banana in front of the 1998 Yankees, and I quote the rest:
"In a letter shaped as a heart, Steinbrenner wants me to replace Derick jeter at shortstop when I come home"
"Steinbren
Same thing happened to me after Metroid (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Same thing happened to me after Metroid (Score:5, Funny)
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Why doesn't anyone think of the children? ~
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I tried the same thing, but the court dismissed my suit calling it a "pre-existing condition". WTF, I thought that was just something my health insurance did!
Miscategorized (Score:5, Insightful)
This belongs in stupidpeople.slashdot.org, attentionwhores.slashdot.org, or the catch-all idle.slashdot.org, not games.slashdot.org.
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Is there a schizophrenics-exploited-by-unscrupulous-lawyers.slashdot.org?
Because after reading that summary I think that this guy is benefitted more by daily medication and a good psychiatrist.
Option past "dismissed" (Score:3, Funny)
Can a judge just say "fuck off already" to this kind of crap?
Re:Option past "dismissed" (Score:5, Funny)
Can a judge just say "fuck off already" to this kind of crap?
Talk about a campaign slogan. Vote Judge Common F. Sense in 2008! If you don't like it, fuck off!
I'd sure as hell vote for him.
Oblig. Idiocracy (Score:2)
"If you don't smoke Tarrytons, fuck you!"
and
"Carl's Jr... Fuck you! I'm eating!"
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Counter-suit (Score:5, Funny)
Can the judge sue Riches for being driven from having to read such drivel?
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From being driven INSANE from having to read such drivel.
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Can I sue because I had to read the poorly written summary?
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Apparently, they have fined him a few hundred dollars for previous "delusional" suits, and he now has to pre-pay a fee to file any more lawsuits, unless in "immediate physical danger". It's not exactly a counter-lawsuit, but it's pretty close :).
amazing how video games warp the mind but ads dont (Score:2, Insightful)
I, for one, want his number... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I, for one, want his number... (Score:5, Funny)
Move to germany.
Thats normal over there.
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.instantrimshot.com/ [instantrimshot.com]
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I recommend a rehabilitation program- play DOAX until you are comfortable with them wearing bikinis and jumping around.
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You've got it the wrong way round [disclose.tv], you insensitive clod.
When the death penalty is appropriate (Score:2)
Personally I'm against the death penalty as I think its state sanctioned murder. I do however believe in the right to self-defence and therefore I'd say that this is where the courts should be able to use the death penalty, as a punishment to those who waste their time with ridiculous lawsuits.
Imagine the scene.
Judge: Trivial lawsuit, I'm finding for the plantiff, awarding him costs and sentencing you to death for wasting my time
Its the self-defence of the justice system and would I think stop these cases
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Mint condition - never been used.
Thank goodness the election is over (Score:5, Funny)
Now we can get back to the quality stories that Slashdot is known for.
Because it's fun? (Score:5, Insightful)
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
So he's suing because he'd prefer to play the game than have a legit job? There are tons of things I'd rather do than my job, and my job isn't even all that bad. But here at work, I'd rather be watching a movie than doing my job. Yet here I am, at work.
... posting on Slashdot. Can I sue Slashdot for being more interesting than my job?
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*whoosh*----*boom*
The sound of the joke flying at mach two above your head.
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Legit job? The guy's an inmate. A criminal. I don't think this guy knows what "legit job" means. He's a parasite intent on taking the easy way out. (Yes, I'm making an enormous generalization here but I'm in a pissy mood so the outcome is I'm going to insult some dumbass crackpot criminal - sue me.)
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Of course, he's probably just a guy with a mental illness who got railroaded into the prison system instead of getting the treatment he needs, but don't let complications like that stop you from making enormous generalizations.
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Of course I'm sorry. Everyone who's convicted of a crime in the US is of course guilty of that crime, and mentally ill people never get sent to jail when they should be sent to a hospital. I'm glad you cleared that up for me.
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I think maybe, given his long record of frivolous and bizarre claims, that maybe there's some question as to whether he's competent enough to commit fraud, regardless of what a court has ruled on the matter.
Now having said that, I don't know the man or his case, and won't commit one way or the other to what, if anything may be wrong with him, but I will suggest that maybe some meds would help this guy out a lot, and might at the very least eliminate these bizarre lawsuits. Certainly he deserves better than
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Riches again? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm starting to think that Riches must be related to Jack Thompson...
If this "holds water" (Score:2)
It should probably be a class action...
Not that I think it should...
Sorry (Score:2, Insightful)
I feel sorry for the guy. He should be in a psychiatric ward, not a prison.
Has he even played the game? (Score:4, Informative)
Given his history when would he have been not in jail and playing the game in the last 4 years?
He gets out in 2012. I could not find the date he was committed.
"Riches has court cases in Pennsylvania dating back to 1996. In 1996 he was arrested for a bomb threat to Conestoga High School."
Re:Has he even played the game? - No (Score:4, Informative)
World of Warcraft Release date 2004-11-23
JLR was convicted of fraud in 2004 and incarcerated.
I can't find a date on it but unlikely he was caught and convicted between Nov 23 and the end of the year.
His release date is 2012-03-23. And he was sentenced to 8 years.
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He gets out in 2012
Right in time to fulfill the prophecies.
Re:Has he even played the game? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that when Sarah Palin will run for President? Perhaps she needs a running mate?
legal system abuse (Score:2, Insightful)
can't judge fine him for legal system abuse ?
reboot Riches (Score:2)
see if he comes back normal.
Insanity... (Score:2)
It's a hell of a drug.
So a crazy person... (Score:5, Informative)
Hell yeah! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm a victim too. (Score:5, Funny)
I love this guy! (Score:2)
Some Legal Clarification (Score:3, Informative)
Better lawsuit against Blizzard (Score:4, Funny)
If he wants to sue Blizzard at least sue them for a real crime, like the warcraft reputation system.
Hrmmm (Score:2)
Sad as it sounds, I bet this isn't too far from really what goes on in the clowns head.
Judging from his past litigation, it DOES look like this idiot lives in an alternate universe.
--Toll_Free
Job?? He's in Prison! (Score:2)
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Oh great (Score:2)
What a pathetic loser (Score:2)
He's just another individual who chose to do something and now can't deal with the consequences of his choice and actions.
Taking responsibility for your own actions appears to be something that more and more people cannot or will not do, not when it's easier to try and find someone else to blame for your own stupidity.
What's the problem? (Score:2)
Cellmate? (Score:2)
He must have a lawyer as a cellmate.
Only a lawyer could come up with this shit.......
Your kidding... (Score:2, Insightful)
Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job
If this works I'm going to quit my job to masturbate all the time. Then I will sue the Govt and the Porn industries of the world for causing me to quit my job and for the horrible calluses I would develop from constant fapping.
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Unfortunately, I don't think any state besides California has a vexatious litigant status.
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oh, and I forgot... (Score:2)
Have a nice day!
Re:throw a guy a bone here, will ya? (Score:4, Informative)
You bolded 6 instances of his name, but only two deserved apostrophes.
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Isn't WoW a prison unto itself?
They tried that (Score:2)
They tried that but the virtual courtroom was repeatedly invaded by swarms of giant flying penises.