Regarding legal action...

[LordCustos3]

Fair enough. Still, you think he might go back to The PLace

I think there's a big chance he wouldn't do that, purely out of fear of jail.

Unless he has become so unhinged that her neither acknowledges nor fears the danger anymore.

I mean, he's The Grand Supreme Ruler of CWCveria. They don't DARE lay a finger on him, lest he unleash his vast army of Elektrik Hedgehog Pokeymans.

 

[Pikonic]

Chris is an idiot, but Facebook bitching isn't illegal.
Also everything OBAMATRON said.

 

[Marvin]

Fair enough. Still, you think he might go back to The PLace

I think there's a big chance he wouldn't do that, purely out of fear of jail.

Unless he has become so unhinged that her neither acknowledges nor fears the danger anymore.

I mean, he's The Grand Supreme Ruler of CWCveria. They don't DARE lay a finger on him, lest he unleash his vast army of Elektrik Hedgehog Pokeymans.

I guess that's possible, but we really don't have any evidence to suggest that Chris doesn't recognize reality anymore.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

At this point, I don't think we can completely rule out any illegal activity on Chris's part. He's disturbed, nervous, and frankly, not very smart. It's a perfect recipe for doing something which a sensible person would later regret. Chris, honestly, doesn't have the judgement needed to keep from doing something really bad (out of panic or tantrum rage) and it could land him in jail again. All that stops him is the lack of opportunity and his general laziness.

Let me repeat that last part: lack of opportunity and general laziness. Chris won't exert any effort into his revenge against the world, and sitting in front of the hoard most of the day doesn't grant him many opportunities to do anything dangerous. However, I think it's only a matter of time until he's out getting q-sands one day, sees a car with a decorative plate reading "Larry 's Meagan" and Chris decides to take a key to Larry's T-Bird. Or, Chris starts vandalizing an Xbox display at Target, only to be chased by Loss Protection, stumble over a baby stroller, and have to contend with the store staff AND a set of pissed-off parents. Or Chris decides to flip off the wrong cop one day, finds flashing lights in his rear-view mirror, hits the gas and plows into a school bus.

I'm not trying to predict the future, I'm just saying that Chris now seems compelled to make bad situations worse. I'd argue that he no longer has the forethought to stop himself when what he's doing could get him in trouble. Yes, he's afraid of jail, but he doesn't REALLY know what it's going to take to stay out of there. His laziness and pussiness are the reasons he's not there RIGHT NOW, but Chris's judgement has declined significantly from where it was even six months ago.

tl; dr: Chris is not planning a major crime spree, but he has poor judgement and no impulse control. The end result will be the same.

 

[Some JERK]

You can sue anyone for anything, but the question is whether or not such action has merit. If the law worked the way that Chris and Barb think it does, then sure. But out here in the real world, you can't just successfully sue people for saying mean things about you unless you can prove that it's damaging you in some quantifiable way. (otherwise the jerkholes from Westboro Baptist would have been sued into the stone age already.) Chris is entitled to his delusions. He's entitled to post them on facebook. Unless Megan can prove that Chris's BS is causing her to lose friends, have to take time off at work, or incur medical costs from some kind of stress/mental anguish, then no attorney on earth would encourage her to take legal action.

 

[waffle]

You can sue anyone for anything, but the question is whether or not such action has merit. If the law worked the way that Chris and Barb think it does, then sure. But out here in the real world, you can't just successfully sue people for saying mean things about you unless you can prove that it's damaging you in some quantifiable way. (otherwise the jerkholes from Westboro Baptist would have been sued into the stone age already.) Chris is entitled to his delusions. He's entitled to post them on facebook. Unless Megan can prove that Chris's BS is causing her to lose friends, have to take time off at work, or incur medical costs from some kind of stress/mental anguish, then no attorney on earth would encourage her to take legal action.

Pretty much this. Also, to get a restraining order she would have to show that Chris is a credible threat to her or has been harassing her. We have no indication that he even knows what state she lives in.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

tl; dr: Chris is not planning a major crime spree, but he has poor judgement and no impulse control. The end result will be the same.

Angry Chris is impulsive Chris. And impulsive Chris is, well, I like impulsive Chris.

 

[Cwckifan]

I don't know, Mr. Troll. I mean really, between him calling her a thieving bitch and saying she was (indirectly) involved in his father's death, it just seems like a legal goldmine. Really, he'd better hope that she never comes to any harm because of this, or else, well...

 

[Male]

The important part is, whatever legal action happens...IF it were to happen.
Chris will not learn a thing

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I'd like to know how he found out that Megan killed Bob. That was some pretty top secret stuff. The cancer-coated Burger King breakfast, etc.

 

[Renraku]

I'd like to know how he found out that Megan killed Bob. That was some pretty top secret stuff. The cancer-coated Burger King breakfast, etc.

She's queen for a reason!

 

[Cwckifan]

It's simple; she's the one who convinced Burger King and McDonald's to add additives to their food and fry it in rancid seed oils, so that he'd become more susceptible to heart disease and poor health. After that, she put fumes in his home that robbed everyone there of the will to keep clean, excercise, or eat anything that wasn't processed sugar-filled junk food, thus hastening their collective degradation. After that, it was just a matter of time...

 

[LordCustos3]

He's been unglued for months.

I guess that's possible, but we really don't have any evidence to suggest that Chris doesn't recognize reality anymore.

O Ye of too much faith.
He doesn't Marvin.
He's having conversations with bright purple 'toonskunks about taking away Megan's "Sailor Moon Powers" as punishment for killing Chris's dad. While spastically shaking a Lego effigy of his enemies.

We knew he had come unglued when he dressed like the worlds worst Courtney Love cosplay. Repeatedly. On purpose. In public. All the while thinking this will get him chicks. Now he has backslid into talking about 'Toonworld again and how his army of imaginary Sonic Recolors totally agree with his fever dream ex cathedra pronouncements.

He already signed the divorce decree between himself and reality 18 months ago.
He's just waiting for the King of the Potato People to officially stamp the wax seal.

He hasn't been in contact with reality for quite some time.

 

[Marvin]

Re: He's been unglued for months.

I guess that's possible, but we really don't have any evidence to suggest that Chris doesn't recognize reality anymore.

O Ye of too much faith.
He doesn't Marvin.
He's having conversations with bright purple 'toonskunks about taking away Megan's "Sailor Moon Powers" as punishment for killing Chris's dad. While spastically shaking a Lego effigy of his enemies.

We knew he had come unglued when he dressed like the worlds worst Courtney Love cosplay. Repeatedly. On purpose. In public. All the while thinking this will get him chicks. Now he has backslid into talking about 'Toonworld again and how his army of imaginary Sonic Recolors totally agree with his fever dream ex cathedra pronouncements.

He already signed the divorce decree between himself and reality 18 months ago.
He's just waiting for the King of the Potato People to officially stamp the wax seal.

He hasn't been in contact with reality for quite some time.

Eh, I guess I should've clarified and specified that I was talking about reality in a practical sense. Chris can talk to all of the cartoon hedgehogs he wants, but he doesn't believe any fantasies that claim he can make his PS3 run without paying the power bill, for example.

 

[Cwckifan]

So, more 'overly imaginative child' than 'paranoid psychotic'?

 

[Tubular Monkey]

So, more 'overly imaginative child' than 'paranoid psychotic'?

Even Andrea Yates knew she had to pay the water bill.


*edited because I had the wrong crazy lady who drowned her kids

 

[Dr RobotDick]

Taken from a legal website regarding online threats:

To constitute "a communication containing a threat" under Section 875(c), a communication must be such that a reasonable person (1) would take the statement as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm (the mens rea), and (2) would perceive such expression as being communicated to effect some change or achieve some goal through intimidation (the actus reus). A message is a "threat" if a reasonable recipient would tend to believe that the originator of the message was serious about his words and intended to effect the violence or other harm forewarned, regardless of the speaker's actual motive for issuing the communication.

Being as Chris didn't make any direct threats of violence or harm, I don't think a case would have any merit. But, just give it a few more days and that might change.

 

[Cwckifan]

Isn't it still kind of grey, though? I mean, the statement 'I better be repaid or SOMENONE might get it' isn't direct either, but c'mon

 

[Holdek]

BTW the FB status where he calls Megan "German-Crazy..." Now he might have been trying to say that she's crazy for Germans or something since she loved those dreamy Wehrmacht soldiers but since she's German and Bob and Barb have made mention of this I thought it was more likely he was engaging in hate speech against krauts so I reported it. Alas FB didn't go for it.

This may be a job for Hitler.

 

[A-№1]

Still, can't family pursue legal action on her behalf?

They would have to have her declared incompetent first. I don't see that happening.

Megan is an adult and is fully capable of making her own legal decisions. And she should be left alone to do so. For now she probably just wants to ignore Chris and get on with her life, and her family must respect that just as we must.

That being said, if Megan ever does go after Chris, it's not like she will herself ever gain from it. Chris is pretty damn judgment proof; he has nothing anyone would want to collect. So if Megan really wanted to, she could theoretically fuck Chris' life through the courts, but it would cost her about $5k and a lot of wasted time and hassle. Once again Chris is saved by not being worth the trouble.

Getting a protection order and / or going after him under the various cyberbully laws (depending on jurisdictions - I don't know the specifics for Virginia or wherever Megan is) are probably the legal paths opf least resistance for her. Either could easily get Chris off the internets with just a simple hearing or two. That would REALLY piss off Chris, but wouldn't be much of a physical punishment for him. Of course if he violates that protection order / court order, he's fucked, but Chris does seem to be sufficiently afraid of the law (so far) to behave himself in the face of a serious legal kicking.