When UGA student can’t park his scooter, he rides parking services and ends up with disciplinary charges
Should a student be punished for mouthing off? The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education doesn’t think so, and is claiming another victory involving a public Georgia university and student speech. (A few weeks ago, I posted an entry about the Valdosta State student who also won his case with the help of the group, which advocates for individual rights, due process, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and rights of conscience on colleges and universities.)
University of Georgia student Jacob Lovell used a bit of strong language to complain in an e-mail about the lack of scooter parking on the Athens campus. (Apparently, he doesn’t subscribe to the old adage about getting better results with honey than the F-bomb.)
The peeved parking services folks forwarded his e-mail to the Student Judiciary, which proceeded to tell Lovell that he was being charged with two violations of UGA’s University Conduct Regulations, stating, “Specifically, it is alleged that Mr. Lovell engaged in disorderly conduct and disrupted parking services when he sent an email to them that was threatening.” Lovell was required to make a disciplinary appointment by Sept. 13 or he would be flagged from registering.
Here is the e-mail with the bad language removed:
Subject: Scooter parking
Message: To: parking@uga.eduWhy isn’t there any scooter parking near Aderhold, according to your parking map? There’s like a billion places to park on north campus and over by the Georgia center, but nothing anywhere close to Aderhold. What the hell? Did you guys just throw darts at a map to decide where to put scooter corrals? Can I expect you guys to get off your a**** and put in a corral near there some point before I f****** graduate and/or the sun runs out of hydrogen?
Thanks for nothing, ever,
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: UGA Parking Services
Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Your Parking Services Request – Case 000000000016711Your e-mail was sent to student judiciary.
—
Request: Scooter parking———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Jacob Lovell
Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Your Parking Services Request – Case 000000000016711
To: UGA Parking ServicesSo that’s a no?
In coming to Lovell’s defense, FIRE wrote to UGA President Michael F. Adams and the student learned last week that the matter was closed.
“If a student can’t complain about scooter parking, how can students be expected to feel comfortable taking on anything genuinely controversial?” said FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel. “Yet, on campus after campus we have seen that schools have forgotten that truly fostering a ‘marketplace of ideas’ necessarily means sometimes hearing things you do not want to hear.”
This is off topic a bit, but I spent a night in a first floor Ivy League dorm last weekend – in a room set aside for visitors – and heard students coming in late at night. I was struck by their deep attachment to the f-word, which has become their adjective of choice as well as their standard rejoinder to statements to which their elders might say “wow” or “no kidding.”
I am a different generation and still find the word off-putting, but there is a greater concern: If these teens use this word so often, aren’t they worried about it slipping out in a workplace internship or while chatting with a supervisor?
Can it become a bad habit they can’t shake?
Or is it acceptable now in daily discourse and complaining e-mails?
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Wondering
September 23rd, 2010
1:13 pm
Tony hit it on the head. As a supervisor of people with public contact, all such communications, either in writing or verbal are forwarded to me. My approach is to try to get to the person’s underlying issue, see if it is a reasonable request, and if so, I resolve it. However, I don’t go out of my way to help abusive people, especially those that don’t respond to kindness.
I try to remember that A-B-Cs of behaviour modification, but I also have a job to do, and customer satisfaction is a big part of it.
What if someone at the parking office had responded in a similar manner to Mr. Lovell? In my office, it is grounds for immediate termination. Unfortunately, I can’t pick my customers, only my employees.
What if Mr. Lovell had received a responsive email such as, We are sorry to hear of your frustration with the scooter parking near Aderhold. We do have a more sophisticated process for determining where parking is needed that throwing darts at a map, and student demand is one significant input to that process. Your input is appreciated and your message will be forwarded to the appropriate decision makers.
Invite him in and have him read his email to a group of employees. If he shows, he will probably edit out the profanity on the fly. If he’s a UGA student, he’s not stupid.
Warrior Woman
September 23rd, 2010
1:53 pm
Although the student’s language was crude and unnecessary, the initial response from the Student Judiciary was completely inappropriate. There was no threat in that email. The language used is common on campus and has been used by professors in classrooms. If parking enforcement operations were disrupted or staff were threatened by the email, they’re clearly incompetent for their jobs and work environment.
And, as Dr. Trotter noted, opening the door to the speech police is a very dangerous action. When tested, university speech codes have generally been found to be unconstitutional and unenforceable.
@Tony – a single email does not constitute harassment. Anyone that thinks it does should not have a job that involves public contact.
Claudia Stucke
September 23rd, 2010
2:23 pm
Unfortunately, even the hallways of high schools and middle schools often sound like dialogue from “Glengarry Glen Ross” (please pretend that was in italics). We’re overusing swear words (particularly the F bomb) to the point that they have lost their shock value as well as the therapeutic value to the swearer. I used to use hallway outbursts as teachable moments in my high school English classroom: When an F bomb exploded audibly outside the classroom, students would look up to see my reaction and (probably to their disappointment) see that I was simply weary of hearing it yet again. “We need to get some new swear words,” I would say, and they’d all burst out laughing–at first; then discussion ensued about the purpose of certain diction (particularly profanity)and how we actually undermine that purpose, depriving the word of its energy, effectively destroying it. One solution, with the help of the Folger Shakespeare Library, was to resurrect some marvelous Shakespearean expressions (insults, mostly). Even jaded adolescents concurred that “you yeasty, onion-eyed rabbit-sucker” was far more satisfying than “F*** you!”
Maureen Downey
September 23rd, 2010
3:31 pm
@Claudia, The spam filter on this blog has five UGA students now, all of whom used the F word in their comments about the lousy parking at UGA. The problem with their use of the word is that it gets in the way of making their point and it communicates nothing but negatives to most people.
I just talked to a friend who mentioned that she immediately tosses out the applications of interns whose cell phones answer with songs with graphic lyrics. Her reasoning: If these students lack the professional sense not to give out phone numbers with obscenity-laced lyrics in the message, then they are too stupid to work for her.
Drew
September 23rd, 2010
5:06 pm
@Mid Ga
You need to pull that stick out of your crusty old a** and f*** off
David Sims
September 23rd, 2010
6:06 pm
“Specifically, it is alleged that Mr. Lovell engaged in disorderly conduct and disrupted parking services when he sent an email to them that was threatening.”
The allegation is false. Lovell used the plural A-word once, and he used the -ing version of the F-word once, but the sense of his comment was non-threatening. Lovell was a pottymouth in about the same style and to about the same extent as Alan Alda’s “Hawkeye” character on M*A*S*H. But he didn’t threaten anyone.
Lee
September 23rd, 2010
7:45 pm
As with the Valdosta State incident, both parties share some blame here.
1. Mr. Lovell needs to learn that coarse language has no place in a business correspondence. Do that after he graduates, and it will probably result in termination from his job.
2. Parking Services overreacted to the email. There was no threat contained in the letter. Maybe a little training is in order for Parking Services personnel.
Here is a link to FIRE’s press release. Note that Parking Services solicites feedback from the students, both “positive and negative.” As the old adage goes, “Be careful for which you ask, you just might receive it.”
As an aside, parking at UGA is a mess. Mr. Lovell probably had some valid points to make. Too bad the message got lost in the brouhaha.
Lee
September 23rd, 2010
7:46 pm
Forgot the link:
http://www.thefire.org/article/12275.html
Mary
September 23rd, 2010
9:44 pm
Enter your comments here
David Sims
September 23rd, 2010
9:46 pm
I’ve attended Valdosta State then-College, and parking was a problem. The Public Safety cops delighted in seeing to it that you were either late for class (walking all the way from the main parking lot) or else required to pay a fine for parking too long while you were in class. I know a few other things about some of the VSC/VSU Public Safety cops, but this isn’t the place to ventilate them.
David Sims
September 23rd, 2010
9:47 pm
Nice try, Mary.
Mary
September 23rd, 2010
9:51 pm
I’m a 55 year old woman with several degrees, and I found the student’s e-mail hilarious. To the person who suggested employers blackball him for using the f-word: you have obviously never heard the way law firm partners speak to associates and to each other. Profanity is part of our language, and sometimes there is no better way to put something.
Mary
September 23rd, 2010
9:53 pm
Thank you.
Atlanta mom
September 23rd, 2010
11:15 pm
Nice try David. The reference to Valdosta has nothing to do with parking
Shannon
September 24th, 2010
6:39 am
A few thoughts.
1) It’s a sad truth in our culture that people who are customers feel they have more rights of expression than people who are in customer service. Lovell is the customer in this case, and the University’s parking department is in customer service. For those who say that Lovell would be “fired” from his job if this kind of behavior were exhibited–well, yes. But he wasn’t at work. For all that we like to say that school is students’ job, it isn’t–especially when they pay to be there. They are customers, who are afforded more latitude.
2) More to the point, however, if the school wants to consider communication with the f-word (or any other word) to be off-limits, then the school needs to codify that. It would be simple to put in the student handbook something along the lines of “profanity in official communication to any school department will result in X disciplinary action.” Rules are fine, but they can’t be made up after the fact.
Atlanta Media Guy
September 24th, 2010
10:37 am
Has anyone here watched any show on MTV or for that matter Prime Time? Good grief, the F-bomb is thrown around like the word is! There are more bleeping bleeps than bleeps at a Ludicrous concert! Matter of fact what is the meaning of the word is?
the prof
September 24th, 2010
11:01 am
Hilarious! In ten years this snot nosed punk and the one at VSU will both be insolvent and on public assistance. Parking problems at universities are often only in the mind of the beholder. Usually it involves the following philosophy, “I should be able to park immediately outside my class or dorm room any time I want too”!!!
Reality
September 24th, 2010
11:28 am
Unfortunately, our society seems to be degrading more quickly than ever, and the f-bomb among other horrible words are becoming mainstream.
What these uneducated people don’t realize and don’t know is that the English vocabulary allows for many more word choices that are much more descriptive and demeaning than any of those curse words….
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Joey
September 24th, 2010
11:45 pm
Yeah….that is what happens with a Student Judiciary. A bunch of egghead student who have never been in the real world feeling their power. Bunch of morons training for jobs in government and politics!
Joey
September 24th, 2010
11:47 pm
UGA Parking Services…..bunch of mindless part-time workers hiding in the bushes looking to write a ticket to make UGA extra money. They have a quota to meet you know!
Ole Guy
September 26th, 2010
5:47 pm
As a not-quite-twenty recent returnee from a tour in Vietnam, I was home on leave. As we sat around the table, Mom, Dad, sisters, and yours truly, all was aglow in the knowledge that we were, once again, a whole family. That momentary magic spell was abruptly and crudly broken when Mom’s young Soldier asked “Would someone pass the f_ _ _ in peas”?
To be sure, there’s a time and place for everything, choice of language being at the top of the list. While our Constitutional “rights” grant us many allowances which, in the real world, may or may not fly, at the end of the day, it’s all about exercising judgement. The good thing about the written word, as opposed to speech, is that we are granted the opportunity to decide if that’s really the way in which we wish to express ourselve. Obviously, Mr. Lovell failed to exercise this opportunity. Is salty language, spoken or written, sometimes called for? Damn right it is! However, i’s all based on the prudent exercise of judgement, something which we tend to forget is an on-going life-long process.
On a slight side bar…does UGA have an intra campus van service? My alma matre had one which, managed by a Former Marine, kept a precision schedule both on and off campus, except when one of the drawbrides, separating the main campus from the beach bars, was drawn.
LIFE’S A BEACH!
Claudia Stucke
September 27th, 2010
12:17 pm
@Maureen, I agree that casual profanity is an indicator of a person’s maturity, awareness, and intellect (or lack thereof). Job-seekers are frequently admonished to clean up their mouths (and ther Facebook pages), but this very fact raises the question, Why must people be told or reminded to do this? And when attempting to be persuasive, do people not understand that they will not be taken seriously if they resort to diatribes, especially those peppered with obscene or vulgar words? Maybe it’s a matter of intent: They’re not necessarily trying to persuade, just to vent. Unfortunately, when we’re so free with F bombs or other abusive or disrespectful language, we look like brats throwing tantrums rather than people who are looking for solutions.
Brad
September 29th, 2010
10:30 am
The sky is falling.
David Granger
September 29th, 2010
10:40 am
There is lots of valid criticism to go around here, and certain Lovell is obviously guilty of being a babbling dumbass.
But the thing that bothers me the most is that the Student Judiciary tried to claim that merely sending a note asking a question (albiet in a crude and insulting manner) was “disorderly conduct” which “disrupted parking services.” And even claimed that the note was somehow “threatening”. Where’s the threat?
I’d be willing to bet you anything that this Student Judiciary is full of little giggle-sissy liberals, who believe that free speech is a fine thing. Until you disagree with them, of course, and then its “hate speech”.
Patrick
September 29th, 2010
10:48 am
While I agree that he could have been more constructive with his approach, and probably would have gotten better results with a more tactful email, I’m glad to see that his freedom of speech was upheld. Even though he didn’t exibit good judgement, he has a right to voice his opinion as long as he doesn’t threaten to harm anyone. I don’t see anything threatening within his email. Give me a break people… they are only WORDS. How does the old saying go?
If anyone has ever dealt with UGA parking services, you’d probably understand his frustration.
ATLdawg, ya dig?
September 29th, 2010
10:50 am
I think people are confusing a lack of civility (use of profanity) with the actual charge – disorderly conduct, disruption, and threats. This issue is a matter of first principles – freedom on speech. The proper way to handle this would have been a sternly worded email from parking services objecting to his language and lack of respect, and then addressing his stated issue – not a trumped up charge cowardly funneled through the campus bureaucracy. Because he certainly had the right to express himself.
ATLdawg, ya dig?
September 29th, 2010
10:52 am
And this response ….
“money
September 23rd, 2010
5:45 am
No, it is not acceptable. The school must simply prohibit the use of profanity in its By-laws/student rules much like the Code of Conduct that high school students must follow that can be found in most HS agendas.”
… is exactly wrong. College campuses are utterly polluted by speech and behavior codes, which have rotted away this generation’s ability to reason and engage in open discourse.
UGABugKiller
September 29th, 2010
10:53 am
As a former active duty Marine and almost graduated student at UGA, I have to take the stance of Matt Stone and Trey Parker when it comes to do bad language.
“What’s the big f—–g deal, b—h?”
Seriously, you people on hear complaining about what you deem as foul language are the same people who have no problem letting your kids obsorb insane amounts of violence in television and movies; more often than not totally unsupervised. But you’re the same people who have a cow when they hear the f-word or see a nipple or *gasp* a woman’s whole breast.
Words and nudity, both shown to have little to no effect on the brain of children, adolescents, and teens. Violent images, however, have shown to have big psychological consequences for children, adolescents, and teens.
Yet, we have no problem with them consuming violent images by the boatload, just as long as there’s no f-words or nipples. PG-13 movies made in the last 10 years would have been rated R 20 years ago, with the blood and violence they’re allowed to show.
But it’s okay. Let’s expose kids to blood and violence just as long as there’s no f-words and nipples. The backward values of some people are insane, hypocritical, and so hyper-Puritan to the point that they’re actually causing far more harm than good.
Some of y’all need to get a life. Words are just that, WORDS. They only have power in that we give them power. What makes the f-word so great is that it’s a noun, adjective, verb, and sometimes, an adverb (if you’re using it a lot). It’s a word commonly used in many walks of life, especially in the life-saving services (military, police, fire fighters, EMTs) in this country. It’s a word that brings camaraderie and good times. And if we were to remember the definition of the word, the word itself describes an activity that is quite enjoyable.
So please, some of y’all, get an effing life.
Or, in my favorite replacement word (given to me by the wise Admiral Adama on BSG):
Some of y’all, get a frakking life. There are much worse things to worry about.
John
September 29th, 2010
10:54 am
So he used the F-bomb? I was unaware that UGA had become like the town from “Footloose”. Yes, Mr. Lovell could have explained his complaint in a more tactful manner, but he did not. The result is he did not get any help from the university and lost his argument. Had he been a bit more civil, he could have probably gotten something done about the situation. Instead he chose to use profane language and received no help. This is not an issue I want the administration or student judiciary focusing on. How about they spend the tuition money and tax dollars teaching and running the school as opposed to arguing whether or not an adult should be able to use profanity.
Billy Ray Valentine
September 29th, 2010
10:59 am
Mike says: “His language has become more and more mainstream. Read any article in Rolling Stone or Men’s Journal.”
Popularity is not validity.
His words are rude and disrespectful. The same message could have been presented in a much more professional manner.
Halsey
September 29th, 2010
10:59 am
“Oh boo hoo! You typed words in an email that I don’t like! You should be charged with a crime!”
What a joke. Do we have freedom of speech or not? Are there certain combinations of letters that should be exempt from the first amendment? Trying to make the argument that using certain words automatically makes something threatening is another joke. If I go outside right now and say “How are you f…ing doing” to somebody, should they be able to charge me with a crime?
UGAprof
September 29th, 2010
11:00 am
I think the student behaved rudely, Parking Services overreacted, and Judicial Programs handled the case correctly. Please don’t criticize them for (correctly) sending him a letter telling him what he was accused of, before investigating. He had a right to receive that information. They investigated and found no actual threat had been made, so they dropped the case.
UGAprof
September 29th, 2010
11:02 am
The University’s computer conduct regulations are on line at http://www.uga.edu/compsec/rules.html. This student did not violate them. There is no list of forbidden words. I think the student behaved rudely, but he did not violate any actual rules of the University, and that’s what Judicial Programs concluded too. Despite what one person in Parking Services thought, UGA has a high level of freedom of speech.
Billy Ray Valentine
September 29th, 2010
11:04 am
Halsey
No you wouldn’t be charged with a crime, the first amendment protects you from that.
But you might get punch right in the mouth.
And I can only imgine you would be the first one to cry “charge that person with a crime”
Accountability…..the first amendment gives you the right to say whatever you like.
However, it does not protect you from how people respond to your words.
UGAprof
September 29th, 2010
11:05 am
One last thing. Due to budget cuts, UGA has lost many of its best employees in service units. I’m just guessing, but that may be why this was handled so clumsily. A wiser person should have caught it at an earlier stage.
cc
September 29th, 2010
11:06 am
he shouldn’t have used cuss words, but cuss words are what is being used against him to squash his free speech. they blame the cuss words but they really were mad about him speaking out which isn’t ’supposed’ to be done in georgia today. more and more people in this area are supposed to think the same and act the same and believe in the same things. scary stuff. read your history.
i sat next to a guy at a restaurant/bar having dinner the other night. he was a truck driver from california. he had a buzz but wasn’t drunk. he was talking about everything under the sun and people started looking at him in hateful ways. i had to tell him that you can’t just talk about anything here in georgia some people will get physically threatening towards you if you don’t think like them. especially the people who say they are patriots and are for freedom or the people that say they know Jesus. he was stunned. but could see the people around him looking at him. the look of disappointment on his face was very sad. one i know too well.
Patrick
September 29th, 2010
11:08 am
To Billy Ray Valentine – Yes, his words were rude and disrespectful… but is that really a crime?
Halsey
September 29th, 2010
11:10 am
Billy Bob
So if certain words offend you, that makes it ok to use violence? I see. Well if that person punched me maybe I would take advantage of my second amendment rights. Yee haw! That’s how your type would do it, right? Because if someone uses words you don’t like, you gotta do what you gotta do! Yee haw!
Halsey
September 29th, 2010
11:16 am
Here’s an idea: maybe it’s time for people to mentally evolve past the stupidity of ‘curse words’ or ‘cuss words’ or whatever you want to call them. I mean, they are just words. Why should certain combinations of letters be taboo? What purpose does that serve? We already have certain words today that would be highly offensive years ago, but are now no big deal to most people. the bottom line is, they’re just words. Get over it.
UGA: Laughing stock of the SEC
September 29th, 2010
11:16 am
Get arrested for actual crimes as football player = stay on football team (unless you’re the 10th one)
Mouth off to parking authority as regular student = charged by student judiciary
Keep it classy UGA
Rob
September 29th, 2010
11:16 am
If his attitude or use of profanity violated the university’s rules of conduct for students, then f*** him.
Billy Ray Valentine
September 29th, 2010
11:17 am
Halsey,
you know nothing of me or who I am, so just keep the “thats how your type would do” out of it.
Never said it would ok to use violence. All I said was a person has the right to speak whatever words they feel fit, and that person MUST be held accountable for those words.
Freedom of speech does not give you a free pass to say whatever you like to no repercusions.
And if you think it does, than I encourage you to go back and read the Declaration of Indepedence.
It seems as though people today try to hide behind the first amendment too often. People say, “oh it says freedom of speech, so I can say whatever I like” it sure does protect your right. HOWEVER, it does not obsolve you from the words you speak.
Bacchus
September 29th, 2010
11:21 am
The kid’s got an entitlement mentality, like so many of the children at UGA. I went there, I graduated less than 10 years ago- I know how it is. Escalating a situation in the real world by dropping F-bombs will get you nowhere except rejected, hung up on, ignored, fired, or arrested. This guy is evidently learning many of life’s lessons the hard way.
Parking Services is known campus-wide among students, faculty, and staff for being an utter nightmare to deal with. They are primarily a revenue stream for the University. But there isn’t room for 35,000 students to bring their cars to campus, so someone’s got to do the dirty work I guess. But as a monopoly, Parking Services employees have an entitlement mentality by attempting to sack anyone who complains or takes action against them. Been there, heard similar stories, etc.
By virtue of freedom of speech, Parking Services should have no ability to seek punishment against the Student other than fining him for whatever citation they issued.
Period.
Samuel L. Jackson
September 29th, 2010
11:22 am
What’s the big motha F***in deal yall.
i’ve made a motha f***in career outta callin’ people motha f***ers.
Nice F***in email Jacob Lovell
Halsey
September 29th, 2010
11:26 am
Billy Bob
You’re trying to change the argument. I never said it’s ok to say whatever you want. I realize it’s illegal to, for example, make threats against someone’s life. That’s not the issue. The issue is that it’s not a crime to say certain words. Is that so hard to understand? Do you get that it’s not a crime for me to say “Oh s…!” when I stub my toe? Do you also get that it is a crime to walk up to a person and say “I’m going to bomb you house”? Two different issues. Don’t try to spin the argument.
JaxDawg
September 29th, 2010
11:29 am
“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one’s mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty – and thus a good unto itself – but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.” – NY Times v. Sullivan.
“Falwell argued that the Hustler parody advertisement in this case was so “outrageous” as to take it outside the scope of First Amendment protection. But “outrageous” is an inherently subjective term, susceptible to the personal taste of the jury empaneled to decide a case. Such a standard “runs afoul of our longstanding refusal to allow damages to be awarded because the speech in question may have an adverse emotional impact on the audience”" – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
Point being, a public institution like the University of Georgia should not be allowed to prohibit the speech of one of its students simply because it did not like the manner in which it was given. There is no question that the University would not have tried to punish the student had the student not included the “offensive” language. The content of the speech concerned a matter of public importance – the availability of parking at public buildings. UGA tried to punish the student only because it believed that the student’s speech was inappropriate, offensive, contemptable, etc., etc.. However, as the Supreme Court said in Hustler, such standards are subjective (as shown clearly on this blog), and the importance of the speech outweighs the concern that someone who hears it might get their feelings hurt.
Having said that, even if the student has the right to make the speech and cannot be punished for it, he still was dumb for having made it because, as many people have stated already, future employers may not be held to the same restrictions that a public institution is.
You must be so proud
September 29th, 2010
11:31 am
This definitely makes me want to hire UGA graduates and send my kids to school there. Right.
I say send this immature potty mouth back to wherever he came from to learn some manners. If he is so unable to express himself in a mature, adult fashion, why is he in “advanced education” anyway?
Mr Lovell should learn some civility from this episode. The punishment fits the crime.
Billy Ray Valentine
September 29th, 2010
11:32 am
oh so certain speech is protected, but other is not?
I never said what Mr. Lovell wrote was a crime, what I said was it was in poor taste and rude and unprofessional.
Do you really think that writing an email with the language he used was going to get parking services to add more sccoter parking?
Or would a more professional approach increased his chances?
Just because the words you are using are protected, doesn’t make them the proper choice.
John
September 29th, 2010
11:34 am
Justice will come when this idiot applies for a job in a few years, and the employer googles him and finds this article.