i tweet, do YOU tweet? well if you do

be careful! we all knew this was BOUND to happen

(note: the woman had 20 followers. only 20 people at MOST read her tweet BEFORE she was sued. now the company suing her, horizon management, got ME and who knows how many more people to read about how they MAY be assholes!)

UPDATED: Rounding up the buzz... Will one Chicago woman's Tweet cost her $50,000?
Marian Wang

Who knew less than 140 characters could potentially cost more than $50,000, in the form of a defamation lawsuit?

That's something Amanda Bonnen is discovering the hard way.

In May, the Chicago resident did what many of Twitter's millions of users do--she tweeted a complaint. Specifically, she tweeted THIS complaint:

Today, Horizon Group Management filed a lawsuit against her, alleging that her statement damaged the company's business reputation.

According to the complaint filed in Cook County court today, Bonnen "maliciously and wrongfully published the false and defamatory Tweet on Twitter, thereby allowing the Tweet to be distributed throughout the world.".............

he was found GUILTY!

UPDATE FROM JUNE 23 2009: read it here: HE GOT TOTAL PROBATION



self defense my big fat ass. he claimed he was afraid for his life. he's twice her size (if not more). he's drunk out of his mind. he was 'defending his life' because she (the bartender) refused to serve him more. HE stepped behind the bar without authorization or permission.

i hope he does the whole nickle

Bartender beating: Cop convicted in attack of female bartender that was caught on videotape

Judge rejects officer's claims of self-defense

By Matthew Walberg |Tribune reporter
A Chicago police officer faces up to 5 years in prison after a judge Tuesday convicted him of aggravated battery for the infamous beating of a female bartender that was captured on videotape and aired widely.

Cook County Circuit Judge John J. Fleming rejected Officer Anthony Abbate's claims that he acted in self-defense while off duty in 2007 when he threw the bartender to the floor of a Northwest Side tavern and repeatedly punched and kicked her.

In testifying Tuesday, Abbate, who stands 6 foot 1 and weighs more than 250 pounds, contended he retaliated against the bartender, Karolina Obrycka, after she threw him into a shelf, causing him to hit his head. He had stepped behind the bar without permission at Jesse's Short Stop Inn.

"She tried to stop him, and she used reasonable force," Fleming said of Obrycka, who is 5 foot 3 and 125 pounds. "His own momentum, with a little help from Karolina Obrycka, caused the fall. But that did not justify his actions afterward, which were directly out of proportion."...........

MORE proof

there is NO global warming........
proof in the land of all that is oprah

Great Lakes' Lower Water Levels Propel a Cascade of Hardships

By Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writer
CHICAGO -- A decade ago, Chicago winters meant monumental ice hillocks and caves forming along the lakeshore, skirted by interlocking ice sheets like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Today, it is rare to see more than a thin frozen shelf or a few small ice floes sloshing in Lake Michigan below the city's skyline.
Decreased ice cover on the Great Lakes, probably caused by increasing air and water temperatures and high winds, is a major culprit in lowering water levels, which have hurt the shipping industry, forced lakeside power plants to extend their cooling pipes, frustrated recreational boaters, dried up wetlands and left coastal landowners with docks extending over yards of unsightly muck. .........

high school students

no rights anywhere it would seem. EXPULSION for a sit-in? of course if they were football players, i'm guessing expulsion would NOT even be a thought in anyone's mind


Scores of H.S. Students Face Expulsion Following Antiwar Sit-In

Over 30 anti-war protestors at Morton West High School in Berwyn face expulsion for a demonstration at the school on Thursday.
Scores of Students Face Expulsion Due to Sit-inBerwyn, ILOver 70 students participated in a sit-in against the Iraq War on All Saint's Day, Thursday, November 1st. It began third hour when dozens of student gathered quietly in the lunchroom at Morton West High School and refused to leave. Administrators and police became involved immediately and locked down the school for a half hour after class ended. Students report that they were promised that there would be no consequences besides cutting classes if they took their protest outside so as not to disturb the school day. The students agreed and were led to a corner outside the cafeteria where they sang songs and held signs while classes resumed. "At first they tried to make us like leave the school, " said Jerry Petrack, who was with the protest from the beginning. Petracek refers to the massive walk-out for immigrant rights in 2006 as a guide for their actions. (chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/71540/index.php) "They were like march the streets or whatever and we were like no we don't wanna leave the school because last time there was a protest outside the school and kids got arrested and we remembered that."...........