"A.B. has an STD! Eww!"

[poindexter]

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/5D7E49AAD6557AA48625738D007C8FF3?OpenDocument
Ill. teen sues Cardinals over message
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/08/2007

ST. LOUIS -- A teenager from Illinois is suing the Cardinals, claiming she was ostracized at school after a crude comment about her was shown at the ballpark last year.

The message appeared on a scoreboard that allows fans to display custom remarks via their cell phones. According to the lawsuit, she was at a game with her high school in May 2006 when a female classmate sent the offending message.

It claimed the plaintiff “has an STD! Eww!”

The girl, then 16, is identified only by her initials — A.B.

The suit, filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court, claims that the “shame and humiliation” she suffered forced her to stay out of school, take her final exams in a separate office, and seek psychological counseling.

Almost all of her friends were at the game, the suit says, and afterwards “boys that she was friends with would no longer associate” with her.

 

[Chi City 81]

I hope she wins.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

Whew.

I thought he was referring to Amanda Beard.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

I thought it was about Aaron Brooks.

 

[poindexter]

It was a group of high schoolers at a game. I could imagine the boys who did it laughing themselves silly over it. I'd laff it I was at the game.

 

[Gutter]

It was a group of high schoolers at a game. I could imagine the boys who did it laughing themselves silly over it. I'd laff it I was at the game.

A female classmate is the one who sent it.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I hope she ends up owning the Cardinals.
Does everything have to be the Morning ****ing Zoo?

 

[poindexter]

A female classmate is the one who sent it.

Oh really? Then, It's On!

 

[mike311gd]

I have no doubt a 17-year-old girl could beat the Cardinals.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

How can that even make it up on the board? Working on the assumption, the Cardinals are smart emough to have someone screening these messages before they display, apparently, the moran in charge that night didn't understand what the term STD meant.

She will win. And she should.

Oh, and my first thought on the who... August Busch.

 

[StaggerLee]

I thought it was about Aaron Brooks.

This lady is probably freaking out now:

 

[Gutter]

A female classmate is the one who sent it.

Oh really? Then, It's On!

The message appeared on a scoreboard that allows fans to display custom remarks via their cell phones. According to the lawsuit, she was at a game with her high school in May 2006 when a female classmate sent the offending message.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

i can't believe they only sued for 25 grand. i would've shot for 100 and see what they settled at.

 

[mike311gd]

Yeah. At least get your college tuition paid in the deal.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

What kind of weak-willed kid have you raised if a practical jokes causes them to miss the rest of the semester due to this!?!

 

[mike311gd]

What kind of weak-willed kid have you raised if a practical jokes causes them to miss the rest of the semester due to this!?!

Welcome to the New American Way.

 

[StaggerLee]

What kind of weak-willed kid have you raised if a practical jokes causes them to miss the rest of the semester due to this!?!

Probably the same kind of weak-willed kid that misses a week of school because a picture of her missing the game-winning penalty kick in the state championship soccer game ran in the paper, scarring her for life. Her mom called us and said "We're actually considering home-schooling her the rest of the year because she's so traumatized by this." Of course, the mom had nothing to say when asked if she was traumatized by the dozens of pictures that ran in the previous months of her celebrating goals/wins.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

What kind of weak-willed kid have you raised if a practical jokes causes them to miss the rest of the semester due to this!?!

Probably the same kind of weak-willed kid that misses a week of school because a picture of her missing the game-winning penalty kick in the state championship soccer game ran in the paper, scarring her for life. Her mom called us and said "We're actually considering home-schooling her the rest of the year because she's so traumatized by this." Of course, the mom had nothing to say when asked if she was traumatized by the dozens of pictures that ran in the previous months of her celebrating goals/wins.

Oh, **** all of that.
A piece of bullying in front of 45,000 people and the victim gets called "weak-willed"? And that compared to a picture in the newspaper of a game she freely particpated in?

 

[Chi City 81]

I agree with Fenian. How can anyone not find the Cardinals at fault for running a message like that?

 

[StaggerLee]

What kind of weak-willed kid have you raised if a practical jokes causes them to miss the rest of the semester due to this!?!

Probably the same kind of weak-willed kid that misses a week of school because a picture of her missing the game-winning penalty kick in the state championship soccer game ran in the paper, scarring her for life. Her mom called us and said "We're actually considering home-schooling her the rest of the year because she's so traumatized by this." Of course, the mom had nothing to say when asked if she was traumatized by the dozens of pictures that ran in the previous months of her celebrating goals/wins.

Oh, **** all of that.
A piece of bullying in front of 45,000 people and the victim gets called "weak-willed"? And that compared to a picture in the newspaper of a game she freely particpated in?

I understand what you're saying, but A.) how many of those 45,000 people actually saw the message (I know I rarely read those things) and B.) how many of those 45,000 people actually knew who A.B. was?