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Wow.. This so smells like North Korea. A bad joke here and there or getting too tempered after bad game and the police throw you into jail. Of course I hope tha

Wow.. This so smells like North Korea. A bad joke here and there or getting too tempered after bad game and the police throw you into jail. Of course I hope that he really was just joking - I've even heard of video game rage that has done some real harm and never I have heard that anyone was jailed.

incision 13y ago
>This so smells like China or North Korea. Don't know if I'd be quick to compare getting beat-up after making a despicable "joke" within 6 months of a historic tragedy to having your entire family sent to die in a hard labor camp without explanation.
nether 13y ago
No, in the DPRK you and your family would be sent to labor camps and possibly mass executed a few years later.
- cinquemb 13y ago
  Give it some time, we'll eventually get there… after-all, NK hasn't always been like that throughout history… Fine go ahead and downvote me, but while you stick your head in the sand, we're talking on hn doing and nothing about what is going on, while our government does stuff like this, and you think it is not going to get worse? Ha.
- gerhardi 13y ago
  Sure, thats why it only smells like it. In this case only the boy is imprisoned and beaten in jail and his parents are extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.
  - incision 13y ago
    >...extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety. http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      You realize that making bail doesn't mean you don't have to go to trial, right?
      - jack-r-abbit 13y ago
        I think s/he was simply pointing out that a "$500K bail" does not mean that the kid's parents were extorted for half a mill. That is not how bail works.
- kaonashi 13y ago
  I guess the U.S. is better than North Korea then. Aim high.
o_nate 13y ago
Or like Thailand, where you can get sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting the royal family, or even for writing a fantasy story about an unnamed family which some interpret as being about the royal family: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/asia/thai-court-gives-10-year-sentence-for-insult-to-king.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/asia/thai-court-give...

incision 13y ago

>This so smells like China or North Korea. Don't know if I'd be quick to compare getting beat-up after making a despicable "joke" within 6 months of a historic tragedy to having your entire family sent to die in a hard labor camp without explanation.

nether 13y ago

No, in the DPRK you and your family would be sent to labor camps and possibly mass executed a few years later.

cinquemb 13y ago
Give it some time, we'll eventually get there… after-all, NK hasn't always been like that throughout history… Fine go ahead and downvote me, but while you stick your head in the sand, we're talking on hn doing and nothing about what is going on, while our government does stuff like this, and you think it is not going to get worse? Ha.
gerhardi 13y ago
Sure, thats why it only smells like it. In this case only the boy is imprisoned and beaten in jail and his parents are extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.
- incision 13y ago
  >...extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety. http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    You realize that making bail doesn't mean you don't have to go to trial, right?
    - jack-r-abbit 13y ago
      I think s/he was simply pointing out that a "$500K bail" does not mean that the kid's parents were extorted for half a mill. That is not how bail works.
kaonashi 13y ago
I guess the U.S. is better than North Korea then. Aim high.

o_nate 13y ago

Or like Thailand, where you can get sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting the royal family, or even for writing a fantasy story about an unnamed family which some interpret as being about the royal family: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/asia/thai-court-gives-10-year-sentence-for-insult-to-king.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/world/asia/thai-court-give...