Thursday, November 29, 2007

The story was about a mother named Lori Drew that wanted to know about what Megan Meier's opinion on her daughter that lived 4 houses down from her. She created a myspace page that was a fake one. It was registered under a Josh Evens which Megan though was a real person. They talked in a flirty way for about a year and then one day "Josh" started saying horrible things to Megan. Megan got so upset that she ran into her closet and hung herself with a belt. Ms. Drew felt horrible about what she had done. When the police found out they could not do anything about it because there was no sentence for harassing someone over the computer. Then the Drews asked the Meier's to store a Foosball table and the Meier's agreed. There was so much fury in the Meier's that they took a sledge hammer and started hitting the table. Then they took that parts and threw them in the Drew's driveway. The reason that Lori wanted to know what Megan though about her daughter was because the daughters had recently stopped being friends because Megan moved to another school. Megan stopped being teased about her wait, lost 20 pounds, and joined the cheer leading team.
I think that the story is really bad. I think there should be a law against cruel harassment. If something like this happens, the court should be able to think of a consequence and use that against them. I also think that the court should also be more ready for this kind of thing because it happens a lot and there should be something done about it. Lori Drew should be put in jail because of verbal harassment. The police should have been able to arrest Ms Drew because this is something cruel and should not be able to do this.

1 comment:

Ms. Stubel said...

John:

GREAT work! You did an awesome job summarizing the article, and I couldn't agree more with you in the opinion section. Isn't it crazy that there isn't any type of law protecting against this?

Makes you think differently about websites like myspace, doesn't it? Keep up the awesome writing!

Ms. S