How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-triggering GIF

Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-... by jacquesm on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:59PM (#13919231)

> “Spammed this at [victim] let’s see if he dies,”

Seizures can kill and this is widely known, so widely that we got instruction in high school on how to deal with a seizure victim to make sure they don't die.

Surely someone sending a seizure inducing picture to someone they know is prone to seizures is well aware of the risk they are taking, they are definitely not doing it to give them a monitor induced suntan. See perps quote above, definitely a slam dunk for intent.

Griefers don't care about the damage they cause, the more the merrier.

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Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:18AM (#13922373)

That quote sounds like common smack-talk rather than a genuine statement of intent. I think you could hang "intent to do the victim harm" on the combination of that and the actions here. But, actual intent to cause death? I'd want to see much more than mention of dying - "do that and I'll kill you" or "I hope you die", or similar, must have been said a trillion times in situations where actual death was _not_ intended.

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Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:52PM (#13924513)

12 angry men.

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Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:38AM (#13929834)

Sorry, I don't understand the implication of your reference?

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Re:How police found Twitter user accused of sending seizure-... by jacquesm on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:50AM (#13968163)

And I totally missed your reply. Apologies. It's a reference to an old movie that explores that kind of situation leading to an acquittal.

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