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Star Wars Kid Settles


From globeandmail.com:

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QUE. -- As Ghyslain Raza recalled, whenever he walked by his high school's common areas, other students would jump on tables and chant, "Star Wars Kid! Star Wars Kid!"

There would be a commotion as they shouted and poked at him, trying to get a reaction. "It was simply unbearable," he said.

An otherwise ordinary teen in this Quebec small town, Mr. Raza had become a worldwide object of ridicule when schoolmates put on the Internet a video of him clumsily pretending to be a Star Wars character.

Three years later, Mr. Raza and his parents this week reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of three former schoolmates they had sued for $351,000 in damages.

The settlement annuls a civil trial set to begin on Monday that would have scrutinized one of the world's first and most-publicized cases of cyber-bullying.

However, documents filed in the case at the Trois-Rivières courthouse give new details about how a mean-spirited high-school prank turned into a global Internet cause célèbre.

Specifics of the settlement remain confidential.

Okay, so my sympathy went down about a thousand points when I found out he was a Canadian, but people don't yell at me, screaming, "Wizbang Pop! kid! Wizbang Pop! kid!" Because, if they did, I'd get out my light-saber and chop 'em to pieces!

With my light-saber.

Because I have one, you know.

A light-saber.

I do.

I'll chop you to pieces with it, I will.

'Star Wars Kid' Sues, Settles Lawsuit Over Web Video - [NewsBusters]
Star Wars Kid Videos - [Screaming Pickle]

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Comments (8)

Mac, does that mean I bette... (Below threshold)
Jay Tea:

Mac, does that mean I better not post any more Sharon Stone stuff, unless I wanna get cut in half?

J.

I never understood the vide... (Below threshold)

I never understood the video. It was mean-spirited. I hope he got a nice settlement.

So let me get this straight... (Below threshold)
ClobberGirl:

So let me get this straight: (1) He made the videotape willingly, and (2) He himself left it in a public facility where anyone could get their hands on it.

And now he gets $350,000?! For what, being a dork?

What a whiner.

and your sympathy went down... (Below threshold)
a canuk:

and your sympathy went down because he was a canadian because???? you don't like your canadian readers or what?

ClobberGirl, I'm with you o... (Below threshold)

ClobberGirl, I'm with you on this. I hate that people sue and get cash for the stupid things that they do.

C'mon the fat little bastar... (Below threshold)
Cro:

C'mon the fat little bastard will need the money cause Christ knows he's never gonna get laid any other way...

I like the videos that peop... (Below threshold)

I like the videos that people have made of the Starwars kid, I think they are funny as hell. The kid needs to take his settlement and go see a shrink, so that he can learn to make something like this a good thing, find a way to flip the situation, because you know he will never live it down

It might be emberrasing as ... (Below threshold)
Momo:

It might be emberrasing as heck, but the kid really needs to learn how to make lemonade when he gets lemons. There was an online petition to place him in Star Wars episode 3.

His celebrity status could be as big as Paris Hilton. He needs to get a publicist with his money. Which he doesn't deserve. I believe the video what shot on school grounds, with school property, there for public domain.


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