One of the things that really bothered me was the categorization of the crime as a misdemeanor.

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NightFeather — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 12:12 AM)

He wanted to become famous. Generally every person that uploads to youtube wants to hit a million views on videos, are those people sociopaths too? What these boy's did was wrong, without a doubt, Ethan did have some malicious intent with scaring this guy, they never set out to see him die

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GeorgeGlass05 — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 06:05 PM)

LOL. User nightfeather genuinely seems to think GUILT is an acceptable sentence for MAJOR CRIMES.
Please never become a lawyer you f uckin moron.

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NightFeather — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 05:29 AM)

The only f ucking moron here is you. Please don't have kids, your level of stupid needs to die off

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theLastResortt — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 05:34 AM)

Generally every person that uploads to youtube wants to hit a million views on videos, are those people sociopaths too?
Yes, if they achieve those views by tormenting another living being.

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valis1949 — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 08:30 PM)

I don't think that the judge's sentence was 'utter nonsense' since Ethan and Sean did not set out to harm Harold Grainey. They only wanted to film his reaction to unusual stimuli. I don't even think that this makes them sociopathic- maybe just dupes of reality TV and Youtube culture.
However, there is the fact that the old man died during the escapade, but what would happen if the two boys filmed themselves robbing a store to check out the reactions of the shoppers and a customer decided to commit suicide during the heist?
Could they be charged with murder?
Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't

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RidiculousPasta — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 09:14 PM)

You're nuts. Violating someone else's privacy alone shows the behavior of a crazy person. The fact that you think that's ok is ridiculous.

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BobknobSA — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 01:10 PM)

You can do bad things and not be crazy or a sociopath or psychopath. No one is saying that it is okay.

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Foxbarking — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 12:51 AM)

valis never said it was "ok." Valis just said that they didn't set out to harm Grainey and that is the truth. Don't put words in someone's mouth.
And you picked the right screen name for you on here, because everything you have posted is utterly ridiculous.

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Theshornwonder — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 09:04 PM)

Yes, in that case they could be charged with felony murder.

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TheManInOil — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 10:56 AM)

You're probably right, but for the purposes of the movie I think they ended it correctly. We're meant to be left feeling disturbed that this kid is undeterred in his pursuit of being a 'filmmaker' on the edge etc.

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Theshornwonder — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 08:58 PM)

Breaking into someone's home with a gun is a felony almost everywhere. I don't know where they got the idea that would be classified as a misdemeanor.

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JShaft33 — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 06:05 PM)

It's up to the prosecution to decide what to charge the kids with and the jury decide whether or not they are guilty. In this case the judge merely handed down the sentencing.
Also - suicide does not fit under the 'death occurred during a felony' rule.
The most questioning part of the court case is that both kids were tried together. I thought that was rather odd.