UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email 555
British teenager Luke Angel has been banned from the US for sending an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity. The 17-year-old says he was drunk when he sent the mail and doesn't understand what the big deal is. "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly -- the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few," he said. The FBI contacted local police who in turn confronted Luke and let him know that the US Department of Homeland Security didn't think his email was funny. "The police came and took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever. I don't really care but my parents aren't very happy," Angel said.
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:4, Funny)
Love the lack of free speech here.
Burn a flag, protest, do whatever, but HOW DARE YOU CALL OUR PRESIDENT A PRICK!
You sir, will never visit our country!
Sometimes I can't believe I live in this country, it's so goddamned weird.
Streisand effect (Score:4, Funny)
I suspect that the Whitehouse is going to be getting A LOT of emails from angsty edgy teenagers calling him more than just a prick.
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:3, Funny)
If anything, ban him til the end of Obama's term...
Really. Who knows, he might have something nice to say about our next President.
Re:What did he call him? (Score:5, Funny)
"Remember son, if an upper-classman calls you a pussy, just respond 'I am what I eat'" -Advice from my Dad on my first day of high school
Change we can believe in? (Score:4, Funny)
I can't believe how little changed. What has seems for the worse.
What a colossal disappointment this administration is.
Re:So, when? (Score:5, Funny)
EVERYONE in Britain is rude. Have you ever been there? Hell, look up Wii Fit Plus on Youtube...
American Wii Fit trainer chick: That's it. Focus on your breathing. Let's try to do ten. One... two... three... you're doing good so far... four... five... six...
British Wii Fit trainer chick: Let's do ten now! One.. two... come on can't you put some muscle into it?! Three... four... just five more ya fat lump! Six... seven... eight... nine... come on now... ten! There, thought ye were gonna cry for a minute there!
Re:What did he call him? (Score:2, Funny)
He should have called him a wanker and then gotten away with it.
Re:What did he call him? (Score:4, Funny)
A prick?
The first article I read about this just showed it as p****, so I thought it might be pussy.
Yes, well, us Yanks are a big prudish about such things you know.
The article is in the Sun. Pussy is on Page 3 [wikipedia.org] (NSFW [page3.com]).
The BBC [bbc.co.uk] have the story, so it may even be true. It's a bit disappointing to see The Sun relying on facts -- have they run out of imagination?
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:2, Funny)
And punks. Dickheads. Douchebags. And ugly. With bad odor.
Re:What did he call him? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd much rather live here than dozens of other countries.
The constant travel leave you exhausted!
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:2, Funny)
> Yeah, I'm kinda embarrassed by this.
Don't feel bad. I'd be embarrassed too, if I fell for an article from The Sun. Fortunately, I know that they're about as reliable a news source as The Weekly World News (but Bat Boy is absolutely, undeniably real. Elvis told me so!)
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but jerk is off the charts, as this story proves.
Re:USSR joke (Score:4, Funny)
But of-course this kid was not an American standing right in front of the White House and yelling 'Down with Reagan!', I suppose that's the difference here.
obviously, otherwise he'd be a czar now.
Re:Now that's just stupid. (Score:1, Funny)
They also mention the kid said he wasn't sure exactly what he said. Probably because the FBI goons beat him with a baseball bat and he can't remember that there's a sent email folder. Dang goons browbeating limeys.
Hey hey, we're the goonies.
Hardly an onerous punishment (Score:4, Funny)
He can just walk in from Mexico any time he likes.