At 3/23/09 07:51 AM, Desa217 wrote: At first when you said Norfolk, I thought that you ment Virginia. But no, it's Montreal.

Actually it's the UK, Norfolk is where Sirtom was, Montreal is where Rig phoned the Popo from.

That games reeks of epic.
But such a serious event proves that the internet makes people stupid, like who broadcasts a crime and not expect to be caught?
Angry 16 year of kids of course!

You gotta love how hardly any of the news articles referring to NG know what kind of site it actually is.

At 3/23/09 06:03 AM, deckheadtottie wrote: "On Tuesday morning, we received an anonymous [that's me] call suggesting that one of our students may be planning to do damage to the school. We immediately passed that message to the police."

http://frog.attleboroughhigh.norfolk.sch .uk/index.phtml?d=224865

No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

Edited for posterity.

Maybe Rig will finally be upgraded to forum mod after all this.

K probably not.

That's a pretty serious story. Could only happen to Newgrounds.

At 3/23/09 09:19 AM, TomFulp wrote:

No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

Edited for posterity.

I put the message just above it "deckheadtottie saved the world! Woooooooooooo!" - Front page credit enough?

At 3/23/09 08:21 AM, WilliWowza wrote: Now onto the more pressing issue of the Digg users having a dig (DO HO HO) at Newgrounds.

Which is exactly why the media decided not to post the specific name, 'Newgrounds' on their articles (or they just didn't know). If they released names of people preventing it, the site name, details about the site, there would be much more of a media circus trying to bring us down. I'll show you an example relating to another form of media, music.

Here we see a murder that was supposively influenced by the band, Slayer, and directly quotes the parent of the murdered child as stating this is the case.

However, at this article by Ultimate-Guitar states a direct quote from the murders themselves as stating it was their own responsibilities, and bad actions of taking drugs, instead of the music.

If you do a quick Google search for, "Slayer killing" or any of the sort, you will find pages, and pages, articles and articles of similar news reports to the first case, instead of any instance of the quotes from the killers.

Had the media published NGs name into their news reports, this probably would've happened to Newgrounds as well - no particular motive, nothing seemingly odd about his life, except he has a NG account (which in the Slayer case, was that they had Slayer posters and albums in their room). They do a little research on his account, yada, yada, yada, Newgrounds is plop in the center of the circus.

In the end, that's what I believe would've happened had the police released the details of Newgrounds (or the media found out, or the media published it, or whatever). I'm sorry for the longer post, but I feel that this weird fact of the media not showing NGs name shouldn't take priority over the case itself any longer.

DONT SCREW WITH NEWGROUNDS!
We will crush you all!

what are you on that pricks side or something

At 3/23/09 02:34 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 3/23/09 02:24 AM, RageVI wrote: "newgrounds.com, which is used for sharing music files and user-created animations"

That's better than social networking site, right? I guess they're getting a little warmer!

Most people will never really understand what NG is... I don't even think most people here do. I'll try to sum it up with a front page blurb some day.

Now some light has been thrown onto why a girl (no names mentioned) who had just joined Newgrounds the other day sent me a PM telling me she thought I was an interesting candidate
for a chat after looking at my userpage. I sent her a PM telling her what Newgrounds was actually about and that if she wasnt interested in animations or music or the general forum she may be better off on Facebook or my space or another similar type of social networking site. When I told her my age and that I have a wife and two kids I think she may have lost interest in my knob because she hasnt PMed me back............Yet!!

As a resident of Norfolk, thank you! <3

I'm glad you made some publicity out of a school shooting threat.

And Rig, what a hero. He picked up the phone.

wait...
people actually liked sirtom??
he actually has submitted good stuff???
cause the past month hes only been like spaming the portal
and people were getting pretty pissed off at him

Wow always something of interest going on here on NG and such

~X~

ooo
and good job you two
saving the world one threat at a time :D

At 3/23/09 10:01 AM, Syncope wrote: In the end, that's what I believe would've happened had the police released the details of Newgrounds (or the media found out, or the media published it, or whatever). I'm sorry for the longer post, but I feel that this weird fact of the media not showing NGs name shouldn't take priority over the case itself any longer.

I see your point and you're right, it's just the way the media reacts to these things and twists what people think is something that really interests me. It's not like Newgrounds is a stranger to bad press and bad press and more bad press. The difference here is that it was all the users that were against him, posting not to do it, calling the police etc. So if anything it should shine well on the site and community, however it's the media and they'll play the story how they want. If 'Internet Is Breeding School Killers' will sell, they'll run it.

At 3/23/09 06:03 AM, deckheadtottie wrote: No front page credit for for poor ol' Joe, though. :(

Man you got modded for that shit.

Yeah, Sirtom93 probably had a few serious issues at home or school if he actually wanted to do such a thing. Although I was aware of this event on the day it happened, why didn't you mention this sooner?

Once again, Newgrounds users defeat the faggy TheBackAlleys.

At 3/23/09 11:42 AM, The-Swain wrote: Once again, Newgrounds users defeat the faggy TheBackAlleys.

SHHHH

TBA cunts are known for massive amounts of butt hurt crying and temper tantrums, you'll hurt their feelings man....

Well done rig save some more lives =)

Newgrounds.com.

We post animated pornography, ultra-violent games, host flash submissions with questionable ethical subtletees, oh and we prevent school attacks.

At 3/23/09 02:19 AM, TomFulp wrote: Anyone following our forums or the NG Tweets already knows, but this past week, Rig, deckheadtottie and fellow NG users thwarted a potential school attack!

Just found this site again on Friday. Today (Monday) I found out you guys are heros. Weird

Wow, all this happened while I was away for a week? O_O

I must say, this kind of makes up for the horrible things that our NG users have already done in the past. We're not all a bunch of nuts afteral, ha. Very good job deckheadtottie, Rig, Wade, and anyone else I missed that was involved! I'm proud of you guys (:

I guess all of you make a good chance for a user of the year award now, eh? :P

Suck that 4chan, you say you're better that cause you saved a little cat that later died? Well we saved a whole school, full with kids and fucking lab rats, who's the man now?!

When I started seeing the games and hearing some stories, I thought it was something that happened a few years ago. After a little bit, I realized that it happened just the other day. Good thing NG users are know to report something like that

I wonder if it will be on BBC news tonight and i'll say he was from Newgrounds and my mum and dad will wonder what im on about!

Hey Tom what's so funny?.

I never heard about this till now. When I heard about sirtom93 I was thinking to myself "I'm sure I've heard that name before..." Then it hit me. I had been talking to him via PM in December. Here is proof (although I'm sure you don't need it. I just thought I would post it anyway)

At 12/22/08 1:05 PM, sirtom93 wrote:

Your from Norfolk aswell?

3

At 12/22/08 1:14 PM, alien1248 wrote:

Yeah. I live near King's Lynn. (If you know where that is...)

At 12/22/08 3:22 PM, sirtom93 wrote:

Yeah I do, I live in Attleborough, heard of it?

At 12/22/08 4:15 PM, alien1248 wrote:

Nah. Never heard of it. I live about 7 miles from King's Lynn. Never heard of Attleborough. Where is it?

At 12/22/08 4:32 PM, sirtom93 wrote:

Between Thetford and Wymondham if you have heard of those?

At 12/24/08 3:01 PM, alien1248 wrote:

I know where Thetford is.

Sent: 12/24/08 15:59
Awesome. Happy christmas then. Will you be going to the Ng london meet?

Then I said something like "can't be bothered" (I'm sure none of you really care, but thats why I found this interesting)