Online Feud Proves That Pop Culture References Are the Best Way To Drive Someone To Arson

This week, a man was sentenced to seven years in prison for setting some Texan’s trailer home on fire while he was in it. Nothing to write the ‘rents about, except that Navy officer Russel Tavares drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to John Anderson’s outside Waco after the two exchanged heated insults on a photo-sharing website that’s basically the poor man’s Flickr. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a guy who posts pics of himself pointing pistols and knives at people gets called the “white Steve Urkel” by another lonely dweeb, then goes apeshit when said dweeb ups the ante by Photoshopping “Revenge of the Nerds” onto a shot of him shirtless and holding a gun. The bizarre part? Tavares told cops he’d originally planned to just scare his bully with a shotgun, then blow a hole through the guy’s computer. The really bizarre part? Anderson runs a haunted house for a living. (Those places scare us.)

Online feud ends in arson, prison [Austin American Statesman]
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