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sirtom93 arrested - TL;DR edition

Posted by Rig - March 17th, 2009


In the press:

By the way, you media folks, Newgrounds is not a social networking website. It's an animation and music website, the first of its kind, and still the best one around.

"Shame Deckheadtottie isn't getting more recognition in the media. He was the one who called sirtom93's school and that seemed to be the action that really got the ball rolling to stop sirtom93. I believe deckheadtottie also relayed the most information about sirtom93 to the police and the school." - Wade Fulp
This is true. Someone talk to him.

Press Association, #2
BBC Article, #2
Norwich Evening News, #2 (mentions deckheadtottie!), #3, #4 (my interview)
Yahoo! News
EDP24, #2, #3
The Sun
Mail Online
Telegraph
Mercury 24

You know what, there are too many articles out there for me to catalogue them all. Google it. lol

I've been interviewed by too many media outlets to remember. deckheadtottie has talked with the Diss Express and Global.

Encyclopaedia Dramatica article

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Time: EST (GMT)

March 17th

6:40 AM (10:40 AM)
Thomas Briggs, aka sirtom93, claims that he's gonna burn his school down at 11:30 AM GMT. Also made a thread here.

6:58 AM (10:58 AM)
I call the Norfolk cops.

7:07 AM (11:07 AM)
deckheadtottie calls the cops.

7:14 AM (11:14 AM)
Wade provides information to deckheadtottie, who relays to cops.

7:30 AM (11:30 AM)
Thomas Briggs personal info found, relayed to cops via the thread and the school via deckheadtottie.

10:52 AM (2:52 PM)
School phones deckheadtottie and informs him that the matter is being dealt with and the police are involved.

11:40 AM (3:40 PM)
Thomas Briggs arrested before damage dealt. Detective calls me asking for information about other NG users.

12:10 PM (4:10 PM)
The school phones deckheadtottie and says the matter has been dealt with, thanks to NG.

12:40 PM (4:40 PM)
One of the users in question phones the detective themselves, second user a mystery

3:09 PM (7:09 PM)
Am told that Thomas Briggs will be in custody overnight, evidence still being collected.

7:00 PM (11:00 PM)
I got information on the second guy, and sent it off to the detective.

Tom is still in custody, under the mental health act.

March 18th

Tom was able to make a few phone calls from prison. He said that he never intended to do it, that he brought the knife, matches, and supposedly flammable liquid into school to show off or something.
DON'T SAY YOU'RE GONNA TRY TO BURN A SCHOOL DOWN IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY TRY TO BURN A SCHOOL DOWN.

May 30th
I got an unconfirmed report that he's being held in a "secure psychiatric unit".

Early March, 2010
Preliminary hearings begin.

November 2010
He's been tried, charged, and is staying in a secure hospital unit. He won't be released until approved by a medical board.

Hope he gets better.

UPDATES AS EVENTS WARRANT LOL

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Parodies!
You knew it was gonna happen someday.

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Sirtom - The truth behind
Sirtom93 Goes To School
Sirtom69 Finds His Petrol
Sirtom93 Plays With Fire
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Dress Up Sirtom 2.0

The Sirtom93 Collab (in progress)

sirtom93 arrested - TL;DR edition


Comments

dont worry guys

the RIGINATOR and his sidekick LANCE RONAY are here to save the day!!

Here's another one

<a href="http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/storyrss.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=NOED17%20Mar%202009%2020%3A54%3A47%3A110">http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/s toryrss.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&cate gory=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tC ategory=News&itemid=NOED17%20Mar%
202009%2020%3A54%3A47%3A110</a>

No mention of NG, even though we were the real heros :(

Just another link.

"A TEENAGER who boasted on the internet about a plan to attack his school was arrested yesterday after cops got a tip-off from CANADA."

<a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2325462.ece">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
news/article2325462.ece</a>

Awesome!

The Sun is a pretty bad news source.

Who would've thought that Newgrounds of all places would be the cause of a prevention of attempted arson?

Watch yourselves kiddies, we're not just here to make dick jokes anymore.

Looks like you're getting the credit from the Telegraph too:

<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5008568/Pupil-arrested-over-school-attack-after-threat-posted-on-internet.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew s/5008568/Pupil-arrested-over-school-
attack-after-threat-posted-on-interne t.html</a>

"Officers rushed to the school after a member of the public in Canada called British police warning them about a threatening message which they had seen posted on a website."

Once again, well done man, shit could've turned out very ugly if you and deskhead didn't act.

Thanks! Got it in here now.

<a href="http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&as_qdr=d&as_drrb=q&ncl=1316485220">http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&
as_qdr=d&as_drrb=q&ncl=131648 5220</a>

Don't know if this link will work forever, but it tracks the most recent news articles about the incident automatically.

I'll put that in.

Are anyone involved in assisting the police actually Canadian, or have they just mixed up the IP addresses of the website?

I'm Canadian.

No love for Joe in all the press :(

No fair to him, but I suppose it looks far more exotic when they say someone from Canada did all the talking.

But still :(

Yeah, well, that's the news. It sucks, but we all know in our hearts that Joe was awesome. Besides, the story's still young - follow-ups are bound to reveal him. I don't think anyone of the press has seen this writeup. :P

i was there awsome he got arrested now he will be like guys i was just kidding hope he has fun getting fucked in jail lamo

I don't think he'd be serving jail time...

Nice, Rig. NEVER delete this!

Of course not!

That Sun article seemed like they were surprised someone from Canada actually did something good. O_o

I think they're surprised that Canada has communications technology.

They were surprised, someone from Canada called the British police. ;)

Christ, the least the press could do is plug your tunes.

WHO WATCHES THE NGers?!

THE POLICE DO NOW

the video on the bbc article #2 mentions deckhead as well btw

direct link to the video i mentioned should have included it earlier really
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7950906.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/79 50906.stm</a>

Cool, thanks!

Well, I was wrong. I thought it was just attention whoring, so I made a point of it somewhere in the thread.

Figures.

SO wrong.

lawl

Also, why does the news seem to think that social networking websites are the only thing on the internet? Honestly, it's all they reffer to it as. Newgrounds =/= social networking. D:

GO TEAM RIG.

GO TEAM INTERNET.

GO TEAM NEWGROUNDS!

Damn, I live in Norfolk too and I've spoken to him on NG before, he even asked me if I wanted to meet up (thank God I didn't). Saw this on the local news aswell, pretty weird knowing he lives near.

The Internets: Serious Business.

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