Sunday, February 18, 2007 |
11:43 - Bring on the Rapture
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/18/chat.room.lawsuit.ap/index.html
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Society hasn't really fallen this far, has it?
WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, says he visits chat rooms to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam.
In papers filed in federal court in White Plains, Pacenza said the stress caused him to become "a sex addict, and with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict." He claimed protection under the American with Disabilities Act.
I guess this is a better form of PTSD than holing up in the mountains of Oregon and hunting federal agents who come to arrest you, but... in some ways, maybe not.
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