Right to Remain Silent....or not

In the podcast on This American Life "Right to Remain Silent" describing Joe Lipari's experience after posting a Facebook status gone wrong the author shows that sometimes some people will never change, or feel the need to change because of their actions.

Joe Lipari is 34 years old and was born in Passaic, New Jersey.  It is well known that most people from his parts are more mouthy than most other people.  It has started at a young age and he was even thrown out of school for cussing at a nun.  He even mentions with that experience how ironic it was because they were supposed to be forgiving.  In another example, he talks about his experience in the military and how he did talk back to his drill sergeant.  However, he justified it this time because the drill sergeant was telling him to cut his sideburns.  Joe recited to the drill sergeant the military's regulations on sideburns from memory.  Joe was indeed correct. This give us an indication that Joe is not the type of person that backs down from conflict.  Even as he is faced with the consequences he will continue to fight back.

In September of 2009 Joe purchased his first IPhone.  Like the rest of his friends, he thought it would be cool to own one.  The joy of owning one did not last long, it did not work right away.  He then made an appointment and they supposedly fixed it.  The next day, the phone did not work again.  Joe went down to the Apple Store after work.  They told him it would be a two hour wait since he did not have an appointment.  Even after 2 hours, they informed it would still be another two hours of waiting.  He got mad and left the Apple Store.  It was the ramifications of what he was about to do next that got him into a whole lot of trouble. Joe was still pretty mad and matter didn't help any as he proceeded to smoke pot and watch the movie "Fight Club" while perusing Facebook at the same time.  Once a scene from the movie popped up, it inspired Joe to post a status to his Facebook.  The content of the status was the following,

"Joe Lipari might walk into it Apple Store on Fifth Avenue with an ArmaLite AR-10 gas-powered semiautomatic weapon and pump round after round into one of those smug, fruity little concierges. This may be someone you've known for years, someone very, very close to you."

It wasn't too long after he posted this on Facebook that the cops showed up on his doorstep.  They searched his apartment and noticed that he was still high from smoking pot.  This did not help his situation.  He was told he was going downtown for questioning by Homeland Security.