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- Sep 16, 2013
I see your point, but I think "menace" is a strong word. "Bullshit" is a better one. He does stupid annoying shit in stores. Stores want him gone. This causes conflicts.I don't know man. I think chris saw the punishment being the looming stress of the trial, and when it ended saw himself vindicated and the result being just to "forget about this mess". Chris thought he could send a belligerent "apology" letter to gamestop, where he basically admitted he's a problem in other stores, but blames it on conspiracies against him. He's far from learned his lesson. He still hasn't paid his fine. He still sees himself as the victim. This wasn't a one off at gamestop.. he's clearly a menace in other stores. Why did best buy know about the pepper spray? either his conspiracy is true or he's made similar threats with it before. I'd have to believe the latter. I agree that if you look at his court incidents individually, it's clear an autist tarded out, we can't send him to jail. The problem is he shows a pattern for this. It's not just a few stores, it's always the stores he frequents. He shows a pattern of pushing is luck until he is banned and then violating those bans. If he's smart enough to leave before an incident occurs, he doesn't get arrested, but we've seen him now get arrested 3 times for his bullshit. He never learns his lesson. He's done tons of stuff in other stores too to prove he's a menace. it's almost as if he shouldn't be allowed in stores unsupervised.
Occassionally, his actions have gone over the line. I see the pepper spray and car incidents as spikes of his typical bullshit. They were definitely criminal, but they were far from life-threatening.
There are two aspects of Chris learning. One is getting him to behave normally enough in public that he is always welcome at any store. That is a big stretch. The other is getting him to understand certain lines he cannot cross, like physical violence. I think there is a shot of that. Where he does stupid shit and occassionally gets yelled at and kicked out of places, but nothing really serious comes of it.
He definitely sees it as a conspiracy and himself as a victim. But that isn't massively problematic, as long as he is willing to bow hid head and knuckle under to the "conspiracy".