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This is NOT basketball related, but it does involve the big donor to OUr rival in Payne County.

One of T. Boone’s sons does not see eye-to-eye with his father. Who knows if it is true, but the son’s blog is interesting, in a sleazy sort of way.

Link to the son’s blog (Michael Pickens):
http://michaelpickens.blogspot.com/


Because of things posted on the son’s blog, T. Boone and other family members are taking legal action (article linked below).

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens Sues His Son, Alleging 'Cyberbullying'
Link to Forbe's article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebme...-pickens-sues-his-son-alleging-cyberbullying/
 
One has to wonder where his son learned to be sleazy!
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/10/us-pickens-sentencing-idUSN1040329320071210

This isn't the first time Michael has been in legal trouble. He is the odd ball out in this family and Boone has stuck by his side for his entire life. Anyone who knows anything about the Pickens family knows that Michael is corrupt and only looking out for himself. All the while being very hypocritcal.

Boone is most likely far from perfect but Michael has been ousted by the family and Boone supposedly let him know that he won't receive anything in his will but Michaels grandkids will.

It's nothing new. The article above hows what Boone thought of his son several years ago
 
I'd be upset too if Marcus Smart got a big chunk of my inheritance...
 
Pickens is an "oily" that made it big, that's enough to tell me he is sleazy. That said, he has done a bunch to help [I guess] a state university, at least in their eyes. Whole thing sounds like "rich people problems" to me, just don't be taking out no life insurance policies...nobody got time for that. Seriously, that scheme alone was enough to tell me that oSu is run by first rate idiots or by Pickens himself. Ultimately I just hope the average taxpayer isn't forced to bail oSu out when one of these gambits goes awry.
 
And right after filing this lawsuit, Boone decided he needed some positive publicity, so HOLY COW poke state just finished raising a billion!

Coincidence?
 
I didn't know you could sue someone for cyber bullying. What exactly is that? Saying something someone doesn't like?
 
DenverSooner said:
I didn't know you could sue someone for cyber bullying. What exactly is that? Saying something someone doesn't like?
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WE live in a society where you can sue McDonald's for making you fat or for having Hot Coffee. Are you really surprised you can sue for this?
 
speaking of nonbasketball posts ... I am almost finished with my chopper

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Max Power said:
WE live in a society where you can sue McDonald's for making you fat or for having Hot Coffee. Are you really surprised you can sue for this?
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Yes and I am an attorney. It makes zero sense to me. A cause of action exists for defamation we don't need some special cause of action for "cyber bullying". If what is being said is the truth, the speaker has a constitutional right to say it.
 
DenverSooner said:
Yes and I am an attorney. It makes zero sense to me. A cause of action exists for defamation we don't need some special cause of action for "cyber bullying". If what is being said is the truth, the speaker has a constitutional right to say it.
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I think you are looking at it in the wrong context. Cyber bullying isn't a form of defamation. It is a form of assault.
 
While I agree that bullying does exist, the same types of things happened to all of us when we were growing up.

I think the bigger question is why kids react so differently to that stuff today, than they did 10, 20, 50 years ago.
 
WTSooner said:
While I agree that bullying does exist, the same types of things happened to all of us when we were growing up.

I think the bigger question is why kids react so differently to that stuff today, than they did 10, 20, 50 years ago.
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Good point!!
 
WTSooner said:
While I agree that bullying does exist, the same types of things happened to all of us when we were growing up.

I think the bigger question is why kids react so differently to that stuff today, than they did 10, 20, 50 years ago.
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Not even close. With Facebook there is an immediate and permanent record of the accusation viewed by thousands or even millions of people.

Just imagine the worst thing you were ever accused of, right or wrong, being broadcast as a commercial during the OU-Texas telecast as fact. Then you get the idea.

It is funny that an 80 year old financial schemer is claiming his mid 50s son is cyber bullying him by releasing family secrets after getting cut out of the will. But for a young confused kid being ridiculed on the Internet, not so much.
 
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There's also the factor that people will often say worse things -- and carry the abuse farther -- online than in person.
 
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