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Excellent Daily Mail piece investigates the phenomenon and features a man in Northern Ireland working to combat it:
'Help me, mummy. It's hot here in hell': A special investigation into the
distress of grieving families caused by the sick internet craze of 'trolling'
'Help me, mummy. It's hot here in hell': A special investigation into the
distress of grieving families caused by the sick internet craze of 'trolling'
much more at link above---
Indeed, when the Mail contacted one troll an individual using the screen name The Pro-Fessor on Facebook, his main complaint was that his profile might be temporarily taken down for attacking memorial sites to the Welsh miners.
There was no repentance only a concern that his vile activities might be interrupted.
He sent a message saying: I have had about 45 people yelling at me about dead miners and I didnt even kill them. As ever, on the day we got in contact, the Pro-Fessors work was visible all over Facebook.
As a well as trolling sites about the Welsh miners, on another memorial page he expressed delight at the death of a 20-year-old man, called Dustin, in Georgia, saying: It must have been time to take the trash out.
At the same time, he was showering the family of Russian ice hockey star Pavol Demitra with messages to say he hoped hed died painfully in the plane crash that killed 43 people this month.
Asked why he trolls, The Pro-Fessor explains that increasing the pain of grieving families is what he does best.
It is a straightforward mission statement: I ruin family, friends and grief tourists view of a dead person.
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