Criminal
04-12-2006, 03:12 AM
Kevin Frank Ealy (more popularly known as Kevin Klerck or simply Klerck) (December 28, 1982 – March 8, 2005), was an Internet persona who was active as a troll on several popular websites, most notably Slashdot (Samples), Shacknews and Squabble.org. Some credit his page widening techniques as the primary reason Slashdot implemented the lameness filter, which checks pending comments for repetitive text or malicious formatting before allowing them to appear on a website. Most notably, his petition to "Rename The Two Towers to Something Less Offensive," regarding Peter Jackson's film The Two Towers, garnered international media attention.[1]
Ealy was eventually banned from Shacknews as a result of his antics. Some users found him to be very entertaining and uniquely funny and crazy; others felt he was harmful to the various communities he inhabited. A defunct account on Epinions may show he was once a reviewer on that website. He also made a few shock site images.
Death
On March 8th, 2005, he was found dead in his boyfriend's apartment with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the day he posted a suicide note on his LiveJournal. To paraphase his journal entry, he stated he had a little bit of depression but he was mostly bored with life. From what he stated in his last chat sessions, he wanted to use a shotgun to kill himself instead of carbon monoxide as he once said he would use. He stated he wanted to make do with what he already had.
Kevin's trolls and suicide were memorialized as the subject of Episode 8 in Season 2 of the l0de radio hour, an obscure Internet radio show hosted by a member of the Gay ****** Association of America, who, like Kevin, were also trolls (186 MB MP3 audio file (192 kb/s)).
A log of his last (However, there is also a second IRC conversation linked below) IRC conversation is located at http://trolldb.com/klerck_finalchat.txt. Kevin's final words were:
[12:39:07] <klerck__> oh hell I can't find a pen
[12:40:17] <klerck__> http://www.livejournal.com/users/klerck/ posted
[12:40:24] <klerck__> bye
LiveJournal has since suspended his journal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerck
Ealy was eventually banned from Shacknews as a result of his antics. Some users found him to be very entertaining and uniquely funny and crazy; others felt he was harmful to the various communities he inhabited. A defunct account on Epinions may show he was once a reviewer on that website. He also made a few shock site images.
Death
On March 8th, 2005, he was found dead in his boyfriend's apartment with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the day he posted a suicide note on his LiveJournal. To paraphase his journal entry, he stated he had a little bit of depression but he was mostly bored with life. From what he stated in his last chat sessions, he wanted to use a shotgun to kill himself instead of carbon monoxide as he once said he would use. He stated he wanted to make do with what he already had.
Kevin's trolls and suicide were memorialized as the subject of Episode 8 in Season 2 of the l0de radio hour, an obscure Internet radio show hosted by a member of the Gay ****** Association of America, who, like Kevin, were also trolls (186 MB MP3 audio file (192 kb/s)).
A log of his last (However, there is also a second IRC conversation linked below) IRC conversation is located at http://trolldb.com/klerck_finalchat.txt. Kevin's final words were:
[12:39:07] <klerck__> oh hell I can't find a pen
[12:40:17] <klerck__> http://www.livejournal.com/users/klerck/ posted
[12:40:24] <klerck__> bye
LiveJournal has since suspended his journal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerck