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    ninjaginSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:22pm

    I’m just not buying the Z society “frat” hazing-prank excuse. I think he saw a cool propaganda poster/banner and thought that it would look cool on his wall back home, so he went for it and got caught. Under pressure of interrogation, he concocted a bunch of stuff and that’s what we see here. I don’t think there’s any complexity to his actions, though I think the punishment is way way way out of line with the transgression.

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      Sam Biddleninjagin
      3/21/16 3:27pm

      That’s definitely plausible—but why not say you were doing it for one of the greek letter frats, which is even more plausible?

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      dothedewninjagin
      3/21/16 3:29pm

      Or maybe someone fucked with him by telling him that the Z society wanted him to do this but in actuality it was just some asshole pretending to be part of the Z. After all, if an organization is so secret that none of its members are publicly named, how do you know if the person approaching you with an initiation task is really with that organization?

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    ConflictedInNYCSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:16pm

    This article makes you look very ignorant. Anyone that went to UVa knows that the Z Society is not a frat in the traditional sense. It’s a secret society that does chartible things around campus. They would have nothing to gain from one of their members stealing propaganda from North Korea and it is not the type of thing they would participate in. Their implication in this mess was the one detail that made it very obvious to me that the confession was coerced. Please do some research.

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      Sam BiddleConflictedInNYC
      3/21/16 3:19pm

      that’s what every frat says, buddy

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      Mark_the_BoldConflictedInNYC
      3/21/16 3:19pm

      Classic Z Society misdirection....

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    OMG!PONIES!Sam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:22pm

    I’d begin to feel bad for Warmbier if our own country didn’t have sentence inflation which disproportionately affects the poor and minorities, resulting in, for example, sentences of 25 years to life for stealing a slice of pizza.

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      DiscountBurnerBarnOMG!PONIES!
      3/21/16 3:58pm

      Don’t shed a tear for this idiot’s plight. I’m more concerned with the hours of diplomatic manpower that will be wasted getting his dumb ass home.

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      suppiluliumasDiscountBurnerBarn
      3/21/16 5:20pm

      Don’t shed a tear for this idiot’s plight.

      Jesus Christ, are there ever some merciless people on Gawker these days. I used to think this was kind of a left-leaning crowd; now it’s people who figure fifteen years of torture in one of the most brutally oppressive countries on Earth is pretty fair for some dumbass who swiped a banner.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Sam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:22pm

    Well, now I guess I have to make four rules for my children when they enter college:

    1. Never take a payday loan.

    2. Always use condoms.

    3. Never join a frat.

    4. Don’t go to North Korea.

    Thanks, Otto.

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      ummagummibearTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      3/21/16 5:24pm

      Americans. Just to let you know, going to North Korea isn’t really as outlandish as you make it seem. Many many people do so every year, and it’s really a perfectly safe, perfectly legitimate place to visit [Sam Kinison scream voice on] AS LONG AS YOU DON’T ENGAGE IN OBVIOUS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WHILE YOU’RE THERE, BRO![/SKV]

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      TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)ummagummibear
      3/21/16 5:45pm

      I know someone who’s visited. Based on his description, it is absolutely no place for a college student. The penalty for stupid is just too high.

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    Low Information BoaterSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:11pm

    In high school my friends and I would play a game where we held our forearms together and placed a lit cigarette on top and whoever moved their arm first lost. Several years later I looked back and thought to myself "gee, that's about the stupidest thing I ever heard of." It seems my judgement was premature.

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      HaveyouseenmyLow Information Boater
      3/21/16 3:21pm

      Yeah, his critical thinking went out the window when he thought vacationing in DPRK sounded like a good idea. It just went downhill from there.

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      Place is dead anyway, manLow Information Boater
      3/21/16 3:23pm

      You idiot.

      fuckin BURN

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    MoscaSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:25pm

    “We may never find out exactly what happened in that Pyongyang hotel...”

    Unless you watch the security video of Warmbier stealing the sign, then you would know what happened.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…

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      Sara-Slaughter607Mosca
      3/21/16 3:36pm

      That was my first thought as well... we kinda DO fucking know what happened, and so does the Supreme Leader because he has eyes. This dude is fucked.

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      Stop_my_abortionMosca
      3/21/16 3:39pm

      Fuck, that must be the most uninviting hotel I’ve ever seen, and I’ve witnessed a Rorschach of dried fluids on the walls of a National Nine Inn in Roswell, New Mexico.

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    Murry ChangSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:54pm

    I thought he stole it on a bet and if he wouldn’t have gotten cought he would have won a used car? That’s what the news was reporting the other day, iirc.

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      ad infinitumMurry Chang
      3/21/16 4:07pm

      He said that, too, sort of — that a woman at his church promised him a $10,000 used car if he stole a banner, as well as promising to give $100,000 to his family if he was caught and detained. It makes basically no sense. I’m guessing this was a North Korean invention to show how evil American religion was involved.

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      Murry Changad infinitum
      3/21/16 4:12pm

      The whole thing makes no sense. You don’t go to North Korea and if you’re dumb enough to do that then you don’t steal shit while you’re there.

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    #NotAllYzermanSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:18pm

    Time to send in the pledges to rescue their brother. This would make a great college movie. Goat Team 6: No Sperrys Left Behind.

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      GroundSwell83#NotAllYzerman
      3/21/16 3:24pm

      best hell week in decades.

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    Donald PumpSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:45pm

    Ok so dumb ass here ends up in a NK Labor camp for being a dumb ass. Now what? Have there been American prisoners in the past that we have negotiated the release of?

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      DooglaDonald Pump
      3/21/16 5:01pm

      We have no diplomacy with Best Korea. He’s fucked.

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      notaquarterbackDoogla
      3/22/16 12:00am

      Sweden serves as our intermediary.

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    RedcrustinSam Biddle
    3/21/16 3:16pm

    Nah, this is all an elaborate IMP plot to destabilize the Z Society. Next up, the 7s. See you in Iran!

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      DisMyBurnerBaeRedcrustin
      3/21/16 5:49pm

      Investigative Medicinal Product?

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