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elderly couple Elaine and David McLean are suing spike lee for fifteen thousand
dollars after he tweeted their address it during the George Zimmerman case
he mistakenly believe that their address was george Zimmerman's address
and he put it out on Twitter of course people started sending death threats and
making other threats to the this elderly couple
not unknowingly because they didn't think that was george Zimmerman's
address
now after this happened initially %uh spike lee did settle for about ten
thousand dollars
however the couple says that a year and a half later the tweet still keep coming
in
people are still re tweeting at and they're still getting threats
and they're worried about their safety so that's why they're suing again for
fifteen thousand dollars
are now spike lee refuses to pay it he says that
the continued harassment was foreseeable I
and so now the couple is wondering what they're supposed to do
they are gonna go forward with the lawsuit but I think it's a little funny
that Spike Lee the guy who spends ten thousand dollars for every Knicks game
doesn't want to pay fifteen thousand dollars for this couple but a good
argument could be made that he already settled so why did you have to go back
and pay again
well to be fair I think that did Knicks game tickets went for ten thousand on
his
into your campaign so they it's not every year but yes to have courtside
tickets for the next was a pretty penny
and you make a line about largely tonya yeah so
at now I'm really torn on this I'm not a big spike lee fan to say the least
I but how often do you get to go back to the well that's an interesting question
well what happens on the information we have an interesting question drop it
I am curious where you come out on the spur
assuming that the
elderly couple whose address who did nothing
and his address you posted on Twitter is not trying to extort
which I guess is slightly possible they got and they come back to the well
tenders not it's nothing it does is ask for ten thousand dollars
I would pay them and I would pay to what I should do is
go to whatever city they live in Taylor somewhere in Florida and change the
address
i get a text change it somehow case what we do that this morning the odds are
you're not
in if you're 6416 maybe you're right in between 64 18 and 64 14
or whatever I said you know to me late but like year there's probably a gap
like just come up with that
different address call it something else that can be done they did with OJ's
house
so you pay the iPad where they would never let it get this far turns out that
great today
threat to gonna give your spike lee if I wish by Cleo pitcher
be up to 10,000 ago of originally and that's nothing
right nothing yeah I'm not convinced yet look I think spike lee is
you too much but we can I don't like him and I did the wrong thing to do the
right thing in 1989 oh no no no I in
okay card let's let's be honest let's be honest
let's be honest that's true okay yeah
okay but I let that go decades ago okay
no no no I did but at every turn he does the wrong thing
at every turn it was some story forget which one it was that put me over the
top
about a year ago or so it didn't other *** movie Gucci
always does right and this I mean putting out the address
what dole intends worsen as poor elderly couple
the you know being harassed by people endlessly is what it was
actually george Zimmerman's address as somebody when a shot I got no lo prism
in right boards but that's a horrible terrible thing to do
or shot his brother or his wife or any of the other number of people who could
have been there brenda was their car driving by when in the there's
look the average person is gonna go let's go get this guy right now is not a
high information person
right so the fact that it's not his actual address they may not look that
for
very responsible yeah it's terrible but the flip side is
if you give them 15 extra thousand now
okay then a year from now your wallet it's two weeks or I'll take another 25
do you have
language written your dream and that after this fifteen thousand dollars
you're done
there's no more going back to the well you can make sure that that wording
exist
and I totally agree that the original settlement was way too low considering
what he had done to that couple
so if the original settlement was like five hundred thousand dollars or
something that I'd be like oh come on
really you're coming back to get more money we knew how exactly but in this
case ten thousand dollars is nothing
I don't think that fifteen thousand dollars as much and so I'm in favor of
spike lee
giving them more money the money that they're asking for and he can include
language indicating that they cannot go back
well look I can comfortably byu dissenting voice your Spike Lee's gonna
lose anyway 321
but I a deal's a deal it but it just bothers me a principal who was the
dealer mini-game 10,000 I don't want to go that long ago that we did turns out
keeps coming yeah I did I know it's so out there and it was a *** move in
that's why give you ten thousand
now you want another 15 got particular after the verdict was read
so that's the reason why you know they started getting the threats again
ido you know I wouldn't want to restart those talks in them that
why delete the tweet by the way he did not only a distant bar so more people to
have you
uniquely people break have it may be tweeted her they say that yet
alright spike the in a shocking turn of events actually
book with you nonetheless I'm out voted three-to-one is
rather indefensible you haven't given a good reason for no unpronounceable
a deal's a deal a deal's a deal they don't know what the deal was I'm curios
10,000 no
I don't get the way if that deal with I'm ever give you any more money we've
closed off but if the how do I make a deal with you who believe me I'm not
giving you any more money
if you look baby danger if we get into a fight that you start you break my liking
them recover your medical costs ten thousand dollars okay great thanks
altered up the leg got infected the cost thirty eight thousand dollars more you
don't feel like you have any responsibility by that
name
I
well that was not foreseeable I
yeah I'm I breaking your like that's on me okay that impacted
that's on your bed at that smile we got I
feel everybody that I
a major body week so I feared I
OJ well anyway there we have a ruling