Evil Shits Hack Epilepsy Support Site To Post Strobing, Seizure-Inducing Lightshow

Oh, what's the big deal? It's not like anyone ever dies or suffers brain damage from a seizure.

Oh wait, they actually do?

RyAnne Fultz, a 33-year-old woman who suffers from pattern-sensitive epilepsy, says she clicked on a forum post with a legitimate-sounding title on Sunday. Her browser window resized to fill her screen, which was then taken over by a pattern of squares rapidly flashing in different colors.

Fultz says she "locked up."

"I don’t fall over and convulse, but it hurts," says Fultz, an IT worker in Coeur d’Alene, Ohio. "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn’t move and couldn’t speak."

After about 10 seconds, Fultz’s 11-year-old son came over and drew her gaze away from the computer, then killed the browser process, she says.

It's especially witty that they did this in an epilepsy support forum, where one could expect the most severely stricken to gather.

Well, played gents. Enjoy prison. There are a lot of funny hi-jinks that go on in prison, too, and I'm sure you guys are tough-guy studs and should have no problem fitting in.

Thanks to dri.

posted by Ace at 01:45 PM

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