I dont bash anyone, nor do provide information about things I do not know about: The following statement reflects the choices your son and this other person attempted to do:
"They proceeded to continue their rants and questioned are expertise. They began sending us insulting and vulgar comments, as well as posting comments on youtube as well. We finally decided to tolerate no more after repeated emails, phone calls, hacking and spamming our youtube accounts and now this fauna thread"
Just to clarify my concern in this matter... Your son as precocious as you may think he is went beyond a simple concern for clarifyiny an animal concern. What your son did was use the internet to malign a business... That should be a concern for everyone.
If in fact and you are right I cannot say for sure but accept the information provided that the passwords on YOUTUBE were in fact hacked then the intent is a little bit more serious then the care for a chameleon.....
I dont believe your son or the other child involved realized the ramifications when something like occurs and it gets out of hand... Its very comforting to know that your son is enough of an advocate to know what he is maintaining when he makes a purchase of a reptile.... But this has nothing to do with reptiles.
What it has to do with is purposely intimidating a legal busikness through a variety of mediums such as this forum as well as others : with no remorse thinking they are immune form this behaviour and that nothing will come out of it because they are underage....
There is a right way to right what your son may perceive as a wrong. But I think your sons over enthusiasm got the better of him, and with the aid of this other child it mushroomed into a confrontation that required your inception into this.... Your son may be responsible for his own actions but so are you !
Thats what happens when a child decides to take matters in their own hands without realizing that words can come back to haunt them on any open forum such as these areas of interest where thousands of people see the benefits as well as causing a loss of business based on harassment
When a thread is made anywhere, age requirement is not necessary to voice an opinion or a harmful post....... There may very well have been an age requirement even for this site ! Not to mention TOS for Youtube as well as other sites your son and this other person posted....
There is no reason why Underground should have to come here and post the following: So we are being forced to contact forums and other websites as well as take legal actions for these kids behavior. I truly believe that these kids should be taught a lesson and have any their accounts with these reptile forums and youtube suspended and should definitely make some apologies. Negative comments are one thing harassment and hacking is another
Your son and this other person should consider themselves lucky that Rian is more of a forgiving person.
I hope that in the future, discretion is used by your son when entering this type of an arena where post of this nature can cause enough difficulties to escalate into something that neither party want to deal with..
We certainly have seen enough of that with all the children who loose control of there senses!...
Finally, Mr 0319, I never asked you how much you spend for anything, and you are right its none of my buisness. Then why bring it up.
Concern yourself in making sure your own pockets are well guarded for your sons adventures may cause you to dig deep.