Originally Posted by pie-eyed:
“GOOD God! What a po faced lot of people on DS. They have been having a laugh at jack with his money tied to his wrist. It's funny. They are ribbing him about "stealing" the money. Jack has no sense of humour and is so desperate for the money he fears it disappearing any minute. Id be laughing about it too. I think jack has attracted supporters who are as humourless as he is.”
There's a line between ribbing and harassment and it generally starts at the point where it no longer becomes fun for the person who is the subject of it. He asked them to stop several times, they didn't.
As for being humourless, humour generally involves wit as far as I'm concerned and them trying to steal the case away from him for the umpteenth time lost any potential humour long ago through endless repetition. Sure, *they* found it funny but it was completely at Jack's expense. They were laughing at him, not with him, and that, in my book, is mean spirited.