Darren Burton aka Nimrod Severn
The BBC’s Panorama program, whilst doing a program called, ‘Hunting the Internet Bullies‘ has tracked down one of the most notorious internet trolls currently doing the rounds, and he is truly a nasty piece of work. What he likes to do, is to find RIP tribute pages on Facebook, and make abhorrent and racist remarks, about the person who had died or was killed. It beggars belief as to what would drive someone to do this?
The BBC named him as Darren Burton and lives in Cardiff (UK). The BBC managed to catch Mr Burton as he was getting onto a bus and asked him, ‘why he does what he does and does he consider the people that he is hurting?’ His answer was, What do I think? I think f**k ‘em’
How does he justify this? ‘Facebook is an open forum and the courts wouldn’t punish him’. He was of course referring to the case last year when another internet troll, Sean Duffy, 15, who wrote nasty messages as well as creating videos, taunting people including amongst other, the tribute page to Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died when hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcs, on Feb 14th 2011. He was sentenced to 18 weeks for each of the offences to run concurrently. Hopefully the same will fall Mr Burton, if not longer.
Makes you ashamed to be British.
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Video was uploaded to YouTube via The Next Web.
Mindless coward. Let him post his full name and address please.
You have his name, and plenty of video of the bus he rides/town he lives in. I’d imagine even people that aren’t that internet savvy can figure it out.
what a coward a welsh sheep fuckin COWARD there nimjrod hop u see this and are fucked off with it u RAE A COWARD AND A BULLIE AND I HOPE U GET WHATS COMING TO U BEING RUN OVER BY THAT BUS WITH ANY LUCK
This guy’s comments and lack of empathy aside, I hope you realise your comment here is equally as bad…but not to suggest he doesn’t deserve your anger directed toward him.
These kinds of trolls are scumbags, but I find it even more troubling that so many people in a modern western nation with a constitutional government who think of themselves as enlightened, feel that insults should be a criminal matter. I’m sorry, but in a free society nobody has a right not to be offended. This should be a civil matter at most – social networking sites like Facebook could perhaps find a way to report the grossest troublemakers to their ISPs and get their Internet accounts cancelled. People will learn some manners pretty quickly when they start running out of Internet companies to get online with.
“nobody has a right not to be offended” is such a weak argument. Would you say that to the parents of the girl that died due to cyber bullying? I would say they do have the right to not be offended. Anyway why would anyone want to side with the offender rather than the offended? Shows what kind of selfish “I want to say what I want” society we live in.
Exactly where is the law supposed to draw the line between “harassment” or “bullying”, and stating an opinion? If you honestly trust the police and the government to have the good sense and restraint to only go after the really bad offenders like Nimrod and not threaten to trample on the rights of anybody who chooses to speak his mind in an unpopular fashion, then you’re a naive liberal socialist sheep (or maybe you’re just British, but then I repeat myself). Do you really want to gradually slip into a totalitarian Demolition Man style dystopia where being rude or unfriendly or “selfish” is itself a criminal act, and nobody is allowed to ever hurt anybody else’s feelings? Where you have a nanny state that tells you what to say, what to wear, what to eat, what to think, how to wipe your @zz? Perhaps western civilization isn’t perfect and you’ll have a few people who are going to abuse their rights. But dealing with that is the price you pay for living in a free society, my limey friend. For one thing, Facebook is not an appropriate place to put an online memorial because of the fact that the staff that owns the site doesn’t monitor comments before they’re posted. There are many good troll-proof memorial websites that specifically exist for this purpose, where the administrator has to approve of any comments before anybody else can see them. If you care about somebody, then you shouldn’t leave a memorial to him in such a “free-for-all” place that’s so unsupervised that anybody with diarrhea for brains and a computer could have complete access to it. That’s just the way the Internet’s always been since the very beginning – if you’re in an UNMODERATED forum, then you have no right to complain if you don’t like what you see. People really need to stop looking to the government to fix all their problems, and use better sense.
Oh he’s such a big man, hiding behind his PC picking on kids! I hope some of his neighbours ‘have a word’ with him! COWARD!
Welsh Sheep fuckin – that comment makes you no better.
CRIMINAL CHARGES?! ARE U FUCKING SERIOUS?! I hate racist trolls as much as anyone else, but to make it a criminal offense is ominous…to say the least. If you consider yourselves a civilized country, then you will allow freedom of speech. That includes offensive speech…in fact, ESPECIALLY offensive speech. If the only speech protected in the UK is the politically correct drivel spewed by the mainstream, then what is it worth? Nothing but Orwellian censorship, if you ask me.
There is such a thing as the Malicious Communications Act, so laws exist to cover this type of behaviour. If you allow people freedoms & they abuse them, they deserve to be punished. There’s nothing “Orwellian” or ominous about taking measures to deal with individuals who disseminate bigotry & race hatred. So there is either “n**ger” or “politically correct drivel” in your mind…what of common decency, politeness & maturity when communicating with your fellow man? Or is that too “politically correct” for you?
If people took responsibility for their words, rather than use the anonimity of the internet to hide behind, the World would be a far healthier place to live in. The real “drivel” is spouted by half educated, foul mouthed cretins who seem incapable of thinking before they speak.
I agree that there ought to be more decency, politeness and maturity on the Internet, but I do not see why such personal virtues should be regulated by criminal law. Just because something is wrong, does that always mean it needs to be a crime? Just saying, if being an @sshole was illegal, I think most of us would probably be in prison.
Nimrod, you mad bro?
Pains a coming : )
Not even mad tho.
Only thing that’s coming is your mum when I shaft her with my huge welsh cock. Not even mad bro.
What a piece of trash, I feel sorry for the kid u parent!!!!!!!!!!!!
What cowards … all the ANONYMOUS poster’s here need his full name … LOLOL
The bus stop in the video for Darren Burton aka Nimrod Severn is approx at 592 Beechley Drive, Cardiff. Just Google Map it.
I am very glad I do not live in Britain, where laws can be passed to punish people for speaking and the media is more interested in an internet loudmouth than real problems.
The following week’s Panorama is about more of a “real problem” – child poverty in the US.
In this case, they can at least do something – show the effects of these peoples’ behaviour and also just just what big men these “trollers” are.
You know what, people have always been hateful and racist and whatever.
Its not even about breaking the law or however many weeks in prison. But what happened to human decency? What happened to respect for families of dead children?
the guy has no shame and obviously no life -its him that should rot in piss
it dont matter what we say cause someone with their right mind is gonna piss on that welsh son of a bitch. he dont care what people say to him sause he probibly heard it so many times before
hes a nobody.. a nothing. he does not even exist. the internet gave this pond life some air and not he will be expired!
Sad, angry, lonley little man. Looking at the video it’s obvious the type of existence he has. A job and some social interaction might help.