University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum

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More about 15 minutes of fame guy from the Washington Post:


"This was not Meyer's first escapade as a provocateur, but it may be his most physically punishing. As a freshman his weekly columns for the Alligator, the campus newspaper, regularly prompted debate. "He would take an idea such as a fundraiser for cancer research, and would bash the way the whole event would go down," wrote Meyer's friend Brandon Crone in an e-mail, noting that some of Meyer's articles were rejected for publication because of their incendiary material.

Some have speculated that his penchant for attention (his e-mail handle is "famouswriterman") led him to stage the outburst to draw traffic to his Web site, http://www.theandrewmeyer.com, a mishmash of political commentary, sketch comedy and filmed practical jokes. On Meyer's Facebook wall, his friends' good wishes are half-horrified, half-admiring.

"Meyer, you are a genius," writes one fan. "Just don't go on Larry King yet wait till you get millions first."

Asked about speculation that Meyer staged the confrontation, university spokesman Steve Orlando said in an interview that someone in the Office of Student Affairs told him Meyer brought his own video camera to the forum, handing it to a friend before rising to ask his question."

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That site is terrible. This kid is terrible. I hate attention whores like this. We have a kid like that here at WIU. Except he is pro-war and shows up to every anti-war event on campus tries to take away from what we are doing and absorb the attention for himself. He also appear at the yearly KOS convention and was almost kicked out of that for doing what this kid did to a panel of military personal who stood out against the Iraq war. They did not pull him out and tazer him, but dragging out a veteran in tazering him from a KOS convention would have gone over pretty badly.