An innocent man spent 18 months in jail due to a mishap involving his Skyrim-themed username. What started as a simple oversight ultimately led a Skyrim fan to be blamed for a crime he didn't commit.
It's pretty common for gamers to choose usernames for chat services like Discord or gaming platforms based upon their favorite titles and characters. When a desired username is taken, people often add things like underscores or dashes to get a variation of what they originally wanted. However, that also means that messaging services can end up having multiple users with nearly identical usernames, which is where the problem began for a fan of The Elder Scrolls.
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Per a report by Ars Technica, a man named Brandon Klayme, who had a username of "fus__ro_dah" on the Kik messaging platform, spent time in jail for something that he never did. His username, for the unfamiliar, is based upon one of the core Dragon Shouts in Skyrim. The situation that unfurled began when police in Wisconsin began looking for an adult male who had sent...
