Brickbat: Wheel of Misfortune

For the past seven years, Brevard County, Florida, Sheriff Wayne Ivey has hosted a weekly Wheel of Fugitive "game show" on Facebook in which he picks a fugitive of the week and asks viewers to keep an eye out for that person. David Austin Gay, who was featured on four episodes of the show in 2021, has sued Ivey, claiming he was not a fugitive at the time and lost a job because Ivey identified him as one on the show. In fact, a local newspaper found that Gay was one of 60 "fugitives" featured in episodes that aired between February 2020 and February 2021 who were in jail at the time the episode aired, had no active warrant, or were already free.

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[Michael P]

If it was a weekly show, and the sheriff picked one "fugitive of the week" each week, how did he cover 60 people at all (much less 60 non-fugitives) in 13 months?

[Illocust]

I think they are counting all the faces on the wheel, not just the ones picked.

[Chumby]

From the linked article:

”… Gay was one of 60 'fugitives' the sheriff had featured on the wheel across 45 episodes between February 2020 and February 2021…”

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[TangoDelta]

Repeats. He was featured four times in 5 weeks so it's clear several of the 10 faces on the wheel are repeated. So in the ~56 weeks they had 560 faces, 60 of which were likely repeats as they weren't fugitives at the time even though the "game" is Wheel of Fugitive

It's still a thing, BTW. I wonder how many since then weren't fugitives since we all know the sheriff of What-a-ham has been lying the whole time.

[TangoDelta]

Also, 60/560 is greater than a 10% "error" so at least one face on the wheel is completely made up every week. It could just as easily be called the Weekly Wheel of Lie.

Unless the sheriff is really that incompetent. Yeah, he's a sheriff so he's probably not fit for anything productive with that level of mistakes. It makes one wonder how he's managed to survive so long. Maybe it does take a village to keep idiots like that going for so long.

[Chumby]

From the linked article,
On three of the dates when episodes featuring Gay's picture aired, Gay was in custody after voluntarily turning himself in for violating probation on a prior felony battery charge from 2018.

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"I was in jail, not out of jail!" is not a compelling argument in a defamation case. He may have a case for the other two times.

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[Rossami]

When the implied claim is "you were actively avoiding justice" (the general interpretation of "fugitive") but had instead voluntarily turned yourself in to justice, I think you're wrong. It's not as much defamation as "you are a crook" when you're not but that's a matter of degree, not a disqualifier from the concept of defamation.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Fugitives, like outrage, is something in such short supply that politicians have to periodically invent so they can solve for votes.

[Longtobefree]

Another reason to ban (anti)social media, or "once a fugitive, always a fugitive"?

[Azathoth!!]

If I'm reading the article correctly, the man WAS a fugitive the first time he showed up, was told not to come in to his 'new job' because of it, turned himself in and wasn't removed from the wheel for three weeks afterwards.......while he was in jail.

I don't think this case has legs.

[defaultdotxbe]

It looks to me like he turned himself in before appearing even once, and by the 4th time had already been released, was no longer a fugitive, and was just starting a new job only to be fired on his first day because his boss saw him on the wheel.

[mad.casual]

Which, even if perfectly true, still doesn't necessarily give the case legs. If the Sheriff's show is understood to be "At the time of this recording" or otherwise not 'live' or nearly so and is/was just "these people are sought", and the employer let go of/didn't hire someone who would turn up in jail who had, in fact, turned up in jail.

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Another anti-Gay story.

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I was happy to read it.

[Chumby]

There is a lot to unpack.

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