March 14, 2008
EA's hostile takeover bid will be the main event at Take Two's shareholder meeting on April 10th, but there may be a sideshow as well.Game industry nemesis Jack Thompson has written to the investor relations department at T2 with the following request:
I am a Take-Two shareholder and have been for quite sometime. I desire to attend and participate in the April 10 shareholders meeting, particularly as to the EA offer.
Please advise immediately where the meeting is and whether I will be allowed to attend and talk. I hereby specifically request my placement on the agenda.
In late 2005 Thompson claimed to have purchased an unspecified - but assumed to be small - amount of Take Two stock with the intent of gaining admission to the company's stockholder meeting.
While Thompson's request references the EA takeover bid, we'd bet the ranch that he will somehow relate EA's pursuit of Take Two to his standard game violence rap.
But what we really want to know is, assuming Thompson is granted access to the meeting, will he bring his bullhorn?
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silly boy...
I want to hear Bruce's speech, I can picture it now!
Bruce: "HEY LOOK I'M IMPORTANT TAKE TWO SUCKS! HEY YOU SHUT UP I'M MORE IMPORTANTER THAN YOU! HEY SHUT UP! I'M IMPORTANT SOMEONE PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"
Someone bring the vidja camera!
And if he doesn't attend he'll claim he requested and was denied the information.
And with how well versed he is in law, I doubt he'll know he's entitled to this by law.
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* I have my suspicions but out of respect for GP's wishes that Jack's family members not be unneccessarily dragged into the mix, I've declined to specify.
"Due to requests by EA personnel that you not be involved in EA takeover bids (see: http://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/05/ea-wants-no-help-from-jack-thompson-i... ) and implied legal threats against this company (see: http://gamepolitics.com/2008/03/06/jack-thompson-fires-back-at-ea-claims... ), we at Take Two formally deny your request to participate in the stockholders meeting.
We also further request all future correspondence to be made through Take Two attornies due to the aforementioned legal actions you have proposed."
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
"I own one share of Planet-Ka-Jigger and I demand the floor!"
But, then again, Wunderman did conclude that Jack's mentally fit to practice law, so we all know what that report's worth.
That's not his message. That's the pretext behind which Jack furthers his true agenda: his own self-aggrandizement. If you know don't that, with all due respect, you don't know Jack.
oh, and ...
*sigh*
WTF? He has STOCK in them? Can they buy it back? =)
OH CHRIST! It's Fat Bastard! I love Goldmember..
I will raise you £10 (About $20)
Does he think he just fell through the cracks, or is he not eligible to be there under some bylaw and is trying to get around it? Or is this just publicity nonsense?
T2 Guy 2: "3 O'Clock, March 31th."
T2 Guy 1: "My bad. It's not Janet Reno. It's Jack Thompson."
T2 Guy 2: "3 O'Clock, April 1st."
I'm half hoping they do allow him in. The very moment he steps up to the podium, someone dressed at Carl Johnson will come out and beat his ass.
Considering he's suing the company, there might be some obscure "you're not allowed in while the case is still in court" rule. ;)
But yeah, blithering that he "needs" an invite, when as a shareholder he's entitled to attend anyway?
Wait, what happened last year? Wasn't he going to attend then? Did they block him, or did he just chicken out and not show up?
He got too pissy last year to be allowed in. Oddly, he didn't bother to show up anyway.
Sorry sorry sorry!
The invites go out to every shareholder in due time.
It's typical the dumbshit does not know this.
He will not be able to just shout them from the floor in the meeting, because they're run on a very tight set of rules.
About the only thing he can do is vote on existing agenda items, and since he owns roughly .0000000001% of the stock, his vote will carry exactly the same sort of weight his legislative efforts have done so far.
Idiot.
Personally, I have a thing about letting someone talk at a shareholders meeting who has been quoted as saying he "will destroy" the company. See, destroying a company often has a detrimental effect on stock prices.
I expect they will thank him but politely decline seeing as the agenda is already full with majority stock holders. $10 doesn't get you a life time forum at a stock holders meeting.
Then again, my only experience with a stock holders meeting is that one episode of Futurama... you know the one, right?
Jack knows he'll get his invite. He's gotten them before. It's a legal requirement that they send him one every year. But he'd much rather play dumb and write some letter of inquiry to T2 because he can then cc his silly letter to every media outlet in the world in hopes of see his name in print. Spell it with me: A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N W-H-O-R-E.
Oh, may I buy some T2 Stock please?
I fool is said to be born every minute in JBTs case it seems to have been 2.
That's pretty what he said he was getting, for the sole purpose of attending share holder meeting and confronting Eibler.
"will he bring his bullhorn?"
Please, the guy is living bullhorn. He doesn't need to bring one, he IS the bullhorn.
@Pixelantes Anonymous
If his past "debates" are any indication he'll likely get escorted out for interrupting people and talking as loud as possible.
The only reason he's attending is his perceived self importance has him believing he'll get Take Two taken over, while ignoring that even EA isn't stupid enough to cancel GTA, though he is also likely hoping EA will cave more easily to pressure. OR he's hoping they saturate it like they do everything else.
And, if you ask me, T2 deserves whatever they get from him. He's breached it before any number of times and they didn't drag him back to court like they should have. Now he's feeling emboldend. Serves them right. Bunch o' wussies.
Am just curious what goes on behind open doors.
Heh.
He won't get the attention/importance he is looking for (if any) and will rant and rave (and sue) about having his rights violated. This from a man who has been trying to violate the rights of everyone else.
I'm ALMOST impressed.