Bieber takes revenge

Millions of fans on Twitter make perfect sense for Justin Bieber but does that guarantee zero troubles?

He’s sweet, he’s 16, has a hot music career, appears on TV, is set to publish a memoir, has a comic book about him and is even set to do a movie made about him. 4.5 million fans on Twitter make perfect sense for Justin Bieber but does that guarantee zero troubles?

August doesn’t seem like a lucky month for Bieber. First his haters released a video of the singer from a December concert where a water bottle was hurled at him. Before the video, released over the internet, could finish its rounds, the singer faces another teen obsessing over him to an extent of hacking the Twitter profile of Bieber’s friend.

Another source reveals that the contention started when 15-year-old Kevin Kristopik tracked down Bieber’s friend to get the singer’s number and later annoyed him with incessant texts.

The incident came a few days after Bieber acknowledged his haters over his Twitter page. “Hate is a funny thing. Can’t really let it get to you. Just need to laugh and let it entertain you. It’s actually pretty funny that way. Hi, haters,” Bieber tweeted.

However much against his philosophy, Bieber could not keep his cool and tweeted the cellphone number of Kristopik as his own.

Kristopik had to shut down his Twitter profile and disable his cellphone number after receiving 26,000 text messages from Bieber’s fans.

Bieber is unlikely to face any criminal charges. “Justin Bieber is not likely to face criminal charges but a civil suit is a possibility,” says Robert Goldman, an attorney and psychologist for the Suffolk County Probation Department in New York.

While some are calling him a hater, other sources are reporting Kristopik as a diehard fan of Bieber, obsessing over the celebrity. Detroit Free Press reported Kristopik’s confessional statement, “I kind of meddled into his life a little bit,” Kevin said, “He decided to take revenge on me.”

“When I had my phone, it was just going crazy with calls and texts off the wall. It was unusable,” he added.

The incident unleashes a whole new side of Bieber’s persona, previously maintaining a calm attitude with his fans and haters alike. He now joins a list of celebrities who need a rehab for anger management.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2010.