Oscar lives
Student in the doghouse after MySpace death threat:
I wasn’t going to post anything about this because I didn’t want to give an attention whore anymore attention. I thought it was some asshat college assignment gone wrong until I found out that it was not part of the assignment�
A student at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is being investigated after death threats against the pet dog of one of the university’s professors were posted on MySpace.
The scandal appears to have been caused by an advertising class assignment that went awry.
VCU said in a statement that the postings followed an assignment to a Adcenter Creative Thinking class that instructed students to make the professor’s dog, Oscar, famous.
However, the written instructions clearly stated that “you cannot harm my dog in any way. You cannot kill my dog. And your idea cannot hinge upon either.”
But one student appears to have ignored the instructions as the death threats posted on MySpace were traced back to a school computer.
The ploy worked as animal activists around the globe called the university and local police to report the threat. The story has also made newspapers and websites worldwide.
No criminal charges are being filed but the student may be expelled.
The way I came across this was a commenter left a link to the MySpace and question and said that this needs to be reported. So I clicked on the link and all it said was that someone was going to sacrifice a pug named Oscar by a certain date. It reeked of hoax but I reported it to MySpace just in case.
But it does go to show how many gullible people there are.
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