January 26th, 2007
Five Plano Senior High athletes kicked off teams:
Short article so I’m just going to do a C&P.
Four baseball players and a track team member at Plano Senior High School have been removed from their teams after district administrators learned of a MySpace.com profile in baseball coach David Allen’s name.
The Web site, which was […]
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January 26th, 2007
MySpace Is Not Responsible For Your Kids:
I don’t know why this is such a hot topic on college campuses but apparently it is. Here is another editorial from a collegiate newspaper about the lawsuits against MySpace. This time from the UConn Daily Campus…
Apparently, litigiousness has replaced quality parenting as the way to raise the youth […]
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January 26th, 2007
Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates, Oprah:
It seems that six girls at Sequatchie County High School in Chattanooga had drawn up a hit list of 300 names that included classmates, faculty members, Oprah Winfrey, and the Energizer Bunny as well as posting threats on MySpace. All six girls are facing charges of homicide […]
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January 26th, 2007
Additional charge in MySpace court case:
This is a case out of West Virginia and Ohio that I don’t think I profiled before. If I did I couldn’t find it in the vast MCS archives. Anyway the subject in question is one Joshua L. Carroll, 21, who was previously convicted on a sex offense. On his […]
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January 26th, 2007
Police Catch Taggers Through MySpace:
Two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old were arrested in Covina, California for tagging. They were busted when police saw pictures of their graffiti on, you guessed it, MySpace.
“Both kids denied it, adamantly, (said) they had nothing to do with it,” Covina police Officer Tim Statler said.
“Then I showed them the pictures that […]
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January 26th, 2007
Beaverton prostitution sting targets ads on craigslist.org:
There’s a joke in that headline somewhere. Other than that it’s your usual “cops bust hookers on craigslist” story. This time in Beaverton, Orgeon.
Heh heh heh…Beaverton
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January 25th, 2007
MySpace: Lawsuits don’t trump personal responsibility:
Another collegiate newspaper has weighed in with their opinion on the lawsuit against MySpace. This time it’s from Penn State . The entire editorial is worth reading but I’ll give you just a little tidbit…
At what point does personal responsibility come into play in this scenario? Where were the parents? […]
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January 25th, 2007
Steve Huff of the True Crime Blog has a great post about a MySpacer from Idaho who is accused of killing two people. His name is Brent High and Steve Huff’s entry is entitled Deathmaker. The link to High’s MySpace can be found in Steve’s entry.
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January 25th, 2007
CIA Gets in Your Face(book):
It seems that the CIA is recruiting on Facebook. I mean why wouldn’t they? Facebook is more for the college crowd and if you want to recruit like any company you go where the college kids are. No one is just born into the CIA. Personally I don’t have a problem […]
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January 24th, 2007
Stolen ATVs Found On Craigslist, Suspect Arrested:
The dumbass pictured at left is one 20-year-old Eric Saub. He used a fake $29,000 check to scam a Mt. Hood Oregon ATV shop out of four ATV’s. So what did he go and do? He then tried to sell them on craigslist. An employee of the ATV shop […]
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January 24th, 2007
I received the following e-mail from someone only calling themself Bert…
RE: I think you should stop your site
Really, in any community of 100 millioin people there will always be a spread of bad people. Your one of them. By focussing on bad stuff your feeding the appepite of wannabe bad people. We dont need you […]
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January 23rd, 2007
Sex Offenders Accused of Abusing Teen They Met on MySpace:
Two Iowa sex offenders have been arrested for sexual abuse charges for having sex with a 14-year-old girl they met through MySpace. Scott Seehawer and Winston Ramsdale took the girl from her home to their’s. Both of them were already on Iowa’s sex offender registry.
I […]
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January 23rd, 2007
Police: Suspect posed as teen:
I originally posted about Joseph Polk aka “Boomalicious” here. He is the 36-year-old from Klamath Falls, Oregon who posed as 15-year-old on MySpace in order to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. In addition to his Boomalicious profile he also had one under the username I-A-G. I was unable to find […]
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January 23rd, 2007
MySpace.com to distribute Amber alerts:
This is not only a great service that MySpace will be providing but it’s also a great PR move on their point. It gives them almost a legitimacy in the fact that they’re serious about stopping predators. Anyway, MySpace will be providing Amber Alerts on your profile if there’s an Amber […]
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January 22nd, 2007
MySpace Brings Suit to Stop Spam:
It seems that MySpace has launched their own lawsuit. It has filed a suit against known spammer Scott Richter. Richter had been previously sued before by Microsoft to the tune of $7M. He’s accused of sending out spam MySpace bulletins from users accounts without their permission in order to get […]
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