Fury at death-driver Bebo bravado:
18-year-old Christopher McGinn of England was sentenced to 4 years for killing two people while driving under the influence.
He claimed in court that he was sorry for his actions but his Bebo profile told another tale.
In a message to his friends, McGinn writes he will be heading away for a […]
Inmate uses Bebo to talk to friends from prison:
A prisoner in Ireland was able to use a smuggled cell phone to post to his profile on Bebo. He’s accrued 44 friends and had 500 hits per week. The 500 hits isn’t that impressive but 44 friends for a guy who is serving time is. And […]
Bridgend coroner: YouTube clip ‘incited suicide’:
You’ve seen me post about the suicides in Bridgend, Wales before and how some people have blamed the suicides on the social networking site Bebo. Well, the coroner investigating the suicides will have no part of that Bebo nonsense. He’s blaming YouTube instead…
Philip Walters, who has been investigating a string […]
Man had sex with Chester schoolgirl he met on Bebo:
22-year-old James William Glendinning was sentenced to 12 months in custody, suspended for two years, for having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met over Bebo.
The girl originally said that she was 17 but they continued having sex after he found out she was 13.
Tags: Bebo, […]
Gangs caught out by online boasts:
Apparently gangs in the UK are as smart as their US counterparts, which is not very.
They’ve been posting videos of themselves brandishing illegal weapons on sites like YouTube and Bebo. In return British police have been rounding them up.
Ch Insp Mulroonie said: “The message is that we don’t have […]
Welsh paedophile freed early to rape again:
This is a fascinating article about Welsh child molester Shaun Jerome, or as the newspaper calls him Evil Jerome.
Jerome was convicted of grooming and having sex with a 14-year-old girl. He only served 9 months of an 18-month sentence. I don’t know what’s worse, the sentence or that […]
‘Webparty’ revellers pelt police:
The international phenomenon of stupidity continues this time in the English town of Bournemouth.
A student there decided to throw a party and thought it would be a good idea to advertise the party on Bebo.
As you can expect 200 people showed up and trashed the neighborhood.
When police showed up a stand […]
Hoodie yob arrested using website Bebo:
I love British slang.
Anyway a teacher in Hastings, England was able to use Bebo to track down a local vandal that had been terrorizing the neighborhood.
The 17-year-old thug taunted them by saying that they’d never be able to catch him without his name or picture.
“He started shouting at my […]
Contractor used Bebo to find pupils’ details:
A 20-year-old contractor that did work for a Greater Wellington intermediate school in New Zealnd used Bebo to find personal information of 12 and 13-year-old students that attended the school by using Bebo. Some of the personal information he gathered included names and phone numbers.
Between August and October […]
Police refute Bridgend suicides link:
Another youth has commuted suicide in the Welsh town of Bridgend bring the total to 17.
Most if not all of them had a profile on the social website Bebo. Some people have said that Bebo itself is to blame. While I find that claim ridiculous there was an interesting quote […]
‘Young cousins’ latest Bridgend suicides
The Welsh town of Brigend has been experiencing a rash of suicides by young people in recent weeks. Two more of its young citizens have taken their life. This time a 15-year-old boy and in a separate incident his 20-year-old female cousin.
Some media in the U.K. have tried to connect […]
Police probe death in Bebo suicide town:
Another teen suicide is thought to have happened in the town of Bridgend, South Wales. I originally posted about the rash of teen suicides happening there at this post.
At this time police are saying it’s not linked to other suicides and have actually not officially declared it a […]
Bebo cyber-bully faces jail after tricking friend into falling in love with fake profile:
In the vein of the Megan Meier tragedy a 17-year-old boy from the UK is under arrest after causing his friend to attempt suicide via Bebo. Bebo is a social site along the lines of MySpace that is very popular in the […]
Copycat death cult rips apart town as SEVEN teenagers commit suicide:
I ride the American press constantly for shoddy journalism. It could be worse. It could be the British press. No offense to Brits but outside of the BBC you have some of the worst in media. Take for example this article from This Is London.
7 […]
Police look into youth ‘factions’ over vandalism in Stoke area:
Once again we have a story that proves that idiot kids who post evidence of their crimes online are not limited to the U.S. or to MySpace. I’m not saying all kids are idiots just the ones who break the law.
Anyway this story comes to us […]
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