If You Commit A Crime, Chances Are The Police Will Read Your Blog
from the just-saying... dept
It's true that, when you're blogging, it's easy to believe that no one is actually reading what you write. That's why people end up getting fired, not for blogging, but for saying something they shouldn't on a blog, and assuming no one would ever notice. Taking that to a much further extreme, a kid has now pleaded guilty to a DUI manslaughter charge after he confessed on his blog to pulling the steering wheel of a car his friend was driving -- while denying responsibility to the police.
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But in this case, it might have been better if he wrote it in an actual diary.
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Blog and tell can be pretty helpful
Then one day somebody happened on a blog that talked about our store in specific. How they were getting the video games out of the store.
Once we discovered the exact MO, we knew how to catch them. I think we ended up catching three or four before they caught onto to the fact that we were on to them.
Talk about sweet justice.
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No, diaries are personal. Blogs are exhibitionism.
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Whatsup with the dates??
So the story is posted on December 21, 2005. Right now its only December 22, 2005. And the driver died on January 11?????? HUH????? He died (past tense) on Jan. 11 (in the future).
Even the orlandosentinel, which the AP article references, has the same dates.
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Blake Ranking wrote "I did it" on his blurty.com journal three days after the October 2004 crash that caused a friend's death and left another seriously injured
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