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Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive
pgrote writes "So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble. Seems that LaShawn Pettus-Brown was caught by his date's discovery of him on an FBI site of fugitives, even after local Cincinnati news media couldn't find him. Score one for the Internet."
For those who read slashdot in work or at school, the RealDolls link in the above posting leads to a porn site. Its clean porn, not goatse stuff if your wondering (not that I looked ...)
Regards,
Steve
Even more stupid is the City of Cincinnati. They gave this guy $180k+ in loans without doing so much as a background check. A brief background is here. As a citizen of Cincinnati, I've been following this case and I am absolutely dumbfounded at the ineptness of all the people involved. It really is mind-boggling. They were so concerned about cutting through the bureaucratic red tape they forgot the red tape was there for a reason.
A radio maverick jumps to internet only. The Future of Rock n Roll
The theater thing is a black eye, but man, did it have potential. The movie Traffic was set in Cinci, and supposedly the scenes where she's walking down the street to get some cocaine or what not were filmed on Vine. The part of Vine where the theater is located is the kind of street where you'll have cars crawling along, crowds on the sides of the street, and people yelling out "what you need? what you need?" as you drive on by. I've never had any one actually approach my vehicle with a bucket of dirty water and a rag, but that's the kind of feeling it has.
It's an area that could really use some development, besides the stores selling gold chains, caps, and clothing with wrought iron grates in their windows and doors. The theater was pitched as a venue that would start the revitalization process and bring more business to that part of town. (Sort of like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the new baseball stadium helped downtown Cleveland.)
Maybe I just bought into Brown's hype, but I really did think there was potential - the building is a classic old theater, that still has it's marquee outfront. I could have seen it becoming a nice concert venue - I think because of the large marquee outfront, I always envisoned it becoming something like the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
Of course, it could have ended up like Bogarts and Short Vine, but I'd say that's much better than the feeling one has driving down Vine . . .
While I may sleep a little better knowing a fugative has been brought to justice, I am also worried about how my own personal information may be widely available to those who would use it maliciously.
But, generally speaking, you can control what gets out on the internet about you.
I just did a search on all three of my names (Yes, on my second husband at the tender age of 30). For my original name, there's exactly ONE hit... not surprising since I used my parents' last names hyphenated together, and one of them was uncommon. (It's actually me... some costume work I did on some show sometime to help a friend that someone posted the program, and it's still out there.) For my first husband's surname, the second hit is my GIS homework. Ooooo. I could take it off the web if I wanted to hide that, and could have used an image for my name if I was real paranoid. For my current name, nothing shows up that's actually me.
If your real name shows up all over the internet, you might just use it a bit too freely... or, you're (in)famous, which might be good or bad.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
If you really want to get freaked out here's where you can check out what kind of neighbors you have.
just brainless male bushido
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Perhaps, you meant machismo instead of bushido?
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