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Cops Walking the MySpace Beat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-to-walk-that-particular-neighborhood dept.

theodp writes "Meet the point-and-click police. Newsweek reports that a growing number of ordinary officers are working a new beat, turning to MySpace to collect clues and crack offline cases. Most of the nabbed wrongdoers have been victims of their own hubris, like the two boys who uploaded video of themselves firebombing an abandoned airplane hangar earlier this month."

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  1. Disappointment.. by chrismcdirty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most of the nabbed wrongdoers have been victims of their own hubris, like the two boys who uploaded video of themselves firebombing an abandoned airplane hangar earlier this month.

    I was thoroughly disappointed when I clicked that link and saw that there was no video after the site had loaded.

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    1. Re:Disappointment.. by NitsujTPU · · Score: 4, Funny

      Warn us next time! I'm at Cornell University, the most politically correct place on the planet... sitting here, minding my own business. We load this video to check it out, and people hear the words "white power" screaming from my laptop.

  2. idiotnet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only a dumb ass would post things on the internet.

  3. Re:Why I post AC by pedantic+bore · · Score: 4, Funny
    I caused the war in Viet Nam...

    Damn you!

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  4. What's illegal offline is illegal online, too? by gearmonger · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you're suggesting that my recent investment in the social networking sites BankHeistSpace.com and WillTradeKiddiePornVids.net is a bad move?

  5. Excerpt from Police Report by Giant+Ape+Skeleton · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...the perps apparently escaped on what they called "LOLerskates".

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  6. 5-0! 5-0! by AndyLandrews · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, crap. Now I gotta go change my MySpace profile. Are the cops checking Blogger, too? I hope not. What's the usual sentence for third-degree yoinking and aggravated shenanigans?

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  7. I can imagine how this was started by General+Lee+Cynical · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey, you're supposed to be working, what are you doing browsing profiles of 16 year old girls on MySpace?"

    "I...er...I'm...um...I'm looking into possible crimes that these teenagers may have committed. Right. That's what I'm doing."

  8. Re:Why I post AC by Duds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good point Steve.

    Ooh shit, sorry man.