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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. Re:Stupid to do something illegal and blog it by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, the person commenting is an AC. If what they said had any merit, they'd log in to say it.

  2. Hubris by fm6 · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.
    "Hubris" is kind of pretentious for this kind of fuckup. The Bush White House thinking it can architect the political future of the Middle East is "hubris". Distributing evidence of your own criminal activity on the web is just plain stupid.
  3. Re:This is common... by moosesocks · · Score: 1, Troll

    What's even scarier are the Christian colleges in the south using myspace to expell students who do not necessarily live up to or agree with their college's hyper-conservative model.

    It's sick and disgusting that practices like these are still allowed in the US. Nobody should have to hide who they are. A college expulsion these days is like having a criminal record.

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