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I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me
nk497 writes "Developers looking to prove a point about the information people are sharing on social networking sites have unveiled a new tool called Please Rob Me. It hunts out tweets from people who are also using location-based services telling the world that they're out of town, and then directs the world to go rob their house. The creators of the site said: 'Don't get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting and can be used to create some pretty awesome applications. However, the way in which people are stimulated to participate in sharing this information is less awesome.' How long until the first actual robbery takes place?"
Doubt it, since they obviously don't live in the USA. Good for them, then :)
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Most houses are empty between 9-5, MTWTrF.
I just wish the bait cars were full of explosives.
Honestly, Blow up a few car jackers or car thieves and make it REALLY public and suddenly car thefts will go way down.
I'm fairly sure this even if you side step the constitutional protection for due process, this form of summary corporal punishment and/or execution would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
>Mikepruett
>Mike Pruett | Rochester, MN
>@WheresKiger Just eat at a new fast food place called Nupa Express on 11thAve NW and Civic Center Drive it was GREAT 11:12 PM Sep 15th, 2009
>Domain name: PLEASESUEME.COM
>Pruett, Mike mlt@mltgroup.com
>4012 5th Place NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Give him a call to tell him you appreciate being able to track him: 507-281-3490
Not only did you completely miss the joke, but at least to moderators did as well. It's a honeypot, you don't want a deterrent like a dog post.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
You'd have a better chance in court if you shot them while they were on your property
than if you electrocuted them with a contraption that was clearly non-accidental.
No good deed goes unpunished...
I haven't told Foursquare about my Twitter account, or about my Facebook account, or about anything else. I use it because some places I frequent offer discounts to customers who do; that's it.
So -- by default, Foursquare can't talk to anything else; it's your friends who hook it up to Twitter and such who are being the asses.
not sure where you got that premise of the castle doctrine, in most southern states with that law (like texas) you don't have to be in fear for your life, or the intruder even be armed, if at your own residence.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/852831/deadly_force_and_self_defense_to_protect.html?cat=17
Pretty much every state says you don't have to retreat from your property instead of deadly confrontation, (ie any "I was scared for my life" defense, if reasonable, would work at home.) Some states even allow you to protect yourself with deadly force to hold your ground in any setting where you are legally allowed to be.
the only problem with this is that depending on how he placed the spikes, caltrops are completely legal (parking lot entrances with one way spikes, etc.). I agree that he could have run into problems if he didn't follow local laws, but spikes in the road are not by their very nature illegal.
What's the legality of the "severe tire damage" spikes you have in car parks to stop people going the wrong way?
He was referring to states that either had stringent rules or did not have "castle doctrine" laws. There was an article in the news a few years back about a guy in Michigan who was being tried for murder after shooting someone who entered his house with the intent to rob him (assault as well?). It is intriguing (and I do not know the outcome) but Wikipedia reports that Michigan only recently created a castle doctrine (2006).
You should tell my local supermarket that. They have spikes so that traffic can only exit through it, otherwise it just pops their tires. So far, no one has gone to jail for it (somehow, I think you're thinking of much different kinds of spikes).