Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook

schliz writes "An Australian man has been served a restraining order via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone and in person. The man was a 'prolific Facebook user' who had allegedly threatened, bullied and harassed a former partner online. He was served both interim and final intervention orders by Facebook, after a local magistrate upheld the interim order indefinitely."

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Thank for you the info-graphic

[Lord Byron II]

Now, I know what a restraining order looks like!

Re:Where/How do I send the restraining order?

[tsalmark]

Idle, the equivalent of the Celebrity Gossip Section for geeks. You know you shouldn't click on the links but do anyway.

Re:Good luck with that.

[Culture20]

Yeah I'm sure most judges won't be very impressed or convinced with the typical Slashdot Pedant's attempts of weaseling out via "perfect logic". Those pedants are like those nerdy kids who have "figured out game rules" but haven't figured out why nobody wants to play with them.

I still like to play AD&D 2nd edition because fighters who specialize in throwing darts can do incredible damage at first level (4x(1d3+[str bonus]) per round)

All the finest minds

[Ubiquitous Bubba]

If I read this correctly, the reason for serving the restraining order via Facebook was due to the fact that the police had been unable to contact the individual by phone or in person. And yet, the message stated that attempts to violate this order would result in the perp being arrested. How does that work? "Ok. He's violated the Facebook Restraining Order. Go arrest him." "How? We couldn't find him. That's why we had to serve him on Facebook." "Uhh. We could put out a hit on him in MafiaWars." "Right!"