The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail

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The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 28, 2012 @12:47AM from the auto-correct-going-on-the-offensive dept.

Barence writes "A British man was jailed for 18 months for accidentally sending an explicit text message to his entire address book. 24-year-old swimming coach Craig Evans intended to send a text message to his girlfriend asking her for sex. Instead, the message was accidentally sent to his entire BlackBerry address book, including two girls, aged 13 and 14, from his swimming class. He was subsequently arrested and charged with 'causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity,' and – incredibly – jailed for 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court in July. Yesterday, an appeal's court freed Evans, although he wasn't cleared — the sentence was merely reduced to a nine-month suspended jail term."

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I can only assume by second_coming · 2012-09-28 00:52 · Score: 4, Funny

that it must have been a jury made up of 12 Daily Mail readers.
1. Re:I can only assume by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 01:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Piece (of ass) be upon him.
2. Re:I can only assume by nibbles2004 · 2012-09-28 01:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  hmmm, the religious fundamentalists went to America, and the convicts to Oz, all we got left with was Charles Darwin and Alan Turing
3. Re:I can only assume by Antipater · 2012-09-28 02:07 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Keep in mind that the best and brightest of England left to make their fortunes in the colonies long ago. The ones that stayed behind were, well, the "special" types.
  Hey, someone had to sanitize the telephones and look at moodily-lit photos of toothpaste.
  
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4. Re:I can only assume by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Alan Turing. Who you chemically castrated for being gay. You really want to go down ths road?
5. Re:I can only assume by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 02:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  We don't have any pedophiles, all of ours are spelt correctly.
6. Re:I can only assume by Minwee · 2012-09-28 03:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  FACT: Half of the women you encounter (unless you're a REALLY poorly groomed neckbeard) will have consenting, spontaneous sex with you. You just got to approach them with some confidence. They sure as shit won't approach you. You can think society and its frequent use of the word "slut" for that.
  Clearly, you don't work in the same elementary school that I do.
7. Re:I can only assume by Chrisq · 2012-09-28 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Given that nearly every member of his family also received the message, it is very unlikely that he had intended to solicit sex from all the recipients,
  Unless he was a real motherfucker
8. Re:I can only assume by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2012-09-28 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You obviously read Kafka as fiction, yes?
  
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9. Re:I can only assume by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 06:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  they have to prove their case, not the other way around. That is what "innocent until proven guilty" means.
  Isn't this guy in England? I thought the English system was guilty until proven innocent...
I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry by Arab · 2012-09-28 00:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't even figure out how to send a message to all my Blackberry contacts...
How does one make a mistake like that?
1. Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 00:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  When you accidently want sex from everyone on your contact list... that is how it happens.
2. Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry by Inda · 2012-09-28 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I don't know about Blackberry but it's too easy on Android.
  
  Message recipients > Group > My Contacts > Select all.
  
  It would be too easy to select the "My Contacts" group or "My Swimming contacts" group, instead of the "My shagging partners" group.
  
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3. Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 02:24 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I've always liked:
  "Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot. "
4. Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 02:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  obligatory bash.org:
  http://bash.org/?5300
Re:Siri: email porn folder to mom by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 01:05 · Score: 2, Funny

the consequences will never be the same.
he done goofed. got backtraced.
Re:FTA... by Rooked_One · 2012-09-28 01:05 · Score: 5, Funny

i agree... fucking mormons...
Re:Daily Mail fail by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-28 01:26 · Score: 2, Funny

"Second, he did send a sexual text to underaged children. That it was by accident makes it alright?"
I hope the next time you say 'fuck you', a kid is standing right behind you.
Then at least we won't have to read your crap for some time.
Re:Hrm by Otter+Popinski · 2012-09-28 01:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe his girlfriend's name is Swimantha.
Re:Wait, what? by dkleinsc · 2012-09-28 01:52 · Score: 4, Funny

As far as teaching kids responsibility, one of my favorites from my sister's swim team coach:
Kid: "My mom forgot to pack a bathing suit."
Coach: "Is your mom on the swim team?"

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Re:Daily Mail fail by Chrisq · 2012-09-28 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny

If I'm driving down a 2-lane highway and have a catastrophic failure in a tire that causes my car to spin out, cross the center line, hit your car killing you... is that really my fault? What if it was a piece of debris in the road that caused the tire to fail?
No you would get off with that. If at the same time a notebook on your passenger seat with an intimate letter to your wife flew out of the window and landed on my teenage daughter's lap then you'd end up doing time.