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 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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Re:FTA... by Rooked_One · 2012-09-28 01:05 · Score: 5, Funny

i agree... fucking mormons...
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
Re:Hrm by Otter+Popinski · 2012-09-28 01:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe his girlfriend's name is Swimantha.
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?
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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