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Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic (ibtimes.co.uk)
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his Facebook profile picture," writes the International Business Times. After investigating reports of a disturbance, police discovered the 41-year-old's Facebook profile, which revealed the man was already wanted for six months for violating his parole after two counts of battery.
"Police say that as they arrested Yearwood a bag of marijuana fell out of his pocket. They charged him with possession of cannabis under 20 grams and are continuing to investigate the battery complaint."
One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.
"Police say that as they arrested Yearwood a bag of marijuana fell out of his pocket. They charged him with possession of cannabis under 20 grams and are continuing to investigate the battery complaint."
One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.
You have to wonder why they always become so terribly unreliable at containing their contents whenever police are near. Is it time to go back to the drawing board on their design?
enough said...
My step father passed away several years ago and someone had pulled pictures of him off the internet for some leaflets at the memorial service. The primary one happened to be a mug shot that was released after he bailed on court ordered rehab. For some reason he was smiling widely. I never found out who did the leaflet but knowing his siblings its 50/50 between it being the best joke ever and beautiful ignorance.
Guess who has two thumbs and refuses to read stories on sites that want me to disable an ad blocker or answer a poll question.
Here's another site hosting the same article which doesn't mind ad blockers.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/20...
Cue old man rant on ads being vectors.
One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.
Well, life in prison WOULD ensure his drug-use and battery days are over... if you ignore the problems of prison violence and drugs being smuggled into prison.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Truly, the only person with the foresight to realize this problem was one Bugs Bunny.
Sure, he's a cross-dresser. Sure, he's an anarchist. Sure, he's addicted to Carrot Juice. Sure, he can't read a map. And yes, he's a New Yorker.
But one thing, one thing, we know, he tried to rid us of Florida.
For that we must choose him President of the United States.
One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.
Copyright infringement - Jesus. Now the FBI's going to get involved and he'll probably get life or the chair -- because, that's an easy fish for the FBI to fry. (Hmm... is that where that expression came from?)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Not a smart thought to dwell on.
I use No Script + Ublock Origin, and can see the content just fine. Some sites I have to tweak which scripts I allow. If it requires too much fiddling to strike a balance between seeing what I want and getting too many ads, I just move on to the next site. Advertisers don't seem to get this. In the days of paper newspapers and magazines, you got nothing without someone paying for it. Sometimes you got lucky and the previous reader left it behind for you to read, but usually you had to pay for it yourself. With the Internet, there is *always* another website to look at, and you pay a flat monthly fee to your service provider to deliver all of it.
So ..let's weaponize this then: Let's pull off mug shot pictures from wanted fugitives and make fake facebook pages.
From IMDB: Lt. Walters: [to Lt. Bender] This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.
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"Police say that as they arrested Yearwood a bag of marijuana fell out of his pocket."
Oh come on. They're not even trying with that one.
Okay, partisan dipshit, here's another link for your dumb ass: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57cbd415e4b078581f135876
The "faux news" shit is an unfunny tired joke. Sure, Fox News is biased about some things. This isn't one of them. Idiot.
I'm using an adblocker -- AdBlock Plus -- and the page loads fine for me.
Not to mention they probably don't have his signed model release form.
You've contributed nothing of value to the discussion... Or to humanity... Ever.
Jesus Christ, that article's written in worse English than anything I've ever seen on Slashdot.
They added that when investigators they tried to find out what they could about Yearwood, discovered the post and he was arrested the very next day.
Okay, skipping the terrible English, if investigators were "trying to find out what they could," would this not include, y'know, checking for outstanding warrants the old-fashioned way? In other words, is it just remotely possible that his Facebook photo had nothing whatsoever to do with him getting found out?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I hear there's a friendly fellow on slashdot who can help you do away with ads through some hosts file shenanigans.
... after two counts of battery.
Technically speaking, they're cells.
He just wants to feel wanted.
Is there any way to read "fell out of his pocket" that isn't a euphemism? Unless the cops picked him up by the ankles and shook him I find it very difficult to believe that anything just "fell out" at the random moment that they just happened to be arresting him. Of course if it was ever really in his pocket to begin with then they would have found it when they booked him. But it seems more likely that it "fell" out of the arresting officer's pocket instead.
Going after a pot smoker is like going after a person on anti-depressants or an alcoholic who doesn't drive. If they're not operating heavy machinery, just leave them to it.
Yes.
Many years ago, I had to call 911 because a guy drugged out of his mind had crashed into several cars in the parking lot, as well as a tree. Some people eventually sacrificed their own cars to box him in and prevent him from killing anyone, including himself, by keeping him off the road.
When the cops arrived and he fled from the car, he grabbed some bags of drugs out of his own pocket and threw them on the ground, intending to implicate the officers. Unfortunately for him, no one was remotely near him when he threw down the drugs and there were at least a dozen witnesses. Nobody had any doubts about whose drugs those were. I have no doubts about his motives in trying to ditch the drugs to frame the cops.
I can't remember the last time something truly bizarre that did *not* happen in FL. It's clearly the place where it all happens so we don't have to deal with it. We owe a debt of gratitude to the vortex state.
I feel like this is turning into a blood feud. One side blocks the ads, one side circumvents the blockers. Some members of the first side realize that ads are needed for some sites to thrive, some members of the second side realize they've gotten too intrusive with the ads. But mostly, both sides are too entrenched to make progress.
/. that they don't believe to be paywalled, but it becomes paywalled shortly after the rush of traffic.
On a side note, I recently became aware of metered paywalls - after allowing so many visitors, they throw up a paywall. So, for example, someone submits an article to
Most of those "hey, you've got adblock enabled" things work through JavaScript.
Disable JS and the page shows, ad-blocking or not.
Of course, there are an unfortunate number of pages that do not show anything at all without JavaScript. One wonders what they teach in web development schools these days. (Not HTML, it seems.)
No, now we can't say anymore that people who use Linux know at least a bit about security and keeping themselves secure, because they are not complete computer illiterates and morons. From now on, whenever someone uses this argument to look down on Windows users (or the "Windows users who claim they have a sense of style and fashion", i.e. Mac Users) you can point to this goon and show that using Linux doesn't require any kind of brain anymore.
Maybe this means it's the year of Linux on the Desktop! Try it! As you can see, it doesn't take a genius anymore to use Linux!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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It's a classic "you can't compete if you're the only one who isn't evil" problem - historically nothing but regulation can solve that problem.
Another example was smoking in shops. In the 1980s there was a big debate about whether this should be banned. Those opposed to the ban argued that it's a regulation you don't need since shops are free to do the ban themselves. Every single store owner opposed the ban in public - and every single one of them was praying for it in private.
See no store owner WANTED smoking in their stores - it stinks up the place, it leaves ash and butts everywhere they gotta clean up and it annoys the non-smoking majority of your customers. But if you were the only store that didn't allow smoking you would drive all the smoking customers to your competitors - nobody could risk being the first to do it. If you said you supported the ban - the same would happen. But in private (even in interviews when anonymous) they all hoped it would pass - because then they could get rid of smoking in the store without being the only one to do it and go out of business.
Without regulation - it would never have happened, despite the majority of citizens and store owners alike wanting it.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
I don't mind websites that ask me to answer a poll. I always give them deliberately incorrect data- (I know a lot of people do, and I encourage everyone to answer incorrectly on them). The reason, if enough people screw-up their data then people will stop hiring them to do market research because the data will be known to be faulty.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.
And you thought information wanted to be free!
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