Facebook is almost ubiquitous with social networking these days. It would seem that you aren't really connected unless you are connected through Facebook
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Too bad that Facebook has such seemingly low standards that it'll allow anyone with half a brain to enlist (and in some cases, people with the intellectual wattage of a broken night light).
Naturally the latter kind of people 'walk into it' and find infamy in the United States more than anywhere else in the world. My theory is because the US is so cyber connected and egalitarian that getting an internet connection is as easy as literally signing an 'X' on the dotted line (which MUST be the case in the example below).
Last May 23 a particular Philly woman updated her facebook status with the following text: “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby (sic) father.”
And because like attracts like, the alleged first response was from another possibly equally 'challenged' person who responded that he would be up to the task, agreeing to carry out the hit provided he was paid up front.
All this on a public-access network!
The authorities were alerted after the intended victim's mother saw the message and contacted her son. Which really also means that this Philly woman had her prospective mother-in-law as a 'friend' and someone who would be updated of her status.
You'd think I could make something like this up. Whoever said that truth is stranger than fiction hit the nail bang on the head!
The 20-year old woman has been picked up and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and is being held on US$ 250,000 bail. Her 18-year old knight in (with) dented armour (or is it dented head?) has been charged with attempted murder and a weapons charge. He is currently being held on US$350,000 bail.
Needless to say, (and I am guessing) they are probably not allowed access to facebook in their cells. Even if it is America, their 'rights' probably don't extend that far.
Pity.
One will now have to second guess how much she would offer to someone on facebook to spring her out of jail.
(Maybe, the police could add her as friend so that they can be updated when she does.)
.Too bad that Facebook has such seemingly low standards that it'll allow anyone with half a brain to enlist (and in some cases, people with the intellectual wattage of a broken night light).
Naturally the latter kind of people 'walk into it' and find infamy in the United States more than anywhere else in the world. My theory is because the US is so cyber connected and egalitarian that getting an internet connection is as easy as literally signing an 'X' on the dotted line (which MUST be the case in the example below).
Last May 23 a particular Philly woman updated her facebook status with the following text: “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby (sic) father.”
And because like attracts like, the alleged first response was from another possibly equally 'challenged' person who responded that he would be up to the task, agreeing to carry out the hit provided he was paid up front.
All this on a public-access network!
The authorities were alerted after the intended victim's mother saw the message and contacted her son. Which really also means that this Philly woman had her prospective mother-in-law as a 'friend' and someone who would be updated of her status.
You'd think I could make something like this up. Whoever said that truth is stranger than fiction hit the nail bang on the head!
The 20-year old woman has been picked up and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and is being held on US$ 250,000 bail. Her 18-year old knight in (with) dented armour (or is it dented head?) has been charged with attempted murder and a weapons charge. He is currently being held on US$350,000 bail.
Needless to say, (and I am guessing) they are probably not allowed access to facebook in their cells. Even if it is America, their 'rights' probably don't extend that far.
Pity.
One will now have to second guess how much she would offer to someone on facebook to spring her out of jail.
(Maybe, the police could add her as friend so that they can be updated when she does.)
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