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Jailed For Not Using Twitter
3:35AM Jesus Diaz | This kid is the famous teen pop star Justin Bieber. Yes, I didn’t have a clue either, but apparently he sings in Microsoft store openings and malls. His other ability: If he doesn’t tweet, he gets people in jail. More »
Phones
How Does A Blind Teenage “Swatter” Get 11 Years In Jail?
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Matt Weigman, “a fat, lonely blind kid”, received an 11-year jail sentence at age 19 for using the 911 phone service to harass and attack his enemies (including the FBI!). But how does a kid come to such a fate? More »
Music
Phil Spector Requests iPod To Pass The Time While In Jail
1:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod. More »
Gadgets
Sex With a Vacuum? That’s a 90 Day Jail Sentence
11:20AM Sean Fallon | What happens when you are caught making sweet love to a car wash vacuum in Michigan? Apparently, it gets you 90 days in jail for indecent exposure and mandatory drug testing. More »
Online
San Francsico City Worker Hordes IT Passwords; Only Shares With Mayor Newsome
1:30PM Matt Hickey | After having seen The Dark Knight three times over the last weekend I can’t help but think this would be a great scene for the next film (which had better not be called Caped Crusader): A city municipal worker in the IT department changes some very important passwords and refused to give them up, even after jailed. From his cell, he divulges the codes to just one man, the city mayor, in a secret meeting that even the DA and police don’t know about. This actually happened this week in San Francisco. The IT tech, Terry Childs, wasn’t up to any nefarious deeds, or so he says, he just didn’t want his co-workers to mess up his huge system, and can anyone who’s ever worked in IT blame him? [SFGate] More »
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