Thursday, October 15, 2009
Crazy Crap / Spurgeon Poker Face: Facebook Poke Makes Harassment a Media Novelty
Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:27 PM
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A Tennessee woman was arrested last month for a Facebook poke. Shannon Jackson was under a court order not to contact the pokee, but she obviously did anyway--and police have the screengrabs to prove it. If convicted, Jackson could face up to a year in jail (the pokey? Wokka Wokka!).
Stalking and harassment are not funny, but this is hilarious. There are currently over 70 stories about this incident popping up in Google News, and they run the gamut from local news and tech sites to foreign newspapers. Think about it: some boring personal business between two Hendersonville women has become an international story, all because the method of harassment was a Facebook poke.
Lesson time: Clicking a button under the right circumstances can get you stone cold arrested. Tennessee creepazoids are going to have to up their game!
[RT: Valleywag]
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Cool Blog, oddly enough I had read a newspaper article
from september fourth two thousand and four that was remarkably similar to your post. I guess
there really isn't anything new under the sun anymore
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Posted by
NutsTommy
on 11/03/2009 at 4:22 PM
I love this comment. Thanks for letting it star in its own post. I get nervous when I see angry righteous mobs rushing to open bags of feathers and warm the tar. So often we understand only a small piece of the story and instead we let anger do the thinking for us.
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