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You Tube Video Shows Gang Celebration After Shooting:
I found the video in question and it’s still available on YouTube.
I find it amazing that YouTube’s parent company Google can censor the internet for the entire country of China but they’ll complain that they can’t check every YouTube video for offensive content.
Worldwide Anger Brings MySpace To Their Knees:
I originally posted about BJ McCombs here.
BJ was the victim of a housefire when he was baby and wasn’t expected to live long but lived to be 7 years old. His parents made a tribute page for him on MySpace but his pictures were deleted because MySpace found them to be too graphic.
Not surprisingly this caused an international uproar and MySpace has not only apologized but they also reposted the pictures.
“MySpace’s image review staff has been trained to be sensitive to graphic images uploaded to our site. After working with the McCombs family and determining the context of these pictures, MySpace has made the decision to reinstate them. Our sympathies are with the McCombs family in this difficult time.”
This sounds like the work of an overzealous moderator who is probably now out of a job.
Principal issues apology for MySpace safety talk:
Windsor High School Principal Rick Porter is still apologizing to parents for an alleged inappropriate assembly given by Wyoming police officer John F. Gay III. Officer Gay allegedly gave a female student’s picture to a convicted sex offender who said he would use it to get off.
The problem is that no staff member from the school can verify that Officer Gay actually said that.
I think we all remember from school how one student’s claim can easily turn into rumor spread ‘fact’.
Windsor is looking into recording all future assemblies.
Dade City Teen Charged With Threating Shooting Spree:
School season has started so you know what that means. Stupid kids who threaten to shoot up their school. Today’s contestant is 16-year-old George Paul Adams of Moore-Mickens Education Center in Dade City, Florida.
He threatened to shoot up the school because the school held him back and after reading this blog entry I don’t blame them.
Police say that he mapped out his attack and had access to multiple guns. Police were tipped off by a student that he told the plot about.
It must really suck to be a victim of your own stupidity.
Thanks to Mr. A for the tip.
(To read more stories about school related crime please visit TheTrenchcoat Chronicles)
Sphere: Related ContentMySpace threats lead to arrest:
17-year-old Travis May of Shreveport, La. was arrested for posting threats on his MySpace. He posted threats against Captain Shreve High School classmate Ryan Swindle.
“I will hunt you down with my whole click and murder you….” reads part of one posting. At the bottom of the same posting is “RIP Ryan Swindle.”
May has been charged with simple assault.
Allegedly the two had a falling out after may got into a fight that he feels was Swindle’s fault.
Sphere: Related ContentTeens becoming sexually bolder because of ‘Bebo Effect’:
From the UK Department of The Bleeding Obvious comes a study that says teens have become sexually bolder because of sites like Bebo and MySpace.
I respond to that with a resounding…DUH!
Let me give you the highlight…
“The negative is that some teens lack the maturity and judgment to deal with a lot of the information they’re now exposed to. It’s not fair to say that ‘poking’ – sending an online signal to show you find someone attractive – makes people promiscuous but there certainly needs to be some policing.”
Yet they never state who should do the policing. If you haven’t figured out who should do the policing your kids have no hope.
Sphere: Related ContentDriver tells of horror at YouTube prank:
A woman from Cardiff, Wales and her grown daughter almost crashed their car to avoid a teenage girl that was lying in the middle of the M4. In U.S. terms that would be like lying in the middle of an interstate.
However there was nothing wrong with road lying teen at least not physically anyway…well not too much physically.
The teen was 14-year-old Candy Best who was drunk and was filming the stunt with friends to post YouTube.
Candy said: “It was stupid – but I was drunk. There were a group of about six of us and we’d been drinking lager, vodka and rum.
“My friends egged me on and because I was drunk I thought it would be fun.”
Her mum, Stella Cullen, added: “Hopefully this will stop other teenagers from doing the same thing.”
I’m not sure if she meant the drinking or the YouTube stunt.
Sphere: Related ContentMySpace meeting ends with robbery at gunpoint:
How many times to we have to go through this? The hot girl on MySpace does not really want you no matter how slick you think you are. By the away, you aren’t.
Neither was this guy from Vallejo, California. When he went to meet the alleged hot girl he was robbed at gunpoint by two men.
Sphere: Related ContentValley Child’s Pictures Banned From MySpace:
This isn’t about a crime just a crappy thing that MySpace is doing to one of its users.
BJ McCombs was severely burned in a house fire at the age of 18-months. He wasn’t supposed to survive long but he lived to be about almost 7.
His parents created sort of a tribute to him on MySpace with pictures of him. MySpace then said the images of him were too offensive.
Pictures are all BJ’s parents Billy and Karlyn of Sullivan have left. “Because he’s gone we don’t have many pictures left of him from before the fire. Every picture that we have is like gold to us,” said Billy.
Each picture posted on Karlyn’s MySpace page told a story. “This picture here shows him eating. This is his first meal after the fire. The hospital told us he would never be able to eat. So, these pictures are everything to us,” said Karlyn.
Of course this came about because some busybody complained to MySpace. To which I say if you don’t want to look at a burn victim then don’t click on the site.
To make matters worse MySpace is not backing down and is even threatening to delete the profile if BJ’s mom puts the pictures back up.
You can visit BJ’s support page here.
Sphere: Related ContentJohn F. Gay III is a police officer from Cheyenne, Wyoming who specializes in internet safety. He gave I guess what you would call a demonstration on what information predators can gleam from a teen’s MySpace page. He gave this demonstration to Windsor High School in Colorado and some say he went too far in his demonstration.
“He told the entire student body that he had shared her info with a sexual predator in prison,” said Ty Nordic, whose daughter Shaylah Nordic’s MySpace page was put on display.
Nordic said Gay then told the student body that the predator said he would masturbate to her picture.
Shaylah Nordic then left the room as Gay pulled up her phone number and called
her on stage to demonstrate how easy it was to get a hold of contact information via the Internet.
Of course parents of Windsor students are outraged.
While giving a student’s picture to a sexual predator is way over the line I at least hope the students and the parents took the underlying message to heart.
Remember kids, nothing is private on the internet.
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