Les Jones

Those’ll look lovely in the mugshot

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | Blogging, True Crime | Permalink | No Comments |

The (Columbia, TN) Daily Herald - Online photos lead to arrests in jewel heist

A third suspect has been arrested for her alleged role in a jewelry heist of more than $60,000.

Christina Richardson of Columbia was arrested Tuesday morning after detectives discovered a photograph of her on a MySpace Web page. In the photo she was modeling an earring that had been reported stolen in March, Maury County Sheriff’s Capt. Jimmy Tennyson said.

Hat tip to Michael Silence.

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Officer Friendly likes this

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

Times Online - US investigators use Facebook to track down wanted man Maxi Sopo:

What’s wrong with making friends on Facebook? Nothing — unless you happen to be a fugitive from US justice, living the good life at a Mexican holiday resort after allegedly stealing more than $200,000 (£125,000) through a bank scam in Seattle.

But Maxi Sopo, 26, a native of Cameroon, didn’t think twice before logging on to the popular social networking site and making a ‘friend request’ to a man he had met while out drinking in a Cancun nightclub.

Unfortunately for Sopo, he had no idea that the man in question was a former US Justice Department official.

Bonus! Lamebook, “the funniest and lamest of Facebook.”

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On the Internet no one knows you’re a dog until you upload the video of you licking your own butt to YouTube

Monday, October 5th, 2009 | Funny Ha-Ha | Permalink | 2 Comments |

Second Pranknet Member Arrested:

Prank caller James Tyler Markle “convinced a McDonald’s worker to set off the restaurant’s fire suppression system, which released a liquid from overhead extinguishers… and directed the worker to break the store’s windows ‘for ventilation.’”

Then he bragged about it on Pranknet and got tracked down by the authorities.

Five Everett bikini baristas charged with prostitution:

Investigators saw the women expose their crotches, lick whipped cream off their co-workers’ private parts and pose naked for pictures inside the Grab-n-Go Espresso stand at 8015 Broadway, according to police reports obtained by The Herald on Wednesday.

Detectives also witnessed some of the women charging customers to touch their bare breasts and naked buttocks. Touching of that kind, for pay, falls under the city’s definition of prostitution.

Don’t put pics/video of you doing illegal stuff on the Internet:

One Waukesha County man is guilty and another awaiting court action in what the Wisconsin DNR Law Enforcement Division is calling its first arrest based upon a Facebook video of illegal deer shining spotted by an anonymous tipster.

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Two arrested in YouTube Domino’s Pizza gross-out

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | Funny Ha-Ha | Permalink | 1 Comment |

New York Times - Video Prank at Domino’s Taints Brand:

When two Domino’s Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant’s kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.

In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino’s employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.

The two were charged with delivering prohibited foods.

Consumerist helped break the story and has the videos. Their readers identified the Domino’s store in the video.

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Mikee

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | Quotes | Permalink | No Comments |

“Why, oh why, would one distribute a videotape of yourself performing blatantly reckless actions? I ask only because I want an explanation for the existence of about half of YouTube.”
– Mikee

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New Dick Tracy villain: the Torch Singer

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 | Comic Books | Permalink | No Comments |

Suburban Philly woman charged with 7 arsons; was seen on store video singing her plans:

DREXEL HILL, Pa. - Police in a Philadelphia suburb say a 19-year-old woman accused of arson was caught on a surveillance camera singing, “The fire department is going to be mad at me.”

Police say Amanda Gessner touched off 7 blazes in trash and brush between 3 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. Tuesday within blocks of where she lives in Upper Darby Township.

Officials say Gessner was witnessed earlier in the evening at a local convenience store singing the ditty about the fire department. Her tune was caught on the store’s surveillance camera.

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