In shades of the infamous Victoria Lindsay beating a 14-year-old girl from Kerrville, Texas is in hot water for posting an assault of a 13-year-old girl on YouTube.

The victim was invited to a ‘party’. When she arrived at the party she was assaulted by the 14-year-old. The victim told no one until the video of the assault appeared on YouTube. The assailant is looking at a $500 fine. Maybe now her parents will pay attention.

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21-year-old Joseph Wade, of Cincinnati apparently can’t find women his own age. He was arrested for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl that he met in MySpace. Age of consent in Ohio is 16. He was also charged with interference with custody because not only did he help her run away but kept changing her location so her family couldn’t find her.

Wade is obviously a desperate loser but I’m sure we’ll hear from someone that he’s some kind of hero who rescued the girl from her family. You know you can rescue someone without having sex with them.

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From the ‘Hey y’all watch this’ Department comes this story from Arkansas.

One man is dead and another is hospitalized and facing criminal charges after a motorcycle stunt went wrong. The driver was going at speeds of up to 120mph when he lost control of the bike which struck and killed his friend. His friend was videotaping the stunt for YouTube.

YouTube, the short bus of the internet.

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A little change of pace. This time it was a woman who was robbed by a guy she met on MySpace.

The 19-year-old Iowa woman met the man at a public place. The pair talked for a minute before the man drew a gun and demanded her purse. When the woman would not give up the purse the assailant pistol whipped her.

The victim only had minor injuries and was out about $200.

Even in a public place you’re not 100% safe. Always take a friend.

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Police in Sydney, Australia used riot gear, police dogs, and a helicopter to clear out an illegal rave that was promoted on Facebook. The party consisted of about 1500 people in an empty warehouse and took up three floors.

Only one arrest was made and the partygoers claimed they were being ‘hassled by the man’.

One attendee, who only identified himself as Daniel, said the event had been going since 10pm.

“Going against the grain, of course its fun,” he said.

Another partygoer, Jess Cook, said the police were overacting to a creative event.

“The reason why our community does this is because there is no space for us,” Ms Cook said.

It could also have something to do with the fact that you’re trespassing. Just a hunch.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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John 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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