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Top 10 Facebook Related Crimes & Punishments

Sunday, March 22, 2015 11:12
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Social networking sites no wonder keep us connected to friends and family but the fact remains that there are two sides of the coin. The other side of the coin shows how dangerous can these social networking platforms.

Facebook, for example is one social networking site that enables us to posts pictures, videos, share our views, chat with friend and family. It is connecting people like no other social network. While on one hand it is helping people spread the word like no other communicating medium on the other hand it is also leading to lot many crimes.

When we talk about crimes, the very first thought that comes to mind is the serious offense but it is not always the case there are lot many people who do something that land them to jail or they are charged penalties for unusual actions. Such offensive deeds can be categorized as bizarre crimes. Reading about such crimes will leave you amazed as to how can one get involved in such bizarre offenses?

There are lot many crazy people around the world who actually do such bizarre things that we for one moment won’t even think of getting involved in.

Listed below are the unusual Facebook related crimes that made the people involved suffer either in the form of imprisonment or penalty. In the very beginning of this article I talked about the social networking sites especially Facebook and how it became the source of amusement for people to read on in pretty transfixing way. Not only this, you will keep wondering as to why the people involved did the deeds that didn’t turn out to be too pleasurable results.

I am certain that the list of the bizarre Facebook crimes will ask you to stick to your seats and read it completely for these are no doubt bizarre. Read on to see what all weird deeds led people involved to jail. Don’t forget to share your which of the bizarre Facebook crimes listed below you found the most interesting one.

 

10. Man Jailed over Facebook Message

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A 37-year-old British man had been given a no-contact order after harassing his wife with text messages and phone calls. He received ten days in jail. The favorable thing is that he didn’t poke her.

 

9. Pair Arrested for Eating Iguana on Facebook

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An American ate an endangered iguana for which they were caught. The couple Vanessa Starr Palm, 23, from Illinois and Alexander Daniel Rust, 24, from Indiana posted the pictures of the feast on Facebook that landed them into the jail. They have been charged with violating an animal protection act and were released on $500 bail each.

 

8. Teenager Faces Jail After He Admits To Flooding Library

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In Portsmouth, UK, a teen boy used toilet tissue to fill the plugholes in the third-floor men’s toilets of the Central Library and turning on the taps, resulting in an epic flood. After playing a prank that resulted in $247,000 damage and a five-month closure because of flooded toilets, the teen boy wrote about it on Facebook, which led to a public admission of guilt in court.

 

7. Cyberstalking-Hacking into a Classmate’s Facebook Page

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Two preteen US girls were accused of hacking into a classmate’s Facebook page and posting sexually explicit pictures and messages. The girls, aged 11 and 12, have been charged with cyberstalking and first-degree computer trespassing. The girls used the victim’s password information to post sexually explicit content on her Facebook page.

 

6. Attempt to Hire a Hitman on Facebook

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Corey Christian Adams, a 19 year tried hiring a hitman on Facebook to kill the woman who had accused him of rape. On being caught, he accepted the plea agreement on charges of rape, criminal solicitation of murder and faces 11 to 22 years imprisonment.

 

5. Convicted for Decapitating a Mouse and Posting the Footage

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In July 2011, a young woman from Queensland using a kitchen knife decapitated a mouse’s head, filmed it and posted it on Facebook. It took 40 seconds for the mouse to breath its last. The woman named Naomi Anderson, pleaded guilty to the charge animal cruelty. She received 18-months good behavior bond and had to do 180hours community work.

 

 

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