Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 56550270 United States 04/17/2014 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! PEORIA — Police searched a West Bluff house Tuesday and seized phones and computers in an effort to unmask the author of a parody Twitter account that purported to be Mayor Jim Ardis. Quoting: samus79 The account — known as @Peoriamayor on the popular social media service that limits entries to 140 characters — already had been suspended for several weeks when up to seven plainclothes police officers executed a search warrant about 5:20 p.m. at 1220 N. University St. Read more: [link to www.pjstar.com] "Identity theft" is illegal here...not something to mess around with I guess.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 55115282 United States 04/17/2014 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Except whoever made the account didn't actually use the mayors name, the account was simply called "@peoriamayor" Quoting: samus79 ^^^^^^^^ YES!!!!! EXACTLY oh man, that is just silly then. Especially since technically, "Peoria" is also an American euphemism for any small town. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 54973280 United States 04/17/2014 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! This. I wish it weren't so. I think it's already to late to take back freedom. Violence wouldn't solve anything. The only absolute thing I can think of is to start telling everyone not to vote for a Democrat or Republican. Everyone should vote for the green party. At least their cause means something! |
ssle User ID: 44553387 United States 04/17/2014 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Except whoever made the account didn't actually use the mayors name, the account was simply called "@peoriamayor" Quoting: samus79 ^^^^^^^^ YES!!!!! EXACTLY oh man, that is just silly then. Especially since technically, "Peoria" is also an American euphemism for any small town. Really? Everyone is worth knowing. Everything is worth learning. You're never too good. You're never not good enough. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 50508949 United States 04/18/2014 12:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Except whoever made the account didn't actually use the mayors name, the account was simply called "@peoriamayor" Quoting: samus79 ^^^^^^^^ YES!!!!! EXACTLY oh man, that is just silly then. Especially since technically, "Peoria" is also an American euphemism for any small town. Really? There's a famous question "but how will this play in peoria?" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 56999156 Canada 04/18/2014 03:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! The right way for the Mayor to deal with this is to contact Twitter and have the account suspended/deleted. The wrong way is to throw a fucking fit and have people arrested/swat teamed. Quoting: RelentlessDespot The right way for the fucknuckle who created the account to deal with a bad politician is not to create a twitter account claiming to be said official and attempting to libel said bad politician. Looks to be two wrongs here. Offsetting fouls Re-play third down. Mayor could also post from a verified account. If it's not verified could be anyone. |
VeraFromChorley User ID: 56968421 United Kingdom 04/18/2014 04:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! I have a fake twitter account, so what. I post all sorts of slanderous things to known pedos in government etc, and slag politicians off in general, it is a wonder I have not been banned or arrested, but no???? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 56999470 South Africa 04/18/2014 04:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! There is absolutely no law against opening a fake twitter account. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54760631 So he needs to sue the shit out of the police department and the city for millions upon millions of dollars. A twitter account is not like bank account or some other official account where you need to provide actual proof of identity. Its a shitty social website, thats it. The police were completely out of their jurisdiction and who ever the judge was that signed off on the search warrant needs to be immediately removed from the bench because he/she clearly do not know anything about the laws. Exactly. Like fuckbook it's just a lot of bullshit run by fucknuts for thundercunts... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 6500947 United States 04/18/2014 06:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Weird...people create fake twitter accounts all the time...((or so I hear anyway)...I have never heard that it was illegal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47734323 My guess is the Mayor just didn't like it and sent his paid, personal thug force to deal with it... There are a lot of stupid people out there who think whatever comes across twitter is legit...but oh well... Ardis wrote a letter to a judge for a coke dealer busted with quite a lot of coke. A character reference letter. The homeless guy jailed for picking up the police chiefs special secret report is pretty fucked up too. That was a few months back. Framed up, facing 10 years for picking up litter. And the copper acquitted of rape charges a couple weeks back. And the copper prohibited from carrying a gun, except while at work on duty. |
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CMcC User ID: 56721367 United States 04/18/2014 08:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Hey falsely representing yourself to do harm to another? Sounds right out of Saul D. Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' the democratic party trash SOP and bible. Seriously no one here could possible think it's legal and moral to do something like this? Just think it through. Fear God and Dread Nought. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6500947 United States 04/18/2014 02:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Hey falsely representing yourself to do harm to another? Quoting: CMcC Sounds right out of Saul D. Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' the democratic party trash SOP and bible. Seriously no one here could possible think it's legal and moral to do something like this? Just think it through. You can't possibly think it's legal and moral to send in a swat team for this? Just think it through. |
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Nerve03 User ID: 9911271 United States 04/18/2014 04:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! apparently there are already new parody accounts for the mayor with pics of him with a hitler mustache. They arrested the guy for marijuana they supposedly found at his home. The guy seems fucked in the head like that principle who was somehow having students arrested for talking shit to him. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6500947 United States 04/18/2014 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Reason has an article about the story. Quoting: Nerve03 apparently there are already new parody accounts for the mayor with pics of him with a hitler mustache. They arrested the guy for marijuana they supposedly found at his home. The guy seems fucked in the head like that principle who was somehow having students arrested for talking shit to him. Good, it is a story that needs much exposure. |
CMcC User ID: 56721367 United States 04/18/2014 05:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Hey falsely representing yourself to do harm to another? Quoting: CMcC Sounds right out of Saul D. Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' the democratic party trash SOP and bible. Seriously no one here could possible think it's legal and moral to do something like this? Just think it through. You can't possibly think it's legal and moral to send in a swat team for this? Just think it through. Hey if you want to be the arbitrator on how much police force to use in any given situation, go ahead. You have my complete support as long as it's evenly prosecuted across the board without regard to race, creed, political affiliations, etc. All I'm say'en it that it's not right to create mischief under someone elses name. Folks that do that deserve and should expect some grief. Fear God and Dread Nought. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6500947 United States 04/18/2014 05:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! “Additionally, he wished to pursue the incident,” the affidavit said. On March 14, Judge Kirk Schoebein signed off on a warrant seeking subscriber information from Twitter. On March 29, two days after Twitter gave police the information they requested, Judge Lisa Wilson approved a warrant for Comcast to find out where the person who used the Internet to access Twitter lived. On April 1, Elliott was identified as the Comcast subscriber for 1220 N. University St., the affidavit said. Two weeks later, Judge Kim Kelley approved the warrant to search the house. Police seized several iPhones, two Xbox video game consoles, computers, pieces of mail, drug paraphernalia, alleged marijuana and digital memory cards." [link to www.pjstar.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6500947 United States 04/18/2014 05:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Hit the big time now, Fox News. "No arrests were made in connection with the Twitter account, but one of the residents was charged with possession of marijuana. The Twitter account was set up recently under the handle @Peoriamayor. It included a photo of Mayor Jim Ardis and tweets about sex and drugs. Police Chief Steve Settingsgaard says officers were investigating it as a possible case of impersonating a public official." [link to www.foxnews.com] |
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samus79 (OP) User ID: 33012794 United States 04/18/2014 06:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! Here's the link to the article on reason.com [link to reason.com] Out from the belly of a whale came a prophet, Amen! |
samus79 (OP) User ID: 33012794 United States 04/18/2014 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Man creates a fake Twitter account and the police raid the house and seize all computers and phones!! And here is another link with a collection of all the fake twitter accounts that have been popping up lately, pretty funny [link to twitter.com (secure)] Out from the belly of a whale came a prophet, Amen! |