Mr Thibault, at first thought of calling the police but instead posted a note about the dress on Island Dogs Facebook page.
In a funny incident, a distraught German newly wed Sandra Scharf recovered her lost wedding dress from a Rum Barrel Bar in Key West earlier this week.
The owner of the bar was delivered a garment bag by some tourist reported to be fallen from a vehicle. “I opened it up and said, Oh my God,” Thibault, owner of the bar told The Associated Press. “If they’re going to be married, they’re going to need this”.
Thibault, at first thought of calling the police but instead posted a note about the dress on Island Dogs Facebook page, asking patrons to repost.
While, Scharf and her new husband Michael had honeymoon in the Keys and were on their way to the airport, when they realized they’d lost the wedding dress. The dress was so important for them since the couple who got married in Captiva Island were also arranging a recepton back in Germany and Scharf had planned to wear her wedding dress.
They returned to Key West but searched with no luck until they came to the Rum Barrel. A waitress there said to the couple that she recalled seeing a Facebook posting of the lost dress. They were directed to Island Dogs by the waitress and apparently the couple found their wedding dress.
Things came to a happy ending and definitely credit goes to the logical positivism of the bar owner and the wonder of Facebook.
A student of Crafton Hills College, threatens a Virginia Tech-style attack on his school.
Stanley Roring, a 30-year-old student of Crafton Hills college in southern California was arrested on Tuesday, hours after he bragged a terrorist threat on his Facebook page.
Investigators said, they recovered evidence at Roring’s home who was planning a ‘Virginia Tech-style’ attack on students and staff at Crafton Hills College. He also made another threat reference to a “genocide” occurring. “We do believe that the threats were legitimate,” said Cindy Bachman of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Roring pleated not guilty Thursday to a felony count of making a terrorist threat. He was charged with making terrorist threats and was being held in jail on $50,000 bail. He also has a record of pleading guilty in 2007 for possession of firearm, wherein he was sentence for 33 days and was placed on three years of probation.
The intention of the target is unclear, but for whatever it was, sheriff’s spokesman Cynthia Bachman said “If he was mentally prepared to commit a violent act like this or if he was looking for some attention, he definitely got some attention from law enforcement”.
Attila Ban, 31, has been charged on Saturday, for the murder of two of his colleagues at the Radisson Edward Heathrow hotel last week. Both the victims, Tibor Vass, 20 and Alice Adams, 20 died of multiple stab wounds. He was arrested from a hospital after he attempted suicide by cutting his wrist and throat.
Attila Ban, a Hungarian national, have grown close to fellow Hungarian Vass while they work together as receptionist at the Hotel but Vass was more inclined with Alice when she started working at the hotel. The incident revolves around a love triangle, whereby Ban was in a relationship not with Alice but with Vass. An earlier post on Ban’s Facebook page mentioned visiting a gay club in London’s Soho.
Ban posted on his Facebook page last Wednesday, hours before he allegedly stabbed his two colleagues to death: “I would like to wake up from that nightmare”.
As the accused was identified and charge with the murder, the family of Alice paid tribute to her loss- “Alice touched the hearts of everyone she ever met. Her capacity to spread love was unprecedented and her spirit will live on forever”.
The accused, Attila Ban has been remanded in custody and will appear at the Old Bailey tomorrow (August 16).
A young Philadelphia mother was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit murder after she allegedly tried to hire hit man on Facebook.
On May 23, London Eley, a young mom, posted a message on Facebook following a row with Corey Jerome White that read, “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.”
Eley’s offer generated quite a lot of interest. An 18-year-old named Tim Bynum replied to her post: “say no more,” “what he look like?” “where he be at,” “need dat stack 1st,” and “ima mop that bull”, according to ABC News.
She Bynum the address and description of White after allegedly agreeing to a price of $1000 to carry out the hit.
White reported to the cops, after he was alerted by his relatives who happened to see the exchanges on Eley’s page.
Eley is charged with solicitation to commit murder and Bynum is charged with attempted murder and conspiracy.
Two teenage burglars were castigated by a judge for mocking his judgment in social networking site (Facebook). Liam Cunliffe befor his sentence bragged on facebook stating that he was just “a happy bunni” adding “I’m only looking at 6 months, haa bring it on easy!” Bad move! Cunliffe with his co-accused Louis Corbett both 18, were facing manslaughter trial since their victim, 80 year old Pauline Reddick, who has a record of high blood pressure, died of a stroke hours after the break-in. But the manslaughter charges were dropped because the death could not be directly linked (hard scientific evidence) with the symptoms of her stroke to the high blood pressure owing to the raid.
Judge Ford pronounced in Bristol Crown Court that they could only be jailed for buglary but stated “What is most distressing in your case is your perceived attitude that you have done nothing wrong. I cannot sentence you for a lack of moral fiber and decency but I am of the view you have shown no remorse”
Cunliffe and Corbett were sentenced to 27 and 24 months respectively in young offenders’ institutions. However Corbett also posted on Facebook that “I’m not goin Prison. I refuse.” But then Corbett is already behind bars regardless of his unwillingness.
Shouldn’t We need to keep our private matters on social networking sites. Really these kits will think before they brag on Facebook
The Australian Army has launched an investigation into racist comments and videos posted on Facebook allegedly by soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
According to the AAP, the soldiers refer to Afghanis as “sand coons”, “dune coons”, “niggers”, “smelly locals”, and “raghead.”
A video from Facebook aired on Seven News shows Australians bombing a bridge in Afghanistan. A local man is shown running away from the explosion, while a soldier is heard saying that the blast “scared the f— out of that mufti.”
Acting Chief of Army Paul Symon said the behavior undermines everything Australia is trying to achieve in Afghanistan.
He told the Network, “There will be thousands of soldiers disgusted at what we’re looking at,” and added that the concerned soldiers could face serious consequences.
In New Zealand, a man was sentenced to jail for posting naked pictures on Facebook.
The accused, Joshua Simon Ashby, reportedly texted his ex-girlfriend “I’m going to kill you” and Dead b…” and then posted naked picture on her on her Facebook profile making it visible to her 218 friends.
Facebook (and the police) took it down by closing the woman’s account 12 hours later by which time the picture was visible to all the 500 plus million users on Facebook.
Ashby reportedly posted the photo in an “irresponsible drunken jealous rage” after the breakup of their five-month relationship and was sentenced to four months in jail.
He is believed to have made legal history by being the first person to be sentenced for a crime committed using social media under the seldom-used morality and decency section of the Crimes Act.
US-based web security company Webroot Software launched a new tool which aims to stop users from posting embarrasing messages on social networks when they are drunk.
The new app/tool called the Social Media Sobriety Test requires users to perform a series of online test before allowing them to post regrettable post on networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Youtube, and web-based email accounts like Gmail or Hotmail.
Users can choose the time period when they consider themselves at risk from drunken decisions and the sites to block at those hours. Accessing the specified sites during the specified time period will require the user to pass random sobriety test first. If users fail the test, they will be locked out of Facebook, Twitter or whatever sites the user has specified.
The co-ordination tests includes dragging the mouse in a straight line, typing the alphabet backwards, following an on-screen finger with the mouse and more.
The tool is available for free download, with the tagline “Nothing good happens online after 1 a.m.”
So, if you have a history of posting embarrassing or regrettable post while you were drunk, you should get this tool. If you fail the test, then you should just get to bed 
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The latest victim of Facebook post is an Australian regional newspaper editor.
Matt Nicholls, the 23-year-old editor of Glen Innes Examier newspaper allegedly posted on Facebook that “there was nothing better than death to lift circulation” referring to policeman the death of policeman William Crews.
Policeman William Crews died in the hospital after he was shot in his head in a drug raid in Sydney.
Mr. Nicholls is also alleged to have said that he was was going to make the most of the death for his company and newspaper.
Mr. Nicholls reportedly denied making the posts.
Nevertheless, The CEO of Fairfax regional publishing Allan Browne apologised terming the comments made by Mr. Nicholls as “totally unacceptable” as well as adding, “Mr Nicholls has been stood down from his position as editor, effective immediately.”
A North Carolina Woman was found shot dead along with her ex-boyfriend at her home.
Karen Ann Rooney, 63, and Peter Terrance Moonan, 62, had reportedly dated for 16 years before ending their relationship earlier this year.
The incident happened after Rooney updated her Facebook status about her engagement with William Jenkins.
According to the police, Rooney’s ex-boyfriend shot her and then turned the gun on himself.
Police believe the Facebook post might have triggered the incident.
