Question:
If I post "I'm going to abuse your bottom hole until you bleed from the mouth, *****!" to one of my friends... Can they use that in court saying I actually intend to rape him? Our group throws a lot of profanity around, that doesn't mean we meant it.
I mean, yes rape is bad and hiring hitmen is bad too. But was he really trying to do the latter? Sounds to me like he was just posturing to intimidate his victim into backing off the rape charges. Which seems to be the case, seeing as when a "hitman" responded turned down his offer to meet saying he wanted to talk to his victim first.
After reading this, it tasted like "Boy/Girl hook up at party.", "Girl accuses boy of rape for whatever reason.", "boy is angry and wants to scare girl", "police take it seriously and confront boy", "police browbeat teenager to confess to things he didn't do or didn't intend to do."
Really, guys, saying "Man, I wish my boss was dead. I'd give up my company car and a months salary to whomever offed him." to my friends at the bar doesn't equal "a public ad for a hitman". Now, posting that on facebook shouldn't be any different. It'd be a dumb idea if your boss could view your profile and you'd end up on one of those facebookfail sites, but it's not a confession for christ's sake.
Anyway, to me at least it just seems the escapist members are a mite quick to judge on this one. At least we all agree that facebook is a bad, bad thing.