Police Arrest Woman for Facebook Poke

[300lb. Samoan]

There's a giant hole in this story if you haven't caught it yet. Anybody that uses Facebook and has broken up with a significant other or ended a friendship violently knows that you can easily remove people from your friends list. Facebook by default, in my experience, does not allow the poking of people that are not on your friends list. So, in this case, the poking victim could have just removed Jackson from her friends list.

*frowns* That's not a giant hole. Quite the reverse.

I don't know about other people, but when I had a very, very bad break-up, I couldn't even bear to log onto my page, never mind remove someone from my profile.

If they were threatening me as well, I doubt I could even do anything rather than report it.

Fairs fair Tom, this women may just be scared. And the Law does say "NO contact".

Surely if she hadn't been on Facebook, she wouldn't have noticed she'd been poked? Hell, I know people that delete friends on Facebook out of boredom, doing it because of a restraining order is pretty much mandatory.

Yea, this is sort of like having a restraining order between neighbors, but still having a rope bridge connecting the two houses. If you really don't want to have contact with that person, DON'T ENABLE THEM. Another problem with pokes is there's no way of knowing when it was sent - could have been before the restraining order, then we fast-forward to the date in question and UH-OH - the defendant's computer just received your back-logged poke! GO TO JAIL NOW

btw, to anyone who has a restraining order set on me:
POKE. Also, I found a very frowny lamb today. I intend to chop its head off and make a roast and you can't have any! POKE POKE POKE

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Unfortunately it looks like I will be the first person to ask.
What is farmville?

What is Facebook?
Seriously. I see people talking about it, but no one's ever told me what it is and I'll be damned if I'm going to join another gimmicky online community without knowing what it is...

It's kind of like what you find on Google when you search for 'Facebook'.

 

[dudeman0001]

Police Arrest Woman for Facebook Poke

Though this story is more complicated than it sounds, police have arrested a woman for performing a Facebook poke.

looks like she just got facebook PWNED.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Real life is one thing, but FarmVille is something totally different.

Imagine if we got Plants vs Zombies involved, We would need to throw out the case!

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

There aren't words to describe how stupid that must sound in a courtroom.

"She poked me!... Over Facebook..."

Rather silly if you ask me.

As for Farmville, please no one speak of it again.

 

[yosophat]

Yosophat Likes this post.

I specially liked the part about farmville those post are getting more common everyday. I just play bejeweled and point and click rpg.

 

[Mr. Purple]

This is why I don't follow internet trends. Honestly, is the victim THAT stupid that she can't even put up with that? Was it just one poke or multiple? Sadly it looks like Shannon's not going to be able to put up a fight at all.

To quote the best cartoon character of all time: "The system fails again!" --Bender.

Well put sir.

 

[oppp7]

That's a pretty weird reason to call the police on someone. It sounds like she was mad at her friend and was just looking for a reason to cause trouble. Hell, she probably didn't take her friend off the list so that her might poke her and she could call the police.

 

[Skooterz]

Seriously? Are these cops mentally retarded? The crap that the legal system pulls out of it's ass is amazing.

 

[Caprice0083]

Wow, the stupidity is outrageous. I can understand if she sent an email, but a FACEBOOK POKE!? Hey justice system, get a clue.

 

[Tyras612]

If you don't know what FarmVille is, god bless you. Now pretend you never read the word and live a long, productive life.

Never have I heard better advice.
Stupid FarmVille, FarmTown, Restaurant City, Cafe World, and the like. Useless and addicting, a deadly combination.

They've doomed my schooling career.
"I might go stu- nvm Farmville"

 

[duchaked]

FarmVille...I was like "okay whatever" when I first saw it, but it was hilarious (and kinda weird) when I saw my 6 foot manly guy friends playing it, and not just the small younger girls lol

 

[Sexy Street]

We have found you guilty of poking in the first degree!
WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!

 

[thiosk]

wait, farmville?

wtf is that?

 

[LGC Pominator]

I thought you could only re-poke someone after they had poked you back... it isn't like nudging on MSN :S