Not that we need a big reprieve from the heavy news cycle this week. It was a pretty easy week, as far as that goes. Still, while the blogosphere might have rested on its laurels, the criminals of the social media space certainly did not. Apparently, it is true: there is no rest for the wicked.
In this issue:
Roger Clemens Discovers YouTubing, Denies Steroid Abuse
Young MySpace User Gets High, Plays With Tiger
SouFla Real Estate Agent Plays a Craigslist Prank on Rival
Roger Clemens Discovers YouTube
Sometimes, YouTube can be useful to avoid further Congressional hearings. Former baseball great Roger Clemens discovered the service this week as a useful tool to deny the fact that he used steroids to get ahead in his professional sports career. The allegations had come down originally from a Congressional report that indicted more or less everyone who has ever played the game, and Clemens wanted to set the record straight.
You ever seen a Tiger? How about a Tiger ... on weed!?
Bridget Johnson from Friendly Fire write:
Following up on Chris' excellent observation -- this from the San Francisco Chronicle a bit ago:
"And sources close to the investigation tell The Chronicle that the surviving brothers have not been entirely forthcoming during interviews with police."
I was also looking at the MySpace profile of the guy who died, Carlos Sousa, who wanted to "partyharder then [sic] a rock star." His last login was Christmas Day, and his mood was "high." Now could he have been just high on life? Toxicological tests in the autopsy can determine that. If indeed it's true that he taunted the tiger, a person's gotta be high to climb into a big cat's cage.
The lesson here? Drugs and man-eating tigers don't mix.
Next time, use someone else's WiFi 26 out of 26 times, fool!
Dean Isenberg, a North Miami real estate agent was charged Wednesday with posting fake escort ads on the Internet using a rival's phone numbers. While it might have been clever and funny (and a nice throwback to that scene from Hackers), it also sparked hundreds of raunchy calls that nearly drove the woman to a nervous breakdown.
The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade Detective John Jones, of the Intracoastal station, began investigating the cause of the disturbances, and nine of the 26 ads found on Craigslist came back to an IP address that belonged to Isenberg.
Investigators believe the rest of the ads had been done by laptop, accessing other people's wireless Internet service. In June, Jones raided Isenberg's North Miami-Dade house, carting away computers, and have now gathered enough evidence from their forays into his hard drive (although one has to wonder what took the crack CSI team of Miami this long to figure out - high grade encryption?).
Investigators found 'various portions' of the ads on his hard drive, including the photos of scantily clad women, Jones said.