And then the follow up today? WOW. Pwnage flying around left and right. You gotta check this out.
The first story (http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/06/08/how-to-use-facebook-to-send-your-estranged-husband-to-jail/) goes something like this:
A man is arrested by federal authorities and charged with a felony for installing a GPS device in his ex-wife’s car. Nothing too unusual, right? Except the ex-wife found out about this GPS device through a fake Facebook account that she used to friend the ex-husband and then "struck up a rapport with him via private Facebook message." During this "rapport," the ex-husband confesses/boasts about using a GPS device to track his ex-wife as well as saying things like:
"Along with disclosing that he planned to flee with his children in early-June, Voelkert wrote that he was “going to find someone to take care of her and now it will be easier because I know where she is at all times.” He then added, “you should find someone at your school, there should be some gang bangers there that would put a cap in her ass for $10,000. I am just done with her crap!”
In a subsequent message, Voelkert stated, “With me gone with my kids, the police can’t pin anything on me as I will be in another state, so I will be fine.”
In a subsequent message, Voelkert stated, “With me gone with my kids, the police can’t pin anything on me as I will be in another state, so I will be fine.”
Murder for hire! GPS tracking! All over a custody dispute!
Feds swoop in, arrest the guy, and then you think, "Wow, that ex-wife sure got him. What a silly man for telling all of this to an anonymous internet 'friend'!"
But it gets better.
The second story (http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/06/09/estranged-husband-wasnt-actually-duped-by-fake-teenage-facebook-account/) reveals that the /ex-husband/ knew all along that it was the ex-wife and was trolling her hardcore!
Federal prosecutors arrested David Voelkert on Friday, but then dropped the charges today. In a domestic dispute version of Spy vs. Spy, it turns out that Voelkert knew that his wife was behind the sexy teen account the whole time. He was playing her, in the hopes of proving that Angela Voelkert, 29, was “still tampering with his life,” reports the Smoking Gun. He got a notarized sworn affidavit on May 25 explaining his plan right after he received the friend request from “Jessica Studebaker.”
Not only did he know, he had the foresight to get a /notarized affidavit/ before hand (wherein he kept one for himself and left a copy with a relative) stating that he knew that it was his ex-wife and that he was totally just trolling her and he didn't intend to do any of the things that he said.
I'm just stunned speechless.