Internet Justice strikes again
There are no shortages of stories of people being caught after posting something stupid on the Internet. The last one I remember was that s.o.b. Kenny Glenn. Well the most recent is an incident in Canada where some kid posted on Newgrounds (which I didn’t know anyone still went to).
From the New York Times…
The police in Britain have credited a group of young Internet users with alerting them to a Web posting by a 16-year-old who said he planned to attack his high school with “arson and other forms of violence,” enabling officers to arrest the teenager as he approached the school carrying a knife, matches and a plastic jerrycan of what the police described as “flammable liquid.”
Now this wasn’t the same as finding out who a ski mask wearing cat-beater is, but this had the potential off being far more dangerous. The Internet user reporting this threat, J. P. Neufeld has my salute.
[Source: New York Times]
