Teen arrested over MySpace photos

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/02/23/myspace.guns.ap/index.html?section=cnn_tech

Snip: < DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after postings on the popular Web site MySpace.com allegedly showed him holding handguns, authorities said.

The teen was being held at a juvenile detention center facing three misdemeanor charges of juvenile possession of a handgun, said district attorney spokeswoman Pam Russell. He is due in court February 27.

Police searched the boy's home after receiving a tip from Evergreen High School on February 10, the same day he was suspended, officials said.

School spokesman Rick Kaufman said parents were calling with concerns and some kept their children home after photographs posted on the boy's profile on MySpace.com, a social networking Web site, began circulating through the community. >

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[WorkersToPower]

1. ...

Another was arrested after police found a picture of graffitti on his myspace page and blamed the "vandalism" on him.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi WorkersToPower!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Trillo]

2. Curious. When I went to the 9th grade,

we had range practice with real rifles and real bullets. Supervised, of course. Don't remember if it was mandatory or elective.

My how things have changed in a few short decades.

[RB TexLa]

3. must be because of handguns instead of rifles or shotguns

Most if not all states prohibit the ownership of handguns by age, but having a photo taken with a handgun wouldn't necessary prove ownership.

[TahitiNut]

4. Not 'ownership' ... possession. I'd say a photo is enough.

:shrug:

[RB TexLa]

6. I wasn't sure, been a while since I was a teenager and I grew up

in Louisiana, gun and drinking laws were not really even suggestions when I was growing up.

[Nevernose]

14. LOL, I remember driving to LA for their "liberal" drinking age!

It was the 80s, and you had to be 21 to drink\ Except for Louisiana. Ahhhh, fond memories...

[pimpbot]

5. myspace is a cesspool

I spent a few minutes clicking through to various peoples "sites". Jeez, its either wannabe hardcore gangstas or 15 year old girls who act like sluts. WTF are these kids parents thinking?

[Solo_in_MD]

7. Via MySpace my youngest daughter was told

that the principal at her high school alma mater was using content from MySpace as the basis for searches and suspensions, mostly focused on drug use though a few attitude cases were also being caught in the sweep. This was the same school which several years ago refused to do anything when a student with known violent behavior problems posted threats against a teacher and this same daughter involving vivisection(!) because the head of security did not understand much about the Internet (his words, not mine).

She sent back to her friend several links to sites that pointed out that off campus expression was generally off limits for disciplinary action (something I had told the preceding two principals about). *sigh*. Home schooling, its not just for fundies anymore...(mine are all in college now)

[RevolutionStartsNow]

8. MySpace is fascinating

Kids think somehow that it's "private", though of course they know it's not. I've read all kinds of things where kids are posting about getting drunk and high, they must think their parents never read this stuff.

My daughter has a page, but her profile is marked private, and she's burned out on it already. She knows all about the dangers of the Internet, but I've also had to talk to her about posting things she might regret (about a boy she likes, or a girl she doesn't, or whatever), how it's permanent even if she deletes her profile.

I just can't wait for the fad to pass.

[grasswire]

9. wasn't there a report a few days ago...

....about school districts warning parents about the dangers of myspace? I know there's been some trouble at the local middle school with pre-teens getting "groomed" by possible predators -- myspace profiles often use real names and location.

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. They wrote an article in the school paper about this stuff...

I was reading it a few weeks ago, basically they said that university officials are combing MySpace and Facebook profiles to catch underage kids doing illegal things and any of the incriminating pictures could be used against you. I know some underage students on one of the sports teams got in trouble because someone posted pics of them at a party drinking. It's pretty stupid on their parts, but I can't help but wonder if there are better things that they could be doing with my tuition money than surfing the web looking for incriminating photos

[iamthebandfanman]

11. well

i mite get flamed but...
if you are dumb enough to put what youve done on the internet...
i mean, unfortunately, the internet isnt as big of a free place to do whatever you want as alot of people would like to think.
you arent as annoymous as you think either.

id never put a picture of me, say , smoking pot on a website for example. to many people can and would see it. id be asking for some sort of trouble unfortunately.

i know ive seen locals with myspace pages from my town. they are teenagers and doing stupid things in videos theyve recorded. heck , one was at a 'skate' park across the street from our police station. the police officers here would rather be trying to find someone with a joint sitting in their living room while organised fights with teenagers are happening right infront of them, which totally disquist me. *shrugs*.

[RB TexLa]

12. organised fights ???

What? If a fight is organized and the participants willing, what crime is there? Not trying to be smartass, is it gambling on the fights, or what? :shrug:

[iamthebandfanman]

13. i dunno

i just dont like the idea of 15 year olds being free to beat each other into a bloody mess(literally) for the fun of it.
call me crazy *shrugs*
i know as their parents i wouldn't like it.
by organised, i used the term loosely. its just under-age people gathered to beat each other until the other cant take it.
theres no sport to it.
just ignorance and violence.

[RB TexLa]

16. I can understand that

I'm just dumb to what fads teenangers are involved with, only child in my family is a 6 month year old cousin.

[Nevernose]

15. What about capitalization, punctuation, or spelling?

What about capitalization, punctuation, or spelling?

At this point, I'm just curious as to what's more important: smoking weed, or knowing where to put the capital letters?

[iamthebandfanman]

18. it was just an example

i forget theres always someone ready to snipe you on DU for grammer.
surely theres something else better you could be commenting on, or are you just bored?
;)

ill try to use better grammer in the future ;)
sorry if i dont take time to check something im posting on an internet forum.

[progressivebydesign]

17. myspace is a trip. I have a page.

I keep in touch with friends, family, and some bands. Nothing identifiable is on my page. I have actually seen Myspace getting more respectable as more and more parents are getting pages, and getting hip to what the kids are doing on there. It's a cool networking tool, if used in the right way. The profiles of my daughter's friends are changing, and the photos are getting more calm, all of the content for them is becoming mellower and not sexual at all. The only issue I have with Myspace is that some parents are so totally clueless as to what their kids are doing online, and that apparently girls under the age of 25 think that cleavage is more important than brains.

[CornField]

19. Know what ticks me off?

It wasn't that long ago that, at the very least, the folks chatting on IRC had at least a rudimentary knowledge of computers, coding and (most often) UNIX. Now 10-year-old kids can put up stupid crap without learning a flippin' thing.

Alright, now I'm headed to the other room to play my 78 albums... nobody jump around and make them skip... dammit.

Seriously, the net was much more interesting when people had to work a little to get connected and use it.