Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive 381
pgrote writes "So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble. Seems that LaShawn Pettus-Brown was caught by his date's discovery of him on an FBI site of fugitives, even after local Cincinnati news media couldn't find him. Score one for the Internet."
BE CAREFUL OF LINK! (Score:1, Informative)
Regards,
Steve
Re:IQ test (Score:5, Informative)
Re:BE CAREFUL OF LINK! (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, some might well consider that pornographic. Others might simply consider it a display of wares.
Yeah, it's not safe for work so your warning is valid. No, I'm not just being pedantic. I really thought your post might need a little clarifying.
Yes, I've looked. Big deal.
KFG
Re:IQ test (Score:5, Informative)
It's an area that could really use some development, besides the stores selling gold chains, caps, and clothing with wrought iron grates in their windows and doors. The theater was pitched as a venue that would start the revitalization process and bring more business to that part of town. (Sort of like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the new baseball stadium helped downtown Cleveland.)
Maybe I just bought into Brown's hype, but I really did think there was potential - the building is a classic old theater, that still has it's marquee outfront. I could have seen it becoming a nice concert venue - I think because of the large marquee outfront, I always envisoned it becoming something like the Aragon Ballroom [urban-history.org] in Chicago.
Of course, it could have ended up like Bogarts and Short Vine, but I'd say that's much better than the feeling one has driving down Vine . . .
Re:Double edge sword (Score:3, Informative)
But, generally speaking, you can control what gets out on the internet about you.
I just did a search on all three of my names (Yes, on my second husband at the tender age of 30). For my original name, there's exactly ONE hit... not surprising since I used my parents' last names hyphenated together, and one of them was uncommon. (It's actually me... some costume work I did on some show sometime to help a friend that someone posted the program, and it's still out there.) For my first husband's surname, the second hit is my GIS homework. Ooooo. I could take it off the web if I wanted to hide that, and could have used an image for my name if I was real paranoid. For my current name, nothing shows up that's actually me.
If your real name shows up all over the internet, you might just use it a bit too freely... or, you're (in)famous, which might be good or bad.
sex offender database (Score:4, Informative)
"You keep using that word..." (Score:3, Informative)
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Perhaps, you meant machismo [m-w.com] instead of bushido? [m-w.com]