The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail 547
Barence writes "A British man was jailed for 18 months for accidentally sending an explicit text message to his entire address book. 24-year-old swimming coach Craig Evans intended to send a text message to his girlfriend asking her for sex. Instead, the message was accidentally sent to his entire BlackBerry address book, including two girls, aged 13 and 14, from his swimming class. He was subsequently arrested and charged with 'causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity,' and – incredibly – jailed for 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court in July. Yesterday, an appeal's court freed Evans, although he wasn't cleared — the sentence was merely reduced to a nine-month suspended jail term."
I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry (Score:5, Funny)
I can't even figure out how to send a message to all my Blackberry contacts...
How does one make a mistake like that?
Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry (Score:5, Funny)
When you accidently want sex from everyone on your contact list... that is how it happens.
Re:Siri: email porn folder to mom (Score:2, Funny)
the consequences will never be the same.
he done goofed. got backtraced.
Re:FTA... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry (Score:5, Funny)
Message recipients > Group > My Contacts > Select all.
It would be too easy to select the "My Contacts" group or "My Swimming contacts" group, instead of the "My shagging partners" group.
Re:Daily Mail fail (Score:2, Funny)
"Second, he did send a sexual text to underaged children. That it was by accident makes it alright?"
I hope the next time you say 'fuck you', a kid is standing right behind you.
Then at least we won't have to read your crap for some time.
Re:I can only assume (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
hmmm, the religious fundamentalists went to America, and the convicts to Oz, all we got left with was Charles Darwin and Alan Turing
Re:Hrm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
As far as teaching kids responsibility, one of my favorites from my sister's swim team coach:
Kid: "My mom forgot to pack a bathing suit."
Coach: "Is your mom on the swim team?"
Re:I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
Keep in mind that the best and brightest of England left to make their fortunes in the colonies long ago. The ones that stayed behind were, well, the "special" types.
Hey, someone had to sanitize the telephones and look at moodily-lit photos of toothpaste.
Re:I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
Alan Turing. Who you chemically castrated for being gay. You really want to go down ths road?
Re:I can only assume (Score:4, Funny)
We don't have any pedophiles, all of ours are spelt correctly.
Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry (Score:2, Funny)
I've always liked:
"Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot. "
Re:I just tried to do this on my Blackberrry (Score:2, Funny)
obligatory bash.org:
http://bash.org/?5300
Re:I can only assume (Score:4, Funny)
FACT: Half of the women you encounter (unless you're a REALLY poorly groomed neckbeard) will have consenting, spontaneous sex with you. You just got to approach them with some confidence. They sure as shit won't approach you. You can think society and its frequent use of the word "slut" for that.
Clearly, you don't work in the same elementary school that I do.
Re:I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
Given that nearly every member of his family also received the message, it is very unlikely that he had intended to solicit sex from all the recipients,
Unless he was a real motherfucker
Re:Daily Mail fail (Score:5, Funny)
If I'm driving down a 2-lane highway and have a catastrophic failure in a tire that causes my car to spin out, cross the center line, hit your car killing you... is that really my fault? What if it was a piece of debris in the road that caused the tire to fail?
No you would get off with that. If at the same time a notebook on your passenger seat with an intimate letter to your wife flew out of the window and landed on my teenage daughter's lap then you'd end up doing time.
Re:I can only assume (Score:5, Funny)
You obviously read Kafka as fiction, yes?
Re:I can only assume (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't this guy in England? I thought the English system was guilty until proven innocent...