The article discusses police in Wisconsin ticketing college students by soliciting facebook friend status and going through pictures. I'm pretty sure that the ticket could not hold up in court, given there's no way to prove that it's an alcoholic drink. I'm curious if this is a real event, and will be researching the source and updating the blog with the results.
Update with original source:
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_0ff40f7a-d4d1-11de-afb3-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=comments
Updates with responses from someone claiming to be one of the girls charged;
- thatgirl13 said on: November 23, 2009, 2:39 pm
- Okay, so I am one of the girls in the article. And I just wanted to make a comment. As I read all of your comments I see some of you said well you shouldn’t have posted any pictures of you drinking or pictures you wouldn’t want your grandmother to see. Well funny thing is I didn’t. Those pictures were taken off another girls facebook album so I had absolutely NO control over those photos up there. I was never friends with the under-cover cop on facebook, simply because I do not accept people I do not know. The girl whose facebook he got those photos from never got a ticket or called down by the cop. This whole situation is outrageous.
The cop who called me down, Iverson, emailed me and asked me if I would come down and it’s not a big deal and he just has a few questions for me. As the good citizen I am I went right down approximately 8:30pm on a Sunday night. The cop pulls out two pictures of me and my friend with beer cans in our hands. He asked if that was me and I said yes. Because obviously it was. He never once asked if I was drinking nor did I tell him I was drinking in that picture. I asked where he got the pictures from and he asked if there was any one who was out to get me or asked if I made any enemies during Oktoberfest, I said no, which I haven’t confused… and he told me that someone turned in my pictures to him so he had to investigate it. Later on finding out that he got those off of facebook so he lied to me about that, then, he wrote a statement that was in my file when I went to court that said I openly admitted to drinking in those pictures, which I NEVER admitted. He has no proof that I was drinking or that I have ever drank in my life. I am overall very disappointed in the La Crosse Police Department. Those pictures were over a month old for one, two, those were private pictures in a private house. I could even understand if it was pictures of me in a public place like a bar or something drinking, but I wasn’t. I think they should get off their lazy butts and go OUT AND FIND PEOPLE IN THE ACTION. Not sit inside creeping on the internet all day long. Just my opinion.
