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Monday, July 28

How Times Have Changed!

Remember when the news was full of stories about police arresting someone and confiscating their beeper, (and later it was their cell phone) and calling all the numbers that came through while trying to pretend they were someone else so they could find out who all the people were? They don't have to worry about pretending anymore!

Thursday, July 24, 2008 | 8:07 PM

After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, Catawba County sheriff's deputies let their fingers do the chasing to catch the second suspect.

The Hickory Daily Record reported Thursday that when deputies caught a 16-year-old suspect, they confiscated his cell phone. While they had it, a text message came across asking him if he had been caught.

The deputies responded "no," and after a few more messages, the sender said he would try to pick up his partner, not knowing he was in custody. While waiting in an area where several break-ins occurred, deputies said they arrested the 17-year-old texting teenager after finding him in a car with three other people. Both teens face several charges, including larceny and breaking and entering.

4 comments:

the walking man said...

I suppose that it is dependent on where you are standing that decides if technology is friend or foe.

Lori said...

I am of the opinion that anything you communicate digitally can be read by unknowing eyes. As a parent I think that accounts for so much of the "shorthand" in texting. Just when I learn what AFK,AFAIK, IMO, etc means, there are thirty new ones to digest. Legally speaking, technology keeps taking us to new places and probably new precedents. Whatever happened to the right to privacy?

Wanda J said...

I have to agree with you walking man; sometimes it can be a lifesaver, but more often than not it ends up getting you hung!

Wanda J said...

What right to privacy? There is no such thing, not right to privacy, not freedom of speech, none of those basic freedoms exist anymore,not in this country anyway!