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Police Informed a Mother About Her Son’s Death Over Facebook

  • 20-02-2013 6:00pm
    #1
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭


    "On January 24th, Ricky Lamb was hit by a car and killed. His body sat in the morgue until Valentine's Day, though, because the incompetent local police only contacted the family over Facebook. It took a month for Lamb's mother to find the message.
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the ordeal of Anna Lamb-Creasey, who had no idea what had become of her son. Apparently, the authorities couldn't figure out how to find a woman who was desperately looking for her son, so they opted to send her a message over Facebook. Because Creasey isn't friends with the cops on Facebook, the message was filtered to the often ignored "Other" folder. Why didn't Creasey pay attention to message? Because it looked like spam. The message was sent by an account under the name "Misty" with a photo of the rapper T.I. as the profile shot."

    http://gizmodo.com/5985605/police-informed-a-mother-about-her-sons-death-over-facebook

    This was bound to happen, sooner or later...


Comments

  • #2
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    They should have Tweeted her as well.

    'c


  • #3
    Shoutcast Ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Shoutcast Ireland


    Seriously a wtf moment.


  • #4
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    No carrier pigeon? ffs


  • #5
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    like


  • #6
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Should have keep sending her farmville requests and their farm was a made into a morgue with her sons name somewhere in it.


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  • #7
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    I also just noticed this "other" inbox in facebook msg's and found this:
    Hello,,
    My name is Miss khady i read your profile at
    (facebook.com) it was
    so good to me. Please contact me at
    (khadylove@ ymail.com)
    i am a girl love, please don't reply me
    to this site reply
    me direct to my yahoo mail box
    (khadylove@ ymail.com)
    thank.
    khady,,


  • #8
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    Khady sounds legit


  • #9
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I call shenanigans on the story


  • #10
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    seamus wrote: »
    I call shenanigans on the story

    Sure it can't be shenanigans! Its on the internet!


  • #11
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Absolute BS on that story


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  • #12
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    krudler wrote: »
    Absolute BS on that story

    Enlighten us...


  • #13
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,883 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    Found a message in my other messages folder from 2010 regarding the suicide of a friend of mine. Definitely nothing like what happened in the OP, but really, what a seriously unsavory way to try to contact someone about such a happening.
    ****** ********
    Good Morning America
    Hey Darren,
    I'm sorry to bother you on facebook but I saw that you were friends with ************* when she was in *********** (i found her ******* page with the***************, etc). First of all, I am so sorry for your loss. I have been covering the story since January and hope to do a larger story about *************... but I was wondering if I could talk to you for a bit off the record. Either on email: ****************@abc.com or maybe I could give you a call?
    let me know and thanks for reading this
    ******


  • #14
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    seamus wrote: »
    I call shenanigans on the story


    What did he say.


  • #15
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    krudler wrote:
    Absolute BS on that story
    FoxT wrote: »
    Enlighten us...

    Brown stuff, smells foul, falls out of a bull's arse.


  • #16
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    Duiske wrote: »
    Brown stuff, smells foul, falls out of a bull's arse.

    Not at all enlightening, and , as it happens the story is true. Try a bit harder next time :)


  • #17
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    seamus wrote: »
    I call shenanigans on the story
    krudler wrote: »
    Absolute BS on that story

    Well don't know about that, but a few clicks will get you to his sister's FB page where there's a comment about the incident


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