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

FoxT

"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...

Interceptor

They should have Tweeted her as well.

'c

Shoutcast Ireland

Seriously a wtf moment.

davet82

No carrier pigeon? ffs

flanders1979

like

lkionm

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

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,,

hufpc8w3adnk65

Khady sounds legit

seamus

I call shenanigans on the story

FoxT

seamus wrote: »

I call shenanigans on the story

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

krudler

Absolute BS on that story

FoxT

krudler wrote: »

Absolute BS on that story

Enlighten us...

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
******

3ndahalfof6

seamus wrote: »

I call shenanigans on the story

What did he say.

Duiske

krudler wrote:

Absolute BS on that story

FoxT wrote: »

Enlighten us...

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

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

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