A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Solicitors representing Carl Peterson, from Ipswich, admitted that Carl had always found it very difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex, and had no idea that they might be slightly disturbed by having him wait outside their front doors to recite the fatality statistics at Nagasaki. Now as well as a restraining order, the court instructed that Carl serve his community service by sharing his expertise, writing and editing articles on the online encyclopaedia.
To read the full story, click here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/judge-directs-scary-obsessive-towards-wikiped...
Guy (JzG)
On 1/22/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Solicitors representing Carl Peterson, from Ipswich, admitted that Carl had always found it very difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex, and had no idea that they might be slightly disturbed by having him wait outside their front doors to recite the fatality statistics at Nagasaki. Now as well as a restraining order, the court instructed that Carl serve his community service by sharing his expertise, writing and editing articles on the online encyclopaedia.
To read the full story, click here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/judge-directs-scary-obsessive-towards-wikiped...
Guy (JzG)
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
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/me bets that the judge is a well known admin. Checkuserers? ;) :P
on 1/22/07 12:00 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG at guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Solicitors representing Carl Peterson, from Ipswich, admitted that Carl had always found it very difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex, and had no idea that they might be slightly disturbed by having him wait outside their front doors to recite the fatality statistics at Nagasaki. Now as well as a restraining order, the court instructed that Carl serve his community service by sharing his expertise, writing and editing articles on the online encyclopaedia.
And the next time he goes before the judge he can use the Twinkipedia Defense :-)
Marc
Hm, I wonder what happens if he gets banned for bad wiki-behavior?
On 1/22/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 1/22/07 12:00 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG at guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Solicitors representing Carl Peterson, from Ipswich, admitted that Carl had always found it very difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex, and had no idea that they might be slightly disturbed by having him wait outside their front doors to recite the fatality statistics at Nagasaki. Now as well as a restraining order, the court instructed that Carl serve his community service by sharing his expertise, writing and editing articles on the online encyclopaedia.
And the next time he goes before the judge he can use the Twinkipedia Defense :-)
Marc
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Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Hee hee. I didn't actually realize it was a spoof until I saw some of the other headlines... too ready to believe that my fellow editors are all freaks I suppose... :-)
Stan
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
A slightly creepy loner who has been frightening women in his neighbourhood by hanging around their houses and trying to talk to them about military history and Star Wars has been ordered by a judge to serve his community service on Wikipedia.
Solicitors representing Carl Peterson, from Ipswich, admitted that Carl had always found it very difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex, and had no idea that they might be slightly disturbed by having him wait outside their front doors to recite the fatality statistics at Nagasaki. Now as well as a restraining order, the court instructed that Carl serve his community service by sharing his expertise, writing and editing articles on the online encyclopaedia.
To read the full story, click here:
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/judge-directs-scary-obsessive-towards-wikiped...
Guy (JzG)
Given some of the other stories linked on this page, I think this is more likely to be satire than news.
-- Neil
On 1/22/07, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Given some of the other stories linked on this page, I think this is more likely to be satire than news.
-- Neil
I thought that was pretty obvious from the story itself :)
--Oskar
On 1/22/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I thought that was pretty obvious from the story itself :)
Not in a country that has the "Only in America"-slogan trademarked. (does it?).
Mathias
I actually bought that until I saw the other headlines. I wouldn't want to place that guy in any situation requires face to face contact. He might scare off other women. Community service on Wikipedia makes perfect sense...
Mgm
On 1/22/07, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/22/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I thought that was pretty obvious from the story itself :)
Not in a country that has the "Only in America"-slogan trademarked. (does it?).
Mathias
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Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 1/22/07, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Given some of the other stories linked on this page, I think this is more likely to be satire than news.
-- Neil
I thought that was pretty obvious from the story itself :)
--Oskar
Understatement: it's an English thing.
-- Neil