[WikiEN-l] In the news...

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/22/07 12:00 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG at guy.chapman at 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