[WikiEN-l] In the news...

[Neil Harris]

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-wikipedia
>
> Guy (JzG)
>   
Given some of the other stories linked on this page, I think this is 
more likely to be satire than news.

-- Neil