Arrested for Google-Stalking?
I will admit right here, right now, sometimes I get on these cyber-stalking kicks and get a little google/facebook/twitter happy. I mean, who doesn’t?
What, just me? Now I feel awkward.
I should probably stop, because apparently you can get arrested for too much Googling… well, at least you can in England.
Elliot Fogel, a 34-year-old TV producer in jolly old England, was arrested for cyber-stalking an ex-classmate of his. He apparently Googled Claire Waxman 40,000 times in a 16-week period, downloaded her wedding photos off of Facebook and used Google Earth to pinpoint her address and see images of her home.
Apparently Fogel’s obsession with Waxman started when they were in college. Sensing his supreme creepiness then, she told him to stay away from her, which he did for 10 years. Recently she received a dinner invite from him which she inclined. When he started calling her, via info he found of her online, she got authorities involved.
Fogel was sentenced to a whopping six-weeks in the slammer, which makes Waxman and her hubby uneasy, but because he’s just creepy and not making any physical threats toward her well-being there is little the police can do.
Let this be a lesson to the rest of us, no more late night Facebook stalking. It can come to no good, really.
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