Jason Valdez is in hospital after shooting himself in the chest.
When Ohio police tried to serve a warrant for his arrest on drug-related charges, Valdez barricaded himself in a motel room with a woman as hostage.
There was a standoff between Valdez and the police for 16 hrs before Swat teams stormed the room. It was then that Valdez shot himself in the chest.
Bizarrely, during the standoff, Valdez . . .
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The MOD has issued a series of videos warning military personnel and their families to be wary about what information they post on sites like twitter and facebook.
While acknowledging the value of such sites in maintaining contact with family and friends, the MOD reminds service personnel that criminals and terrorists also scour these sites and a careless comment or pic posted online may endanger their family or fellow troops in the field
Read more here – http://tinyurl.com/3lmvgr6
Supermarket Scrabble – it’s a game started on Facebook
The rules are simple – rearrange items on supermarket shelves in such a way that they spell our rude words, then post the pics on Facebook
A bit of harmless fun for those playing the game (and how many of these are the supermarket stackers themselves?) but a nightmare for store bosses trying to spot the rude words before any customer does and complain.
See more pics here – http://tinyurl.com/5rls63z
Millions of people worldwide are signed up to ‘social media’ sites Facebook, and Twitter.
Originally intended as a means for friends and family to keep in touch and communicate easily with one another, it did not take long for individuals and groups to realise how powerful a tool these sites could be when used for other purposes, e.g., organising and co-ordinating civil protests.
This point was not lost on . . .
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While on the subject of dating sites (see ‘Want a Virtual Wife?‘), a new site – (lovely-faces.com) – has just launched with a membership of over 200,000 people.
The site is unusual in that it uses . . .
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Shana Greatman Swers used Facebook to keep family and friends informed about things happening in her and husband, Jeff’s life together.
When she fell pregnant, her FB status updates allowed family and friends to follow her ups and downs until the birth of her 1st child, Isaac, in September
A few weeks later, Shana was dead.
Her FB updates record the rapid decline in her health from bringing Isaac into the world, and her departure from it on 31st October
Her family have given ‘The Washington Post’ permission to publish an edited version of Shana’s FB messages – Click here to read http://tinyurl.com/37pfk6v
