January 10, 2008

Busted!

Dumbasses.

Eden Prairie High School administrators have reprimanded more than 100 students and suspended some from sports and other extracurricular activities after obtaining Facebook photos of students partying, several students said Tuesday.

School administrators and the district's spokeswoman didn't return phone calls, but students called in by their deans over the past two days said they were being reprimanded for the Facebook party photos, which administrators had printed out. It's likely, they said, that other students among the 3,300 who attend Eden Prairie will be questioned throughout the week.

Danny O'Leary, a senior who plays lacrosse, said his dean displayed four Facebook photos of O'Leary holding drinks and told him he was in "a bit of trouble." One photo shows him holding a can of Coors beer, another a shot of rum, he said. In yet another, O'Leary is pictured holding his friend's 40-ounce container of beer.

"I wasn't drinking that night," O'Leary said. But that apparently doesn't matter. "I was told each picture was equal to a two-game suspension,'' he said.

O'Leary said he intends to meet with the director of student activities today to discuss the suspensions. He said he will point out that two of the photos were taken two years ago, before he joined the lacrosse team and signed a pledge not to drink.

"I'm personally pretty upset and wondering why someone would collect these photos and turn them in," O'Leary said. "A lot of kids' lives are going to be ruined as far as scholarships and sports are concerned."{...}

I sense the fine and skilled hand of geeks on a mission of retaliation and retribution. Teenage Rambos, only without firepower and without being slathered in baby oil, but who have mad Facebook searching skillz! I mean, seriously, this is pretty sweet retribution simply because it probably didn't take too much time. I would suspect that whomever the mad genius is, they hit a proxy server, obtained new IP number, set up an anonymous Gmail account, loaded up an email with the Facebook links in question and---poof!---hit send. That's efficiency for ya, kids.

Posted by Kathy at January 10, 2008 09:39 AM | TrackBack
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