An elaborate scheme to teach high school baseball players the value of not sending nude pictures to strangers, or a horrible man’s attempt to see kid dicks? YOU decide!
Actually, sorry, you don’t have to decide. The horrible dicks one.
Irvine police have arrested a high school baseball coach suspected of posing as a female on Facebook and convincing underage boys to send him sexual pictures of themselves.
Zachary Reeder, 30, of Orange set up a fake profile using a photo of a blonde female, police said, and used the social networking site to form relationships with his victims.
Reeder was arrested Saturday on suspicion of lewd conduct with a child, possession and distribution of child pornography, and child annoyance. (via Daily Pilot)
The worst part about the Manti Te’o story making “Catfishing” a household word is that a bunch of the less-clever perverts found out and went, “wow, I’m gonna try that!” So now women are being lured into jewel heists or whatever and local reporters are getting Catfished on Facebook for money. I wish we could go back in time to 2009, when the only way we had to address people with imaginary internet relationships was “stop being stupid.”
A video report of the story is after the jump. Enjoy*.
*”Enjoy” is probably not the right word.
I feel bad for these kids. Usually the girls I date don’t start looking like this guy until I’ve dated them for a while.
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Wait just a gosh darn minute. You can get arrested for child annoyance?
Annoying a child can get you locked up.
When I was a kid there were plenty of adults that annoyed me, and yet they continue to wander around free to annoy other kids. I wish I would have known about his law.
Please don’t tell my kids about this law, I’m sure that they would have me locked up in a heart beat. Annoying them is the best form of entertainment that I’ve got.
Motherfucker should get the chair for child annoyance.
So. . . the media is really trying to make catfishing a thing, eh? Why can’t we just call it fraud and move on?
As someone who has had no fewer than 5 different relationships with people from the interwebz (with varying degrees of success, as pertains to quality and length of the relationship), I feel I’m qualified to give my expert opinion here:
1.) “Catfishing” is the exception, not the norm. It is 100% possible to meet and cultivate normal relationships through online and telephone communication. Some people are just more comfortable expressing themselves and being normal online, and turn in to sweaty, nervous, inarticulate messes during the initial face to face stage. Creating a level of comfort through chatting online first will do wonders in making the first ACTUAL conversation a totally embarrassing situation for everyone involved.
2.) Not everyone is a loser, freak, or weirdo because they work that way, and neither are they a scummy pervo trying to steal your money and/or dick pix (Still not sure why you have dick pix to be stolen, but here we are). These bastards are ruining for every normal, shy, nervous person on Earth, and it’s sad that Teo started this perception that doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. Sure, there are awful human beings out there, and you should do your best to ensure that the people you open yourself up to AREN’T like that, but it’s not that difficult to verify facts, or ensure the person is who they say they are, especially when Skype is a thing, and approximately 99.9999999% of modern computers are equipped with webcams as a standard, built-in feature.
3.) That lady in the above link who got scammed twice is a numbskull. Just an absolute moron. She seems like the kind of person who would seriously reply to spam emails to try to strike up a conversation. It’s sad that she’s that desperate, but really, it was entirely avoidable, and she’s just not smart.
4.) The guy who made the fake account to pix of high school boy’s junk is just the worst human being imaginable. I have nothing insightful to add to that. Really just wanna punch that guy in the face until my hand hurts.
Aside from the “child annoyance” crime, there’s little humor to be found here.
Lobster Mobster? May we please have a cute gif?