Sunday, April 22, 2007
Criminal Bloggers Part Deux
Last week I wrote a bit about local blogger Curtis Webb at WinnipegTheft.com. Curtis is under investigation for linking to a YouTube video that disclosed the names of a few of Winnipeg's notorious juvenile car thieves.
Curtis' bravery has been trumped by the brazen stupidity of Starblubber at WinnipegPunks.com. While attempting to vilify Curtis Webb as a criminal-linker, he gone and done the very act he finds so offensive; he identified the same three youths that Curtis is accused of IDing. I guess Starblubber was trying to justify his anger by posting a screen-shot of WinnipegTheft.com with the names visible, but the end result is a smoking bullet wound in his own foot.
The page was here, but since it was noticed by Curtis it's been taken down. I wonder why? Thankfully, Curtis grabbed a screen-shot of the screen-shot (still with me?) in question.
Also, the good folks at Google still have page in their cache. The cached version doesn't actually have the names on it anymore, because WinnipegTheft doesn't have them displayed any longer. How? Because Starblubber used an inline frame to display Curtis' site on his board. What an inline frame does is display another webpage inside the current page. Therefore, when Curtis had the so-called "illegal video" on his main page, it was also displayed by Starblubber's post. Seeing as the time-stamp on Starblubber's post is April 17th, at 10:47pm. If the "illegal video" was on Curtis' site after that time, it was also on WinnipegPunks.
The irony here is that Starblubber thinks that Curtis should be jailed for the longest term allowable under the law. I suspect Starblubber's opinion will change a bit now that his own innocence is depends on Curtis'.
Curtis' bravery has been trumped by the brazen stupidity of Starblubber at WinnipegPunks.com. While attempting to vilify Curtis Webb as a criminal-linker, he gone and done the very act he finds so offensive; he identified the same three youths that Curtis is accused of IDing. I guess Starblubber was trying to justify his anger by posting a screen-shot of WinnipegTheft.com with the names visible, but the end result is a smoking bullet wound in his own foot.
The page was here, but since it was noticed by Curtis it's been taken down. I wonder why? Thankfully, Curtis grabbed a screen-shot of the screen-shot (still with me?) in question.
Also, the good folks at Google still have page in their cache. The cached version doesn't actually have the names on it anymore, because WinnipegTheft doesn't have them displayed any longer. How? Because Starblubber used an inline frame to display Curtis' site on his board. What an inline frame does is display another webpage inside the current page. Therefore, when Curtis had the so-called "illegal video" on his main page, it was also displayed by Starblubber's post. Seeing as the time-stamp on Starblubber's post is April 17th, at 10:47pm. If the "illegal video" was on Curtis' site after that time, it was also on WinnipegPunks.
The irony here is that Starblubber thinks that Curtis should be jailed for the longest term allowable under the law. I suspect Starblubber's opinion will change a bit now that his own innocence is depends on Curtis'.
Labels: Canadian Justice, Winnipeg Crime, Winnipeg Police, YouTube
