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"After a week hiatus, the Social Media Crime Blotter is back.  I forgot to put together one of these early in the week last week, and over the weekend, I was busy moving my stuff from a flooded apartment, so they didn't get sent out.  For that I deeply apologize. Once you see this week's stuff, though, you're going to forgive me.  Rarely do three stories dovetail so nicely into a theme as the three social media crime stories we're giving you this weekend.\nA wise man once said: \"words mean things.\"  In today's society and vernacular, sarcasm, comedy, and snide arrogance are all commonplace.  As such, things can be said and easily mis-interpreted, even when someone is in the same room as you.  In text format, even more is left to the imagination, and is more easily interpreted.  This is why I always enjoy crafting the written word, yet make an effort to stay away from forum-based communities.  For some reason, the bloodstream of most forum community inhabitants eventually ends up turning to this acid-y venom over time, and the most vulgar statements and catchphrases become commonplace.\nAs we'll see, with this week's blotter episode, that sort of bile can come back to bite you on the butt.\nIn this issue:Local Teen Arrested After Posting Poem On MySpaceOkaloosa County Boy Arrested for MySpace threatIt's 10 PM. Do You Know What Your Kids are Blogging? \n\nFree Speech Protections Don't Apply to Bad PoetryI'm trying to resist making some jokes about an ex-girlfriend of mine who wrote particularly bad poetry, and how she should be arrested. It'd make a really great opener, and I'm sure everyone here reading this has visited either LiveJournal or Xanga, and can completely identify with the sentiment.\nStill, joking about bad poetry needing to be criminal is one thing.  Actually arresting someone for bad poetry is another.  Last week, a Greensburg, Pennsylvania teen was arrested after he had allegedly posted a 'threatening poem on MySpace.' The poem was entitled \"Why Would This Girl I Love Carry Me To Murder?\"  The student's ex-girlfriend found the poem and felt compelled to contact the police, who charged him with terroristic threats and having a weapon on school property.\nBefore you think of what a great service to humanity this young girl did for the fellow, you should be informed that the weapon in question was actually one of those folding 'Gerbers' style pliers.\nWe've included the poem below - I'm fairly certain the kid's a juggalo. Google it.\nI went to the hardware storeto by a four foot axeand when I come across the\"expletive\" that did it,Imma put it in her back.We both had our chances,I never gave up.But now,because of what she did, she's\"expletive\" out ofluck.\"\n[via The Pittsburgh Channel]You Just Can't Threaten People Willy-Nilly Online Anymore\nHonestly, I'm going to have to start saving more of the hatemail I get after I write the political pieces here at Mashable.  I didn't know it was so easy to get folks arrested for making threats.  Apparently, it is. The AP report here is a bit short on details, but the gist is a kid threatened another kid's life on MySpace, and now he's a criminal just out of jail:\n\nA teenager is now facing charges after allegedly threatening another boy on the social networking Web site MySpace.\nAccording to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office report, the boy posted a threatening message in October. He was arrested at a high school but told investigators that he wouldn't have acted on the threat.\nAfter being charged with issuing a written threat to kill or do bodily harm, the boy was released to his father.\n\n[via WWSB]\nA Sobering Look at the Kids of Charlotte NC\nBecause what is a series of crime stories without a scary reminder for us parents that the kids online are always going to be dumb enough to post images of all their criminal exploits online?  Exactly. Local crime blog CrimeInCharlotte.com has put together a little slide show comprised entirely of what the teenage set from Charlotte North Carolina have documented on their MySpace page.\nI know where to look for next week's blotter.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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