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- Xihix, on 04/15/2009, -0/+118I'd be angry if I was charged money for porn too.
- nullcodes, on 04/15/2009, -2/+7060 days is way too harsh .. come on .. fine her three times the magazine costs and that should be enough.
What's the point of putting her in the under-resourced prison system? Nothing will be gained, nobody wins. - Dinsdale77, on 04/15/2009, -5/+54***** worth it
- deathmatch, on 04/15/2009, -5/+31You got Mail Genatalia
- Reddog_x2000, on 04/16/2009, -1/+22For mail fraud? yeah.
- wejmahtin, on 04/15/2009, -0/+20pr0n'd
- MaynardJK, on 04/15/2009, -1/+18She was charged with a felony.
- mandarin, on 04/15/2009, -3/+18You can get jailed for that?
- SmokinOkie, on 04/15/2009, -8/+22That's great! I have done the same thing several times. Best thing to do is send the homosexual magazines.
- jemka, on 04/15/2009, -0/+14No it's not.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firef ... - AtWorkSurfer, on 04/15/2009, -0/+13She would've done well to remember the old proverb, "Revenge is a dish best served cold." At least if she had waited a year or two, maybe her neighbor wouldn't have gotten wise, and she wouldn't have ended up in jail.
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 04/15/2009, -1/+14These are the kinds of prisoners that the prison industry loves. Non-violent offenders are perfect. It's the murders, rapists and gang bangers they really don't want. They're actually dangerous... to the guards.
- offrdbandit, on 04/16/2009, -1/+13"You know a society is ***** up when..."
When neighboring adults with a disagreement resort to childish pranks and fraud. - waaan, on 04/15/2009, -2/+12honestly, most of us have probably thought about ordering porn to neighbor's address, with the exception of sneaking in their mailbox and steal the porn back
- Calcularius, on 04/15/2009, -4/+13It's fraud. The penalty is clear. She wasn't jailed because it's porn, she was jailed because she fraudulently used someone's name to conduct a business transaction. Had the amounts been larger, it probably would have been a felony and she would be looking at a few years.
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -0/+8Hmm I guess this means I should stop spamming my enemies inboxes with gay BDSM
- Calcularius, on 04/15/2009, -0/+8You didn't even have to read the article, just the short paragraph above. You are lame.
- Barackalypse, on 04/16/2009, -0/+7I know most of you think this is no big deal, but the privacy implications of this are quite serious. Once your name and address find its way into the publishers database it gets sold all over the place and pretty soon any stalker ex-boyfriends or deadbeat family members can put her name into an online search and up pops her current address. To say nothing of the hassle she has to go through to contact these magazines and try and get out of being billed and sent to collections for not paying.
- grungefan, on 04/16/2009, -0/+7And tell them to pick up some porn on the way.
- pintocat, on 04/15/2009, -2/+8It's called fraud.
- Codename, on 04/15/2009, -1/+7The husband of the neighbor was in on it!
- bratterscain, on 04/15/2009, -1/+7I can be an *****, too. btw, my address is 382 Taney Dr, Wedgefield, CO.
- Fabbyfubz, on 04/15/2009, -1/+7Who pays for porn these days, anyways?
- radu79, on 04/16/2009, -0/+5Yes, the article is a little misleading. She wasn't jailed for the porn, but for buying them with the neighbour money. Could have been pink roses instead of porn, and the sentence would have been probably the same.
But I think she should have been given community service or something, not jail. - qwertydvorak, on 04/16/2009, -0/+5how did they prove she did it though ? that is what is making me wonder. other than the neighbor had an educated guess.
- Y0tsuya, on 04/15/2009, -1/+6I think mail fraud is a federal offense and felony.
- kalashnikovkid, on 04/15/2009, -0/+5gay porn would've been ten times funnier buy kudos
- hongkongjapie, on 04/16/2009, -4/+9You know a society is ***** up when you can get 60 days of jail for a simple prank like this.
- samk, on 04/16/2009, -1/+6Hmm. I've never understood what that phrase meant before (nor have I really ever thought about it).
Thanks. - jonglebeats, on 04/15/2009, -0/+5"Why did you just wink at me?"
"Uhhh no reason ;)" - Calcularius, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4Actually, the more I think about it... I agree that she shouldn't be in jail. Not because I think the punishment is too harsh, but jail should be more about keeping people out of society that society needs protection from, you know, violent people. Community service that would inconvenience and annoy the criminal, but give the local community something useful is probably a better punishment.
And yes, I see, it WAS a felony! In that case, she should be glad she only got 60 days. - teamgwho, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4she's doing it wrong. order porn catalogs and there's no fraud because there's no charge. besides that will put them on the porn database and soon the amount of porn mail will exceed the non-porn mail.
and no fraud charges. - zonk3r, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3It probably was prosecuted against her using mail fraud laws. They can be fairly severe and aren't well known.
- compgeek, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3lmfao aside from going to jail that would be a sweet sweet revenge.
- mysticalone, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3my neighbor, I hope she spams me with some real hardcore porn and not playboy, and i get to keep em after I sue.
- mtoto21, on 04/15/2009, -1/+4she can send it all to me, no big deal
- bajanboost, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3Actually, someone does win. The angry neighbor.
- jbutcher1123, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3Lol. You looked the address up actually.
- RyeBrye, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4Her neighbors didn't need to pay a dime to the porn companies. They never ordered it, so they aren't responsible for paying it.
"What do you do when you receive merchandise that you didn’t order? According to the Federal Trade Commission, you don’t have to pay for it. Federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and then demanding payment."
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/products/ ...
"If you ever receive an unordered item, you may feel obligated to pay for it or return it. Don't. If you didn't order it, and it isn't being sent as part of a negative option or club plan, you can keep it for free. If you are billed for merchandise you did not order, advise the company that unless it can demonstrate you ordered it, you will treat it as a gift. "
http://www.nmoa.org/consumer.asp
The person receiving the prank should have never paid a dime.
And before someone replies and says "But it was ordered - just fraudulently" - how is that your problem? That's between the company who allows people to say "bill me later" and the person who filled out the form fraudulently. - peteyb1313, on 04/15/2009, -0/+3thanks elmo
- Paulish, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4Order pizza to your neighbors address. That way it doesn't have to go through the mail system.
- choppa1890, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3she got charged, maybe money she didn't have...
- fuzzybeard, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3And what'll happen when she gets out? It starts all over, with much more creative (sneaky) ideas used, courtesy of her fellow inmates' teaching masterclasses on the the subject.
- gwhenning, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2If she had called the magazines and cancelled the subscriptions she wouldn't have been charged. You can't just keep them and say, "whoo hoo -free porn." Especially after you get a bill.
I do think it's funny, but the mail fraud angle holds stiff penalties. :) - nursethalia, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Thank you. I was waiting for someone to say that!
- maz2331, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Two months is worth it. The recipeint will get a lifetime of other offers and subscriptions - once on the list, you never get off. But you do get out of jail....
- Optiks, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2@radu79: Yeah. The article mentions "felonious tampering with records" midway through as the crime for which she's in jail, but what the hell is that? What records, exactly, did she tamper with, and how?
Am I really expected to think critically that after realizing, "OMG, SHE SENT prOn TO HER NEIGHBORZ HOUSE!!!". - Insightful, on 04/15/2009, -1/+3In 2007 Supremet Court affirmed 7-2 that judges may deviate from federal sentencing guidelines.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story ... - deathmatch, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2yea i spelled genitalia wrong, I didn't feel like opening up Google and searching genitalia at work just to be sure if i got it spelled right
- nursethalia, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1She probably wouldn't have cared if she hadn't been billed for them later!
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