PEOPLE WHO WERE BUSTED BY FACEBOOK

GETTING OUT OF CHILD SUPPORT

THE AUSSIE SOCIAL MEDIA LEGEND (IDIOT)

Kyle Doyle, an Aussie call-centre worker, became a viral internet

legend in 2008. After a night of heavy drinking, Doyle called in

sick and posted on his Facebook, “not going to work, f**k it I’m

still trashed SICKIE WOO.” The HR Department told Doyle he would

need a doctor’s note to be excused or not be paid for the day.

After he protested, the HR worker emailed this busted social media

user a screenshot of his Facebook post.

THE DEVASTATED FOOTBALL FAN

An employee at the Philadelphia Eagles stadium was fired for

using offensive language in reference to safety Brian Dawkins’s

signing to the Denver Broncos. He wrote, “Dan is f*****g

devastated about Dawkins signing with Denver. . .Dam Eagles

R Retarded!!” It shows employees need to be careful with their

social media posts lest they get busted by their employers!

FALSE DIAGNOSIS

A Nationale Suisse insurance worker was fired from her job for

surfing Facebook – in bed. Telling the company she couldn’t

work from home because she needed to lie in the dark, the employee

was fired for being on Facebook. She claims she was on her phone.

The company fired her for “abuse of trust, rather than the

activity of Facebook”.

THE ONLINE LOCKER ROOM

Ontario, Canada, grocery chain Farm Boy fired seven workers for

slandering customers in a Facebook group. The group, described

by employees as a “locker room” to blow off stress, included one

member who complained about a difficult customer, “As he was leaving,

I think he heard me say he should ‘f-off’.”

POLITICAL DISSIDENTS BE QUIET!

Young Croatian Niksa Klecak was arrested by the Croatian police in

2008 for having a Facebook group. The group, named “I bet I can

find 5,000 people who dislike Sanader”, featured an image of

Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in a photo shopped Nazi uniform. Police

allegedly arrested Klecak for violating a law against Nazi

propaganda but later released him when he showed he

wasn’t the one who posted the photo.

COUCH BURNERS CAUGHT ON FACEBOOK

Fan celebrations after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2009 Super Bowl

win led to the arrest of two social media users. Police identified

two men in Indiana, Pennsylvania, from a Facebook photo and

busted them for reckless endangerment and lighting a couch on fire.

ONLINE POLICE SQUADS

The police are taking to Facebook to combat underage drinking.

Police in La Crosse, Wisconsin, fined four students after sending

a fake friend request from a “good-looking” 19 year old girl.

The students who accepted the request found themselves to

be the subjects of a police force searching online for pictures

of underage drinking.