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REAL LIFE NEWS: BE CAREFUL HOW YOU RECRUIT YOUR HITMAN

by Hazed

You know that things you post on Facebook aren't private, don't you? Of course you do, because as readers of the Fed2 Star you are intelligent and sensible and you know how modern technology works.

Not everyone is as bright and with it as you are, though. A woman in Philadelphia obviously didn't realise that messages on Facebook can be read by anybody, because she decided to use the social networking site to recruit a hitman to assassinate the father of her child.

Eley London, aged 20, had a row with Corey Jerome White, who had fathered her one-year-old daughter. After which, instead of brooding quietly to herself, or throwing crockery, she got on Facebook and posted: "I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father."

It looked like she was in luck, because an 18-year-old called Timothy Bynum jumped at the oportunity to make a little cash. He replied: "say no more" then asked "what he look like?" and "where he be at", continuing with "need dat stack 1st" and "ima mop that bull". He surely has in keenness what he lacks in spelling and grammar!

The two agreed a price of $1,000 for the hit, and London gave Bynum an address and a description of the victim.

But Bynum didn't have a chance to carry through the assassination, because White's mother noticed the message London had posted and alerted her son. He called in the cops, who arrested London. She's now behind bars, awaiting trial for solicitation to commit murder - and Bynum is facing attempted murder and conspiracy charges.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/16/facebook_hitman/

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