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Give It Up for the Myspace Generation, Y’all
Oh, those crazy entrepreneurial teenagers. They’re always trying out new schemes to raise money for their baseball card collections and, maybe, a trip to a Saturday afternoon matinee at the mall. And I guess mowing yards and working at the local fast-food establishment just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Or at least not for Kimberly Peterson, a 17-year-old who lives in Hillside, Illinois. Peterson has been arrested and accused of running a prostitution ring out of her home, in which she posted ads on Craigslist promising, for instance, a “beautiful blonde,” for $250 an hour. Unfortunately for Peterson, she quoted a $300 rate for a sex act to the wrong person — in this case, an undercover cop.
So, Peterson — who was arrested along with her mother last year for similar charges — has been charged with a misdemeanor and her prostitution ads have been pulled from Craigslist.
Of course, the internet is not only good for running prostitution rings, it’s also a fine place to hire someone to kidnap your toddler! In San Antonia, in fact, 20-year-old Lisa Gonzales offered — on her Myspace page — $500 to anyone that would kidnap her 2-year-old daughter. Apparently, Gonzales would’ve rather had someone take her daughter away than give her up to the custody of the girl’s father. The mother was arrested and the child, thankfully, was returned to her father, unhurt.
But, this one I love the most, from The Smoking Gun:
A Pennsylvania high school principal is suing four ex-students for allegedly posting fake MySpace profiles that described him as a boozing, MILF-chasing swinger who thought sex with students should be legal unless “you kill them in the process.” … The profiles portray Trosch as a pornography enthusiast who enjoys urinating in women’s mouths and considers Michael Jackson his hero.
If we’d only had Myspace when I was in high school, we never would’ve had to bother blowing up toilets in our teachers yards.
