Web Gangs

Within a serious article (link via Infocult) about the online presence of street gangs comes this story:

Chicago police recently arrested a teenager accused of spraying his
gang nickname on a church by tracing the moniker to his Myspace.com
account. His online profile included his address, photo and real name.

Lovers of the old British TV comedy show Dad’s Army will doubtless remember the episode where the Home Guard captures a German officer. The callow young recruit Pike taunts the German officer with the wartime version of the song ‘Whistle while you work’ and the German says, “What is your name?”

Captain Mainwaring says, “Don’t tell him, Pike.”

“Pike,” the German writes down.

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