December 22, 2005
Blog Confession Leads To Jail Time For Teen
From the Information Week weblog:
How dumb can some bloggers be? That's a question 18-year-old Blake Ranking is pondering as he faces five years in prison and 10 years on probation for causing an accident that killed one friend and severely injured another. "It was me who caused it," Ranking confessed in a blog three days after the October 2004 accident.
Ranking should be credited for owning up for his actions, but when authorities began to investigate, he rescinded his admission -- that is, till investigators discovered his blog entry on Blurty.com .
Blake, sitting in the back seat as he and then-17-year-old friends Jason Coker and Nicole Robinette left a party pulled the steering wheel as a prank, causing the car to somersault off the road, according to a story in the Orlando Sentinel. The driver, Robinette, was seriously injured. Coke died three months later. Ranking was drunk; his blood alcohol content was more than double the legal limit.
"It was me who caused it. I turned the wheel. I turned the wheel that sent us off the road, into the concrete drain ..." Ranking blogged. "How can I be fine when everyone else is so messed up?"
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From Dave:
- I did NOT rob a bank, steal a car, club a seal(s), launder money from the mob, set fire to a church, yell out any racial slurs, shoplift from a store, flip off a cop, or break any windows. I swear.
(Disclaimer: If in the future it is determined that I actually DID commit any of the above mentioned crimes, then I reserve the right to claim that the entire contents of this website are intended for entertainment purposes only and are not a true and accurate reflection of actual people, places or events.)
Comments
You lying bastard. You stole my car dozens of times just to screw with me and you're lucky that I didn't have you thrown in jail for it.
As mentioned in the disclaimer......for entertainment purposes only. Both the stealing and the lying about it.
"I'm not NOT licking toads."
I have done at least 3 of those things...this morning.