How Not To Win Back An Ex: Forge Her Email In Plot To Kill The President

from the not-the-greatest-strategy dept

Teenagers do some nutty things when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex. A 17-year-old boy, upset that his girlfriend had dumped him, tried to win her back by breaking into her email account and emailing President Bush a death threat. I'm really not quite sure how this is supposed to win the girl back, but hormones can do funny things to the logical thought process of a teenaged boy. In fact, that seems to be the defense his lawyers have come up with to keep him out of jail. In trying to explain his actions, his lawyer stated: "There was a female involved here..."

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    Simon Chamberlain, Apr 2nd, 2004 @ 2:15pm

    He wasn't trying to get her back - he was trying to "get back at her" - get revenge on her. I'd say sending death threats to the President from her account would be a pretty effective way to do that ;-)

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 4th, 2004 @ 12:40pm

    I actually agree this is a good way to get back at someone - except the Secret Service seems to be pretty thorough in this type of investigation so would probably find out about an email break-in unless it was pretty sophisticated.

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    Dave, Feb 12th, 2007 @ 4:13pm

    If only the guy in question had gone to Get Your Girlfriend Back he could have saved himself a lot of bother. And got his girlfriend back to.

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