Saturday, April 04, 2009

Suicide Note on Demi Moore's Twitter Page

(San Jose, California) A local woman used Twitter to send out a suicide threat and one of the recipients was actress Demi Moore who redistributed the message to her -- ball-park -- 400,000 followers. The San Jose Police were notified and received sufficient information to track down the woman.
The San Jose woman who uses the name "Sandieguy" on Twitter, sent out a suicide threat to her 554 followers. It included Moore's Twitter name, "mrskutcher."

Moore came across the threat and re-tweeted it to her 384,000 followers across the country. Many of them called San Jose Police.

"Sandieguy's" threats seemed real to Moore, and included this tweet: "Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down, the whole arm so it doesn't waste time."

Based on the information police received, they were able to find the woman's home. The woman was not hurt. She was admitted to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Suicide notes on Twitter? What's next? Last will and testament on Facebook? And, of course, I have to ask. Would a promissory note on Craigslist be legally binding?

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