Peoria mayor sends police after man who created parody twitter account...

• justincredible

  

  http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/18/peoria-mayor-calls-out-police-to-track-d
  
  Residents should be relieved that there is no actual crime in the city.
• Laley23

  

  He wont have enough man power to stop all the parody accounts that will no doubt be created now.
• Heretic

  

  Mayor deserves thrown out of office for wasting taxpayer's money on sending his hired dogs out solely due to hurt feelz.
• Tigerfan00

  

  "Not Jim Ardis"
  
  I laughed
• Devils Advocate

  

  lulz, They piched his roomate for some weed and this
  

  Meanwhile, a host of copycat parody accounts have cropped up, possibly as an act of protest, possibly just to fuck with the Peoria power structure further. I’m not sure who’s behind them or if they’re coordinated, but it’s clear that if Ardis sent the cops to Daniel’s home to clamp down on people making fun of him online, that effort failed spectacularly.

  http://www.vice.com/read/the-police-raided-my-friends-house-over-a-parody-twitter-account
• gut

  Laley23;1606477 wrote:He wont have enough man power to stop all the parody accounts that will no doubt be created now.

  Yeah, this was a really stupid decision. He probably just increased following of the various accounts 100-fold.
• gut

  Devils Advocate;1606485 wrote:lulz, They piched his roomate for some weed and this

  I wonder if that gets tossed due to illegal search (assuming 1st Amendment rights were violated). Would be an interesting case - I'm not sure a twitter handle like that actually rises to the level of impersonating a public official.
• queencitybuckeye

  One person is imitating a public official - the mayor. If I was a resident of Peoria, I'd be taking a look at the city/state's recall processes and making a few phone calls.
• justincredible

  

  gut;1606490 wrote:I wonder if that gets tossed due to illegal search (assuming 1st Amendment rights were violated). Would be an interesting case - I'm not sure a twitter handle like that actually rises to the level of impersonating a public official.

  Yeah, it was pretty obvious that it was a parody account. I don't see many mayors tweeting things like "I am trill as fuck."
• gut

  justincredible;1606494 wrote:Yeah, it was pretty obvious that it was a parody account. I don't see many mayors tweeting things like "I am trill as fuck."

  And Twitter shutters such dubious accounts all the time, so the home invasion was completely unnecessary. I think the DA would dimiss all the charges for a $10 fine for possession.
• queencitybuckeye

  Unfortunate that he's gonna lose his dope.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  https://twitter.com/JimArdisMayor
  
  https://twitter.com/NotPeoriaMayor
  
  https://twitter.com/MayorofPeoria
  
  https://twitter.com/PolarPeoriaMayr
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Real Peoria Mayor @JimArdisMayor · 18h
  
  
  Just ordered 600 pizzas lol #420 #bakedasfuuuuuuck
• Tigerfan00

  

  Real Peoria Mayor @JimArdisMayor · 14h Being mayor is tough. Got too loaded to buy eggs so kids had to have an Easter Prescription Painkiller Bottle Hunt instead. <s>#</s>FreeSleezyD