The Des Moins Register reports that a 30 year old woman in Des Moins has been charged with arson after she set her friends house ablaze at 1am while the friend was sleeping in it.
They managed to escape as the siding on their house began to melt from the heat of the fire in the detached garage.
The roof of the garage collapsed on cars stored in the garage. Other stored property also was lost in the blaze.
Officers asked Jim Rasmussen if anyone would want to harm him of his family and he provided the name Jennifer “Jen” Harris. He said Harris was a long-time friend of his wife but they were now involved in a dispute.
A police report says that when an officer asked Nikki Rasmussen about Jen Harris, Rasmussen said “… the two are no longer friends due to a dispute over Facebook. According to Nikki, Jen is angry with her because she ended their friendship on Facebook.”
The report goes on to mention a “fake Facebook account.” But Police Detective Jack Kamerick said only that it involved “Facebook issues and kept building and building and text messages that were sent.”
“Things were posted on Facebook,” Kamerick said. “Jen asked Nikki to create an event on Facebook for a party. Nikki did that. As the date for the party approached “there were a lot of ‘declines,’ on Facebook, the detective said. It was looking like the party might be a bust. The dispute apparently blossomed. So when the garage went up in flames, Harris became the first name that occurred to the victims.
Cover image (and hat tip for this story) via Gawker.
Facebook, like My space, is going to cause a lot of social problems. Any time you concentrate a bunch of people with too much free time on their hands, bad things can happen. Pedophiles, stalkers, and the like, have their work cut out for them on a site that features so many pictures. The fact that you can’t block your main profile pic has to be a source of immense joy for many. Or maybe I am partly speaking from experience, too *smirk*