Awesome Sites

I just came across FelonSpy.com, which is supposed to show you convicted felons living nearby. It’s a neat site, but I didn’t know that I lived across the street from a rapist, half a mile away from an arsonist, and had two people with gang-related violent crimes living in my neighborhood. Oh, and a 73-year-old man convicted of sodomy living in the river.

I tried it a few more times, sometimes changing the center address slightly, sometimes using the exact same one, and I get a totally different set of results every time. It seems hesitant to put anyone on the street you put it, but lots of neighboring streets; by plugging in an adjacent street and trying several times, I was eventually able to get it to show a violent felon at my house.

It’s slightly amusing when you realize that it’s just generating random data, though I suppose it’s also a good reminder to not trust everything you find on the Internet.

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