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SMS SOS: Text-Messaging's All-Time Most Stupid Moments

by Tom Conlon on June 25, 2009 at 01:59 PM


CELEBRITY TEXTS:
Detroit Mayor's Fast Fingers Bring Pleasure/Downfall
The Text
 In 2003, then-Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick was brought to civil court after he fired a bodyguard and the Deputy Chief of Police for probing into an affair with his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty. After losing a $6.5 million wrongful termination suit, Kilpatrick announced that he would appeal the case.

The Turnabout
 Yeah, that quickly died after an astounding 14,000 text messages between Mr. Mayor and Beatty were subpoenaed and subsequently printed by the Detroit Free Press. The naughty missives not only proved an affair and a conspiracy to cover it up, they also demonstrated criminal overuse of "LOL." Kilpatrick resigned in disgrace, but not before being charged with eight felony counts, including obstruction of justice.

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