Detroit Mayor Caught Sending Explicit Text Messages
When you're caught red handed, there's nothing to do but beg forgiveness. And that's exactly what Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit was forced to do last night in a televised plea. The mayor is under investigation over claims that he lied under oath about having an affair with his chief of staff Christine Beatty.Mayor Kilpatrick went into hiding last week after a Detroit news paper reported that sexually explicit text messages had been found on Beatty's cell phone dating from 2002 and 2003. In the 10 minute address, Kirlpatrick apologized for the pain and disappointment he caused his family and supporters, but rejected suggestions that he should resign over the pending perjury investigation.
Christine Beatty has resigned over the text messaging scandal, but we're wondering what possessed her to hold on to the text messages for 6 years.
Kilpatrick and Beatty aren't the only unfortunate souls to run into some trouble on account of text messages, here are some of our favorite embarrassing text message stories:
- Australian Cricket star Shane Warne learned the hard way that he should double check who he's texting after accidentally sending a message intended for his mistress to his wife. Lets just say it doesn't have a happy ending.
- A teacher in Texas thought that involving text messaging in her lessons would be a good way to keep her class engaged. Unfortunately some the text message abbreviations assigned were not exactly kid friendly.
- One young man in Cincinnati paid the ultimate price when he got so distracted by texting he we has struck and killed by a train.
- One apparently desperate, or stupid, West Virginia drug dealer texted a police officer to see if he wanted to "buy some reefer." As you can guess his days on the outside were numbered.
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