Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook 204
a302b writes "A Canberra lawyer has been permitted to serve legal documents via Facebook for a couple who defaulted on a loan. He claims he needed to do this because he was unable to track them down to a physical address. At what point does our online presence become 'real?' And what opportunities are available for fraud, if social networking sites are considered legal representations of ourselves, even when they can be anonymously created under any name?"
Re:Somewhat reasonable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WTF -- this is OLD news (Score:5, Funny)
ah, if only there were a "troll but true" comment rating.
Re:Somewhat reasonable (Score:4, Funny)
IANALBMHI?
Re:But.... (Score:5, Funny)
some time traveler screwed it up.
Re:But.... (Score:1, Funny)
I used to live next door to a guy with the same first name and last name as my self, and it turns out my current girlfriend was flatting with him at the time as well. Much hilarity ensued when we found out.
text of summons (Score:5, Funny)
U R SERVED!! U lamers 2 appear B4 judge Dec 19 700 hrs re home loan U "forgot" 2 repay.
G'day.
Re:Somewhat reasonable (Score:3, Funny)
If I ever get sued for anything I am so working that line into my defense.
No worries. (Score:5, Funny)
They can just pay back the loan with WoW gold.
Re:Facebook no different to email. (Score:4, Funny)
One crappy, lossy, non-guaranteed electronic communications medium vs another.
Email version:
Deposition Subpoena to Testify
GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO SUBPOENA AND SUMMON THE FOLLOWING WITNESS:
John Doe of 53 Sanity Street SanesVillie
Facebook version
lolz. Hey John. U been summ'd to Court. cu there. haha. sucker!
Re:But.... (Score:4, Funny)
every other avenue had been attempted
Lawyer: They won't be served by any other means.
Judge: Did you try carrier pigeons? Ducks using semaphore? Pelting their door with artichokes to form Morse code? Cucumbers too?
Lawyer: Yes, we tried all that- including the singing lemurs. Now, can we please just serve them on facebook?
Judge: Blast! I was sure the lemurs would work. Well, we haven't even started with the ones involving mimes... don't start with those crazy ideas of yours just yet!
Re:But.... (Score:4, Funny)
Am I the only one annoyed by gender-ambiguous names?
The worse is with gender-ambiguous voices over the phone. I'm sure I have upset many people over the years.
Re:But.... (Score:5, Funny)
When we sat down together it turned out we had the same first and last names, our fathers and mothers had the same first and last names and the same middle initials...
After all if two people whose families have never met face to face could have so much in common in a little place like AR...
...can't think... too many jokes... all trying to get out at once...