Italy's godfathers might well be holding emergency meetings this
weekend, after one of their remarkably obedient godsons was snared due
to an especially pernicious habit. Yes, chatting on Facebook.
Pasquale Manfredi is reputed not to be the most affable of our human
brethren. According to CNN, he is wanted for, among other acts of
charmlessness, availing himself of a rocket launcher to send a rival
Mafia family member to another life.
While in some Mafia movies, like "Goodfellas," Mafiosi wouldn't even
use a phone, now, with the advent, perhaps, of pre-paid, they have come
to embrace technology as if it were their own bambino.
Manfredi, however, seems to have allowed his enthusiasm to exceed his
intellectual capacity, as he apparently chatted happily with some of
his more than 200 Facebook friends.
Italian police reportedly used some rather sophisticated technology of
their own in order to locate Manfredi and to make sure that they could
capture him with his fingers still tingling from a heave dose of social
networking.
I know you will be keen to discover what technology he was using to
access the Web. Well, according to reports, he was using a pre-paid
(yes, really) pen drive.
Manfredi, clearly a fan of old school movies, apparently liked to
refer to himself as Scarface. The inordinately useful Mafia News Today
suggested that he even had a picture of the movie character on his
Facebook page and that he used the Internet name "Georgie."
Here, it seems, was a man who just wanted to be loved and couldn't
live without his friends. One can only imagine who his Facebook friends
might be, where they might be hanging out right now, and whether they
have their rocket launchers at the ready.
weekend, after one of their remarkably obedient godsons was snared due
to an especially pernicious habit. Yes, chatting on Facebook.
Pasquale Manfredi is reputed not to be the most affable of our human
brethren. According to CNN, he is wanted for, among other acts of
charmlessness, availing himself of a rocket launcher to send a rival
Mafia family member to another life.
While in some Mafia movies, like "Goodfellas," Mafiosi wouldn't even
use a phone, now, with the advent, perhaps, of pre-paid, they have come
to embrace technology as if it were their own bambino.
Manfredi, however, seems to have allowed his enthusiasm to exceed his
intellectual capacity, as he apparently chatted happily with some of
his more than 200 Facebook friends.
Italian police reportedly used some rather sophisticated technology of
their own in order to locate Manfredi and to make sure that they could
capture him with his fingers still tingling from a heave dose of social
networking.
I know you will be keen to discover what technology he was using to
access the Web. Well, according to reports, he was using a pre-paid
(yes, really) pen drive.
Manfredi, clearly a fan of old school movies, apparently liked to
refer to himself as Scarface. The inordinately useful Mafia News Today
suggested that he even had a picture of the movie character on his
Facebook page and that he used the Internet name "Georgie."
Here, it seems, was a man who just wanted to be loved and couldn't
live without his friends. One can only imagine who his Facebook friends
might be, where they might be hanging out right now, and whether they
have their rocket launchers at the ready.