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Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme (cnet.com) 92

An anonymous reader writes: A fake event announcement on Facebook has now launched "a long string of viral jokes featuring fake concert events for music acts at oddly appropriate venues," according to CNET -- for example, a Radiohead concert at Radio Shack or a Sunday Brunch with Insane Clown Posse. It began with a fake announcement touting an upcoming concert with Limp Bizkit on April 20 at a Sunoco gas station. "The event got so much viral attention and local and national news coverage that the Dayton Police Department had to issue a statement to the local press and on its Twitter page on April 19 that there would be no Limp Bizkit concert..." CNET reports.

"That still didn't stop a crowd of 100 Limp Bizkit fans from going to the Sunoco and chanting 'Fred! Fred! Fred!' in front of the station. The station had to close up for the night and police were called to the scene to disperse the crowd. Since then, other Facebook users decided to try their luck at tricking the more gullible people on the Internet into going to concerts that don't exist."
In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
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Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 21, 2016 @06:35PM (#52157563)

    These Facebook kids should go to prison for this. They are criminals and deserve to be locked up.

  • by Anonymous Coward

    I suppose there ought to be a prize for the guy who can draw the biggest crowd from the farthest away. I bet somebody could still sell Michael Jackson tickets. I know for sure that Zombie Reagan on the ballot would win the election. Scamming is becoming the biggest business there is. Thanks, Donald Trump!

    No, wait... I mean, Tanks Obama!

  • by turkeydance ( 1266624 ) on Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:05PM (#52157687)
    next on America's Dumbest Crooks
  • by Anonymous Coward

    Okay, who's using a botnet to spam Slashdot with Trumpposts?

    Captcha: ferments (what this site is doing)

  • Hide the lede (Score:5, Insightful)

    by PopeRatzo ( 965947 ) on Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:10PM (#52157711) Journal

    The most impressive part of this Slashdot story is the little throwaway at the bottom:

    In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.

    Whoever "EditorDavid" is, I salute him. Little details like this might make me start reading more than just the headlines again.

    My admiration for the new regime of editors increases.

    • RE the new editors and the current forum spammers, Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

      • Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

        I'm not sure what you just said, but the answer is yes.

        • Basically the entire thread is borked, unless somebody feels like throwing away a ton of mod points on the crap flooders. So I posted some classical meme nonsense to point out the fact. FWIW I think the FB stunt is hilarious, and the elevator detail is a "WTF?" Maybe I'll stop by tomorrow and see if the thread's been cleaned up into something useful. RE the editors, I remember when timothy and soulskill actively waged war with the My Clean PC guy, he used to completely flood stuff off the front page.

      • I think we should stick with the traditional green.

    • That's why I take the stairs.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    Years ago a group of friends went to an Air Supply concert and for giggles they all dressed up as glam metal rockers and made it obvious to everyone around them how much they were looking forward to seeing Aerosmith that night. You only get to be young once, enjoy it as long as you can.
  • The absolute tools woh think that the univers rotates around Facebook, and choose it as the guidance center of their lives are learning a little bit. Nah - just kidding,

    Side note: After seeing the initial AC posts, I decided to surf at 2 in this subject. All but 2 posts were hidden.

    Step up your game cowards! Dumbass "Trump is going to make Mexico pay" posts are old hat now.

  • by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) on Saturday May 21, 2016 @08:48PM (#52157977)

    Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman, who said this might have been the first incident of its kind in his 35-year tenure, was concerned there might be a problem with the elevator's design and that, if so, other elevators might be affected. The elevator at issue has been in use since at least March 2015, when the building opened.

    "We would usually do an elevator rescue in older buildings with antiquated ... elevators," Schapelhouman told The Daily News. "Especially, when this is a brand-new, state-of-the-art building ... that's not good that something's not releasing on the elevator. Is that a one-off or is it a flaw of the elevator?"

    sounds like they found a bug in their fancypants system with mediocre QA.

  • by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday May 21, 2016 @08:58PM (#52158007)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • Basically, America is a trust-based society. People can say things, and other people can generally assume that they're telling the truth. Other societies are not trust-based. For example, China. When someone tells you something, it's probably a lie and you'd better check first. There are tons and tons of negative externalities that apply to non-trust-based societies. Basically nobody trusts each other, and for good reason, and this makes the society suck to live in.

    So, what happens when someone from a

    • by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      So, what happens when someone from a non-trust-based society comes to live in a place like America? Either they're impressed and want to be a part of it, or they think all these idiots are totally stupid for not protecting their stuff better. I mean, there are just these big treasure boxes lying around called stores, they don't even have any security! Huge amounts of scrap metal just lying around waiting to be cashed in - Americans call them manhole covers, but people know better. And likewise crap like thi

  • by malditaenvidia ( 4015209 ) on Saturday May 21, 2016 @11:37PM (#52158373)
    I refuse to believe Limp Bizkit still has that many fans today.
    • by Anonymous Coward

      Once again it's just shitty reporting by shitty media. They weren't fans, they were 100 people who showed up at what they knew was a fake event because it was a funny thing to do. I grew up in that area and know people who were there, I doubt a single fan was amongst them.

  • Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman, who said this might have been the first incident of its kind in his 35-year tenure, was concerned there might be a problem with the elevator's design and that, if so, other elevators might be affected. The elevator at issue has been in use since at least March 2015, when the building opened.

    "We would usually do an elevator rescue in older buildings with antiquated ... elevators," Schapelhouman told The Daily News. "Especially, when this is a brand-new, state-of-the-art building ... that's not good that something's not releasing on the elevator. Is that a one-off or is it a flaw of the elevator?"

    In related news, Facebook announced it was no longer supporting its Facebook Elevator(tm) project and replacing it with an entirely new concept called Facebook Stairs (TM)

  • In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.

    This incident reveled another little known program in the Facebook organization. The trapped people, preoccupied with the trivial (i.e. trivial to Facebook) matter of getting out the elevator car, neglected to update their status for more than 15 minutes. That triggered a red alert in the monitoring the frequency of status update. Unnamed sources reveal a blue alert is issued after 5 minutes, orange after 10 and red after 15 minutes. The company's stock valuation depends on exponential growth of active status update and very low mean-time-between-update. Two years ago red alert was at 120 minutes, for this quarter the target is 15 minutes. They think two years from now the target is likely to be 15 micro seconds. Once red alert is triggered, fake postings of concern, and requests for status update were posted by robotic agents. Since they got no updates for many robotic proddings with increasing urgency, desperation and frequency, actual human beings looked at the accounts, and traced the last status update to "entering the elevator at FB HQ, OMG! Its so cool". That is how it was revealed they were trapped in the elevator.

  • The worst thing about being stuck in an elevator is when you’ve had too much coffee and really have to pee.

  • The word "meme" needs to be eradicated from existence.

I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.

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