IP address typo leads to a false arrest in Kansas [priv]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com>
Date: September 13, 2005 3:45:42 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] IP address typo leads to a false arrest in Kansas  
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For IP if you think suitable

I lived on a rural road. To get to it, one ahd to
naigate a complicated intersection with confusing road
signs. I ahd continual trouble with people confusing
the sings and going to the other road Westwood rahter
than mine PineRidge. One started out on Westwood and
would come to what looks like a T intersection.
However Westwood carries on to the left while
Pineridge begins on the right. As an example I have
had cell phone calls from people who insisted they
were in front of my house while they were at the
equivalent number on Westwood and refused to believe
me when I told them thay were not.

This was an incovenience for me. Air Canada lost my
baggage at Heathrow and lost it again when they
delivered it to Westwood instead of Pineridge.

However my next door neighbours had a more interesting
experience. They heard a loud knocking on their door
at 3am one morning. They found it to be the police who
barged in and refused to leave. They kept telling the
wife that she could tell the truth and that they would
protect her.

You can imagine why this happended, There was a 911
call from the equvalent address on Westwood. The
police made the usual mistake about the roads and went
to the same number on Pineridge. They refused to
believe that they were on the wrong road. Someone
could have neen murdered on Westwood while they
refused to listen on Pineridge.

So mistaken addresses do cause problems even when they
are not IP addresses.


--- David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:


> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Date: September 13, 2005 9:59:46 AM EDT
> To: politech () politechbot com
> Subject: [Politech] IP address typo leads to a false
> arrest in Kansas
> [priv]
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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: IP address typo leads to a false arrest
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:33:07 -0400
> From: Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com>
> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan () well com>
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/local/crime_courts/12620843.htm

> Brian and Sarah Doom were shocked when police showed
> up at their Wichita
> home accusing them of child pornography.
>
> The Dooms had never been in trouble with the law. On
> Aug. 12, 2004, they
> found themselves being accused of activity that
> disgusted them.
>
> But the police had the wrong house, based on
> mistaken information
> from the
> Dooms' Internet service provider, Cox
> Communications.
>
> ...
>
> The court order, Shultz said, asked for a home
> address connected to an
> Internet address police suspected of receiving child
> porn. Shultz
> said that
> someone at Cox typed in an Internet address
> different from the one
> provided
> by police.
>
> "And the Dooms' home address came up," Shultz said.
>
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