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  • July 2008
    • Facebook Pulls Stabbing App Amid UK Knife Deaths

      Facebook Pulls Stabbing App Amid UK Knife Deaths

      (Newser) - A surge in knife crime has shaken Britain, ABC News reports. Twelve people—six of them teenagers—were stabbed to death in a single week this month. Public concern has caused Facebook to yank a third-party application where users could send each other "virtual stabs," and Nike has taken its Air Stab shoes off the market. More »

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      Great Britain   Facebook   violence   stabbing   knife

  • June 2008
    • Tokyo Killer Warned of Slaughter Online

      Tokyo Killer Warned of Slaughter Online

      (Newser) - The young man accused of killing 7 people in a knife rampage in downtown Tokyo warned of the attacks in a series of messages to an Internet bulletin board, reports the AP. Tomohiro Kato, who rammed his truck into pedestrians before stabbing 17 of them, posted warnings from his cell phone, including one only 20 minutes before the attack that read simply, "It's time." More »

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      Japan   violence   Tokyo   knife

  • May 2008

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