Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260807200424/https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/canada-investigating-how-skyrim-username-mixup-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months-3396037/
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… What the fuck? Okay i know pigs should be turned into bacon as a general rule, but this is especially stupid. How in the fuck did they even get the messages but then get the wrong user name? It is more work to get the incorrect name!
as a Canadian I can tell you first hand that our police, justice system, etc are an absolute joke here. There’s just a massive sheer amount of incompetence nation wide in all parts of the system. nation wide. The country as a whole is governed and policed by idiots. I’m not kidding. It’s not like the US where they also are governed and policed by idiots but there it’s idiots with ill will and malicious intent. Here…we just have morons that are too stupid to be malicious.