{"id":21444,"date":"2014-09-09T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21444"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:22:28","slug":"facebook-nails-a-man-for-getting-married-too-many-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21444","title":{"rendered":"Facebook nails a man for getting married…too many times"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will always be puzzled by how reliant so many people are upon Facebook \u2212 presumably to advertise themselves, to brag, to show how good-looking they are, how happy they are, how happy their families are …<\/p>\n

Especially those wedding photos. Used to be, people put their wedding photos into an album which resided for a short time on the living room coffee table and then got moved to wherever old photo albums hang out gathering dust.<\/p>\n

Then came those fat envelopes full of wedding photo copies which we, the recipients, were presumably supposed to put into our<\/em> photo albums, which resided…blah blah blah.<\/p>\n

Now we see all those wedding photos we never wanted to look through in the first place on Facebook.<\/p>\n

But a man who’s been married, oh, say, a number of times, without ever getting divorced, oh, say, a number of times, really shouldn’t be publicizing himself on Facebook. Because quadrigamy is a crime.<\/p>\n

From Lowering the Bar: Quadrigamist Tripped Up by Facebook Photos of Fourth Wedding – Lowering the Bar<\/a>, which begins (really lovely, if damning, wedding photo included in package):<\/p>\n

While the main purpose of this thing is entertainment, it is actually quite possible to learn<\/em> useful information from reading it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Especially if you are an aspiring bigamist.<\/em><\/p>\n

The latest non-reader to pay the price is a 49-year-old South Carolina man (let’s call him “Darnell,” because that’s his name) who has been accused of having four wives at the same time<\/a>. (He has actually had five wives, but he did divorce one of them.) Under South Carolina law, “[a]ny person who is married who shall marry another person” is guilty of bigamy<\/a>. Any person who is married who shall marry\u00a0four other people should clearly be guilty of quadrigamy, but South Carolina has not provided for this situation so I guess it’ll be three charges of bigamy in his case.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, any person who is married who shall marry another person and then shall post the new wedding pictures on Facebook is guilty of stupidity.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Darnell\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Relationship status: busted<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If Darnell had been a reader of\u00a0Lowering the Bar, he might have avoided this, because it is by no means the first time that making additional-wedding photos public has caused a serious problem. See\u00a0Facebook: Bad News for Bigamists<\/a>” (Mar. 29, 2011) (reporting a similar case in Michigan);\u00a0see also “Wedding Photo Tips for Bigamists<\/a>” (May 4, 2010) (same concept but involving the local newspaper).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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