Man googles self, finds out he’s murder suspect
Admit it. You’ve googled yourself, probably on multiple occasions, just to see what the web has on you. It’s actually a good way to monitor your online reputation to ensure prospective employers don’t get the wrong idea about you. So imagine if the search results came up and showed that you were wanted for murder! This was the case for a University of Florida student Zachary Garcia. It turns out, it was a case of mistaken identity but it can be next to impossible to scrub a traces of the inaccuracy from the web so it’s likely to haunt him for some time.
Please imagine, then, the mental entertainment that played itself out behind Zachary Garcia’s forehead, when he googled himself and happened to notice that he was being accused of murder. No, he was not being accused by some crazy former lover or fellow University of Florida student attempting to enter the Prankdom Hall of Fame. It was the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which reportedly mistakenly released his driver’s license photo in connection with a murder.
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