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Vigilantes Check Online Sex Offender List, Hit Wrong House

Radley Balko | 2.6.2008 12:14 PM

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They set a fire in the driveway of the wrong guy.

I suppose the victim in this case could consider himself lucky. He could have been murdered. More fun with sex offender registries and mistaken identity here.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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