Facebook Friend Request Goes Really Bad
DECEMBER 31--A North Dakota man threatened to kill a former co-worker and then kicked in the victim’s front door after he failed to accept a Facebook friend request, according to court records. Police allege that Caleb Burczyk, 29, sent a series of threatening texts and Facebook messages to Robert Allen Thomas, a 39-year-old resident of Williston, a city about 80 miles south of the Canadian border. Burczyk, seen at right, formerly worked with Thomas (and Thomas’s brother-in-law) for a company that maintains oil and gas wells. But after Thomas and his relative left to work for another fir...