Who are your friendly neighborhood felons

Here's an interesting website that came to my attention through Lifehacker. It's called FelonSpy and it purportedly shows you the name and location of convicted felons who life in your neighborhood. It's basically a mash-up of a variety of criminal databases, telephone directories, and google maps. Unfortunately, DC is not listed in the "state" drop-down box so I couldn't check up on felons in my neighborhood. However, I checked our new address in McLean, and it turns out we have an assulter, a couple child molesters, and a handful of stalkers in our neighborhood. Lovely.

I said "puportedly" before because lifehacker thinks it may be bogus. To add to that theory, I sent a message to the admin email address given on the "contact" page. (In the message I asked them if DC will be added anytime soon.) My message immediately bounced back as undeliverable. Very suspicious. Until it is proven bogus, though, Felonspy is an interesting 1-minute online diversion.