Remember when a woman was forcibly placed in a mental hospital because the police thought she was delusional when she used "Barack Obama follows me on Twitter!" as evidence of her good character, only it turned out the @/BarackObama account actually DID follow her? washingtonpost.com/news/the-fi

@noelle There's more to the story, and it makes it worse. The coaim in this article was that she was institutionalized "When she became emotional at the police station". Full story: she was at the police station to pick up her BMW, and "became emotional" when the police refused to believe it was hers. In addition to being kept in the hospital until she admitted Obama didn't follow her, she was told to say she wasn't a banker and the BMW was not hers. See independent.co.uk/news/world/a .

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